Jeudi, 11 Avril 2024 08:02
Marie Ledentu
W. Jeffrey Tatum, A Noble Ruin. Mark Antony, Civil War, and the Collapse of the Roman Republic, Oxford, 2023.
Éditeur : Oxford University Press 496 pages ISBN : 9780197694909 $ 34.95
A complex and captivating portrait of Mark Antony that offers a fresh perspective on the fall of the Roman Republic In his lifetime, Mark Antony was a famous man. Ally and avenger of Julius Caesar, rhetorical target of Cicero, lover of Cleopatra, and mortal enemy of Octavian (the future emperor Augustus), Antony played a leading role in the transformation of the Roman world. Ever since his and Cleopatra's demise at the hands of Octavian, he has remained famous, or infamous, a figure of recurring fascination. His life--variegated, passionate, sensual, bold, and tragic--inspires vigorous reactions. Nearly everyone has a view on Antony. For Cicero, he was a distasteful though talented man. Octavian fashioned him a dangerous failure, a Roman noble corrupted by his appetites and his lust for Cleopatra. Later historians adopted and adapted these themes, delivering their readers an Antony who was irresistibly depraved, startlingly brave, sometimes cunning, but almost always constitutionally incapable of choosing the right side of history. From these, especially Plutarch's compelling portrait, Shakespeare gave us the chivalrous and unstudied Antony of Antony and Cleopatra.
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Mercredi, 10 Avril 2024 08:05
Bram Roosen
Cécile Lanéry-Ouvrard, L'hagiographie latine à Rome et en Italie du Sud entre 550 et 750, Turnhout, 2024.
Éditeur : Brepols Collection : Corpus Christianorum. Hagiographies, 9 962 pages ISBN : 978-2-503-60028-4 385 € EXCL. VAT.
Dans l'Italie des VIe-VIIIe siècles, déchirée entre Lombards et Byzantins, l'hagiographie fut la forme littéraire la plus pratiquée, et sans doute aussi la plus communément appréciée. À Rome et en Italie du Sud, clercs et moines s'affairèrent à composer en latin, ou à traduire du grec en latin, des textes qui témoignaient de leur dévotion pour les martyrs du temps des persécutions. Leurs récits romanesques, de qualité et d'intérêt très divers, accompagnèrent ainsi l'entrée de la péninsule dans le Moyen Âge. Ils alimentèrent la curiosité des pèlerins et des fidèles pour les saints anciens, comme pour ceux, venus d'Orient, dont le culte avait pris plus récemment racine en Italie. Ce gisement documentaire, vestige inestimable d'une époque contrastée et parfois dramatique, est toutefois d'un abord difficile : les pièces concernées constituent un ensemble complexe de dossiers enchevêtrés, de textes anonymes, souvent très approximativement datés ou localisés.
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Vendredi, 05 Avril 2024 08:04
Françoise Létoublon
Claire Lechevalier et Brigitte Poitrenaud-Lamesi (éd.), Un besoin d'Homère. Usages contemporains d'une œuvre antique, Villeneuve d'Ascq, 2024.
Éditeur : Presses Universitaires du Septentrion Collection : Littératures 308 pages ISBN : 978-2-7574-4094-0 24 €
Pourquoi avons-nous encore besoin d'Homère aujourd'hui ? Comment expliquer cette nouvelle actualité de l'Iliade et de l'Odyssée et le phénomène de cristallisation auquel elles semblent donner lieu ? À travers une analyse de leurs réappropriations multiples dans la littérature et les arts contemporains, il s'agit de repenser les usages et les modalités du rapport à l'œuvre antique pour remettre en perspective les notions d'héritage et de patrimoine homériques dans le cadre d'une « littérature mondiale ». Qu'en est-il des nouvelles formes de circulation, de citation des textes et de la tradition qui s'est constituée à partir de leur réception ? En quoi les œuvres homériques permettent-elles de représenter et de penser les crises et les interrogations de notre temps ? Comment l'art de l'aède peut-il être à la source d'une écriture fictionnelle moderne ? Bref, en quoi l'Iliade et l'Odyssée sont- elles encore agissantes dans la littérature, l'art et plus généralement le monde contemporains ?
Source : Presses Universitaires du Septentrion
Jeudi, 04 Avril 2024 08:03
Bram Roosen
Monica Brinzei, Chris Schabel, Iacobus de Altavilla. Lectura in libros Sententiarum, I. Principium, Questiones 1-6, Turnhout, 2024.
Éditeur : Brepols Collection : Corpus Christianorum. Continuatio Mediaevalis, 312 cxxxii + 376 p. pages ISBN : 978-2-503-60725-2 € 425 (excl. VAT)
This is the first critical edition of a major theological work by a Cistercian from a medieval university: the questions on book I of the Sentences by James of Eltville (Jacobus de Altavilla, d. 1392), monk and later abbot of the majestic Eberbach Abbey, the filming location of many of the scenes in The Name of the Rose. The product of bachelor lectures delivered in 1369-1370 at the magnificent Bernardins in Paris just south of Notre-Dame across the Seine, James' Lectura in libros Sententiarum survives in almost two dozen manuscripts. Based on a complete collation of all the witnesses, the editio princeps provides access to a text that illuminates a relatively dark period in the history of scholasticism, portrays the status quaestionis on many issues in philosophical theology between the Black Death and the Great Schism, and illustrates the importance of later-medieval Cistercian theologians and their symbiotic relationship with the Augustinian Hermits who dominated the field from the 1330s to the 1370s. Through the exodus of German scholars from Paris after the outbreak of the Schism, James of Eltville's ideas spread to the new faculties of theology founded in Germanic lands where they exerted a profound influence.
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Mercredi, 03 Avril 2024 08:06
Bram Roosen
Fernando Domínguez Reboiras et Jordi Gayà Estelrich, Raimundus Lullus. Opera latina XL (76-79) Parisiis anno 1298 composita, Turnhout, 2024.
Éditeur : Brepols Collection : Corpus Christianorum. Continuatio Mediaevalis, 302 lxxxv + 610 p. pages ISBN : 978-2-503-60638-5 € 465 (excl. VAT)
During his second stay in Paris (1297-1299), Ramon Llull developed an extraordinary literary activity writing 16 works, some of them of considerable length. His attention was once again focused on the presentation of the Art, either to summarize it in accordance with the new changes he had introduced (beginning with the Tabula generalis, op. 53, ROL XXVII), or to present it as a method of renewal of the particular sciences (astronomy and geometry) or as an instrument in the debate on the errors condemned by the bishop of Paris in 1277. The four works presented in this volume are examples of this activity.
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Mardi, 02 Avril 2024 08:02
Bram Roosen
María Cecilia Rusconi, Heymericus de Campo. Opus circa speculare enigma universi, Turnhout, 2024.
Éditeur : Brepols Collection : Corpus Christianorum. Continuatio Mediaevalis, 292C liii + 89 p. pages ISBN : 978-2-503-61053-5 € 150 (excl. VAT)
Although he has not yet been widely studied, Heymericus de Campo – Heymeric van den Velde – (1395-1460) played a role of some importance among the philosophers of the 15th century. He worked as a Master of Arts at the University of Cologne, where he was the main representative of the followers of Albertus Magnus (Scola Albertistarum), as member of the Bursa Laurentiana. He subsequently became a professor of theology and rector of the University of Louvain in 1435. The Opus circa speculare enigma universi corresponds to this final period of his career.
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Mardi, 26 Mars 2024 08:03
Stefano Tropea
Stefano Tropea, Roma e l'Oriente greco. Epistole, diplomazia e potere dalla battaglia di Cinoscefale alle Idi di marzo, Alessandria, 2024.
Éditeur : Edizioni dell'Orso Collection : «Studi e testi di epigrafia» 4 XXVIII, 399 p. pages ISBN : 978-88-3613-415-1 45 €
Résumé (en italien) : Le trame della diplomazia, arte sottile del confronto interstatale, l'epistolografia, forma primaria di comunicazione per soggetti dotati di autorità politica, e il linguaggio del potere sono i temi principali al centro di questo studio sulla storia antica. Il presente volume offre una disamina complessiva sulle forme di relazione e comunicazione innestatesi tra i Romani e i Greci nei secoli II e I a.C. attraverso un particolare tipo di documenti, le epistole – composte in lingua greca – inviate da magistrati romani a comunità elleniche e attestate in forma epigrafica. Questi testi, minuziosamente esaminati in un dossier di più di cento documenti, sono per la prima volta considerati come un gruppo unitario e omogeneo di testimonianze in grado di rivelare informazioni preziose sul periodo in cui la presenza di Roma nel Mediterraneo orientale si trasformò progressivamente dal ruolo di supervisore dell'equilibrio tra le monarchie ellenistiche a quello di potenza dominante nell'area greca. La trattazione si sviluppa attorno al linguaggio delle lettere romane, mutuato dai modelli epistolari ellenistici e riadattato alle esigenze della politica estera romana, alle pratiche di elaborazione, trasmissione e diffusione dei testi e agli esiti diplomatici e politico-amministrativi del confronto romano-ellenico tra l'operato di Flaminino e quello di Cesare.
Source : Edizioni dell'Orso
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