Le culte des reliques n’appartient pas aux premiers siècles de l’ère chrétienne, mais, à partir du IVe siècle, il devint un élément constitutif de la nouvelle religion. Si l’on peut s’étonner de la brusquerie du phénomène, qui suppose un bouleversement profond des mentalités, il faut aussi se demander quelles en furent les modalités.

The Arts of Editing Medieval Greek and Latin draws together eighteen case studies covering typical medieval genres such as commentaries and glosses, liturgical texts, model sermons, and anthologies.

This volume shows through the use of legal sources that law was used to try to erect boundaries between communities in order to regulate or restrict interaction between the faithful and the non-faithful; and at the same time show how these boundaries were repeatedly transgressed and negociated.