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Étiqueté : Late Middle Ages (c. 1300-1500)

Parution : Philippe Lorentz, Astrid Castres et Rose-Marie Ferré (dir.), “Regards sur la Broderie en Occident au Moyen Âge – Production, création et usages, XIIe–XVIe siècle”, Turnhout, Brepols, 2026

Ce livre pluridisciplinaire vise à faire connaître un art médiéval oublié : la broderie, appelée aussi peinture à l’aiguille. Ce volume est le recueil des actes de deux journées d’étude qui se sont tenues à Paris (INHA) en janvier 2020, parallèlement à l’exposition du musée de Cluny L’art en broderie au Moyen Âge. La rencontre visait à engager une discussion entre des spécialistes venus de différents pays (Allemagne, Angleterre, Espagne, États-Unis, France et Suisse) afin d’évaluer...

Parution : Justine Walden, “The Sacred and the Secular in Renaissance Florence – Vallombrosan Exorcisms and the Rise of Observant Mendicancy”, Turnhout, Brepols, 2026

This study of the forces which impelled a group of Florentine monks to perform exorcisms opens a window onto fifteenth-century religious practice, the entanglements of politics and religion, and a decisive shift in religious and political life. Seeking to heal people possessed by demons, stave off Lorenzo de’ Medici’s predations, and compete with the meteoric rise of Observant Mendicants — Franciscans and Dominicans — monks known as Vallombrosans performed multiple exorcisms in Florence and its...

Parution : Élodie Lecuppre-Desjardin et Nils Bock (dir.), “Innovation and Medieval Communities”, Turnhout, Brepols, 2026

This book highlights the complex relationships of innovation and transformation in communities in Northwest Europe between 13th and 15th century by observing the reception of innovations and the strategies of their diffusion or rejection. It has to be said that when it came to innovation medieval culture demonstrated its mastery of the art of the paradox. Medieval people were compelled to innovate, driven by the dissatisfaction that is part of their nature, leading to changes...

Parution : Judith Steinhoff, “Women and Gender in Trecento Art & Architecture”, Turnhout, Brepols, 2026

SUMMARY This volume is the first to bring together a full range of current trecento art historical thought on the significance of gender in women’s patronage, reception of images, and representations of female characters and individuals. Emerging in the 1970s and 80s, the topics of women, their roles in personal, social, economic, and political life, and the significance of gender have become major issues throughout many fields of scholarship and, indeed, in many aspects of...