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News: NEW: Catalogue Forthcoming Publications - Winter

Tue, 10 Jan 2012 00:00:00 +0100

We are delighted to present you with our Winter issue of the Catalogue Forthcoming Publications. The catalogue features new and forthcoming titles scheduled to be published before the end of February 2012. For your copy of the catalogue click here.

News: BREPOLS MISCELLANEA ONLINE - Essays in Medieval Studies

Thu, 04 Mar 2010 00:00:00 +0100

A subscription to Brepols Miscellanea Online allows you to have your printed essay collections as individual online articles. Download your flyer here. Download a detailed leaflet here.

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News: BREPOLS PERIODICA ONLINE - Archive

Mon, 08 Aug 2011 00:00:00 +0200

The purchase of Brepols Periodica Online-Archive provides online access to almost 12,500 journal articles.

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Congresses & events: 2012 CAA Annual Meeting -

Wed, 07 Dec 2011 00:00:00 +0100

Johan Van der Beke (Publishing Manager) and Patrick Daemen (Marketing Manager) are attending the 100th annual conference of the College Art Association at the Los Angeles Convention Center. Discover a wide collection of books and journals in the field of art history and benefit from exclusive conference discounts.

Congresses & events: UKSG - 35th Annual Conference

Mon, 16 Jan 2012 00:00:00 +0100

Brepols Publishers will be attending the 2012 UKSG Conference in Glasgow. Paul De Jongh, Hans Deraeve and Rudolf Puelinckx will be happy to welcome you at our conference booth (#94). Take this opportunity to learn more about Brepols databases, BREPOLS MISCELLANEA ONLINE. Essays in Medieval Studies and BREPOLS PERIODICA ONLINE.

Proust aux brouillons Mauriac Dyer & Kazuyoshi Yoshikawa (éd.)

Thu, 15 Dec 2011 00:00:00 +0100

Des chercheurs venus de France et du Japon examinent les brouillons de Marcel Proust et les contextes de son oeuvre.

The Colonial Machine James E. McClellan III & François Regourd

Tue, 20 Dec 2011 00:00:00 +0100

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.

Odioso sanctitas William D. McCready

Tue, 10 Jan 2012 00:00:00 +0100

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.

Conceptualizing Multilingualism in England, c.800-c.1250 Elizabeth M. Tyler (ed.)

Tue, 10 Jan 2012 00:00:00 +0100

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?

Diseases of the Imagination and Imaginary Disease in the Early Modern Period Y. Haskell (ed.)

Sat, 14 Jan 2012 00:00:00 +0100

This pioneering, interdisciplinary collection explores the long history of psychosomatic illness from the fifteenth to the eighteenth centuries.

La dramaturgie de Gustave Charpentier M. Niccolai

Sat, 14 Jan 2012 00:00:00 +0100

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.

Medicean and Savonarolan Florence. The Interplay of Politics, Humanism, and Religion Alison Brown

Fri, 20 Jan 2012 00:00:00 +0100

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.

Le Ci nous dit. L'image médiévale et la culture des laïcs au XIVe siecle Christian Heck

Mon, 23 Jan 2012 00:00:00 +0100

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.

Monachismes d’Orient. Images, échanges, influences F. Jullien & M.-J. Pierre (éd.)

Fri, 27 Jan 2012 00:00:00 +0100

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.

La moisson des lettres. L'invention littéraire autour de 1300 H. Bellon-Méguelle et al. (éd.)

Fri, 27 Jan 2012 00:00:00 +0100

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.

Le pouvoir en ville. Gestion urbaine et pratiques politiques à Genève (fin XIIIe - début XVIe siècles) M. Caesar

Fri, 27 Jan 2012 00:00:00 +0100

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.

Settlement and Lordship in Viking and Early Medieval Scandinavia S. Sindbæk and B.Poulsen (eds.)

Fri, 27 Jan 2012 00:00:00 +0100

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.

On Old Age. Approaching Death in Antiquity and the Middle Ages C. Krötzl and K. Mustakallio (eds.)

Sun, 29 Jan 2012 00:00:00 +0100

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.