Publications P. Toubert et Ph. Yugoslav (dir. and ed.), Villa 4 — History and archaeology of the Muslim West (Vie-Xve century) Al-Andalus, Maghreb, Sicily, ‘South’ collection, ‘Iberian medieval studies’ series, Presses of the University of Toulouse-Le Mirail, Toulouse, 2012, p. 285. P. Toubert, The...

The Ambassadors, as actors of diplomatic contacts between the Islamic East, the West and the Christian East in the second part of the Middle Ages, are at the heart of this book. It brings together various contributions from researchers and historians working on the history of medieval diplomacy. It...

News Publications Toubert P., Southern Presences in the Hisiography of Ludovico Antonio Muratori (1672-1750), to be published in 2014 in the Actes of the Colloquium of the Centro di Studi Normanno-svevi on La storiografia dell’Italia normanno-sveva, Bari, 8-12 October 2012, approximately 30 p. Toube...

In Sahara: 5 000 years of geopolitics, a special issue of the Coltions of History Who would expect a force to emerge from the sand of Sahara capable of creating an Empire? At most, some city-states, at the centre of the caravan trade, manage to extend their area of influence to form principals on a...

National audience. This article is based on research carried out for several years on trans-national migrant networks 1. By studying the movement of migrants from Romania to Europe, the aim is to understand how new, more mobile and less organised migration than those used by the western states since...

Date. From 26 September 2018 to 28 February 2019 Place. Paul Valéry University — Montpellier 3 Orient in the West. Stopovers across the Mediterranean present artistic influences and their adaptations throughout the Mediterranean basin, from Cyprus to the Iberian peninsula from the VIIth to the third...

BNF, Department of manuscripts, Fr 2810, fol. 296v. BNF, Department of manuscripts, Fr 2810, fol. 296v, details. The mission has its origins on the very foundations of Christianity during the Whitsun episode. It then changed according to the circumstances in which it took place. This adaptability is...

Pierre Bonnassie a éclairé d’un jour nouveau l’histoire de l’esclavage en Occident, et pas seulement en Catalogne, avant l’apparition ou, du moins, l’établissement du servage et la distinction des grandes nuances qui permettent de cerner tant de catégories au sein d’un ensemble « servile » qui n’a r...

The Mediterranean Kingdom of Ougarit in the North Levant (now Syrian coast, Latakia district) experienced a period of prosperity in the last two centuries of Bronze age (14th — early 19th century before our era). This merchant state, between East and West, Anatolia and Egypt, was at that time vassal...

Xenophon, an athenian who lived far outside Attica, is an important author for studying the image of Asian people in classical Greek thinking. The analysis carried out in this contribution focuses on lexical criteria aimed at examining how this author has designated the populations of the eastern Me...

This thesis is a survey of the ancient mosaics of the western Mediterranean representing the Hercules Labours between the 2nd and 4th century AD. It proposes an archeological and historiographical development and a panorama of the iconography of this myth in the West, which without a doubt, can not...

After a slow evolution, the ‘landscape’ irrupted in European painting during the 15th century, in particular in painted handwriting. The inclusion of the landscape in the iconographic programme of the fr. manuscript. 5594 is not only a narrative of Christian propaganda urging the cruise, but also th...

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This PhD thesis deals with the evolution of the notion of collective garden and their place and functions in the city. Firstly, on the basis of an historical and geographical perspective, it provides a background of the notion of garden in the Mediterranean area, between East and West, from the anci...

Ambassadors, as actors of diplomatic contacts between the Islamic East, the Latin West and the Christian East in the second part of the Middle Ages, are at the heart of this book. It brings together various contributions from researchers and historians working on the history of medieval diplomacy. I...

professor of University/Professor University of Nantes UMR 8167 East Mediterranean annick@peters-custot.fr Research Domains/Research topics History of the Northand Kingdom of Sicily Italian-Greek Communities, monachism, perception of Greeks and Byzantins in the West Circulations of monastic standard...