News
To publish an announcement of a publication or a scientific event on Cour de France.fr, please transmit most complete informations by mail
Last announcements : events
-
17 déc. 2022 – 3 sept. 2023, Grenoble : Chartreuses. Dans le silence et la solitude
En 1084, Bruno de Cologne entre au « désert de chartreuse » accompagné de six compagnons, pour y fonder un monastère et y mener une vie de solitude et de prière, origine de l’ordre des (...) -
22 avr. - 17 sept. 2023, Paris : « Le seul homme de la famille » La duchesse et le duc d’Angoulême
Le Centre des monuments nationaux présente l’exposition « Le seul homme de la famille » La duchesse et le duc d’Angoulême en partenariat avec le musée des Arts Décoratifs et du Design de (...) -
1er nov. 2023, Rome : Les miroirs de la pourpre. Les écrits relatifs à l’ethos et aux devoirs des cardinaux (XIe-XXe siècle)
Le 22 décembre 2014, le pape François prononçait un discours devant les cardinaux qui a eu un grand retentissement notamment dans le Sacré Collège. Il y énumérait les quinze maladies qui (...) -
29 sept. 2023, Tours/Langeais : Louis XI, les dialogues d’un prince. Échanges et confrontations
À l’occasion du 600e anniversaire de la naissance de Louis XI, des chercheurs des universités de Tours et d’Angers souhaitent organiser, avec le soutien de la Fondation Jacques Siegfried de (...) -
1er oct. 2023, Québec : Parcours de formation. Pédagogies rêvées, pratiques éducatives et transferts culturels à l’époque moderne
6e colloque international du CIREM 16/18 (Centre interuniversitaire de recherche sur la première modernité, XVIe-XVIIIe siècles), organisé par Marc André Bernier (Université du Québec à (...)
Voir d'autres annonces de manifestations...
New Books
Bram van Leuveren : Early Modern Diplomacy and French Festival Culture in a European Context, 1572-1615
This book is the first to explore the rich festival culture of late sixteenth- and early seventeenth-century France as a tool for diplomacy. Bram van Leuveren examines how the late Valois and early Bourbon rulers of the kingdom made conscious use of festivals to advance their diplomatic interests in a war-torn Europe and how diplomatic stakeholders from across the continent participated in (...)
Clare Monagle, Carolyn James, David Garrioch, Barbara Caine : European Women’s. Letter-writing from the 11th to the 20th Centuries
This book reveals the importance of personal letters in the history of European women between the year 1000 and the advent of the telephone. It explores the changing ways that women used correspondence for self-expression and political mobilization over this period, enabling them to navigate the myriad gendered restrictions that limited women’s engagement in the world. Whether written from (...)
Julie Campbell : Women, Entertainment, and Precursors of the French Salon, 1532-1615
This study of ludic literary society in sixteenth-century France addresses Italianate practices of philosophical and literary sociability as they took root there. It asserts that entertainment activities of women-led circles illustrate the richly complex precursors of the seventeenth-century salons. Notions from the philosophy of play, such as those developed by Johan Huizinga, Eugen Fink, (...)
Joanna Story : Charlemagne and Rome. Alcuin and the Epitaph of Pope Hadrian I
Charlemagne and Rome is a wide-ranging exploration of cultural politics in the age of Charlemagne. It focuses on a remarkable inscription commemorating Pope Hadrian I who died in Rome at Christmas 795. Commissioned by Charlemagne, composed by Alcuin of York, and cut from black stone quarried close to the king’s new capital at Aachen in the heart of the Frankish kingdom, it was carried to (...)
Matthijs Lok : Europe against Revolution. Conservatism, Enlightenment, and the Making of the Past
Contemporary Europe seems to be divided between progressive cosmopolitans sympathetic to the European Union and the ideals of the Enlightenment, and counter-enlightened conservative nationalists extolling the virtues of homelands threatened by globalised elites and mass migration. This study seeks to uncover the roots of historically informed ideas of Europe, while at the same time (...)