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Julie Stone Peters : Law as Performance. Theatricality, Spectatorship, and the Making of Law in Ancient, Medieval, and Early Modern Europe
Tirades against legal theatrics are nearly as old as law itself, and yet so is the age-old claim that law must not merely be done : it must be "seen to be done." Law as Performance traces the history of legal performance and spectatorship (...)
Justine Firnhaber-Baker : The Jacquerie of 1358. A French Peasants’ Revolt
The Jacquerie of 1358 is one of the most famous and mysterious peasant uprisings of the Middle Ages. Beginning in a small village but eventually overrunning most of northern France, the Jacquerie rebels destroyed noble castles and killed dozens (...)
S. C. Kaplan : Women’s Libraries in Late Medieval Bourbonnais, Burgundy, and France
How were the libraries of aristocratic women in the late French-speaking Middle Ages developed ? Which reading trends and topics were embraced by female readers of the fifteenth century ? What substantial gaps in evidence and data loss impede (...)
Emmanuelle Chapron : Livres d’école et littérature de jeunesse en France au XVIIIe siècle
Riche de ses éditeurs scolaires et de ses collections enfantines, le dix-neuvième siècle a-t-il inventé le marché du livre pour enfants ? Dans la France du dix-huitième siècle, de nombreux acteurs s’efforcent déjà de séparer, au sein de la (...)
Gordon Campbell (éd.) : The Oxford Illustrated History of the Renaissance
he Renaissance is one of the most celebrated periods in European history. But when did it begin ? When did it end ? And what did it include ? Traditionally regarded as a revival of classical art and learning, centred upon fifteenth-century (...)