Térence Le Deschault de Monredon, docteur en Histoire de l’Art The figure of the knight holds a distinguished place in various manifestations of the Romanesque art. He is shown on all types of media and in various kinds of works. This proliferation of the figure of the noble warrior causes interpretation problems, because it refers…
Mathieu Beaud, Institut national d’Histoire de l’Art, Paris. This paper aims to consider in the XIIth century the conception of a past where legends, biblical story and history merge to compose a civic memory. The legend of Theodoric’s hunt, placed at the entrance of the portal of the Basilica of San Zeno in Verona, highlights…
Laurence Terrier, Université de Neuchâtel (Suisse) Themes issued from Greco-Roman mythology were transmitted during the Middle Ages through Roman vestiges and several literary traditions. While numerous studies, as early as the 1930s, have noticed mythological subjects within churches, it is the identification of the represented episode that have retained researchers’ attention. We will try to…
Nicolas Faucherre, Heike Hansen, Andréas Hartmann-Virnich, Aix-Marseille Université The church of Abu Gosh, near Jerusalem, built around 1160 by the Hospitallers on a site identified by a tradition of uncertain origins with the Emmaus of the Gospel, is most famous for its magnificent Byzantine mural paintings, executed shortly before the conquest of Jerusalem by Saladin…
Xavier Barral i Altet, Université de Rennes, Université de Venise Cà Foscari The oldest known redaction (Vat. 3973) of the Mirabilia Urbis Romae is dated between 1140 and 1143. It is inserted in the Liber Polypticus of Benedict, canon of St. Peter, published by Paul Fabre and Louis Duchesne in their edition of the Liber…
Michel Zink, de l’Académie française, professeur honoraire au Collège de France The marvelous is perhaps, in the art and letters of the Middle Ages, what fascinates us the most spontaneously. It is however what is the most foreign to us, because the marvelous depends on the parameters that have changed the most since the Middle…
