The commitment of Roman Catholic women to the ecclesial institution led during the XXth century to an upheaval within conventional representations of feminine roles in the Church.

Combining War history and gender studies, Femmes en Guerre explores the multiple forms of the presence of women within armies, their experiences of war and the construction of « femininities » in war contexts.

The contributions of this volume are the consequents of a research project at Lille (UMR 8164 Halma) destined to tackle the problematic of fire in the city under many angles: domestic, religious and industrial using and the examples of voluntary or accidentals fires, since the Mediterranean Orient t the north of ...

Research on ancient terracotta figurines underwent a deep evolution in its methods and questions: this book is the striking testimony of this recent change.

Research on ancient terracotta figurines underwent a deep evolution in its methods and questions: this book is the striking testimony of this recent change.

What role did the Flemish play in the birth of the French nation? What did a clerk from Brittany or a nobleman from Provence knew about Bovines, Kortrijk, Cassel or Roosebeke, battles that are emblematic of the five-century fight between Flanders and the Kingdom of France? What was said at that time in Normandy or in Auvergne about Flanders...