Le développement de l’histoire des bibliothèques, du livre et de la lecture a jusqu’à présent largement laissé de côté les bibliothèques grecques dans l’Empire ottoman, en particulier pour les XVI^e et XVII^e siècles.

The thematic frame of this issue is the anthropological notion of liminality, applied both to physical as well as imaginary places of transition in medieval art. The volume is thus dedicated to the phenomenon of the limen, the threshold in medieval culture, understood mainly as a spatial, ritual and temporal category.

A major contribution for the analysis of social inequality in history.