Late medieval France
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Published in "Fourteenth Century England", vol. VII, ed. M. Ormrod (2012). This is about the lawyer from Toulouse Ramon Durand who served the king of England-duke of Aquitaine Edward II as lawyer, then as seneschal of Périgord and... more
Published in the "Revue Historique de Bordeaux et du département de la Gironde", no. 20, 2014. Several unpublished documents permit to know the paid truces (the "patis") made between places of Aquitaine-Gascony, particularly... more
Published in "Les Cahiers du Bazadais", no. 152 (2006). This article is about the political song written by the late troubadour Pey de Ladils of the town of Bazas (now in département Gironde, France) about the conflict in Gascony between... more
This articles studies the political/politico-theological implications of the transfer of the the relics of Thomas Aquinas to Toulouse and Paris in 1368/69, and tries to show the intimate relationship between relics and political power.
Published in "Nottingham Medieval Studies", L, 2006, pp. 59-114. Contrary to assumed ideas, the support of inhabitants of the principality of Aquitaine to its prince Edward of Woodstock (nicknamed "the Black Prince" from the 16th century... more
Published in "Les Cahiers du Bazadais", no. 187, December 2014. This paper is about the family of Preissac whose elder members where nicknamed Soudan of la Trau. They were issued from a nephew of Pope Clement V and its most famous... more
Une sentence de condamnation à la prison perpétuelle rendue en 1280 par l’évêque d’Albi Bernard de Castanet contre un chanoine dénommé Guilhem Fumet, jugé coupable d’avoir eu commerce charnel avec plusieurs hommes, constitue en l’état des... more
ABSTRACT This article presents the urban life of Casteljaloux, between the fourteenth and the fifteenth centuries, thanks to the family archives of the lords of Albret and the register of the jurade of the town. During this period, the... more
Olivier Rouchon (dir.), L'opération généalogique. Cultures et pratiques généalogiques européennes, XVe-XVIIIe siècle, Rennes, Presses universitaires de Rennes, 2014, p. 141-163.
A German paper that gives examples of reuse of XIIIth century Papal letters at the French royal Chancery during the XIVth century. Models were taken from the summae dictaminis of Thomas of Capua and Riccardo of Pofi, and were reworked to... more
Published in "Le Moyen Âge", vol. CXII (2006). This article is about the war cries "Guyenne! Guyenne!", then "Guyenne! Saint George!" which were used by Gascons of the English party to show their fidelity towards their lords, the kings... more
Die Forschung zu Pilgerfahrten nach Santiago de Compostela und den Reiseberichten des Mittelalters hat eine lange Tradition. Der vorliegende Aufsatz bietet einen kurzen Überblick über die Entwicklung der literarischen Gattung... more
Published in the "Nottingham Medieval Studies", LII, 2008. From 1364 until the end of Anglo-Gascon Aquitaine (1453), an assembly of the Three Estates has existed, often divided into two assemblies (the Three Estates of Bordelais and... more
Il y a plus d'un siècle, Henri Stein publiait un inventaire de la librairie de Charles I er d'Albret, connétable de France au début du XV e siècle. Il se fondait sur une copie d'époque trouvée dans un manuscrit parisien. Cet article en... more
Published in "Le Moyen Âge", vol. CXVII (2011). The collegiate church Saint-Seurin of Bordeaux have written several texts trying to prove Gascony sovereign status (united with England) towards the kingdom of France. In this context, a... more
This paper focuses on the Nine Worthies and Nine Heroines fresco in the main hall of La Manta castle (Cuneo), with the aim of shedding light on the relation between the inscriptions painted below the figures and the text of a Middle... more
Le Trône d'Argile est une bande dessinée retraçant l'histoire troublée de la guerre civile entre Armagnacs et Bourguignons qui déchire le royaume de France au début du e siècle. Les cinq premiers volumes (le sixième est en préparation)... more
Published in the "Journal of Medieval Military History", vol. 9 (2011). It has obtained the John Gillingham Price from the American society "De Re Militari". It is about the three major offensives led by the French armies against... more
This article treats the first entry of a new prince as the start of a series of exchanges between the prince and his subjects. On the occasion of an entry, gifts in all kind of forms, subsistence, luxury and symbolic goods, were exchanged... more
Published in "Aquitaine Historique", 117 (2012). This is paper about an administrative medieval entity named in Gascon "Comtau d'Ornon" and was situated at the south of Bordeaux. Originally a possession of the counts of Bordeaux, it has... more
Кале и Ле Кротуа – два французских города, которые длительное время находились под властью англичан (первый с середины XIV по середину XVI вв., второй несколько десятилетий в XV в.). Их объединяет то, что при установлении на протяжении... more
Le présent volume rassemble les actes du colloque « "Arriver" en ville : les migrants en milieu urbain au Moyen Âge. Installation, intégration, mise à l’écart », qui se tint à l’École Normale Supérieure de Lyon les 24 et 25 février 2011.... more
Bordeaux à la fin du Moyen Âge, une puissance militaire. Composition et organisation de ses forces armées. Cet article a pour but d’interroger le qualificatif de « puissance militaire » appliqué à une ville durant la guerre de... more
The root cause of the Burgundian-Armagnac civil war was the brutal assassination of Louis, Duke of Orléans on the orders of John, Duke of Burgundy. From the outset, emotions - specifically grief and anger - were at the centre of the... more
L’itinérance rythme la vie des seigneurs au Moyen Age et ordonne la vie des cours à différents niveaux : politique, diplomatique, religieux et de la vie matérielle. Phénomène aux multiples facettes, il est ici abordé à partir de cas... more
Ces Mémoires de cours présentent un ensemble de contributions offertes au Professeur Agostino Paravicini Bagliani qui, de 1981 à 2008, a occupé la chaire d’histoire médiévale de la Faculté des Lettres de l’Université de Lausanne. Le... more
Portraits of French aristocrats within prayer books created in the late Middle Ages brought the book owners together with a visual representation that included realistic detail with the design of an ideal figure of a Christian ruler.... more
Royal documents issued after the Jacquerie and the Parisian revolt led by Étienne Marcel employ affective language to facilitate rebels’ reintegration into the political community and to encourage reconciliation between parties. These... more
Published in "Medieval Petitions: Grace and Grievance", ed. M. Ormrod, G. Dodd and A. Musson (2009). The Gascons subjects to the kings of England regularly sent petitions to them and the English Parliament in order to have their wages... more
Au sortir du Grand Schisme, le diocèse de Clermont s’engouffre pour deux siècles et demi dans une puissante spirale réformatrice. À rebours du cliché d’une Église tirant d’elle seule la capacité de se régénérer, ce livre offre une... more