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Thesis Chapters by Jean-Paul Rehr
PhD dissertation successfully defended on October 2, 2023 at the Université Lumière Lyon 2. A... more PhD dissertation successfully defended on October 2, 2023 at the Université Lumière Lyon 2.
Advisor: Julien Théry, Université Lumière Lyon 2
Jury:
Cécile Caby (Sorbonne Université);
Marie Dejoux (Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne);
Jean-Louis Gaulin (Université Lumière Lyon 2);
Claire Lemercier, (CNRS, CSO Sciences Po Paris);
Laurent Macé (Université Jean Jaurès Toulouse 2);
R.I. Moore (University of Newcastle);
Mark Gregory Pegg (Washington University, St. Louis)
Articles by Jean-Paul Rehr
« Cathares ». Toulouse dans la croisade, 2024
The English version of my catalogue entry on Toulouse ms 609, the registry of the so-called "grea... more The English version of my catalogue entry on Toulouse ms 609, the registry of the so-called "great inquisition" of 1245-46 for the exhibition « Cathares ». Toulouse dans la croisade, directed by Laure Barthet and Laurent Macé, taking place in the Musée Saint-Raymond and le Couvent des Jacobins at Toulouse, April 5, 2024 - Jan 5, 2025.
Exposition will include ms 609 on display to the general public for the first time.
Info: https://saintraymond.toulouse.fr/cathares-toulouse-dans-la-croisade/
Contribution to a new German-language collection, the "Invention of the Cathers", on Toulouse, BM... more Contribution to a new German-language collection, the "Invention of the Cathers", on Toulouse, BM, ms. 609 and Paris, BnF, ms lat 9992, evidence from the "great inquisition" at Toulouse 1245-46. Translated by Markus Krumm.
Humanités numériques , 2021
Available via open access at https://journals.openedition.org/revuehn/2630 Medieval sermons brim... more Available via open access at https://journals.openedition.org/revuehn/2630
Medieval sermons brim with tens of thousands of exempla, the “exemplary short stories” frequently used to convey belief and morals to the faithful. Long considered a class of dogmatic, religious, and moral texts, they were mostly studied as a subgroup of folktales and fables in literary studies. With the “anthropological turn” in historical research, new attention was paid to exempla as sources of cultural and historical insight, notably by the historian Jacques Le Goff and his student-inheritors.
ThEMA, a database of medieval exempla, began life in the 1990s in the hands of these inheritors, and has grown and transformed since then. It currently holds over 12,000 indexed exempla from the long “global Middle Ages”, stretching from Latin Europe to Byzantium to Asia, and drawing from Christian, Jewish, Islamic, and Buddhist sources. All exempla are carefully encoded and assigned metadata, and linked to keywords and thesauri, to enable researchers to undertake a variety of inquiries into these cultural artifacts. The most recent transformation of ThEMA into XML-TEI format, within a searchable database that provides powerful interfaces, has permitted the project to fully engage with FAIR data standards to ensure longevity and broader usability of the data for researchers and the general public.
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Les sermons médiévaux renferment des milliers d’exempla, ou histoires exemplaires, souvent utilisés pour transmettre doctrine et morale religieuses aux fidèles. Ils ont longtemps été considérés comme une part négligeable des textes dogmatiques et moraux, et l’attention s’est focalisée sur eux en tant que sous-ensemble des contes populaires et des fables dans les études littéraires. Avec le tournant anthropologique, une nouvelle approche des exempla en tant que sources culturelles et historiques a été développée, notamment par l’historien Jacques Le Goff et ses héritiers.
ThEMA, une base de données des exempla médiévaux, a commencé sa vie dans les années 1990 entre les mains de ces héritiers, et elle s’est développée et transformée jusqu’à nos jours. Elle comporte actuellement plus de 12 000 exempla indexés couvrant un long Moyen Âge s’étendant de l’Europe latine à Byzance et l’Asie, provenant de sources chrétiennes, juives, islamiques et bouddhistes. Chaque exemplum est soigneusement encodé, accompagné de métadonnées et relié à des mots-clés et des thésaurus, afin de permettre aux chercheurs de lancer une grande variété de requêtes au sein de ce corpus d’artéfacts culturels. La plus récente transformation de ThEMA a été sa conversion au format XML-TEI au sein d’une base de données offrant de puissantes interfaces qui ont permis au projet de s’engager entièrement dans les standards des « FAIR data », afin d’assurer longévité et usage élargi des données pour les chercheurs et le grand public.
Cahiers de Fanjeaux, 2020
Le manuscrit 609 de la Bibliothèque municipale de Toulouse est un registre qui conserve plus de 5... more Le manuscrit 609 de la Bibliothèque municipale de Toulouse est un registre qui conserve plus de 5500 dépositions faites en 1245-1246 devant les inquisiteurs Bernard de Caux et Jean de Saint-Pierre au sujet du « crime d’hérésie ». Bien qu’il s’agisse du plus ancien et du plus volumineux document issu des premières années de l’inquisition dans le
Midi, et de la plus grande série unitaire et continue de procès-verbaux avant le célèbre registre de Jacques Fournier, ce manuscrit a été relativement peu étudié dans sa globalité et jamais édité intégralement. La présente contribution examine d’abord les raisons pour lesquelles les historiens, depuis le XIX e siècle, se sont souvent contentés de citer le manuscrit 609 de façon fragmentaire. On présente ensuite de nouvelles perspectives de compréhension de la « grande inquisition », qui dérivent de l’édition numérique complète, en cours de réalisation par l’auteur.
Cahiers de Fanjeaux, 2020
[This is the English version of "Le catharisme et le manuscrit 609 de la Bibliothèque municipale ... more [This is the English version of "Le catharisme et le manuscrit 609 de la Bibliothèque municipale de Toulouse", Cahiers de Fanjeaux 55 ("Le « catharism » en questions"), published Summer 2020] Over 130 years ago Célestin Douais -abbot, bishop, and early historian of Catharismobserved in his influential overview of manuscript 609 of the Bibliothèque municipal de Toulouse (MS609), the registry of the 'great inquisition' of Toulouse, that it was marked by "la longueur d'un document, du reste quelque peu monotone, puisque, comme dans toutes les enquetes, les memes renseignements y reviennent souvent" 1 . Not one historian who has referred to MS 609 since Douais has failed to comment on this particular quality of the registry 2 , noteably moreso since Mark Pegg published his monograph on it, The Corruption of Angels.
Raison Présente, 2019
French language version of an article which argues for re-situating the so-called "great inquisit... more French language version of an article which argues for re-situating the so-called "great inquisition" at Toulouse (1245-46) - generally regarded as a clear instance of religious history, a mopping up of "Cathar" heresy after the Albigensian Crusade - within the larger historiographic trend of rethinking whether Inquisition was a particularly religious endeavour.
Raison Présente, 2019
Uncorrected English draft of an article published in French which argues for re-situating the so-... more Uncorrected English draft of an article published in French which argues for re-situating the so-called "great inquisition" at Toulouse (1245-46) - generally regarded as a clear instance of religious history, a mopping up of "Cathar" heresy after the Albigensian Crusade - within the larger historiographic trend of rethinking whether Inquisition was a particularly religious endeavour.
Open Library of Humanities (New Approaches to Late Medieval Court Records), 2019
MS 609 of the Bibliothèque municipale de Toulouse contains the registry of the largest known medi... more MS 609 of the Bibliothèque municipale de Toulouse contains the registry of the largest known medieval inquisition, the so-called ‘Great Inquisition’ lead by two Dominicans at Toulouse between 1245 and 1246. Since its discovery in the nineteenth century, this registry has remained unedited and is rarely studied in detail. Yet it has become famous for being the record of a broad inquisition into the ‘general state of the faith’, one that affirms that Catharism – the theory of a dualist, organized heretical counter-Church which brought the Albigensian crusade and eventual inquisition to the lands of the Count of Toulouse – was widespread between Toulouse and Carcassonne. This article argues that the registry does not record any general survey of Cathar heresy among the population, but rather it records an inquisition principally aimed at collecting evidence against village consulates who had no greater or lesser relationship to any ‘heresy’ than the rest of the population. This argument is made by challenging the historiographic bias towards sampling the registry anecdotally, replacing it with an evaluation based on a combination of macroanalysis and close reading facilitated by the author’s digital edition of MS 609 and network analysis techniques.
[Double-blind peer reviewed]
Conference Presentations, Talks by Jean-Paul Rehr
Abstract: The contents of MS 609, the registry of the "great inquisition" of 1245-46, have freque... more Abstract: The contents of MS 609, the registry of the "great inquisition" of 1245-46, have frequently been cited by scholars as proof of the beliefs of those accused of heresy, or conversely evidence of the "construction" or "invention" of those beliefs by inquisitors. These positions have generally been argued from selected confessions. This paper offers a macro-perspective on the specific historical and social context of these confessions (facilitated by a new digital scholarly edition of the entire registry) and brings to light significant patterns of previously-unidentified problems across them. The solution to these problems suggests that the very "heresies" as recorded in the registry may have been the product of a broad-based, negotiated agreement between inquisitors and confessants. These in turn may explain how the enormous undertaking that was this inquisition could have occurred in such a short period of time.
Didier MÉHU (Unive rsité Laval, Québe c, Canad a) 380-42 0 : la révolut ion symbo lique de l'Occi... more Didier MÉHU (Unive rsité Laval, Québe c, Canad a) 380-42 0 : la révolut ion symbo lique de l'Occid ent, ou la naissa nce du Moyen Âge 3 FÉVRIER | MSH Lyon St-Étienne Danie l PANAT ERI (Unive rsidad Nacion al de San Martín , Argen tine) L'un et le multip le dans l'oeuvr e juridiq ue d'Alfon se X le Sage : une solutio n juridiq ue à un problè me social 17 FÉVRIER | MSH Lyon St-Étienne Anne NISSE N (Unive rsité Paris 1 Panth éon-So rbonn e) Gérer la terre par l'écrit ou par l'oral dans le haut Moyen Âge. Quelqu es réflexio ns sur les indices archéo logiqu es des gestion s territor iales dans le Nord-O uest europé en 3 MARS | MILC Alain PROVO ST (Unive rsité d'Arto is) « Par univers e monde ». Lecture s de Marco Polo 17 MARS | MSH Lyon St-Étienne Cathe rine CROIZ Y-NAQ UET (Unive rsité Paris-N anterr e) Les histori ens médiév aux et la langue
Among the remarkable projects about Medieval Preaching (or closely related topics), some of them ... more Among the remarkable projects about Medieval Preaching (or closely related topics), some of them are devoted to sermon editions (Sermones.net, Dr. Concetto Del Popolo’s edition of B. Matthaei de Agrigento’s sermon De ieiunio, Pelbart of Themeswar’s sermons, Osvaldus of Lasko’s sermons), editions of related literature (The Electronic Manipulus florum project (Janus search tool), The Digital Liber pharetrae Project, The Chrysostomus Latinus in Iohannem Online project), databases (ThEMA: Thesaurus Exemplorum Medii Aevi), or to more technical approaches (TEI Critical Apparatus Toolbox).
Finally, some projects (Distinguo, de Heresi) have been under development for some time, while some others have been recently finished (BD ELME) or are still under construction (PASSIM: Patristic Sermons in the Middle Ages; Tikkoun Sofrim, PredMedDB).
All these projects raise some questions, which we think might be interesting to debate with some of the experts in the field:
– What is the future for sermons studies in the Digital Humanities?
– Is there a standard for editing medieval sermons (in TEI/XML)? If not, should we create one?
– How can we fund these projects? Is there a way to make ‘low budget’ digital projects?
– Should data be public? How can we make the data public?
Conference to be held virtually - register for the conference Zoom link at cahiers-de-fanjeaux@... more Conference to be held virtually - register for the conference Zoom link at cahiers-de-fanjeaux@wanadoo.fr
CoMOR CONFIGURATIONS OF EUROPEAN FAIRS. MERCHANTS, OBJECTS, ROUTES (1350-1600) est un programme d... more CoMOR CONFIGURATIONS OF EUROPEAN FAIRS. MERCHANTS, OBJECTS, ROUTES (1350-1600) est un programme de recherche d'une durée de trois ans (2020-2023) soutenu par l'Agence nationale de la recherche et la Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft.
Il est piloté par Jean-Louis Gaulin (Lyon) et Susanne Rau (Erfurt).
PhD dissertation successfully defended on October 2, 2023 at the Université Lumière Lyon 2. A... more PhD dissertation successfully defended on October 2, 2023 at the Université Lumière Lyon 2.
Advisor: Julien Théry, Université Lumière Lyon 2
Jury:
Cécile Caby (Sorbonne Université);
Marie Dejoux (Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne);
Jean-Louis Gaulin (Université Lumière Lyon 2);
Claire Lemercier, (CNRS, CSO Sciences Po Paris);
Laurent Macé (Université Jean Jaurès Toulouse 2);
R.I. Moore (University of Newcastle);
Mark Gregory Pegg (Washington University, St. Louis)
« Cathares ». Toulouse dans la croisade, 2024
The English version of my catalogue entry on Toulouse ms 609, the registry of the so-called "grea... more The English version of my catalogue entry on Toulouse ms 609, the registry of the so-called "great inquisition" of 1245-46 for the exhibition « Cathares ». Toulouse dans la croisade, directed by Laure Barthet and Laurent Macé, taking place in the Musée Saint-Raymond and le Couvent des Jacobins at Toulouse, April 5, 2024 - Jan 5, 2025.
Exposition will include ms 609 on display to the general public for the first time.
Info: https://saintraymond.toulouse.fr/cathares-toulouse-dans-la-croisade/
Contribution to a new German-language collection, the "Invention of the Cathers", on Toulouse, BM... more Contribution to a new German-language collection, the "Invention of the Cathers", on Toulouse, BM, ms. 609 and Paris, BnF, ms lat 9992, evidence from the "great inquisition" at Toulouse 1245-46. Translated by Markus Krumm.
Humanités numériques , 2021
Available via open access at https://journals.openedition.org/revuehn/2630 Medieval sermons brim... more Available via open access at https://journals.openedition.org/revuehn/2630
Medieval sermons brim with tens of thousands of exempla, the “exemplary short stories” frequently used to convey belief and morals to the faithful. Long considered a class of dogmatic, religious, and moral texts, they were mostly studied as a subgroup of folktales and fables in literary studies. With the “anthropological turn” in historical research, new attention was paid to exempla as sources of cultural and historical insight, notably by the historian Jacques Le Goff and his student-inheritors.
ThEMA, a database of medieval exempla, began life in the 1990s in the hands of these inheritors, and has grown and transformed since then. It currently holds over 12,000 indexed exempla from the long “global Middle Ages”, stretching from Latin Europe to Byzantium to Asia, and drawing from Christian, Jewish, Islamic, and Buddhist sources. All exempla are carefully encoded and assigned metadata, and linked to keywords and thesauri, to enable researchers to undertake a variety of inquiries into these cultural artifacts. The most recent transformation of ThEMA into XML-TEI format, within a searchable database that provides powerful interfaces, has permitted the project to fully engage with FAIR data standards to ensure longevity and broader usability of the data for researchers and the general public.
- - - -
Les sermons médiévaux renferment des milliers d’exempla, ou histoires exemplaires, souvent utilisés pour transmettre doctrine et morale religieuses aux fidèles. Ils ont longtemps été considérés comme une part négligeable des textes dogmatiques et moraux, et l’attention s’est focalisée sur eux en tant que sous-ensemble des contes populaires et des fables dans les études littéraires. Avec le tournant anthropologique, une nouvelle approche des exempla en tant que sources culturelles et historiques a été développée, notamment par l’historien Jacques Le Goff et ses héritiers.
ThEMA, une base de données des exempla médiévaux, a commencé sa vie dans les années 1990 entre les mains de ces héritiers, et elle s’est développée et transformée jusqu’à nos jours. Elle comporte actuellement plus de 12 000 exempla indexés couvrant un long Moyen Âge s’étendant de l’Europe latine à Byzance et l’Asie, provenant de sources chrétiennes, juives, islamiques et bouddhistes. Chaque exemplum est soigneusement encodé, accompagné de métadonnées et relié à des mots-clés et des thésaurus, afin de permettre aux chercheurs de lancer une grande variété de requêtes au sein de ce corpus d’artéfacts culturels. La plus récente transformation de ThEMA a été sa conversion au format XML-TEI au sein d’une base de données offrant de puissantes interfaces qui ont permis au projet de s’engager entièrement dans les standards des « FAIR data », afin d’assurer longévité et usage élargi des données pour les chercheurs et le grand public.
Cahiers de Fanjeaux, 2020
Le manuscrit 609 de la Bibliothèque municipale de Toulouse est un registre qui conserve plus de 5... more Le manuscrit 609 de la Bibliothèque municipale de Toulouse est un registre qui conserve plus de 5500 dépositions faites en 1245-1246 devant les inquisiteurs Bernard de Caux et Jean de Saint-Pierre au sujet du « crime d’hérésie ». Bien qu’il s’agisse du plus ancien et du plus volumineux document issu des premières années de l’inquisition dans le
Midi, et de la plus grande série unitaire et continue de procès-verbaux avant le célèbre registre de Jacques Fournier, ce manuscrit a été relativement peu étudié dans sa globalité et jamais édité intégralement. La présente contribution examine d’abord les raisons pour lesquelles les historiens, depuis le XIX e siècle, se sont souvent contentés de citer le manuscrit 609 de façon fragmentaire. On présente ensuite de nouvelles perspectives de compréhension de la « grande inquisition », qui dérivent de l’édition numérique complète, en cours de réalisation par l’auteur.
Cahiers de Fanjeaux, 2020
[This is the English version of "Le catharisme et le manuscrit 609 de la Bibliothèque municipale ... more [This is the English version of "Le catharisme et le manuscrit 609 de la Bibliothèque municipale de Toulouse", Cahiers de Fanjeaux 55 ("Le « catharism » en questions"), published Summer 2020] Over 130 years ago Célestin Douais -abbot, bishop, and early historian of Catharismobserved in his influential overview of manuscript 609 of the Bibliothèque municipal de Toulouse (MS609), the registry of the 'great inquisition' of Toulouse, that it was marked by "la longueur d'un document, du reste quelque peu monotone, puisque, comme dans toutes les enquetes, les memes renseignements y reviennent souvent" 1 . Not one historian who has referred to MS 609 since Douais has failed to comment on this particular quality of the registry 2 , noteably moreso since Mark Pegg published his monograph on it, The Corruption of Angels.
Raison Présente, 2019
French language version of an article which argues for re-situating the so-called "great inquisit... more French language version of an article which argues for re-situating the so-called "great inquisition" at Toulouse (1245-46) - generally regarded as a clear instance of religious history, a mopping up of "Cathar" heresy after the Albigensian Crusade - within the larger historiographic trend of rethinking whether Inquisition was a particularly religious endeavour.
Raison Présente, 2019
Uncorrected English draft of an article published in French which argues for re-situating the so-... more Uncorrected English draft of an article published in French which argues for re-situating the so-called "great inquisition" at Toulouse (1245-46) - generally regarded as a clear instance of religious history, a mopping up of "Cathar" heresy after the Albigensian Crusade - within the larger historiographic trend of rethinking whether Inquisition was a particularly religious endeavour.
Open Library of Humanities (New Approaches to Late Medieval Court Records), 2019
MS 609 of the Bibliothèque municipale de Toulouse contains the registry of the largest known medi... more MS 609 of the Bibliothèque municipale de Toulouse contains the registry of the largest known medieval inquisition, the so-called ‘Great Inquisition’ lead by two Dominicans at Toulouse between 1245 and 1246. Since its discovery in the nineteenth century, this registry has remained unedited and is rarely studied in detail. Yet it has become famous for being the record of a broad inquisition into the ‘general state of the faith’, one that affirms that Catharism – the theory of a dualist, organized heretical counter-Church which brought the Albigensian crusade and eventual inquisition to the lands of the Count of Toulouse – was widespread between Toulouse and Carcassonne. This article argues that the registry does not record any general survey of Cathar heresy among the population, but rather it records an inquisition principally aimed at collecting evidence against village consulates who had no greater or lesser relationship to any ‘heresy’ than the rest of the population. This argument is made by challenging the historiographic bias towards sampling the registry anecdotally, replacing it with an evaluation based on a combination of macroanalysis and close reading facilitated by the author’s digital edition of MS 609 and network analysis techniques.
[Double-blind peer reviewed]
Abstract: The contents of MS 609, the registry of the "great inquisition" of 1245-46, have freque... more Abstract: The contents of MS 609, the registry of the "great inquisition" of 1245-46, have frequently been cited by scholars as proof of the beliefs of those accused of heresy, or conversely evidence of the "construction" or "invention" of those beliefs by inquisitors. These positions have generally been argued from selected confessions. This paper offers a macro-perspective on the specific historical and social context of these confessions (facilitated by a new digital scholarly edition of the entire registry) and brings to light significant patterns of previously-unidentified problems across them. The solution to these problems suggests that the very "heresies" as recorded in the registry may have been the product of a broad-based, negotiated agreement between inquisitors and confessants. These in turn may explain how the enormous undertaking that was this inquisition could have occurred in such a short period of time.
Didier MÉHU (Unive rsité Laval, Québe c, Canad a) 380-42 0 : la révolut ion symbo lique de l'Occi... more Didier MÉHU (Unive rsité Laval, Québe c, Canad a) 380-42 0 : la révolut ion symbo lique de l'Occid ent, ou la naissa nce du Moyen Âge 3 FÉVRIER | MSH Lyon St-Étienne Danie l PANAT ERI (Unive rsidad Nacion al de San Martín , Argen tine) L'un et le multip le dans l'oeuvr e juridiq ue d'Alfon se X le Sage : une solutio n juridiq ue à un problè me social 17 FÉVRIER | MSH Lyon St-Étienne Anne NISSE N (Unive rsité Paris 1 Panth éon-So rbonn e) Gérer la terre par l'écrit ou par l'oral dans le haut Moyen Âge. Quelqu es réflexio ns sur les indices archéo logiqu es des gestion s territor iales dans le Nord-O uest europé en 3 MARS | MILC Alain PROVO ST (Unive rsité d'Arto is) « Par univers e monde ». Lecture s de Marco Polo 17 MARS | MSH Lyon St-Étienne Cathe rine CROIZ Y-NAQ UET (Unive rsité Paris-N anterr e) Les histori ens médiév aux et la langue
Among the remarkable projects about Medieval Preaching (or closely related topics), some of them ... more Among the remarkable projects about Medieval Preaching (or closely related topics), some of them are devoted to sermon editions (Sermones.net, Dr. Concetto Del Popolo’s edition of B. Matthaei de Agrigento’s sermon De ieiunio, Pelbart of Themeswar’s sermons, Osvaldus of Lasko’s sermons), editions of related literature (The Electronic Manipulus florum project (Janus search tool), The Digital Liber pharetrae Project, The Chrysostomus Latinus in Iohannem Online project), databases (ThEMA: Thesaurus Exemplorum Medii Aevi), or to more technical approaches (TEI Critical Apparatus Toolbox).
Finally, some projects (Distinguo, de Heresi) have been under development for some time, while some others have been recently finished (BD ELME) or are still under construction (PASSIM: Patristic Sermons in the Middle Ages; Tikkoun Sofrim, PredMedDB).
All these projects raise some questions, which we think might be interesting to debate with some of the experts in the field:
– What is the future for sermons studies in the Digital Humanities?
– Is there a standard for editing medieval sermons (in TEI/XML)? If not, should we create one?
– How can we fund these projects? Is there a way to make ‘low budget’ digital projects?
– Should data be public? How can we make the data public?
Conference to be held virtually - register for the conference Zoom link at cahiers-de-fanjeaux@... more Conference to be held virtually - register for the conference Zoom link at cahiers-de-fanjeaux@wanadoo.fr
CoMOR CONFIGURATIONS OF EUROPEAN FAIRS. MERCHANTS, OBJECTS, ROUTES (1350-1600) est un programme d... more CoMOR CONFIGURATIONS OF EUROPEAN FAIRS. MERCHANTS, OBJECTS, ROUTES (1350-1600) est un programme de recherche d'une durée de trois ans (2020-2023) soutenu par l'Agence nationale de la recherche et la Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft.
Il est piloté par Jean-Louis Gaulin (Lyon) et Susanne Rau (Erfurt).
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Lectures and workshops within this series are intended primarily for the members of the IMAFO. Th... more Lectures and workshops within this series are intended primarily for the members of the IMAFO. They will be small and focused with required registration. Participants are encouraged to send their questions and suggestions regarding various topics in advance, so the lectures and the workshops can be tailored to their needs.
Thesaurus Exemplorum Medii Aevi, 2019
The new version of our ThEMA website is now online, offering a thesaurus of 11897 exemplary anecd... more The new version of our ThEMA website is now online, offering a thesaurus of 11897 exemplary anecdotes from the Middle Ages: a multimedia, multilingual database of exemplary stories giving special insight into the imagination of men and women in the Medieval West and beyond, from Russia and the Middle East to China and Japan. Browse the collections, explore the index of over 2000 keywords, or search the full text of ThEMA: http://thema.huma-num.fr/ La nouvelle version de notre site ThEMA est désormais accessible. Il donne accès à un Thesaurus de 11897 anecdotes exemplaires du Moyen Age: une base de données multimédia et multilingue sur des anecdotes exemplaires qui donnent un accès privilégié à l'imaginaire des hommes et des femmes de l'Occident médiéval, et bien au-delà vers la Russie, le Moyen Orient, la Chine et le Japon. Parcourez les recueils, explorez l'index de plus de 2000 mots-clés, ou recherchez en texte intégral dans ThEMA : http://thema.huma-num.fr/
http://medieval-inquisition.huma-num.fr/
The site http://medieval-inquisition.huma-num.fr/ is home of the digital edition of Toulouse MS 6... more The site http://medieval-inquisition.huma-num.fr/ is home of the digital edition of Toulouse MS 609: the registry of the largest known inquisition of the Middle Ages. The registry contains over 5,500 depositions from people of all ranks of society across 106 villages between Toulouse and Carcassonne. The depositions were taken by the Dominicans Bernard de Caux and Johan de Saint-Pierre between 1245 and 1246 covering a range of subject matter, from orthodoxy and heresy to social life, with collections going back to the 1180s.
While the site is centred on MS 609, other documents are being added which shed light on the social context of the prosecution of heresy by inquisitors, including MS 9992 (extant sentences from this inquisition); depositions from the Fonds Doat; oaths, charters, wills, letters from the Trésor des Chartes and the departmental archives of the Haute-Garonne, Aude, inter alia.
All documents are linked by people featured in them.
The site features:
- Native digital edition of the manuscript transcribed in Latin and translated into English
- Latin edition viewable in two formats: diplomatic and interpretive
- High-resolution images of the original manuscript
- Searchable index of all documents
- Searchable index of all people and places
- Function for comparing stories between depositions
- All data hyperlinked between documents, people, places
- Full-text search of Latin documents
All documents are made available under Creative Commons licence, and may be downloaded in original TEI-XML format, printable PDF and other formats for data analysis.
The site is now launched in "beta", with ongoing corrections to the dual-language interface, and elaboration of editorial position statements. Users are encouraged to report bugs, errors and problems through the site's simple reporting interface.
This poster is part of a group of posters created by historians on the theme of "Les Cathares : u... more This poster is part of a group of posters created by historians on the theme of "Les Cathares : une idée reçue" for a travelling exhibition for the general public sponsored by the national organisation "Fête de la Science".
This poster examines the celebrated manuscript PA 36 of the Bibliothèque municipale de Lyon, the so-called "Cathar manuscript" which is claimed to contain various Cathar rituals and liturgy.
This poster is part of a group of posters created by historians on the theme of "Les Cathares : u... more This poster is part of a group of posters created by historians on the theme of "Les Cathares : une idée reçue" for a travelling exhibition for the general public sponsored by the national organisation "Fête de la Science".
This poster discusses in broad terms the origins of the inquisition into heresy and complex position of early inquisitors. Readers are challenged to some source criticism: looking for evidence of Cathars via a folio from Bibliothèque de Toulouse MS 609, the registry of the Great Inquisition at Toulouse.
Exposition Lyon, Bibliothèque Diderot 5, parvis René Descartes mezzanine du hall principal 17 jan... more Exposition Lyon, Bibliothèque Diderot 5, parvis René Descartes mezzanine du hall principal 17 janvier -20 mars 2019 lun-ven : 9h-18h45 ; sam : 9h-16h45
Translation of Jacques Chiffoleau's contribution about Waldenses in the late medieval French Alps... more Translation of Jacques Chiffoleau's contribution about Waldenses in the late medieval French Alps to a Brill collection on Waldenses.
Translation of contribution by Xavier Hélary on "Why did the Number of Knights in France and Engl... more Translation of contribution by Xavier Hélary on "Why did the Number of Knights in France and England Fall in the Thirteenth Century?"
Accounts and Accountability in Late Medieval Europe: Records, Procedures, and Socio-Political Impact, 2020
(nota bene: I am not the author of this article, but the translator - French to English)
Training offered June 15-19, 2020 at Lyon, France In the last two decades, historians, archaeolo... more Training offered June 15-19, 2020 at Lyon, France
In the last two decades, historians, archaeologists, and philologists of ancient, medieval, and early modern societies have profited from XML-technologies to encode and store their corpora and data sets. However, most of this work has occurred at the level of individual XML files, with analysis, publication, and display generated through non-XML technologies (PHP, Python, etc.), often depending on other specialist programmers. Due to a lack of training opportunities, digital humanists have not been able to leverage their XML skills into advanced query methods and applications.
This XQuery and eXist-db week-long intensive is offered to humanists from all countries who want to capitalize on their existing knowledge of XML and XPATH in order to develop their own XML databases and applications. By the end of this free, 5-day intensive course, the attendees will be able to use XQuery and eXist-db to:
-> query and transform large corpora and datasets
-> develop XML applications
-> publish documents and data to the Web
-> make data available through APIs
-> and communicate with system administrators about XML database and application implementation
http://ciham.msh-lse.fr/node/1919
La papauté, pendant la période où elle a été installée en Avignon (1309-1378), a connu un essor a... more La papauté, pendant la période où elle a été installée en Avignon (1309-1378), a connu un essor administratif sans précédent et produit une gigantesque masse d'archives en gouvernant l'ensemble de la Chrétienté latine (c'est-à-dire toute l'Europe de l'Ouest) au plan religieux, mais aussi dans de nombreux domaines politiques. Dans le cadre plus large du projet de long terme APOSCRIPTA Database-Unified Corpus of Papal Letters, l'opération APOSCRIPTA/C6 financée par la MSH donne accès au contenu, en majeure partie inexploré jusqu'ici, des registres de lettres émises par la chancellerie avignonnaise durant les 10 années du pontificat le plus brillant de la période (1342-1352). Ces lettres, expédiées au quotidien, constituaient le vecteur indispensable du gouvernement de l'Église. Des copies en étaient faites dans les Registra Avenionensia et les Registra Vaticana, deux séries de volumes aujourd'hui conservées aux Archives du Vatican. Dans chacun de ces registres, une liste de « rubricelles », petits résumés de chaque lettre copiée, fournissait une sorte de table des matières. APOSCRIPTA/C6 donne librement accès en ligne, sous forme d'une base de données, aux rubricelles de plus de 80 000 lettres enregistrées sous Clément VI, éditées par Laurent Vallière (CNRS, CIHAM). Pour les néophytes... Le pape d'Avignon Clément VI (1342-1352) est bien connu pour le faste extraordinaire qu'il instaura autour de lui, imité par les cardinaux, au point de faire de la Curie « romaine » (mais installée en Comtat Venaissin) le premier modèle de munificence pour les cours princières de la fin du Moyen Âge. L'efficacité de la fiscalité pontificale, qui drainait vers Avignon des richesses prélevées dans tout l'Occident, permit notamment à Clément VI une politique de mécénat qui attira auprès de la Curie les plus grands artistes du temps dans tous les domaines. Clément eut aussi à intervenir dans les affaires politiques de son temps, en particulier pour tenter de mettre fin au conflit entre les rois de France et d'Angleterre commencé peu avant le début du pontificat (et connu aujourd'hui sous le nom de « Guerre de Cent Ans »).