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Eusebius of Caesarea in Palestine, active between the end of the third century and the beginning of the fourth, is the Christian author who has handed down to us, in the form of quotations, the greatest number of Greek philosophical texts. Yet his precise relationship to philosophy has never been the subject of a comprehensive study.

This book, which brings together contributions by leading specialists, aims to provide an initial overview. The analyses, covering most of Eusebius’ works, starting with the Preparation for the Gospel, show the importance of philosophy in his thought. Beyond the use he makes of philosophers, sometimes to criticise them, sometimes to appropriate their ideas, Eusebius stands out for his fairly good knowledge of philosophy, especially Platonic philosophy, the issues of which he seems to understand well. Although he takes up from his Christian predecessors the idea that Christianity is, as such, a “philosophy”, this claim sometimes implies a technicality that is revealed not only in the way he quotes and comments on the philosophers, but also in the presence in his work, less visible at first sight, of concepts and methods of exposition that bear witness to a real philosophical culture. At the end of these studies, Eusebius of Caesarea, too often reduced to a “court theologian” or to the status of “Father of Ecclesiastical History,” emerges more as the scholar he was, both Greek and Christian, whose work and thought are inseparable from the philosophical context in which they were born.

How did societies change between the Early Bronze Age and the Early Iron Age? And what was the impetus that led to these changes — social contacts and innovation, intergenerational contacts, or perhaps simply adaptation? Taking these questions as its starting point, this richly detailed volume explores four different regions of southern Poland to compare and contrast the mechanisms that drove socio-cultural change in the region between the second and the first half of the first millennium BC. Drawing on standardized sets of archaeological data, the chapters gathered here examine the interplay of different factors influencing cultural change across five key parameters: environment; settlement patterns; settlement organization; economy; and material culture. The result is a beautifully illustrated volume that offers important insights into Central and Eastern European prehistory, made accessible for an English-speaking audience.

À l’occasion des soixante-dix ans de François de Polignac, nous sommes réunis autour de ce projet d’édition pour développer des sujets de recherche inspirés de ses publications et de son enseignement à l’École pratique des hautes études. Ce volume prend la forme non pas de mélanges mais d’essais sur des thématiques autour de l’Antiquité grecque, de la structuration de l’espace et des constructions identitaires, combinant des sources archéologiques et textuelles, et propose une réflexion dans le temps et l’espace. Nous voulons ainsi montrer, par des cas d’étude, comment François de Polignac a su aborder les civilisations antiques par une vision aussi précise que large, en intégrant les données sur la longue durée et en évitant d’adopter un modèle interprétatif uniforme dans le processus de la rédaction historique. L’aspect comparatiste s’est révélé important entre des régions et des époques différentes, du monde gréco-romain jusqu’à la Mésopotamie et la Chine. Une partie des textes est consacrée au commentaire de ses travaux dans le but d’expliquer comment ceux-ci nous inspirent et ouvrent des perspectives à d’autres réflexions et recherches.

Numbers, weights, and measurements, and the systems underpinning them, have always been a fundamental part of human society. Developed in different ways and at different times, such systems have provided a foundation for science, technology, economics, and new ways of engaging with and understanding the world. This volume aims to explore the background to numbers and measurements in more detail by drawing together specialists from a growing field of research. The contributions gathered here offer new and interdisciplinary insights into how the development of mathematical ideas and systems evolved, early metrological systems, the exchange of goods and their impact, the standardization of measuring tools, and the impact of such concepts. This unique volume is deliberately set broad, both geographically and chronologically, in order to compare and contrast changes over time and between peoples, and in doing so it sheds new light on the social and scientific developments among both prehistoric and early historic societies.

Le vieux mot grec polyhistor désignait jusqu’au XVIIe siècle à la fois un savant aux multiples compétences et un vade-mecum bibliographique embrassant tout le champ des savoirs.

C’est le cas de Chantal Grell qui, au fil de sa carrière, a exploré tout l’âge classique en Europe dans ses domaines les plus divers de l’Espagne à la Pologne, avec Versailles pour centre de gravité.

C’est aussi le cas du présent recueil où soixante-quatre chercheurs ont rassemblé en deux volumes des contributions de haut niveau scientifique sur ses thèmes de prédilection.

Le tome I traite des antiquités et de l’historiographie, d’histoire des savoirs et des idées, le tome II des cours et de la diplomatie, des arts et des collections.

Par ses publications, Paul-Albert Février a été un auteur majeur de la seconde moitié du xx e siècle. Ses apports et ses questionnements ont provoqué des prises de conscience décisives dans le domaine de l’archéologie et de l’histoire des deux rives de la Méditerranée, entre Sud de la France et Maghreb, à la fin de l’Antiquité, sans compter le détour italien et un intérêt marqué pour le Patrimoine. Il a été à l’origine d’un processus d’entraînement intellectuel dont il a fait bénéficier étudiants et collègues. Trente ans après sa disparition prématurée en 1991 à l’âge de soixante ans, le besoin a été ressenti de faire le point sur les directions de recherche qu’il avait abordées et sur les diverses perspectives qu’il avait ouvertes. La personnalité de l’enseignant et du chercheur était telle que la démarche scientifique était inséparable du rayonnement humain. Le présent ouvrage a été conçu comme un état de la recherche en écho à celui dans lequel, dès après sa mort, ont été rassemblés ses principaux articles (La Méditerranée de Paul-Albert Février, 2 vol., CEFR 225). Les deux livres pourront être ouverts en regard l’un de l’autre.

The volume provides for the first time in scholarship a comprehensive and in-depth analysis of the relationship between Stoicism and early Greek philosophy, from Orphism to the Monists and the Pluralists. Going beyond the common assumption that the Stoics refer exclusively to Heraclitus, it is shown that almost the entire Presocratic tradition (sometimes mediated decisively by Plato and Aristotle) has made a fundamental contribution to the construction of Stoic thought, especially in the field of physics (i.e. cosmology, ontology, and theology).

The phenomenon of the Septuagint is a matter of interest for several areas of research – not only for Old Testament scholars, but also for researchers of Hellenistic Judaism, patristic exegesis, translation theory and practice, and others. What they all have in common is the text of the Septuagint. Unfortunately, the research is often so compartmentalized that scholars do not know about each other’s work and cannot profit from it. The aim of the conference “The Septuagint: Multilateral Focus on the Text” was to bring together scholars studying the text of the Septuagint in its various aspects: its reconstruction, peculiarities of language, and lexical semantics in their relationship with the Semitic background and within the Greek-speaking world, whether Jewish or Christian. These different approaches to the same matter are bound to lead to mutual enrichment.

In the last two decades, objects have become increasingly relevant to historical studies as the primary focus of research discussing cross-cultural relations. Objects are produced, used, modified, preserved, and destroyed according to historically specific political and cultural settings, thus providing researchers with information and insights about their original background. However, they can also throw light on a large array of cross-cultural encounters when their mobility is put to the fore. Objects can move by being bought, gifted, bartered, and sold, borrowed or stolen, collected and dispersed, just as they can be modified, repaired, reshaped, repurposed, and destroyed in the process.

The Mediterranean, as a barrier and as a meeting place for different polities and communities, and as the setting of conflicted experiences of cultural, political, economic, and social transformation, easily lends itself to this kind of historical analysis. Featuring articles on Byzantine imperial silks and bronze doors from southern Italy, eastern luxuries in Istanbul and African bolsas from the Canary Islands, Arabic geographies and Hebrew religious texts travelling from shore to shore and from manuscript to the press, and the ‘dead’ bodies of holy women and men, this volume intends to tackle objects as sources and subjects of the history of cross-cultural encounters in innovative ways: focusing on the ‘second-handedness’ of displaced objects across the Mediterranean, the volume intersects different chronologies — from antiquity to the present-day — and varying scales, from the individual objects to the much larger one of the histories of their reinterpretation and repurposing.

Cet ouvrage met en lumière une série de cas dont le contexte est ancré dans les cours de l’époque moderne et qui ont trait aux pratiques de publications et aux usages politiques et sociaux de l’écrit. Il constitue une approche originale de la question de la lecture dans les espaces curiaux en s’attachant à observer les pratiques d’acteurs et d’actrices qui désignent, représentent ou constitue la cour et les courtisans comme lectorat. Ce faisant, ceux qui écrivent et publient se forgent une réputation liée à l’univers curial autant qu’ils participent à modeler cet espace aux contours flou et qui se caractérise avant tout par son caractère de lieu de pouvoir.

Comment s’articulent et se modèlent respectivement les pratiques littéraires et la cour dans sa dimension symbolique comme dans son fonctionnement institutionnel à l’époque moderne　? C'est à cette question que se sont intéressées les contributions présentes dans cet ouvrage qui fait dialoguer littéraires, historiens et historiennes.