International audience; Geoarchaeological approaches to ancient urban contexts focus on the study of the town as an artefact, and as an artificial and anthropogenic sedimentary basin. In such context the relationship between societies and the geosystem generates diverse...

Since the pioneering work of P. Du Chatellier (1901a et b), it has generally been recognised that there is a form of art in the Early Bronze Age of Brittany, exemplified by a few stone slabs with cup-marks and other simple motifs. After the Second World War, rescue arch...

Goiran Jean Philippe, Bravard Jean-Paul, Salomon Ferréol, Ballantyne Rachel M., Margaritis Evi, Keay Simon j, Earl Graeme, Kay Stephen, Paroli Lidia. Delta du Tibre. Campagne de carottage 2008 : étude des canaux de Portus. In: Mélanges de l'École française de Rome. Anti...

Oratory titles in the Var department. The ranking of favorite saints of the Var — determined according to the patron saints of the oratories in the department — reveals something of the regional cultural identity : the Virgin Mary is first, followed in variable order by...

International audience; In the late nineteenth century the questioning of divisions between the fine and applied arts enabled a “renaissance” in tapestry. Subsequently this art’s complex relations with painting, architecture and – from the 1960s – sculpture were hotly d...

Between the early 14th century and the first thirty years of the 16th century, beliefs and practices about the Virgin Mary in Sweden undergo an evolution which, while increasing the integration of the country into European space, also singularizes it by its characterist...

International audience; The global history of the First World War is still in its inception. To contribute to its development, this article proposes to “de-europeanize” the historiography of the conflict. It suggests some of the ways in which scholars of the war can go ...

International audience; Armenian karmir " red " has often been considered as deriving from East Iranian, thus speaking in favour of relations between Armenian and Sogdian, a Middle Iranian language spoken in considerable distance from Armenia. For the origin of Hebrew k...

Compte rendu d'ouvrage; International audience

We attempt to grasp the mathematics behind the planetary theories of the Syrian astronomer Ibn al-Shatir (1304-1375) in his treatise Nihayat al-Sul. Following the Maragha school of astronomers, by composing circular movements with constant angular velocity, Ibn al-Shati...