This volume examines afresh the various ways in which the introduction of ancient and Arabic optical theories transformed thirteenth-century thinking about vision, how scientific learning came to be reconciled with theological speculation, and the effect these new developments had on those who learned about them through preaching.

Focuses on conflict in village communities of late medieval Drenthe in order to depict a typical peasant society in late medieval Europe.

De l'humanisme aux Lumières, les exploitations renouvelées des Historiae Alexandri Magni de Quinte-Curce, au cœur de débats sur le pouvoir royal, l'écriture de l'histoire, l'art de la traduction et l'affirmation de modèles linguistiques et esthétiques.