Cette étude vise à définir le débat comme un genre, qui se constituerait à la fin du quatorzième siècle dans le sillage des jugements de Guillaume de Machaut. Une approche chronologique du corpus met en valeur la manière dont le débat se détache dans l’ensemble composite de la littérature de dispute : il développe une structure qui lui est propre, fondée sur un dialogue conflictuel s’achevant par un appel au jugement du lecteur, qui laisse en suspens la question. Il s’inscrit dès lors dans des pratiques ludiques qui lui donnent sens, et qui parodient la dialectique et la rhétorique pour faire émerger une parole individuelle, en prise avec un public : dialogue à décrypter entre des êtres ambivalents, où l’auteur-narrateur se fait personnage et abdique son autorité, le genre appelle une diction, voire une mise en scène. Le débat entretient donc un rapport étroit avec l’évolution de la lyrique courtoise vers une forme de poésie morale, qui fait vaciller les catégories de pensée grâce au jeu du dialogue et à la possibilité de lectures multiples. Il met en avant une forme de savoir qui se constitue dans un rapport personnel du lecteur au texte, tout en conservant la musique de la parole vivante et la richesse dramatique du jeu. / The aim of this study is to establish a definition of the debate as a literary genre, that would establish itself as such at the end of the fourteenth century in the wake of the Jugements by Guillaume de Machaut. A chronological approach of the corpus shows how the debate can be identified in the midst of the different kinds of dispute literature : it develops its own structure, based on an antagonistic dialogue ending with a plea to the reader’s wisdom, which leaves the issue open. It comes within the scope of recreational practices that give it meaning, and that parody dialectic and rhetoric in order to let an individual voice be heard directly by an audience : this genre consists in a dialogue between ambiguous beings, which has to be decrypted, where the author-narrator is a character and relinquishes his authority ; it needs to be spoken, or even performed. The debate has to do with the evolution of courtly lyricism, which tends to become a poetry dealing mainly with ethics and upsetting traditional categories of thought through the use of dialogue and the possibility of multiple meanings. It privileges a form of knowledge which consists in a personal relationship of the reader with the text, while still retaining the music of oral speech and the dramatic intensity of play.

Cribra orbitalia represents one of the most frequent bone pathologies in skeletal remains of past populations. This lesion is characterised by porous, furrowed even trabecular disruption on the outer table of the compact bone on the orbital roof. Although the origin of cribra orbitalia is linked to marrow hyperplasia as a consequence of iron deficiency anemia, even other causes are not ruled out. Both occurences cribra orbitalia alone and coincidence with other signs of diseases have been recorded. Research of this study applies to cribra orbitalia as a long- term stress indicator on the skeleton and a symptom of specific diseases or anemic syndroms. Skeletal remains from Czech medieval sites with presence of cribra orbitalia as well as whole graveyard from Oškobrh were analysed. Macroscopical investigation did not demonstrate periodic coincidence of cribra orbitalia and specific bone signs of the diseases. However, the following bone changes have been observed: hyperostosis porotica, increased vascularization, supranasal porosity, inflammatory- hemorrhagic reaction on the endocranium which can in terms of differential diagnosis help to clarify the nature and/or cause of the origin of cribra orbitalia. Comparison of the population from Oškobrh with other medieval graveyards showed that frequency of...

Administration of the City of Rakovnik in the Late Middle Ages This work deals with the administration of the city of Rakovnik in the Late Middle Ages as it is reflected in the contemporary municipal books and records of the time. The focus of this work is on the development and operation of the municipal administration, with special attention being given to the existence and activities of city officials, as well as the purpose of individual aspects of the city's administrative life, and the control over such activities maintained by municipal authorities.

- 5 - Abstract: The diploma thesis "Coronation of Byzantine Emperors in Late Antiquity and Early Middle Ages" deals with gradual changes of the ceremonies associated with the imperial accessions. Using narative, legal, artistic and numismatic evidence, it attempts to identify crucial components of each coronation ceremony, analyses gradual transformation these components underwent and points out new developments that helped each emperor to estabilish his right to the throne. The thesis also deal with the imperial insignia used both during coronation ceremonies and during other court rites.

Cette thèse s'intéresse à la manière dont l'Oulipien Jacques Roubaud, tout en réécrivant des textes et des motifs venus du Moyen Âge, exhume aussi des pratiques littéraires de l'époque. En effet, tout au long de son œuvre, l'écrivain n'a de cesse d'avouer son penchant pour les lettres médiévales. Non content de publier, en qualité d'érudit, des essais sur la lyrique des troubadours ou le roman arthurien, il considère aussi les textes et les auteurs du Moyen Âge comme autant de modèles à sa propre posture. Il se reconnaît notamment dans cette conception de la littérature où l'originalité se jauge à l'aune, non pas de la pure nouveauté, mais de la récupération incessante du déjà-dit. L'écriture est toujours réécriture, adaptation et transmission d’œuvres anciennes, en un mot résolument médiéval, elle est toujours "translation". En recomposant la bibliothèque médiéval qu'arpente Jacques Roubaud au gré de ses écrits, ce travail cherche donc à cerner les mécanismes et les enjeux d'une réécriture à la lumière de la poétique médiévale. / This thesis examines how the Oulipian Jacques Roubaud, while rewriting texts and motifs from Middle Ages, also recaptures an ancient practice of literature. Indeed, throughout his work, Jacques Roubaud acknowledges medieval literature as an inspirational field. Not only does he publish, as a true scholar, several essays about troubadours and Arthurian romances, but also considers texts and writers of Middle Ages as examples to be followed for his own material. He seems to recognise himself in the medieval conception of literature, in which originality is not a matter of newness but consists in dealing with what has already been told. Writing is always about rewriting, adapting and passing old tales on, in a medieval word, writing is about "translatio". By reconstructing the old library that Jacques Roubaud paces, this study therefore analyses the numerous mechanisms of rewriting in the light of medieval poetic.

The author of this dissertation addresses the motif of magic figuring in Spanish medieval short prose. The researched works of art are the following titles: Calila y Dimna, Sendebar, El Conde Lucanor, Libro del Caballero Zifar and Libro de los Gatos. Out of the aforementioned anthologies the author further analyses specific selected short stories which contain the motif of magic. The introduction describes medieval history and literary genres and more closely analyses the interpretation of magic on the basis of both period and current literary works and publications. Author presupposes medieval didactic literature for the most part describes real world which the reader is acquainted with. The motifs of magic are divided into five sections:Devil, Afterlife, Magical Realm, Fake Magic and Medical Superstitions. Each chapter addresses one particular topic, analyzing it in the context of the researched stories but also in the context of medieval culture as a whole. The end of each chapter offers a comprehensive summary. In contrast with publications dealing with the topic of magic in the Spanish literature, the dissertation focuses more closely on the element of magic used as trickery as this view of magic is widely represented in the literature. The conclusion discusses the issue of faith in a life of a...

The polyphonic sources of medieval Sweden are very few, although well-documented in musicological research. However, while most of the earlier research has tended to focus on interpreting the sources themselves rather than to examine the cultural and historical context in which they were written, the present dissertation aims at providing a broader narrative of the transmission and practice of polyphony. By examining the cultural context of the sources and putting them in relation to each other, a bigger picture is painted, where also Danish and Norwegian sources are included. Based on the discussion and analyses of the sources, a general historical outline is suggested. The practice of organum in the late 13th century in Uppsala was probably a result from Swedes studying in Paris and via oral transmission brought the practice back home. This 'Parisian path' was accompanied by an 'English-Scandinavian' path, where mostly Denmark and Norway either influenced or were influenced by English polyphonic practice. During the 14th century, polyphony seems to have been rather established in Sweden, although prohibitions against it were made by the Order of the Bridgettines. These prohibitions were probably linked to a general antipolyphonic attitude in Europe, beginning with the papal bull of John XII in 1324. The sources of the 15th and 16th centuries are very different from each other, and perhaps suggest that polyphony of older styles were sung in monasteries and certain churches while more modern discant were sung at the royal courts and at larger religious feasts such as the translation of Catherine of Vadstena.

The aim of this essay is to examine and compare how virtue was depicted in the visual arts in medieval and renaissance Italy: why it was depicted this way; how the depiction of virtues may have differed between the two periods and, if so, what caused it to change. The essay first examines and analyses the history of virtue, beginning in classical antiquity, and the evolution of virtue through the Middle Ages and the virtues’ role in society and art. It follows with a close examination of Giotto di Bondone and his grisaille frescoes of the virtues and vices in the Scrovegni Chapel in Padua. The essay then examines the role of virtue in renaissance society and art, followed by a close examination of Raphael and his frescoes of the heavenly virtues in the Stanza della Segnatura in The Vatican Palace in Rome. The essay concludes with a discussion of how the two periods differed in their depiction of virtue and why.

Ce travail se compose de deux parties. La première décrit et évalue, dans les premiers deux chapitres, l’interprétation du Décaméron de Boccace dans les travaux de Schlegel, Hegel, Lukács, Bakhtine et Auerbach. Ensuite, à partir de cette opération de comparaison, un troisième chapitre analyse des nouvelles perspectives interprétatives et historiques sur le roman, et pose les bases herméneutiques pour une nouvelle lecture du Décaméron.La deuxième partie aborde, dans un premier chapitre, la réécriture boccacienne de l’épisode de Paolo et Francesca de la Commedia de Dante (Enfer V). Dans le cadre de ce même chapitre, on analyse la théorie de la « fable » développée par Boccace dans les Genealogie deorum gentilium en montrant surtout les aspects liés aux d’allégorie, de connaissance et de consolation. À cela fait suite une analyse de la structure narrative du Filocolo et une hypothèse sur la fonction de l’épisode des « Questioni d’amore » dans l’économie globale de l’œuvre. Le deuxième chapitre propose une lecture du Décaméron qui prend appui sur la notion de « compassion » et qui offre une analyse du récit-porteur à partir d’instances éthiques et philosophiques. Les sous-chapitres centraux explorent les modalités de mise en jeu des croyances. Le chapitre se termine par une analyse de la notion de « fortune », sa théorisation et sa représentation dans le Décaméron. Le troisième chapitre est consacré à l’interprétation individuelle d’un groupe de cinq nouvelles (IV, 4 ; V, 1 ; II, 7 ; II, 9 ; X, 10). / This work is composed of two parts. In the first one, I critically analyze how Boccaccio was read by the main theorists of the novel (Schlegel, Hegel, Lukács, Bakhtine, Auerbach); once described individually, these authors are later confronted with each other. A third chapter deals with new perspectives in the theory of the novel, which provide the foundation for a new interpretation of Boccaccio’s Decameron.The second part is devoted to Boccaccio’s works in themselves. First, I analyze Boccaccio’s rewriting of the dantean episode of Paolo and Francesca (Inf. V). In the same chapter I also discuss Boccaccio’s theory of the fabula as it is developed in his Genealogie deorum gentilium, by focusing on crucial issues such as allegory, knowledge and consolation. I conclude the chapter with an inquiry on the Filocolo’s narrative framework; particular attention is devoted to the episode of the «Questioni d’amore» and to its functions in the economy of the whole work. The second chapter puts forward a new reading of the Decameron, based on the notion of ‘compassion’; I analyze the Decameron’s narrative framework on the ground of philosophical and ethical categories. I also explore how the beliefs’ device is shaped by Boccaccio; the chapter ends with an enquiry around the concept of fortune, its theorization and representation in the Decameron. The third and final chapter is devoted to the individual interpretation of five novellas (IV, 4; V, 1; II, 7; II, 9; X, 10).

O claustro do mosteiro beneditino de Sant Benet de Bages, na Catalunha espanhola, é caracterizado pela grande quantidade e diversidade de elementos ornamentais esculpidos em seus capitéis, o que é um importante indício de como a ornamentação se constituía em tanto que instância fundamental para a estética medieval. No entanto, até hoje poucas pesquisas foram realizadas sobre este claustro, o que é revelador da pouca atenção dada pela historiografia da arte tradicional ao tema da ornamentação. De modo geral, as imagens medievais mais valorizadas enquanto objeto de estudo são as historiadas. Isso em muito se deve à supervalorização da ideia de Bíblia dos iletrados, em detrimento de uma análise mais profunda sobre a presença estrutural e da complexidade dos diversos elementos que compõem as imagens, dentre os quais, os elementos ornamentais. Os trabalhos existentes sobre o tema da ornamentação e sua presença nas imagens medievais são, com poucas exceções, superficiais, procurando categorizações estilísticas e raízes filológicas. Uma das exceções é a obra do medievalista e teórico da arte francês Jean-Claude Bonne, principal marco teórico de nossa pesquisa, e que cunhou os conceitos de ornamental e ornamentalidade. A partir destas noções é que nos dedicamos ao estudo do claustro de Sant Benet de Bages, considerando os papéis estruturantes da ornamentação na economia imagética medieval e a diversidade de funções que ela pode adquirir, relacionando-a ao contexto sócio-histórico onde foi produzida. / The cloister of the Benedictine monastery of Sant Benet de Bages, in the Spanish Catalonia, has a large number and diversity of ornamental elements in its capitals, what sets us a fertile field of study. The few studies on this cloister indicate little attention by art historians to ornamentation, generally engaged in studying the historiated images. This is greatly due to the overemphasis of the idea of images as a \"Bible of the illiterate\", at the expense of a deeper analysis on the structural presence and complexity of the various elements that compose the images, among which, the ornamental elements. The existing papers on the subject of ornamentation and its presence in medieval images are generally superficial, limited to studies for stylistic categorizations, occupying a marginal place because they are supposed to be additional and unnecessary elements. At Sant Benet de Bages, like some other Romanesque cloisters, the amount of ornamental capitals exceeds that of historiated, which reveals the possibility of ornamentation to constitute a critical field to the aesthetic functioning of medieval art. This research aims to study such elements present in the cloister considering their structuring aspects in medieval imagetic economy, and the diversity of functions that can carry the concepts of \"ornemental\" and \"ornementalité\", proposed by the medievalist and French art theorist Jean-Claude Bonne, opening new possibilities for their study.