Diss.--Philosophischen Fakultät der Westfälische Wilhelms--Universität zu Münster, 1991. Titre de soutenance : Die Verknüpfung von Recht und Liebe in den "Arrêts d'amour" : Gerichtlicher Hintergrund und juristische Fachsprache im Dienste spätmittealaterlicher Liebeskasuistik. / Bibliogr. p. 438-470.

Diss.--Theologie--München, 1978. / Bibliogr. p. 223-226.

Thesis--Faculté des Lettres, Paris. / Includes text in Latin. Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Thesis--Faculté des Lettres, Paris. / Includes text in Latin. Includes bibliographical references and index.

This dissertation examines the demonology of William of Auvergne, to determine why and how he constructed his theories out of contemporary lore about demons and other spirits. William was master of theology in the University of Paris and bishop of Paris from 1228 until his death in 1249, in which position he served as a major advisor to the young Louis IX. In addition to being one of the most politically influential people in the French kingdom, William was one of the greatest thinkers of his generation, producing numerous works of theology, philosophy and science. William's efforts combine an adoption of an Aristotelian "physics" for spiritual entities with an uncompromising reaffirmation of the view that demons are evil, fallen angels. He believed that a demonic conspiracy existed to deceive humans into false worship, and his concerns led him to precisely define the capabilities of demons according to the latest scientific views of spirits, to characterize opinions with which he disagreed as demonic lies and to label their holders as demonic dupes. William's demonology represented a choice between several alternative varied and contradictory conceptions of spirits that circulated among the western European populace. With his demonology, he hoped to help impose an order he considered doctrinally and politically-acceptable onto the turbulence of early thirteenth century France.

A Dissertation submitted to the Faculty of Arts, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, for the degree of master of Arts. / This thesis examines a medieval text which forms part of Italian chevalric literature i.e. The story of Ugone d'Alvernia. Its original name was Huon d'Auvergne. Firstly the text will be examined from the historic angle and then from a more scientific point of view. It shows how the original "chanson de geste", written in French was brought by the French "jongleurs" into Italy and became initialized, producing a unique phenomenon, a linguistic mixture known as franco-venetian. This literature played a decisive part in the diffusion of the stories surrounding Charlemagne. Huon d'Auvergne was elaborated and extended by Andrea da Barberino (c. 1370-1432) and called La Storia di Ugone d' Alvernia (The story of Ugone Of Alvernia). Various descents into Hell are then examined , from both the classic and the Christian point of view. This examination leads on to the comparison of the two "Inferni" described by Andrea da Barberino in his two works La Storia di Ugone d' Alvernia and in Guerino il Meschino with the descent described by Dante in his Inferno. A morphological analysis of the text is then undertaken. It applies the theory propounded and used by Propp in his morphological analysis of some Russian fairy tales. According to the theory there are thirty-one "functions" which can be applied in such an analysis / Andrew Chakane 2018

L’étude archéologique du bâti de l’abbatiale Sainte-Foy de Conques, essentiellement centrée sur les pierres d’appareil, a pour double objectif de mettre en avant, autant que possible, des indices matériels susceptibles d’éclairer la marche des travaux ainsi que d’appréhender les dimensions technique et économique et, plus généralement, l’organisation de ce grand chantier roman. Le croisement des données archéologiques, telles que les discontinuités des maçonneries et la distribution des matériaux, des techniques de taille, des marques lapidaires et des trous de boulin, permet de proposer un phasage de la construction, qui fournit, par la suite, un cadre chronologique indépendant et efficace pour l’étude de la sculpture de l’abbatiale. Ainsi l’évolution interne de la sculpture est-elle retracée, par l’intermédiaire d’une approche stylistique globale. Les modalités des transferts artistiques entre Conques, Compostelle et l’Auvergne sont également mieux définies, ce qui invite à reconsidérer la chronologie des églises romanes d’Auvergne,d’autant que certains chantiers auvergnats et celui de Conques se situent dans la même géographie technique durant la deuxième moitié du XIe siècle. / This archaeological study of the building of the abbey church of Sainte-Foy in Conques, which is mainly focused on facing stones, has a double objective: on the one hand, to discern, as much as possible, material indications likely to enlighten the progress of construction work; on the other hand, to understand technical and economic dimensions and, more generally, the site organisation of this major Romanesque building project. Archaeological data, such as masonry discontinuities, distribution of different petrographic types, stone-cutting techniques, masons’ marks and putlog holes, make it possible to propose a construction phasing, which offers an independent and efficient framework for study of the sculpture of Sainte-Foy. The sculpture evolution is thus traced, through a global stylistic approach. Artistic transfers between Conques, Santiago de Compostela and Auvergne have also been better defined, which leads to reconsider the chronology of Romanesque churches of Auvergne, especially as Conques and Auvergne were located in the same technical geography during the second half of the eleventh century.