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In Rouergue (south of France), exceptionally well-preserved archives shed light on an essential but little-known fact of the Middle Ages: the way in which municipal governments emerged and were built up in the dense network of small towns in the Latin West during the 12th-13th centuries.
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Lionel Germain
From noble shooting games to bourgeois militias, this book reveals how bourgeois citizens became knights in order to play, appear and influence the city under the Ancien Régime.
Les compagnies des chevaliers de l'arc, de l'arbalète et de l'arquebuse. XVIIe-XVIIIe s.
Thomas Fressin
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 ...
Usages, risques, réglementations
Grégoire Poccardi, Giorgos M. Sanidas
Living in the shade of cathedrals and castles. Some twenty researchers provide original answers to this issue by showing, through supporting examples, how houses are designed, built, occupied or transformed in the city as well as in the country, from the 12th to the 20th centuries, in North of France.
Entre Touraine et Flandre, du Moyen Âge aux temps modernes
Étienne Hamon, Mathieu Béghin
In addition to highlighting recent socio-spatial transformations of (sub)urban spaces in Northern France through (de)industrialization, discrimination and poverty, this book provides original conceptual framework and tools for thinking about social change in a wide variety of contexts.
Capitalisme, race et pauvreté
Clément Barbier, Vianney Schlegel
This book offers an unprecedented history of the beginnings of street lighting in 18th-century France.
De la nuit illuminée à la nuit éclairée (1697-1789)
Sophie Reculin
Alain Cabantous
