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 ...
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Usages, risques, réglementations
Grégoire Poccardi, Giorgos M. Sanidas
Louis Malet de Graville (circa 1440-1516), Admiral of France from 1487, is a figure forgotten by history. However, this wealthy lord with a long political career is a cornerstone of the court of Louis XI, Charles VIII and Louis XII of France. He was one of the most active secular patron of the arts, during the long end of the Middle Ages when begin
Vers 1440-1516
Mathieu Deldicque
What do children suffer from? Where to look after them and welcome them? How and when to vaccinate them? In medical theory and practice, concern for childhood has a multifaceted, non-linear history that this book seeks to explore.
Emmanuelle Berthiaud, François Léger
A key word for the labour movement and a key concept for many socialist theorists, the association crystallised in 19th century Europe the aspirations for a fairer and more egalitarian reorganisation of work.
Les associations ouvrières au XIXe siècle
Carole Christen, Samuel Hayat
High school principals in the 19th century (1802-1914): managing a school, serving the State, and training youth.
Servir l'État, former la jeunesse
Yannick Clavé
The ancient Greek crafts, which have already been studied for their technical aspects, hides other realities. The craftsman is in fact not only a producer of artefacts, but also an actor in religious life and evolves in a rich symbolic, psychological and social universe.
Enquête archéologique sur les pratiques religieuses du monde artisanal en Grèce ancienne
Anne-Catherine Gillis
The studies composing this book examine, from a comparative perspective, the long-term evolution of curial itinerancy in France, the nature of courtly mobility and its impact on both the royal entourage and society at large.
Moyen Âge – XIXe siècle
Caroline zum Kolk, Boris Bove
Film exchanges between the East and West of the Iron Curtain played a decisive role in the cinema of the second half of the 20th century. Tracing the history of film relations between France and the GDR from an unprecedented cross-referencing of sources, from the post-war era until the fall of the Berlin Wall, reveals the circulation of films ...
Entre camaraderie, bureaucratie et exotisme (1946-1992)
Perrine Val
The revolution of 1848 had political origins: the rejection of electoral reform by King Louis-Philippe and his minister Guizot. However, under the July Monarchy, the Chamber of Deputies also had its say. The deputies were appointed by a minority of censitary voters and placed their trust in the king's ministers. It turned out that in 1846, the ...
Guizot et sa majorité à la Chambre des députés (1846-1848)
Vincent Chai
The 'surveillant général' (general supervisor) is a key character in French schools, during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. In collective imagery, he appears as a strong character, firmly enforcing order and discipline in secondary schools. The research examines this myth and confronts it with historical sources. This archetype belongs to..
Entre figures littéraires et profils historiques
Christine Focquenoy Simonnet
Who is Jan van Eyck? Even if the painter from the Meuse area has bequeathed major groundbreaking works, which have made him famous since the XVth century, the very incomplete sources only permit to get a glimpse of some aspects of the Flemish master and his personality. Consequently, writing about Jan van Eyck's life represents a challenge that ...
Als Ich Can
Ludovic Balavoine
This book reconsiders the question of indulgences, brought to the fore once more by the fifth centenary of Martin Luther's posting of the 95 theses in 1517. Its authors use primary sources from the Middle Ages to digital social networks to present a series of innovative studies which consider them in practice and over the long term, away from the..
Pratiques des indulgences du Moyen Âge à l'époque contemporaine
Esther Dehoux, Caroline Galland
The commemoration of the 100th anniversary of the First World War gave rise to numerous publications. The economy was not forgotten, but the perspective often remained very national. This book focuses on the economy of Germany as the allies' main opponent and war loser.
L'économie allemande pendant la Première Guerre mondiale
Marcel Boldorf, Hervé Joly
The pont Notre-Dame was one of the most extraordinary inhabited bridges in Paris. Its history remains attached to an event: the ephemeral presentation on the façade of Gersaint's store of the famous Shopsign painted by Watteau in 1720. What did this monumental bridge look like before the destruction of its dwellings? Why did L'Enseigne de ...
Les enjeux d'une restitution numérique
Youri Carbonnier, Sophie Raux
"Every reader, as he reads, is actually the reader of himself." What if this statement made by Marcel Proust could also apply to the collective reader which the cultural reception field is, within the context of cultural transfer?
Diffusion, réceptions, appropriations et traduction de Marcel Proust au Brésil (1913-1960)
Étienne Sauthier
Introducing the reader to the latest research into subjects until now studied in other Mediterranean historiographical traditions so as to reassess some aspects of the socio-economic and cultural history of the early modern Mediterranean with reference to Fernand Braudel's legacy.
L'héritage maritime de Fernand Braudel
Maria Fusaro, Colin Heywood
Daniel Verheyde
The Ascq killing of April 1, 1944 left a deep mark on the memory and history of WWII in the North France. It remains today an issue of memorial transmission that school history teaching cannot ignore.
Enseigner un traumatisme de l'histoire
Jérôme Krop, Corinne Vezirian
To what extent can we explain the genesis of Japanese studies as well as the nineteenth century intellectual landscape through Léon de Rosny (1837-1914) or even through his own collection kept in Lille? What epistemological filiations with Orientalism and the idea of progress? How do the documents kept by Rosny tell us about the circulation of know
Autour du fonds Léon de Rosny de Lille
Noriko Berlinguez-Kôno
