Le présent livre contient neuf versions de la légende de saint Pierre Martyr, dit aussi « de Vérone », rédigées en français ancien (XIII^e-XV^e siècles), qui sont toutes anonymes et n’ont jamais été éditées.

Based on extensive new research, this book explores the distinctive political and diplomatic relationship between the late medieval city of Siena and the Angevin royal family of Naples and the ways in which this relationship impacted upon the production and dissemination of Sienese art during the first half of the fourteenth century.

The writings translated in this volume cover the foundational and maturing periods of Victorine Christology during the 1130s to the 1150s when Hugh of St Victor championed the paradigm of the “assumed man” (homo assumptus)and Robert of Melun advanced his Christology into the most comprehensive treatment in the twelfth century.