Le retable de la Passion de l'église Sainte-Marie de Güstrow

In an industry that celebrates extravagance and showmanship, Danish film director Carl Th. Dreyer was a rarity, a man who guarded his privacy fiercely and believed that film provid...

Abstract One of the most widely read and studied texts composed in Late Antiquity is the prison diary of Vibia Perpetua, a young woman of the elite classes who was m...

Les Lumières n’ont-elles pas vigoureusement remis en question l’autorité de l’Église catholique ? Le clergé n’a-t-il pas été l’un des principaux pourfendeurs de la « philosophie du...

This sensitive and compelling biography sheds new light on John Singer Sargent’s art through an intimate history of his family. Karen Corsano and Daniel Williman focus especially o...

This chapter investigates the historiography of the cult of the Holy Tear of Christ, La Sainte Larme, and explores the materiality and affective life of the relic. The apocryphal n...