The study of salt, through the centuries and from ancient times, is done through a multidisciplinary approach, where the man is facing salt for his health, for his beliefs related to it, and for the wealth he seems to get for him.

This collective approach to the study of Court ceremonies and rituals from the time of the Roman Empire to the Baroque era (early 17th century) makes a significant contribution to the study of the emergence of European court culture as a whole.

Biographic dictionary of the archaeologists of the region "HAUTS DE FRANCE", native of our five departments or who searched there as these officers of the German or British troops. We will thus find known names as Boucher de Perthes, Auguste Mariette but also names of numerous volunteer archaeologists.

In the light of the latest archaeological findings on salt in northern Gaul, this book brings together various contributions showing the multiple ways to consider study of salt.

Collective imagination shall for ever view Nero as a corrupt tyrant, a murderer, a fire raiser. Centuries have devised an everlasting and persistent myth. The author aims precisely to decipher such mythology.

These are the proceedings of an international colloquium, organized in Lille by the research program 'Monumenta', whose subject is "the written and figured traces of the memory within the Roman world", about the staging in the Roman imperial space of the memory, from the Middle Republic to the Late Antiquity.