The book is about the emergence and spread of the miracle report about a supernaturally rapid decomposition of corpses at specific burial sites, so-called holy fields (Campus Sanctus). How is it that in the last third of the 13th century this belief appears at about the same time in the most diverse places in the Mediterranean? The aim of the study was to link the port cities of Acre and Pisa, both places with very early evidence of Holy Fields, with the place of origin of the belief, the Akeldama (blood field) in Jerusalem. With the help of detailed source studies and an interdisciplinary approach, it was possible to work out the circumstances and preconditions for the emergence of the miracle report. Building on the results and possible theses, the frescoes of the Camposanto in Pisa are subjected to a re-reading and in particular the death allegory attributed to Buonamico Buffalmacco is re-evaluated.

The publication is the result of the Freiburg Colloquium 2017 on the topic "Belles Lettres. Figurationen des Schreibens im Mittelalter". The publication deals with the various phenomena of the design of medieval manuscript pages and takes an interdisciplinary approach.

Thomasin von Zerclaere's 'Welsh Guest' is a Middle High German behavioural theory from around 1215/16, with an extensive picture cycle. At first glance, the text may appear to be a jumbled collection of individual admonitions, undergirded by recordings from encyclopaedic sources of knowledge. The present study shows that, on closer inspection, the numerous individual admonitions combine to form a well-planned, coherent whole that aims to initiate cognitive processes in the recipient.

Ensemble d’études qui offre une vision globale des représentations littéraires du monde animal et végétal dans le récit bref du Moyen Âge (fable, exemple, proverbe, lais, etc.). Le volume se concentre en particulier sur la littérature espagnole, mais il ne néglige pas les autres langues romaines ni la littérature latine.

The death of the king was always one of the most significant events in the history of a rule. He gave the impetus to various symbolic representations, to produce a rich literature and extensive iconography. This volume brings together a series of papers which dealing with historical, iconographic and literary aspects of the king's end of life: the legendary figure of Alexander the Great, the different stories about the death of Emperor Henry VII, the circumstances of the demise of French and Castilian kings or the paradigmatic cases of Boccaccio; thirteen contributions that illustrate the richness of this subject in the medieval imagination.

The aim of bringing together these works in this volume is to explore, through specific studies, the reception of certain aspects of Neoplatonism and Aristotelianism in Patristics and the philosophy of Late Antiquity, in medieval Latin thought and in medieval Georgia (especially with Ioane Petritsi), as well as with certain Renaissance authors. This volume thus provides new and stimulating insights to broaden our understanding of the impact of the two great currents which mark Western philosophy.

A set of studies that offers a global vision of the literary representations of the animal and plant world in the brief narratives of the Middle Ages (fable, example, proverb, lais, etc.). The volume focuses in particular on Spanish literature, but it also includes other Romance languages and Latin literature.

Dedicated to the question of the sign, this volume brings together the three plenary lectures given by Daniel Heller-Roazen (Philosophy and Comparative Literature, Princeton), Michel Pastoureau (History and History of Art, EPHE Paris) and Susan Rankin (Musicology, Cambridge), at the 7th doctoral course of the Institute of Medieval Studies of the University of Fribourg (3-5 September 2018), and is introduced by a critical essay by Marion Uhlig (French Medieval Languages and Literatures, Fribourg). The articles focus on the figures handwritten on the manuscript page, seen as a space of interaction between content and form.