Correspondance des directeurs de l'Académie de France à Rome

Roman political leaders used distance from Rome as a key political tool to assert pre-eminence. Through the case studies of Caesar’s hegemony, Augustus’s autocracy, and Tiberi...

This work, edited by Arthur Le Moyne de La Borderie (1853), uncovers the previously untold history of one of the great works of Benedictine scholarship, Gui Alexis Lobineau's Histo...

Romans held that the Republican city was built almost instantly following the earlier city’s catastrophic destruction by Gauls in 390 BCE. Furthermore, the huge costs of rebuilding...

This chapter examines the development of the city commune in Rome during the period 1050–1150. Rome does not occupy a central place in accounts of early Italian city communes. The ...

Comment les pratiques tant familiales que professionnelles associées à la naissance et à la petite enfance nous renseignent-elles sur les normes en vigueur dans chaque société ? Il...

Vor dem Hintergrund der Erfahrung des Grauens, aber auch der Hoffnung im 20. Jahrhundert sowie in Anbetracht der neuen Entwicklungen der Politik und der Gesellschaft in der globali...

Victor Hugo’s Quatrevingt-treize, this chapter argues, uses a classicizing allusive technique to set different models of Rome against each other, so that each corrects the flaws or...