Despite the paucity of documentary evidence arguing in favour of the existence of much sculpting activity in and near Chambéry, the criteria needed to establish the presence of an artistic hub in the town and its vicinity at the turn of the XV and XVI centuries can be shown. The existence of a large...

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first year Master’s Memory looking at the professional development of the writer Terry Pratchett.

This paper focuses on two of the three photographic projects included in An-My Lê’s Small Wars (2005). The first one, Small Wars (1999–2002) represents Vietnam War reenactors staging combat in the Virginian forest. In the second project, 29 Palms (2003–2004), Lê turns her camera on United States Mar...

Based on the idea that images play a fundamental role for justice, as shown by all the iconographic representations, the symbols and the rituals used by the judiciary institution, this study in history of law focuses on the discourse conveyed by the prints of the illustrated newspapers of the Third...

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are generally poorly exploited, or even misused, the ethnographic or ethno-tourism images of the late 19th and 20th century, but they are valuable testimonies of universal, unfamiliar and sometimes disappeared practices. As a result of systematic collection, the contributions of this ‘pittoresque’ d...

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King of war par excellence, Louis XIV sought to embody the ideal of the victorious hero by orchestrating a wide propaganda contributing to his globe. However, this image was strongly tainted by foreign satires produced from the 1670s onwards. The belated attitude of this monarch was widely denounced...

El Libro del conosçimiento, written around 1385, was described as Spanish Mandeville, not without reason. However, this collection of merveilles has long been read as a real travel narrative and is thus cited as a source of information in the chronological history of the shipment of Jean de Béthenco...

Far from being a purely incidental aspect of daily life in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, gambling and games of chance sparked heated controversies on both sides of the Channel throughout the period. The engagement of these activities with money, well studied by historians, made them objec...

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By an exploratory approach embedded in a topical research, the study proposes to emphasise the senses and their activation in and by the hagiographic image, with the object of two enlighters representing the prayer of Saint Maur de Glanfeuil in a Roman contemporaneous manuscript. The liturgy of the...

the island of Sein, located off the coast of Finistériennes, is a prime ‘area of risk’: this low island is facing frequent and violent storms, the population has been living ‘with the risk’ of submersion for generations, while the probability of catastrophic hazards increases due to the lack of plan...

J.-P. Thevenot one day saw this curious medieval carreau on my computer screen, representing a battle of male sirens (Figure 1). He asked me for explanations, which I was well unable to give to him. This symposium in her honour gives me the opportunity to respond to his curiosity. So I got away from...

From the iconographic programme which originally decorated (around 1078) the cathedral of Saint-Lizier, a Majestas Domini in the oven (resumed in the eighteenth century), eight apartments arranged in pairs, under each of the blind arcades of the Chamber and, lower, five scenes of the Christ Enfance:...

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With famous music manuscripts such as the St Emmeram codex or the Trent codices and the rise of a musical elite with singer-composers around Dufay and Binchois, the years around 1430 belong to a crucial period in late-medieval music history. The present volume comprises 13 case studies on polyphonic...

as part of the seminar of the ‘Representations de l’origine du Moyen Age à la Revolution français’, Dir B. Guion, University of Strasbourg Seminar ‘Representations of origins, from the Middle Age to Revolution’, CELAR, Dir. Béatrice Guion, Strasbourg 2014: the motive of the monstruous prince in the...

Based on a systematic study of all relevant coins, statues, inscriptions, honorary titles and funerary orations from the Julio-Claudian to the beginning of the Severan dynasties, the book investigates how female members of the Roman Imperial house were represented in public. Although effectually ins...

In order to better understand the relationship between Jean-Pierre Vernant and the image, Perspective asked François Lissarrague, a traditional Greek iconography specialist, and Claude Frontisi, a historian of painting in the 20th century, to discuss with him his approach to image in the context of...