Edition critique, commentaire historique et identification approfondie des sources (auctoritates) du livre VIII de l’encyclopédie naturelle de Barthélemy l’Anglais, intitulé De mundo et corporibus celestibus (cosmologie, astrologie, astronomie.
Synthèse sur l’emplacement, l’agencement des baptistères et de leurs aménagements dans les églises de Jordanie entre le IVe et le VIIIe siècle.
Je présente dans le premier chapitre l’ombre portée de la Seconde Guerre mondiale sur le pays, en état de pénurie sévère, ainsi que la démographie léguée par une longue histoire, mais en état de relèvement rapide dans les années 50. La nation et les habitants sont épuisés dans la grisaille de la fin des années 40, cependant grâce à une sorte d’élan...
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...
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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...
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The varietal study of the Aljamiado texts dialect is one of the most well settled field, thanks to Á. Galmes and his disciples, the "Escuela de Oviedo". The characteristics and the status of the language of this text, so apparently hybrid, have puzzled many reasearchers, even though, paradoxically, the topic has lacked of deepening with synthetic s...
