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.
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Tome 1 : Techniques, usages, langage
Christine Hoët-van Cauwenberghe, Armelle Masse
The French minister for Foreign Affairs Théophile Delcassé might consider that "there were nothing to do but snoring in the French Embassy in Berlin" at the turn of the Twentieth century, serving as a diplomat in the famous French hotel on Pariser Platz at that time was no easy work. Diplomacy on hostile ground left little time to rest, let alone..
L'ambassade de France à Berlin, 1871-1933
Marion Aballéa
The obligation made for people of law to lead the beggars in the prisons of the closest city raises the question of the confinement in the big cities of the provinces of the North. In France, the royal State believes to remedy these difficulties by the edict of June, 1662 ordering the creation of a general hospital in every city of the kingdom. The
Olivier Ryckebusch
Feasts of precept, civic festivals, holidays, so many realities which, from the Middle Ages to modern times and up to the present day, have punctuated the times of Western societies. The book examines the adherence to these practices, but also critical of them.
Philippe Desmette, Philippe Martin
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.
La fabrique d'un monstre dans la littérature antique (Ie-Ve s.)
Laurie Lefebvre
The large territorial units are consolidated thanks to the fit between power, territory and the population that belong to them, and the limits are not simple lines but rather the vectors that define identity and otherness, each visualised on one or the other side of the limits. That is why the way the boundaries of supra-local entities, like the...
Limites et frontières II
Nacima Baron, Stéphane Boissellier
The intensification and the amplitude of international migration at the dawn of the 21st century pose new challenges for Europe. At the heart of a migratory system on an unprecedented scale, it must urgently adopt a visionary strategy in order to reforge or restore its coherence. Prerequisite condition: the knowledge of its recent migration past.
Europe (XIXe - XXIe siècle)
Gwénola Sebaux
Au cœur des sciences sociales, le rôle du langage est considéré avec toujours plus d'attention. Les mots désignant le mal au XXe siècle, c’est-à-dire les crimes de masse, les guerres, les dictatures, etc., sont l’objet d’usages divers, contradictoires, sans déboucher dans tous les cas sur de la clarté et de l’intelligibilité. Ce dossier évoque...
Les usages problématiques des mots du mal
Charles Heimberg
From 1940 till the end of the Second World War, the Nord Pas-de-Calais region faced numerous waves of destruction. Reconstructing the area presented itself as a difficult process and complicated an already problematic situation, for indeed, as early as 1939, some Northern cities were already in desperate need of modernization.
Michel-Pierre Chélini, Philippe Roger
The technical gesture is nowadays recognized as an integral part of an "intangible cultural heritage », due to the unrivaled richness of living professions and crafts. How to understand the technical gesture in every shape and form, in the course of time, thanks to words, images and material imprints? Designed by the authors as the essential...
Didier Bouillon, André Guillerme
The Great War strongly marked the western societies of the XXth century until our days, quite particularly Germany and France. However, beyond a common history connected to both world conflicts, the World War I engendered memories at the same time close and different.
Regards croisés franco-allemands de 1918 à nos jours
Laurent Jalabert, Reiner Marcowitz
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...
Isabelle Guyot-Bachy
The history of Popular Education (Non Formal Education) has aroused research work for thirty years but yet no review of this work has been published. 28 contributions dealing with France, other European countries and Quebec focus on the complex relationship to school, gender and the political dimension of Popular Education.
Perspectives françaises et internationales
Carole Christen, Laurent Besse
Claire de Gonzague grew up in the marquis of Mantoue's refined court. Then, the got married with Count Gilbert Bourbon-Monpensier in 1481, cousin of King Charles VIII. She played a key role there by being a patron of art, welcoming artists and italian refugees in her Aigueperse castle in Auvergne. After the death of her husband during Italian war
Une princesse italienne à la cour de France
Nicole Dupont-Pierrart
Gennaro Toscano
The recent creation of the metropolis of the Grand Paris, whose area is the same since 1860, encourages to an historial reflexion about the limits of the town, which is at the center of the biggest urban region in Europe since the Middle Ages.
Anne Conchon, Hélène Noizet
If French court is a classical subject in modern history, birth and early childhood in the curial environment constitute rare specifical research topics through the available academic works. However, many archives make possible to reconstitute what happens around the pregnant queens or princesses.
Moyen-Âge - XIXe siècle
Pascale Mormiche, Stanis Perez
The historical analysis of the case files for both male and female primary school teachers who started their careers in the Seine district between 1870 and 1886 shows a much more diverse picture of the teaching profession than the one conveyed by the clichés of that time.
La première génération des instituteurs sous la IIIe République
Jérôme Krop
The archaeological approach of the economies of the classical world is here implemented by production sectors and over the long term, well beyond classical Greece: deliberately putting aside the ceramic production, well studied elsewhere, the authors focus on areas of craft production generally poorly known by historians (textile, metallurgy, glass
Filières de production : bilans, méthodes et perspectives
Francine Blondé
