Richeza (c. 996-1063) – la reina consorte de Polonia – sabia o instigadora? by Anna Działak

“…That educated woman, active both in the political arena and the arena of faith, did not enjoy, however, a merited acclaim in the chronicling of Middle Ages. What is more, the historiographic portrayal of that exceptional woman emerges as highly disfigured in the chronicles of medieval Poland and in the literature that followed. …”
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Inter-disciplinarité et trans-nationalisme by Anne-Hélène Miller

“…Often impacted by the research in postcolonial medievalism or medieval multiculturalism, (such as the programs that focus on the Mediterranean or francophone spaces in the Middle Ages), and liberated from nationally affiliated identities, today's scholars rethink territorial, linguistic, religious, even periodical delimitations, to decenter the more traditional discourse on the Medieval Latin West. …”
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Ut commutando donemus : An Approach to Female Artistic Patronage in Northeast Iberia (1000-1100) by Verónica Carla Abenza Soria

“…While medievalists are accustomed to reconstructing the circumstances in which an artwork was born, when studying artistic patronage there is still a general tendency to avoid consideration of the social, economic, and legal differences between men and women in the Middle Ages. By focusing on a representative set of women from the period, one of the main goals of this article is to show that, beyond devotional reasons, artistic patronage helped medieval women overcame some of these social constraints and allowed them to exercise different degrees of power and authority.…”
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Représenter la victoire militaire d’une femme by Marjolaine Massé

“…Embroidery was a key means of expression for the women of the elite class during the early Middle Ages, which allowed them to more easily leave their mark as forces of influence. …”
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Archéologie du bâti par méthode géoradar : le cas de la basilique Saint-Seurin de Bordeaux by Anne Michel, Jean-François Lataste

“…The Saint-Seurin Church of Bordeaux is a structure continuously modified from the Middle Ages to the present day. It developed from a mausoleum of Late Antiquity, whose masonry was integrated into a crypt beneath the nave of the church. …”
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La « grève » féminine du sexe dans la France du XVe siècle, un exemple de révolte impossible contre la domination masculine ? by Adrien Dubois

“…According to judicial sources from the end of the Middle Ages, rapists put to trial would blame their victims’ lewdness, thus implying their consent. …”
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D’imagier à ymaginero : la présence de sculpteurs septentrionaux en Espagne aux xve-xvie siècles by María Teresa Rodríguez Bote

“…Despite this trend starting in the Middle Ages, it is along the 16th century when this stream is more numerous. …”
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Migrer pour travailler : la présence d’étrangers à Perpignan (milieu xive siècle-xve siècle) by Élodie Capet

“…Thanks to the reading of notarial deeds recorded at the end of the Middle Ages in Perpignan, we are able to qualify this migration towards the city and bring to light regional specificities of greater or lesser extent, with very characteristic and identifiable migratory currents. …”
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The Devil at Cîteaux: The Trial for Witchcraft of Regnault Robergeot (1480-1481) by Maxime Gelly-Perbellini

“…This case, preceded by a lost Dominican Inquisition investigation, offers a rare example of Cistercian involvement in prosecuting satanic witchcraft in the late Middle Ages. It reveals the spread and evolution of the concept of the Witches’ Sabbath within the Order of Cistercians. …”
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El aprovechamiento del cauce fluvial en una encomienda andaluza de la Orden de San Juan: las aceñas de Alcolea del Río en el siglo XV by Juan Carlos Arboleda Goldaracena

“…In this paper we focus our attention on the study of a territory governed by the Order of Saint John in Andalusia at the end of the Middle Ages: Alcolea del Río, in the province of Seville (Spain). …”
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Les statues de lions des églises romanes, des gardiens de pierre entre espace profane et espace sacré by Sylvain Chardonnet

“…Since antiquity these apotropaic statues have nonetheless been part of a sculpted decor whose codes have been repeated during the Middle Ages. As Romanesque churches reused ancient sculptures, they also copied their design to reaffirm the buildings’ ancestral character. …”
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Herméneutique des gestes et maîtrise des passions : quelques remarques sur la sémiotique du corps dans la littérature sur l’ambassadeur en Italie et en France au début de l’époque... by Dante Fedele

“…Our aim is to know how this semiotics of the body became a matter of debate in the literature on the ambassador that spread throughout Europe from the late Middle Ages onwards. The paper focuses in particular on Italian and French works. …”
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Le sarcophage de pierre du haut Moyen Âge, des critères pour une étude by Fabrice Henrion

“…Over the last two decades, the study of Early Middle Ages stone sarcophagi has taken a particular turn: the “object” itself is now worthy of consideration, not only its decoration, thus revealing the distinguishing characteristics that were often that were previously too often left aside. …”
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Mantua, City of Water between History and the Present by Pierfranco Galliani, Cassandra Cozza

“…Ever since the Middle Ages, the relation between nature and architecture has characterised Mantua’s environmental situation and urban form. …”
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Apes, Great Apes, and Mankind in 19th and early 20th Century German Literature by Tanja Nusser

“…Since the Middle Ages, apes have functioned as mirrors of humans. …”
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Escitia y Escancia (o Escandia), el fabuloso pasado nórdico del neogoticismo cuatrocentista hispánico by Óscar Perea Rodríguez

“…This paper analyses neo-gothicism and its impact on the ideological propaganda in the Hispanic Middle Ages (9th-15th c.), since the initial steps taken in the Visigoth era until its apogee in early medieval chronicles, as well as both its disappearance and its recovery occurred between the 15th and 16th c. via both genealogical and poetry works. …”
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A l’origine des couleurs et éléments matériels d’œuvres peintes des XIVe-XVIe siècles by Anne-Solenn Le Hô, Sandra Montlouis, Sandrine Pagès-Camagna†, Nathalie Pingaud, Yannick Vandenberghe

“…This paper is devoted to applied brocade, subject of the colloquium published here, and to others techniques of textile imitation such tin reliefs, sgraffito … encountred in painting and sculpture in the Middle Ages. An abstract of theses techniques is presented, and the methodology observed crossing observations and analysis describe the techniques and material features, the state of conservation, and the way to investigate the fragments often very lacunars. …”
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Hérétique ou dément ? Autour du procès de Thomas d’Apulie à Paris en 1388 by Maud Ternon

“…A group of physicians find the heretic mad, which allows him to escape death penalty. During the Middle Ages, madness (insania) is used by Church in order to defame dissidents and reduce their influence on the faithful. …”
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D’un lecteur à l’autre : emprunts et circulation de manuscrits à Rouen à la fin du Moyen Âge by Monique Peyrafort-Huin

“…which texts circulated in Rouen at the end of the Middle Ages? One of the last points, which is only hardly evoked here, concerns the vocabulary used during the lending process.…”
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Comment a-t-on apprécié et compris la sculpture de l’Antiquité tardive et du haut Moyen Âge auxXIXe-XXe siècles ? by Pierre-Yves Le Pogam

“…Since the sculptures of Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages were discovered during the modern period, they have given rise to contradictory judgements. …”
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