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Paul Cournarie et Pascal Montlahuc (dir.) (éd.), Comment Paul Veyne écrit l'histoire. Un roman vrai, Paris, 2023.

Éditeur : Presses Universitaires de France
Collection : Hors-Collection
378 pages
ISBN : 978-2-13-085518-7
24 euros

L'œuvre de Paul Veyne est iconoclaste et profondément novatrice. De l'archéologie à l'histoire de l'art, du pouvoir de l'empereur au métier d'historien, du paganisme à la sexualité, les études réunies ici entendent restituer tous ses champs d'investiga­tion et explorer toute la richesse de ce « roman vrai » qu'est l'histoire. Paul Veyne aimait susciter le débat ; discuter de son œuvre est un moyen de lui emboîter le pas.

Gautier Amiel, Adeline Lionetto et Dimitri Mézière (éd.), Les Remèdes à l'amour de l'Antiquité au XVIII^e siècle, Paris, 2023.

Éditeur : Classiques Garnier
Collection : Rencontres, n° 584 ; Lectures de la Renaissance latine, n° 19
353 pages
ISBN : 978-2-406-14741-1
43 €

L'ouvrage examine les discours littéraires et scientifiques qui, de l'Antiquité au XVIII^e siècle, envisagent des remèdes à la passion érotique. Peut-on guérir de l'amour ? Remédier signifie-t-il éradiquer ou bien contrôler l'amour ?

Source : Classiques Garnier

Eleanor Dickey, Latin Loanwords in Ancient Greek. A Lexicon and Analysis, Cambridge, 2023.

Éditeur : Cambridge University Press
731 pages
ISBN : 9781108888387
175.06 €

Why, when, and how did speakers of ancient Greek borrow words from Latin? Which words did they borrow? Who used Latin loanwords, and how? Who avoided them, and why? How many words were borrowed, and what kind of word? How long did the loanwords survive? Until now, attempts to answer such questions have been based on incomplete and often misleading evidence, but this study offers the first comprehensive collection of evidence from papyri, inscriptions, and literature from the fifth century BC to the sixth century AD. That collection – included in the book as a lexicon of Latin loanwords – is examined using insights from linguistic work on modern languages to provide new answers that often differ strikingly from earlier ones. The analysis is accessibly presented, and the lexicon offers a firm foundation for future work in this area.

Source : Cambridge University Press

Robert Wiśniewski, Raymond Van Dam et Bryan Ward-Perkins (éd.), Interacting with Saints in the Late Antique and Medieval Worlds, Turnhout, 2023.

Éditeur : Brepols
Collection : Hagiologia, 20
282 pages
ISBN : 978-2-503-60558-6
95 €

The cult of saints is one of the most fascinating religious developments of Late Antiquity and the early Middle Ages. Christians admired martyrs already in the second century, but for a long time they perceived them only as examples to follow and believed they could pray directly to God, whom they addressed as ‘Our Father'. A new attitude toward saints, now considered above all as powerful friends of God and efficient intercessors, started to emerge in the third century. Once this process gained momentum in the Constantinian era, the cult of saints constantly changed and rapidly adapted to new conditions and demands. This evolution highlighted many factors: the popularity of specific saints and the different types of sanctity, the spread of cults and customs, and the ways in which the saints were described, visualised, and represented.

Andrea Osten-Hoschek, Reform und Liturgie im Nürnberger Katharinenkloster. Die Sterbe- und Begräbnisliturgie des 15. Jahrhunderts. Edition und Kommentar, Berlin, 2023.

Éditeur : De Gruyter
Collection : Reihe Quellen und Forschungen zur Geschichte des Dominikanerordens – Neue Folge, 27
X-246 pages
ISBN : 978-3-11-077125-1
104,95 €

Observanz bzw. Reform war im 14. und 15. Jahrhundert das beherrschende Thema innerhalb der gesamten Ordenslandschaft. In diesem, seit einigen Jahren intensivierten Forschungskontext, ist der vorliegende Band einzuordnen. Im Mittelpunkt stehen eine exemplarische Analyse der Sterbe- und Begräbnisliturgie und ihre Auswirkungen auf die klösterlichen Identitäten von observanten und konventualen dominikanischen Frauengemeinschaften Südwestdeutschlands.

Source : De Gruyter

Simone Guidi et Mário Santiago de Carvalho (éd.), Pedro da Fonseca. Humanism and Metaphysics, Turnhout, 2023.

Éditeur : Brepols
Collection : The Age of Descartes, 8
251 pages
ISBN : 978-2-503-59999-1
90 €

Also known as the “Portuguese Aristotle”, Pedro da Fonseca S. J. (1527-1599) was a prominent figure in early modern scholasticism and particularly in the history of the Society of Jesus. He took part in the writing of the Society's Ratio Studiorum and laid the groundwork for the publication of the famous Cursus Conimbricensis (1592-1606). Furthermore, he was the author of an influential handbook of logic and dialectics (the Institutionum Dialecticarum, 1564), in addition to being one of the most important and recognized commentators on Aristotle's Metaphysics in the sixteenth century (by his unfinished Commentaria, 1577-1612).