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Loki. Journey into mystery

Loki est mort... puis il est revenu à la vie sous les traits d'un enfant. Thor veut croire que son demi-frère a changé mais les autres Asgardiens sont beaucoup moins enclins à pardonner ses trahisons passées. Alors que la guerre entre Odin et son frère fait rage sur la Terre, le nouveau dieu de la Malice parviendra-t-il à se racheter auprès des siens ?

05/2019

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Autobiography: Self Into Form

"The autobiographical impulse" dominated German-language literature of the 1970's, finding its expression in autobiographies of crisis, women's coming-to-consciousness, and disrupted childhoods. This study examines the historical, sociological, political and literary-historical context for this phenomenon, and in so doing engages the critical international discussion of autobiography as a changing genre. Detailed analyses of works by Ingeborg Bachmann, Elisabeth Plessen, Christa Wolf and Peter Handke suggest new critical approaches to autobiographical form. The author provides an extensive bibliography of primary and secondary sources, as well as a chronological table of autobiographical works of the decade.

12/1983

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The TechnoPriests Book 1 : Techno Pre-School

On the Sacred Asteroid, my mother the high priestess first gave birth to my brother Almagro, a splendid dark-skinned child who immediately took his place at her breast. I was born later, whiter than marble and every scrawny, because already in the womb my brother had pushed himself into my space. But even more frightful was our little sister, Onyx, bright red and with four arms. I, Albino, have now become Supreme TechnoPriest, and can tell my story.

01/1999

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Woman on the River

De la douleur, des souffrances que tu leur as causées ? Vient le jour où ta faute est expiée et ton coeur à nouveau léger. Ou bien elle ne s'efface jamais. Elle se propagera éternellement comme les ronds dans l'eau quand un caillou y sombre. Dennis, un ancien tueur à gages, est libéré après une longue détention. II tente, tant bien que mal, de vivre une nouvelle vie paisible. Il s'installe dans un jardin ouvrier, le long des canaux de la zone industrielle, à l'est d'Hambourg. Mais le passé resurgit, sournoisement, dans son univers. Une de ses victimes a survécu.

09/2012

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Mexique

Secret Mexico City

An indispensable guide for those who thought they knew the city well or who would like to discover its many other facets. The forgotten café where Fidel Castro and Che Guevara used to meet, a tribute to the city's ghosts, a mammoth in the metro, a cave transformed into a shrine, an underground parking lot with mosaics dating from 1930, a Baroque altarpiece made from papier mâché, a village based on the principles of Thomas More's Utopia, secret masterpieces of colonial art in rooms only open around two hours a week, the largest roof garden in Latin America, the photo on which the Oscar statuette is modelled, the first building in the world faced with a material that can trap urban smog, a road surface designed for praying as you walk ...

02/2024

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Littérature française

Chance freedom. Translated by Eric Turcat & Hannah Farris

If Chance is a "straw man" and Freedom a distant ideal, then why write poetry in the first place ? Because not all straw men are hollow and because not all ideals should fade into the distance. In his third book of French poetry translated into English, Dotoli continues to shine as a beacon of hope and optimism in a world that often forgets how its prosaic whimpers may still resonate with a lyrical bang.

03/2023

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Mouvements artistiques

The Medieval Body

This fascinating and richly illustrated book accompanies The Medieval Body, the third in a series of vanguard exhibitions that places medieval masterpieces within a contemporary context. The title of the exhibition refers to both a literal thread of figuration that runs throughout the works in the presentation, as well as the complex and often shifting symbolism of the human body in the medieval period. For thinkers and artists of that time, the human body served as a rich source of religious and philosophical significance, one that was in a constant state of flux between idealism and disfigurement. While the early Middle Ages reserved representations of suffering bodies to the margins of their world, the later Middle Ages displayed wounded bodies in the most central spaces of public life. The crucified body of Christ and the wounded bodies of saints assumed important positions as they were displayed on altars, in processions, and on the exteriors of churches. The Medieval Body tells a unique story about the human form as both a physical entity and a recognizable metaphor. Presenting works spanning the course of a thousand years, this exhibition offers insight into the body as an essential imagemaking tool with far-reaching implications for the development of art in the European Middle Ages.

08/2022

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I am GooGol - The Great Invasion

Their arrival was heralded as a new beginning for the human race. Humans were no longer alone in the cosmos. Instead, they were suddenly thrust into an arena much larger than they were ready to deal with. In an age of technological advancement, Toughware and the wiki implants were the culmination of the first successful blending of human and alien technology. Suddenly, anyone with a wiki implant could ride the data streams. Hackers became celebrities as the neural landscape became the world's playground. And for a special few, a startling side effect was discovered. Fearing the worst, the Lambda Initiative was created to police wiki infractions and to protect the fabled Lambda Time Travel Restrictions. Anyone, human or alien, attempting to bypass the Lambda Protocols was subject to prosecution under this new law. To enforce this law, the G-Men were created. Culled from specialists with military and law enforcement experience, the G-Men sought out Lambda Protocol violators with swift and violent response. With wiki crimes on the rise and a growing anti-alien movement gaining strength, something had to be done. The government needed a solution, but they weren't sure what to do. And then they discovered a teenage girl living in Brazil with a special affinity for traversing and moulding the data stream. They had discovered the first Googol. And the world was about to change.

12/2010

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Littérature française

Mehersthan Memoir (Meher Baba)

Mehersthan Memoir (Meher Baba) This book is dedicated to the unique One who has assumed a form and name to lead the play of universal existence. He throbs in our loving heart ; He breathes in our living soul. He sings in our fervent spirit and he thinks in our purified mind. That infinite Ancient One from his supernal height, bends towards us to embrace us in his love, and to feed our soul with the nectar of his bliss. Blessed are they that have the mind to know him, the heart to feel him and the love to live in his consciousness ! He may have been born to human parents in Poona, studied in a college, played cricket, left home, have seen great souls, sat alone silent, spoken in gestures, written books - but that is not his history. Many live such a life ; many scholars write books ; many saints sit in contemplation ; many monks leave home for mountain resorts ; but they cannot be one like him. Millions of bulbs challenge in vain the darkness of night. One sun rises and the night dissolves into his golden light. One sun rises and the night dissolves into his golden light. We have seen monks, yogins and saints. Some live alone for peace. Some open Ashrams and collect donations to run them. Some comercialise their name and form. Some display miracles to surprise human minds ; some offer boons ; some predict the future ; some curse you when you do not offer them what they want. Some seek pleasure and treasure. But who seeks God and finds God in the self to awaken God-awareness in other men and women ? Who says "I am God and you are God too"? Who rises above the prattle of words, the rattle of weapons and battle of ideologies to the lofty peace of supersonic silence and pours his blessings from the dizzy height of the soul in tune with God ? Who is he that embraces all in the heart and awakens the soul which has none of the human creations of caste, religion, race, pedigree nor colour ? Editions ASSA, Christian Piaget

07/2017

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Religion

Leviticus

Whereas many books in this field deal with individual aspects or texts of the study of family laws, Leviticus : The Priestly Laws and Prohibitions from the Perspective of Ancient Near East and Africa examines extensively biblical texts, ancient Near Eastern text, and oral traditions from Africa. Thus, three different cultures converge : the world of the Hebrew Bible, the world of the ancient Near East, and the world of Africa. This volume examines in detail the history of the development of ancient laws in general and family laws in particular, especially the laws relating to marriages between close relatives. Furthermore, Johnson M. Kimuhu looks at prohibitions and taboos in Africa and the problems they pose with regard to the interpretation and translation of difficult biblical concepts into African languages. In that sense, Kimuhu provides an example of how to contextualize or integrate African traditions into the study of biblical Hebrew, and he also offers insights into the current debate on the study of kinship from the point of view of social/cultural anthropology and the Hebrew Bible legal system. Teachers, students, and researchers in biblical studies, ancient Near Eastern studies, African traditions, and social/cultural anthropology will find this book helpful in their quest to understand family laws, prohibitions, and taboos.

02/2008

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Fiction, or the language of our discontent

This study concentrates on metafictional novels by Angus Wilson, Lawrence Durrell and Doris Lessing. The various methods and degrees of the built-in novelists' attempts to transform autobiographical experience into fiction are surveyed and followed by a discussion of the validity of mimetic presuppositions about fiction. The alternatives to realism are then discussed against the background of recent narratological theories.

12/1985

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Histoire internationale

Voyages to the "Spice Islands". The spice trade as a point of departure for European penetration into Asia

In order to describe the role played by spices during the late Middle Ages and the beginning of the Modern Age, the author Anna Unali focuses on the reports written by merchants, travellers, geographers and government officials. Their voices emerge powerfully and incisively in any recreation of this topic as the most important interpretative elements.

10/2021

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Autres langues

If I didn't have you. Avec 1 CD audio MP3

Xiaoming is a pickpocket. He is really good at stealing. But he only steals from rich people. He never touches those who are poor, and doesn't let other thieves steal from poor people either. Xia Yu is a college freshman. She lost her purse at a railway station. Xiaoming got the purse back for her from the thief. Another time, a thief stole an old woman's wallet on a bus. Xiaoming stole the wallet back from the thief and put into the lady's jacket unobserved. More surprisingly, when Xiaoming is falling in love with Xia Yu, he lands into a big trouble alter stealing a wallet from a very rich man. Will Xiaoming the pickpocket win the love of Xia Yu, a pretty college student ?.

10/2014

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Science-fiction

Inti

Après le Grand Bouleversement, l'humanité a instauré des villes où intelligence artificielle et manipulations génétiques permettent une existence sans guerres ni maladies. Pourtant, certains ont préféré vivre dans des villages en marge de ces institutions. Inti, né dans l'un de ces lieux, apprend lors d'un conseil réunissant tous les habitants qu'ils sont nombreux à faire des rêves étranges en lien avec la Cité 13. Avec Tao, le fondateur du hameau, il décide de se rendre à cet endroit interdit. Guidés par une impérieuse nécessité, ils vont affronter une succession d'épreuves sur les chemins des deux mondes...

10/2022

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Sciences politiques

Assessing Urban Governance. The Case of Water Service Co-production in Venezuela

When examining the relationship between urban governance and improved service provision in the Global South, there is frequently a gap between the rhetoric and the reality. Informal, practice-based local governance processes that aim to produce better urban services often diverge from official governance prescriptions and mechanisms for service delivery within the institutional sphere. This book explores the complex area of urban governance assessment, focusing on the issue of sustainable water supplies for the urban poor. Adapting the UN-Habitat Urban Governance Index, the author explores the dual nature of urban governance, analyzing its formal dimension at the municipal level but also taking account of informal and locally specific governance arrangements aimed at improving access to basic services. Water service co-production strategies involving both public institutions and organized groups of citizens in Venezuela provide an excellent case study of this phenomenon. The book illustrates the limitations of official governance assessment tools in appreciating the extent and vibrancy of local practices and agreements, as well as investigating the discrepancies between normative prescriptions and governance arrangements on the ground.

12/1986

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Manga

Bloom into you Tome 3

Je t'aime mais ça ne te regarde pas... Tôko et Yû se rapprochent petit à petit, ce qui n'est pas du goût de Sayaka Saeki. Tandis que cette dernière essaye de tirer les choses au clair en ce qui concerne la relation de ses amies, Yû, elle, se résigne à rester aux côtés de Tito. Aurait-elle même décidé de renoncer à tomber amoureuse un jour ?

12/2019

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Manga

Bloom into you Tome 1

Yû entre au lycée en espérant découvrir enfin l'amour. Mais rien ne se passe, même quand un garçon lui fait une déclaration... Elle rencontre alors Tôko, la fille parfaite du lycée, responsable au Bureau des Elèves et qui semble être comme elle car elle éconduit tous ses prétendants. Jusqu'au jour ou Tôko avoue à Yû " je sens que je pourrais tomber amoureuse de toi "...

09/2019

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Manga

Bloom into you Tome 4

Yû entre au lycée en espérant découvrir enfin l'amour. Mais rien ne se passe, même quand un garçon lui fait une déclaration... Elle rencontre alors Tôko, la fille parfaite du lycée, responsable au Bureau des Elèves et qui semble être comme elle car elle éconduit tous ses prétendants. Jusqu'au jour ou Tôko avoue à Yû "je sens que je pourrais tomber amoureuse de toi"... Les vacances d'étés peine commencées, Tôko propose aux autres membres du conseil de partir en camp d'entrainement pour préparer la pièce qui lui tient tant à cour. Désireuses de faire plaisir à leur amie, Yû et Sayaka mettent de côté leur hostilité et acceptent la proposition. Malheureusement, Tôko verra l'idéal qu'elle poursuit depuis de nombreuses années être chamboulé...

02/2020

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Manga

Bloom into you Tome 2

Töko Nanami, nouvelle présidente, ne perd pas de temps pour relancer les activités du conseil des élèves. A présent devenue membre officielle du conseil, Yû Koito va devoir travailler tous les jours avec elle. Si elle semble avoir parfaitement accepté les sentiments que nourrit Tôko a son égard, elle n'arrive toujours pas à la voir comme quelqu'un de "spécial", ce qui la tourmente beaucoup. Yû commence a ressentir l'envie d'aimer Nanami en retour, mais cela risque de ne pas être suffisant...

10/2019

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Monographies

Gustave Moreau. The Fables

Gustave Moreau (1826-1898) is one of the most brilliant and enigmatic artists associated with the French Symbolist movement. This book accompanies an exhibition of some of the most extraordinary works he ever made, unseen in public for over a century. Moreau's watercolours of the Fables of Jean de La Fontaine (1621-1695) were created between 1879 and 1885 for the art collector Antony Roux and their stylistic range encompasses historicism and the picturesque, orientalist fantasies and near-abstract chromatic experiments. They were exhibited to great acclaim in Paris in the 1880s and in London in 1886, where critics compared the artist to Edward Burne-Jones. One critic commented on Moreau's ' keen apprehension of the weird. ' There were originally 64 works in the series, which was subsequently acquired by Miriam Alexandrine de Rothschild (1884-1965), but nearly half were lost during the Nazi era. The surviving works have not been exhibited since 1906 and they have only ever been published in black and white. This book is the first to reproduce them in colour - many shown actual size. Created at the height of the French 19th-century revival of watercolour, the variety of subject matter and technique, their colouristic effects and the sophistication of Moreau's storytelling, will be a revelation to readers. Preparatory drawings for the Fables, including animal studies made from life in the Jardin des Plantes demonstrate the wide-ranging research that informed Moreau's visions. Prints after Moreau's Fables by Félix Bracquemond (1833-1914) translate the jewel-like colours into monochrome in some of the most innovative etchings of the age, while the most delicate effects of the watercolours were also transformed into vitreous enamels. In-depth accounts of each watercolour, explaining the story and exploring Moreau's response to it. The introduction will place the series in the long history of illustrations of La Fontaine's canonical work, whose sources include Aesop's fables and traditional European and Asian tales, as well as considering Moreau in the context of his own, turbulent, times.

08/2021

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The Image of the Woman in the Works of Ingeborg Bachmann

In this study an analysis of the women characters, who play a dominant part in Bachmann's prose writings, was presented. The results suggested a complex but coherent image. It was found that although the characteristics of this image deserved the appellation "sex-specific" and "traditional" they were infused with new values : the values of individualism, of a specifically female identity and of particular intense personal freedom. It was also found that the theme of personal freedom underlies all motivations, conflicts and situations of tragedy of Bachmann's heroines. Finally, it was found that the image of the woman is not only part of a distinct female-male antithesis, which often assumes violent dimensions, but has a redeeming function for a de-humanized world.

09/1993

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Rock

The Doors. L.A. Woman

"Il faudrait idéalement pouvoir écouter les Doors depuis la vie. Or, la fin est là dès le commencement et, leurré par ce jeu constant sur "The End" , on envisage trop souvent les Doors depuis la mort de Jim Morrison, sans réellement saisir le profond vitalisme de cette musique. C'est particulièrement tentant pour ce qui est du dernier album, L. A. Woman (1971). D'emblée, le mythe de Morrison se torsade à la mort et empêche la vive écoute des Doors. Le souhait qui anime ce petit livre est de désencombrer ce groupe de sa légende pour tâcher de le rendre à la musique".

12/2023

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Développement personnel

Into the silence. Carnet de méditation guidée par les 26 lettres de l'Alphabet

Nous vivons dans un monde matérialiste, saturé de bruits et de messages, qui nous tire vers l'extérieur. Pourtant toutes les traditions spirituelles ont vanté les mérites du silence et de la connaissance intérieure. Et si nous allions plus loin que le bruit ambiant et l'actualité pour plonger en nous-mêmes ? Comment ferions-nous ? Et que verrions-nous ? "A l'heure où l'individualisme fait rage, où le bonheur, la paix de l'âme, le lâcher-prise sont réduits à des produits marketing, il devient urgent d'oser une vision autrement plus audacieuse de la spiritualité pour descendre toujours plus profondément au fond du fond". Alexandre Jollien pour Into The Silence.

11/2019

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Livres 0-3 ans

YAOUNDÉ BABA SCARED?....ME?....NO WAY!

YAOUNDE BABA SCARED ? ... ME ? ... NO WAY ! YAOUNDE goes off in search of his little goat, BEEE, who, in spite of the young boy's watchful eye, has gone missing. On the way he meets ZOULÏA, a friendly mouse, and ARWANE, a little ant, who help him to find the little goat. Their search will lead them to an isolated hill where a very strange creature lives - a creature capable of transforming itself into unimaginably frightening shapes and forms to scare away anybody who dares to set foot on its steep hill. In order to find BEEE, YAOUNDE and his two friends will have little choice. They will have to cross its territory and confront this incredible and terrifying creature. 6 to 10 Years.

10/2017

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She’s Leaving Home

This collection of essays, written by scholars from all over Europe, explores the cultural meanings of women leaving home. Although all the chapters analyse writings in English, the volume aims to put the narrative element of home-leaving into a European context by investigating travel in various directions : from England to somewhere abroad, from the (former) colonies to the (former) imperial centre or simply within a psychic space. The female figures discussed in the volume leave home for various reasons – to go into exile, to challenge orthodox conceptions of femininity, to travel for pleasure or out of curiosity – but ultimately each of them has to face questions of the definitions of home, belonging and otherness. Consequently, the essays in this collection focus on how the cross-cultural encounters implicated in discourses of race, gender, nation and religion affect female identity. The ‘protagonists' of these narratives range from mythical heroines to early modern Protestant refugees to fictitious and historical figures from the past 200 years. The discussion throughout is informed by contemporary theories of gender, literary and cultural studies.

06/2011

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Littérature française

La Fiancée de Lammermoor. Un roman historique de Walter Scott

Ceux qui ont eu le plaisir de voir et entendre le magnifique opéra de Donizetti, Lucia di Lammermoor, dont le livret est inspiré de ce roman, connaissent déjà en partie l'histoire qui nous est contée ici. Nous sommes en Ecosse, au XVIIe siècle. Edgar de Ravenswood voue une haine mortelle à sir William Ashton qui a dépossédé son père de ses biens et l'a réduit à un état proche de la misère. Le jeune homme sauve la vie de Lucie, la fille de sir Ashton, sans connaître son identité. Très vite, l'amour enflamme ces deux êtres au coeur pur et Edgar est prêt à oublier la haine qu'il voue au père de sa bien aimée. Par ailleurs, Edgar pouvant rapidement être en position de reprendre ses domaines à sir Ashton, par suite d'un retournement politique dont l'époque a le secret, ce dernier ne verrait pas d'un mauvais oeil une union entre sa fille et le jeune Ravenswood. Mais le fatal Destin veille, et l'histoire ne se terminera pas bien...

01/2023

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Littérature française

Woodstock ou Le Cavalier. Un roman historique de Walter Scott

Woodstock ou le Cavalier (Woodstock ; or The Cavalier) est un roman historique de l'auteur écossais Walter Scott, paru le 28 avril 1826 sous la signature "par l'auteur de Waverley, Histoires du temps des croisades, etc". Le récit se déroule en Angleterre, dans les prolongements de la Première Révolution, un an après la bataille de Worcester (3 septembre 1651) remportée par Cromwell sur l'armée de Charles Stuart, le futur Charles II. Ce dernier, en fuite, erre de cachette en cachette. Gardé par un fervent partisan des Stuarts, le palais de Woodstock est mis sous séquestre par le Parlement. Cromwell accepte de lui épargner la destruction. Mais c'est pour en faire une souricière : il calcule en effet que le palais finira un jour ou l'autre par offrir asile à Charles.

01/2023

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Papers on Semantics and Grammar

The six revised papers collected here - two have been translated into English - address in their different ways questions relating to grammatical meaning (both semantics and pragmatics) and the analysis of constructions. Though they cover a period of about 10 years, they can be said to share a view of linguistic analysis that is holistic rather than modular and descriptive rather than generative. The topics discussed are : the semantics and pragmatics of get-passives ; the semantics of epistemic modality ; the status, function and analysis of participial and gerundial -ing constructions ; four controversies in the analysis of modality and modal auxiliaries ; the functional classification of adverbials and the pragmatics of their position ; the semantics and pragmatics of prepositional phrases with for.

01/1993

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Histoire antique

Les élites de cour de Constantinople (450-610). Une approche prosopographique des relations de pouvoir

L'histoire politique de l'Empire romain d'Orient au temps de Justinien (527-565) est d'ordinaire illustrée par quelques souverains à la postérité contrastée. Cet ouvrage étudie l'envers du décor de la cour de Constantinople entre 450 et 610, à l'époque où elle acquiert son existence propre. Il conduit donc du règne de Marcien, le promoteur du concile de Chalcédoine (451), à celui de Phocas, que l'on peut tenir pour le dernier empereur antique. Il repose sur une prosopographie des élites de cour connues pour leurs relations politiques avec les empereurs, mais aussi pour leurs liens familiaux, leurs origines géographiques et leurs orientation religieuses. Au sujet des individus répondant à ces critères, il discute le détail des carrières en particulier vis-à-vis des notices de la Prosopography of the Later Roman Empire. La question est abordée de manière chronologique. selon la succession des règnes impériaux : qui ont chacun valeur de test pour la configuration des élites de cour. L'origine géographique et l'orientation religieuse de ces élites font apparaître des groupes dominants et présentant une cohérence liée à ces deux facteurs. Les Balkans, l'Asie Mineure, le Proche-Orient et l'Egypte, tout comme le chalcédonisme et le monophysisme, occupent ainsi la scène des luttes de pouvoir dont la cour est le théâtre. Les solidarités familiales jouent un rôle longtemps sous-estimé et assez comparable à leur place dans l'histoire postérieure de Byzance. Des révoltes récurrentes invoquèrent souvent la légitimité des empereurs précédents. Mais ces contestation furent plus dangereuses dans les provinces que dans la capitale, et finalement peu menaçantes pour le pouvoir impérial, sauf au début du VIIe siècle. Si le personnel politique se renouvela fréquemment, il exista ainsi une permanence de certaines factions à la cour de Constantinople, qui acquit dans cette période une forme de stabilité. Le visage de la cour protobyzantine contribue ainsi à la connaissance de la culture politique européenne. The political history of the Eastern Roman Empire under Justinien is unusually embodied by few rulers with ambivalent legacies. This work studies the Constantinople court behind the scenes from 450 to 610, at the moment when it grew into a distinct entity. It thus spans the period from the rule of Marcian, the promoter of the Council of Chalcedon (451) to that of Phocas, who may be considered as the last Emperor of Antiquity. The approach relies on a prosopography of court elites known for their political ties with emperors. but also for their family bonds, geographical origins, and religious options. For each of the individuals meeting these criteria, career details are discussed, particularly in contrast with the entries of Prosopography of the later Roman Empire. The perspective is chronological and follows the successive imperial rule, each of them being studied with regard to the specific configuration of its court The geographical origin and religion orientation of these court Bites are main parameters delineating the dominant groups and cementing their cohesiveness The Balkans, Asia Minor, the Near East and Egypt were just as central as Chalcedonism and Monophysitism to the power struggles playing out in the court The importance of kinship loyalty during that period has long been underestimated, although it is similar to what is observed in the later history of the Byzantine Empire. Recurrent rebellion often harked back to the legitimacy of former Emperors. But these protests were more radical in the provinces than in the capital and ultimately proved to be only a tumor threat to the imperial power, except in the early seventh century. While the political personnel experienced a high turnover, certain faction still enjoyed relative longevity at the court of Constantinople, which gained a form of stability over the period. Studying the variation of the Byzantine court thus enriches our knowledge of European political culture.

04/2022

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Littérature française

My Ulster haven

1989, a 23-year-old French woman, an English student with a burdensome family background, leaves for Northern Ireland. She's on her way to start her French assistant job. She discovers this unknown part of Ireland, so underestimated and still plunged into civil war. There, she settles down and blossoms until she decides she actually wants to live there. An unexpected event will bring her back to France in 1991, but the link with this country will carry on until the Brexit announcement in 2016, and well beyond. An intimate journey to the core of Irish History, that reaches the depths of its wars, its men, its women, a journey at the very heart of the past. "A page of history - and of my history - is turning and it throws me off."

02/2022