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Publications Orientalistes de France AVANT-PROPOSAu début du XIXe siècle, il y a trois cents ans que les Turcs dominent un des plus vastes empires de l'histoire universelle, s'étendant des confins iraniens jusqu'à l'Atlas et des Carpates à la mer

ESSAI DE PROTOPHILOSOPHIE GRECQUELibrairie Philosophique, J. Vrin, Paris, 1934  INTRODUCTION Le plus ancien monument de la langue grecque qui soit conservé est celui des poèmes homériques. Ces poèmes sont peut-être aussi le produit le plus représentatif du génie

ESSAI SUR L'INTERNATIONALE CHRETIENNE ET LES NATIONALITÉS A LA FIN DU MOYEN ÂGE I. LE PROJET DE CROISADE DE CHARLES II D'ANJOU, ROI DE SICILEDans ses récentes considérations sur quelques problèmes de l'histoire des Croisades, M. J. L. La Monte, dont

Bucarest, 1944 II. LE TIBERE TACITEENUne étude de la figure de Tibère, telle qu'elle a été conçue par Tacite, doit commencer par la constatation qu'il n'existe pas, dans les six premiers livres des Annales, un portrait d'ensemble de ce prince. Ce

ParisLes Belles Lettres2003 DES BALKANS A L'OCCIDENTJ'ai tracé, dans leurs grandes lignes, les événements cruciaux de la moitié du siècle, de 1821 à 1866. Mais à la même période s'engage un profond processus qui modifie non seulement les bases politiques,

Art history is usually at ease when imposing its own concepts and technical terminology upon an apparently unconscious body of visual accomplishments called works of art. For art historians and art critics, art seemingly exists in order for theorists to put words on it and

excerpts  The significance of Transylvania during the childhood and teens of those who in 1916, at the time of the Old Kingdom, went to place our youth in the melting pot where the spirit of a whole nation was to broil in order to win its political unity is not only of

In the last decades, particularly after the collapse of the communist regimes, ardent debates have taken place regarding the political commitment of certain great intellectuals and writers, generating even theoretical and philosophical reflections, concerning the relationship

The polemic, sustained by two journals, around a problem that is admittedly dated has yet to die down. One of them maintains that we are surrounded by Chinese walls, that we vegetate in an oriental indifference when we are not openly hostile toward the flow of ideas and

excerpt After the year when its first program was launched, namely Mircea Eliade's Spiritual Itinerary, the generation of '27 (or the young generation, the generation of the '30s, the generation that lived life for life's sake, the experiential and Orthodox

1. The Virgin Mary with the Child, Orthodox icon, 17th century 2. Constantin Brancovan and his family 3. Ştefan Luchian (1868-1916), The Washing (see also Gallery) Romanian painters met the Child long before local art itself was born, in the modern sense of the word (the

excerpts Dear Mother, I'd like to tell you something, and just because if I tried to talk to you about it, you wouldn't let me, I'm putting it in writing. You said to me, I quote: You go to school, do a good job there, finish well and we'll let you do