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Agnès Molinier Arbo, Catherine Notter, Jean-Luc Vix (éd.), Figures exemplaires de pouvoir sous l'Empire dans la littérature gréco-latine, Turnhout, 2023.

Éditeur : Brepols
Collection : Recherches sur les Rhétoriques Religieuses
345 pages
ISBN : 978-2-503-59571-5
87 €

La force que les Anciens attribuaient à l'exemplum était immense, notamment dans le domaine politique. Quel rôle jouaient, sous l'Empire, certains personnages historiques ou légendaires du passé gréco-romain dans les discours destinés à construire, légitimer ou interroger le pouvoir ou l'autorité ? Comment étaient-ils sélectionnés ? Quel était leur mode de fonctionnement ? Telles sont les questions auxquelles cherchent à répondre les dix-huit contributions rassemblées dans ce volume. L'approche est plurielle, croisant plusieurs genres littéraires (poésie, historiographie, discours politiques ou philosophiques) examinés sur six siècles et différents types de pouvoir ou d'autorité (l'empereur, mais aussi le magistrat dans la cité grecque au temps de la domination romaine, ou encore l'évêque). Ainsi est mise en lumière la plasticité d'exempla susceptibles, selon les contextes, de justifier ou remettre en question les idéologies et les pratiques de pouvoir les plus diverses.

Annemarie Pilarski, Der Libellus Carminum des Eugenius von Toledo. Poesie als Lebensbewältigung und spirituelle Praxis, TÜbingen, 2023.

Éditeur : Mohr Siebeck
Collection : Studien und Texte zu Antike und Christentum, 133
XV-555 pages
ISBN : 978-3-16-161007-3
119 €

Annemarie Pilarski kommentiert und analysiert den Libellus Carminum des Eugenius († 657), Erzbischof der wisigotischen Königsstadt Toledo. Ausgehend von seiner Dichtung zeigt sie auf, dass das Verfassen und Lesen von religiöser Poesie am Ausgang der Spätantike zu einer spirituellen Praxis, aber auch zum allgemeinen Mittel der Lebensbewältigung werden konnte.

Source : Mohr Siebeck

Annina Seiler, Chiara Benati et Sara M. Pons-Sanz, Medieval Glossaries from North-Western Europe, Turnhout, 2023.

Éditeur : Brepols
Collection : The Medieval Translator, vol. 19
762 p. pages
ISBN : 978-2-503-58457-7
€ 135 (excl. VAT)

Glossaries are the dictionaries of the medieval period. They were created at a time when no comprehensive dictionary of the Latin language existed, but lexicographical resources were urgently needed to engage with the writings of Classical and Late Antiquity as well as near-contemporary texts. In the non-Romance speaking areas in north-western Europe, the compilers of glossaries were quick to have recourse to their vernacular languages. Glossaries are often the places in which these languages were put into writing for the first time. Hence, the effort to explain Latin vocabulary resulted in bilingual lexicography and in the establishment of the vernaculars as written languages in their own right. The negotiation of linguistic and cultural barriers lies at the centre of the glossaries. Consequently, medieval traditions of glossography are highly interconnected.

Ilaria Morresi, Le Institutiones humanarum litterarum di Cassiodoro. Commento alle redazioni interpolate Φ Δ, Turnhout, 2023.

Éditeur : Brepols
Collection : Instrumenta Patristica et Mediaevalia, vol. 88
554 p. pages
ISBN : 978-2-503-59590-0
€ 125 (excl. VAT)

The Institutiones humanarum litterarum – that is, the second book of Cassiodorus' masterpiece, devoted to secular learning – have come down to us in three different textual forms: the ‘authentic' recension Ω, corresponding to Cassiodorus' final wishes, and two subsequent recensions, designated as Φ and Δ. In these two recensions, later interpolations were added on the basis of an earlier authorial draft, providing modern readers with valuable information both about Cassiodorus' progressive revisions and about the early fortune of his work.

Claudio Cataldi, The Bodley Glossaries. The Glossaries in Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Bodley 730, Turnhout, 2023.

Éditeur : Brepols
Collection : Publications of the Dictionary of Old English, vol. 11
152 p. pages
ISBN : 978-0-88844-911-5
€ 93 (excl. VAT)

This volume presents the first full edition and study of the four glossaries preserved in Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Bodley 730. The glossaries offer evidence of the continuity of the Old English glossarial tradition well into the Middle English period; with Latin (and sometimes Greek) entries followed by Latin, Anglo-Norman, and English glosses, they bear witness to the multilingual environment of late-twelfth and early thirteenth-century England. An introduction sets the glossaries in the history of medieval English lexicography, and textual apparatus and notes provide interpretations, parallels, and commentary on each entry.

Sinéad O'Sullivan et Ciaran Arthur (éd.), Crafting Knowledge in the Early Medieval Book, Turnhout, 2023.

Éditeur : Brepols
Collection : Publications of the Journal of Medieval Latin, vol. 16
524 p. pages
ISBN : 978-2-503-60247-9
€ 115 (excl. VAT)

Collection and concealment were hallmarks of early medieval book culture. Materials of all kinds were collected, collated, concealed, condensed, correlated, paraphrased, reorganised, and repurposed in early medieval manuscripts. This volume of essays explores how knowledge was made in the early medieval book in the Latin West through two interrelated practices: collecting and concealing. It provides case studies across cultures and areas (e.g. exegesis, glossography, history, lexicography, literature, poetry, vernacular and Latin learning). Collectio underpinned scholarly productions from miscellanies to vademecums. It was at the heart of major enterprises such as the creation of commentaries, encyclopaedic compendia, glosses, glossaries, glossae collectae, and word lists. As a scholarly practice, collectio accords with the construction of inventories of inherited materials, the ruminative imperative of early medieval exegesis, and a kind of reading that required concentration. Concealment likewise played a key role in early medieval book culture. Obscuration was in line with well-known interpretative practices aimed at rendering knowledge less than immediate. This volume explores the practices of obscuring that predate the twelfth-century predilection, long recognised by historians, for reading that penetrates beneath the “covering” (integumentum, involucrum) to reveal the hidden truth. Cumulatively, the papers spotlight the currency of two crucial practices in early medieval book culture - the practices of collection and concealment. They demonstrate that early medieval authors, artists, compilers, commentators, and scribes were conspicuous collectors and concealers of knowledge.