Since the second half of the twentieth century, the term Intifāḍah has been used to describe any large-scale social movement characterized by its suddenness, a certain degree of violence and the involvement of youth. It refers to Palestinian uprisings and to other revolts around the world supposed to share characteristics with the latter. It is not...
Sanskrit sources offer a wide variety of numerical tables, most of which remain little studied. Tabular information can be found encoded in verse, woven into prose, sometimes arranged in aligned grids of rows and columns but also in other, less standard patterns. We will consider a large range of topics from mathematical (gaṇita) and astral science...
We examine the diverse ways Brahmagupta (628 CE), Mahāvīra (ca. 850), Śrīdhara (ca. 750-900) and their commentators understood how a multiplication could be executed. We describe a variety of algorithms. We note how commentators give us clues to how numbers are shaped for execution, how the procedure is displayed on a working surface, etc. We attem...
Au Moyen Âge, notamment sous l’impulsion du Lignum Vitae de Saint Bonaventure (vers 1260), de nombreux arbres sont peints à fresque, sur bois ou dans des manuscrits, afin de stimuler la mémorisation de la Passion. En quoi la structure mnémonique du motif iconographique de l'arbre peut-elle être entendue comme un réseau viaire d’accès à la contempla...
Communication présentée lors du séminaire : « Pouvoirs et représentations dans le Sud-Est européen », EHESS, Paris, 2012, dirigé par le Pr. Boško I. Bojović.
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The history of Thessaloniki (or Salonica, Selânîk) is now well-documented: many aspects of urban life during the last decades of the Ottoman Empire and during the transition to Greek sovereignty have been explored and the image we have of the history of the city is now much more nuanced than a few decades ago. Historiography, however, often remains...
L’armorial Wijnbergen peut-il refléter la communauté du royaume de France ? Poser cette question, c’est aussi s’interroger sur la valeur historique de ce type de document. Comment ces recueils d’armoiries , parfois offerts au prince, plus rarement conservés dans les bibliothèques nobles et patriciennes, la plupart du temps manuels pratiques et conc...
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