Getting Medieval in France in Let's Go

Dix articles et introduction par A. Montoya et Vincent Ferré : - « Medievalism and Theory: Toward a Rhizomatic Medievalism » - ROYALIST MEDIEVALISMS IN THE AGE OF REVOLUTION: From Robert de Lézardière to Chateaubriand, 1792-1831 Carolina Armenteros - MEDIEVALISM IN A MINORITY LANGUAGE: Frédéric Mistral’s Wish-Fulfillment Provençal Past William Calin - RÊVER DU MOYEN ÂGE ENTRE ÉRABLE ET LAURIER : Une « Querelle des Anciens et des Modernes » au Canada français vers 1900 Aurélie Zygel-Basso - INTRODUCTION TO ROBERT GUIETTE: “Formal Poetry in France in the Middle Ages” and “The Adventure of Formal Poetry” Jeff Rider - FORMAL POETRY IN FRANCE IN THE MIDDLE AGES [1946] Translated by Jeff Rider Robert Guiette - THE ADVENTURE OF FORMAL POETRY [1946] Translated by Jeff Rider Robert Guiette - FECUNDITIES OF THE TRACE: Medieval Scholars and Medievalists before the Medieval Text Michèle Gally - MEDIEVALISM AND MEDIEVAL THEATRE: About Adam Véronique Dominguez - CROSSDRESSING MEDIEVAL TROUBADOURS, CASTILE TO BRAZIL: Cristóbal de Castillejo and Augusto de Campos Roy Rosenstein - “IN THE FAR DISTANCE”: Memories of the Medieval and Ghosts in Modern Poetry (Jack Spicer, Cole Swensen) Nathalie Koble

2009

This paper considers the dynamics of rural settlement in France during the early Middle Ages, from c.300 to c.1100. Although it is hardly possible to incorporate the mass of available settlement archaeology into a single interpretative framework, some major trends can evertheless be identified. In the southern part of France, the Roman villa system remained resilient down to c.700, and in the 5th and 6th century one can also observe a move towards nucleation with the foundation of complex stone-built hill-top settlements. In the North, those Roman villas which remained occupied underwent drastic changes, and many small timber villages were built during the 6th and 7th century. A major shift in the later part of the 7th century was marked by a significant growth in village size, a move towards formal planning, with some areas being devoted to corn processing and storage, and the appearance of boundary features, high-status residences and churches. The appearance of outsized seigneuri...

THE EARLY MIDDLEAGES (to c. 1100) Politics The Roman Empire in 395 AD 7 Barbarian Migrations of the Fourth and Fifth Centuries 8 Barbarian Kingdoms in the First Half of the Sixth Century 9 Merovingian Gaul, c. 600 10 The Empire of Justinian, 527-65 12 The Expansion of Islam in the Mediterranean Area (7th-9th centuries) 14 Italy in the Eighth Century 16 The Carolingian Empire under Charlemagne, 768-814 18 Division of the Carolingian Empire, 843 21 The Byzantine Empire under the Macedonian Dynasty (9th-11th Centuries) 21 Vikings 23 Magyars 25 The East European States, c. 1000 26 France and its Principalities, c. 1000 28 England Before the Normans 30 The Spanish and Portuguese Reconquest to c. 1140 33 The Ottonian Empire, 962 35 Religion Christianity and Paganism in the West, c. 350-750 38 Early Monasticism to 547 40 Northern European Monasticism Byzantine Missions among the Slavs Tenth-and Eleventh-Century Centres of Reform Episcopal Sees in Europe at the End of the Tenth Century The Influx of Relics into Saxony

Review by Tanya Stabler Miller, Purdue University, Calumet.

2012

Le projet de creation d’une ligne de tramway “Garonne” au sud du centre historique de Toulouse a suscite la prescription de sondages archeologiques de diagnostic par le Service Regional de l’Archeologie (DRAC de Midi-Pyrenees). La realisation de cette evaluation a ete confiee a l’Institut National de Recherches d’Archeologie Preventive (Inrap) du 7 decembre 2009 au 11 decembre 2009. Le present article ne presentera qu’une partie des donnees recueillies a cette occasion, celles en rapport avec l’urbanisme de la fin du Moyen Âge.

2014

Histoire Q uarante ans après le premier volume consacré à la ville de Poitiers sous la direction de Robert Favreau, le 25 e tome du Corpus des inscriptions de la France médiévale vient enrichir la série de trois départements de la région Centre : l'Indre, l'Indreet-Loire et le Loir-et-Cher. Avec 162 inscriptions datées du viii e au xiii e siècle, dont 81 pour le seul département de l'Indre-et-Loire du fait de la ville de Tours, cette région offre un patrimoine épigraphique particulièrement riche, abondant et varié.

Imago Mundi-the International Journal for The History of Cartography, 2006

T he medieval city is daughter to the written word in the genealogical scheme of Paul Zumthor. 1 The much-discussed genesis of the medieval town has called for many parents, but this addition of literacy to the list of proposed geographic, economic, demographic, social, political, and military procreators is not meant to define the moment of conception of the medieval urban revival. 2 Rather, an examination of northern France's medieval towns as textual communities 3 allows insights independent of the issue of origins. 4 As literate modes developed within towns, 5 involving specific interrelationships with orality, ritual, and ceremonial, 6 urban documentary practices came to form a physical and visual testimony that at once marked the city as different from, although still continuous with, the rest of society. Such practices within the city were collective activities that took their form and meaning from contemporary medieval perceptions of these very activities. In this sense, documentary modes must also be considered symbolic acts, the forms of which brought together processes formerly separate. As such they fostered a symbiosis between townspeople's personal experience of urban identity and the city's role both as a site of ceremony and political prestige and as a crucible of communal values. Among those trappings necessary to legitimate the urban state and its ruling elite, to govern the social order, and to keep alive the consciousness of community were urban records that, quite apart from their more obvious functions, elicited attachment, involvement, and commitment on the part of townspeople. The manipulation of the written word, in its interaction with orality, played a critical role in marking the city as an authoritative center of credibility, as a locus credibilis. 7 The earliest form of documentary activity in northern French medieval towns dates from the eleventh century, when urban-based dchevins are recorded as witnesses to written transactions between lay lords and churchmen. 8 Such transactions occurred in the context of a literate monopoly that, since the dissolution of the Carolingian order, had been in the hands of clerics and monks. There is little extant evidence that laymen in northern France in this period engaged in literate communication. Rather, the ties that gave fundamental structure to social Published in cooperation with the Center for Medieval Studies, University of Minnesota r olume 6. Edited by Barbara A. Hanawalt and Kathryn L. Reyerson