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Highlights

The following list is a selection of highlights.
For an overview of publications scheduled to be released within the next three months, please refer to our forthcoming titles page. An overview of recently published titles is available on our recent titles page. Listings over a longer period or more specific requests are available through our online catalogue. You can also browse through our publications by series or navigate through our series by subject.
Conceptualizing Multilingualism in England, c.800-c.1250
Elizabeth M. Tyler (ed.)
Throughout the period 800-1250, English culture was marked by linguistic contestation and pluralism. England was not uniquely multilingual, but to what extent was it distinctly so?
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Monachismes d’Orient. Images, échanges, influences
F. Jullien & M.-J. Pierre (éd.)
L’année 2007-2008 a marqué le cinquantenaire de la création de la chaire des « Christianismes orientaux » à la section des sciences religieuses de l’École pratique des Hautes Études (Paris, Sorbonne). La direction d’étude et le Collège de France ont voulu commémorer cet événement en organisant un colloque scientifique international sur la question des monachismes d’Orient.
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Le pouvoir en ville. Gestion urbaine et pratiques politiques à Genève (fin XIIIe - début XVIe siècles)
M. Caesar
Mettant à profit de nombreuses sources manuscrites conservées dans les Archives de Genève et Turin, cette étude analyse dans les détails les politiques d’administration de la ville ainsi que ses relations aux autres institutions.
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La moisson des lettres. L'invention littéraire autour de 1300
H. Bellon-Méguelle et al. (éd.)
Cet ouvrage rassemble les contributions de chercheurs en histoire de la littérature et en histoire de l’art sur les innovations qui ont marqué les lettres et la production manuscrite dans les dernières décennies du XIIIe siècle et les premières du XIVe siècle (1270-1340) en France.
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On Old Age. Approaching Death in Antiquity and the Middle Ages
C. Krötzl and K. Mustakallio (eds.)
This volume of collected essays combines a longue duree viewpoint with an interdisciplinary approach to explore attitudes towards aging, old age, and death from Classical Antiquity to the Middle Ages.

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Medicean and Savonarolan Florence. The Interplay of Politics, Humanism, and Religion
Alison Brown
This volume offers a new, multi-focused approach to Florentine society under Lorenzo the Magnificent, Savonarola’s religious regime and the unsettled early decades of the sixteenth century, crucial periods of change that are often treated separately.

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La dramaturgie de Gustave Charpentier
M. Niccolai
Gustave Charpentier est l’un des compositeurs les plus originaux de la fin de siècle. Il est difficile de comprendre sa production musicale sans analyser le milieu social et politique dont ses œuvres sont issues.
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Diseases of the Imagination and Imaginary Disease in the Early Modern Period
Y. Haskell (ed.)
This pioneering, interdisciplinary collection explores the long history of psychosomatic illness from the fifteenth to the eighteenth centuries.
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The Colonial Machine
James E. McClellan III & François Regourd
Based on extensive archival research and vast primary and secondary literatures and sharply reframing the historiography of the field, this landmark volume traces the development and significance for early-modern history of the Colonial Machine of Old-Regime France, an unparalleled agglomeration of institutions geared to the success of the French colonial enterprise, including the Royal Navy, the Académie Royale des Sciences, the Jardin du Roi, and a host of related specialist institutions working together at home and overseas.
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Le Ci nous dit. L'image médiévale et la culture des laïcs au XIVe siecle
Christian Heck
Le Ci nous dit est un texte essentiel pour la spiritualité de la fin du Moyen Age. La reproduction et le commentaire de la totalité de cette iconographie exceptionnelle révèlent l'existence d'un véritable cycle enluminé de la culture et de la morale chrétiennes, et qui se trouvait à disposition d'un laïc, pour sa dévotion personnelle.

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Odioso sanctitas
William D. McCready
In 1607, Bishop Pietro Mezzabarba was accused of simony. Cardinal-bishop St Peter Damian's involvement in this affair provides the vantage point for a new reading of the latter part of his career and of selected aspects of his thought.
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Settlement and Lordship in Viking and Early Medieval Scandinavia
S. Sindbæk and B.Poulsen (eds.)
Within a European frame, this book reviews the Scandinavian sources for the appearance of aristocracy, social differentiation in the archaeology of farms, villages and manors, concepts of landholding, modes of agriculture, the organization of cultural landscape, and the structure and history of social ties.
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Proust aux brouillons
Mauriac Dyer & Kazuyoshi Yoshikawa (éd.)
Des chercheurs venus de France et du Japon examinent les brouillons de Marcel Proust et les contextes de son oeuvre.
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