Alpis Graia (col du Petit-Saint-Bernard, Savoie et Val d’Aoste) : découvertes anciennes et recherches récentes by Sylvie Crogiez-Pétrequin

“…Recent work on Roman remains found in the Petit-Saint-Bernard pass has shown that one of the buildings (the West building) could be considered as a casa retica of the Roman era, a half-buried habitat that was traditional in the alpine region. …”
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« Io sono il fu Mattia Pascal » : l’envers du personnel comme devenir du héros by Florence Pellegrini

“…En prenant appui sur le premier roman publié par Luigi Pirandello, Il fu Mattia Pascal (1904), on envisagera la reconfiguration du protagoniste qu’opère la fiction pirandellienne, dans un itinéraire qui va de la déperdition à une forme de libération paradoxale, qui n’est pas sans rapport avec l’évidement du personnage qu’initie le roman flaubertien.…”
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Nijmegen, from Oppidum Batavorum to Ulpia Noviomagus, civitas of the Batavi: two successive civitas-capitals by Harry Van Enckevort, Elly N. A. Heirbaut

“…The modern name refers to its Roman origin. The history of Nijmegen during the first centuries of the Christian era mirrors events in the north-west of the Roman Empire. …”
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Athens or Rome? A New Perspective on the Political Philosophy of H. Arendt by Simas Čelutka

“…In Arendt’s view, the greatest contribution to the understanding of politics was offered by the Romans, not the Greeks. The Romans were much better at dealing with the problem of stability, continuity and order of politics. …”
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"On the very brink of a precipice": Landscapes of the Mind in Wilkie Collins’s Basil (1852) by Laurence Τalairach-Vielmas

“…Le roman de Wilkie Collins, Basil (1852), se déroule en plein cœur de Londres, décrivant les mésaventures amoureuses d’un protagoniste nerveusement éprouvé par le rythme effréné de la capitale. …”
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Un plomb inscrit de Saint-Couat-d’Aude (Aude) : des pérégrins sur le territoire de Narbonne by Julien Aliquot, Michel Feugère

“…A fragment of an opisthographic lead plate was discovered in the sixties on the site of a Gallo-Roman villa at Saint-Couat-d’Aude (Aude), about thirty kilometres west of Narbonne. …”
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Le site antique de la clinique des Dames Blanches à Tours (Indre-et-Loire) : aménagements d’un embarcadère romain sur la Loire et évolution du trait de rive by Nicolas Fouillet, Philippe Gardère

“…The excavation made it possible to uncover a Roman landing stage 8 m wide, probably connected to the riverbank road. …”
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Découverte d’une tuile estampillée de la fin du ier s. av. J.-C. à Bibracte (mont Beuvray, Saône-et-Loire) by Florent Delencre, Quentin Verriez, Chiara Martini-Picot

“…In 2018 the discovery of the first stamped tile in domus PC2 in the oppidum of Bibracte is attributed to the thorough application of a sorting and inventory protocol, established very early on, regarding Roman building materials made of terracotta. This mark, thought to be S. …”
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Replacing the "Urban Sublime": The City in Contemporary American Fiction by Heinz Ickstadt

“…Elle pourrait être considérée, de manière concrète, comme l’environnement où s’inscrit l’expérience d’un quartier spécifique ou comme un lieu de transaction transculturelle (en particulier dans les romans récents consacrés aux communautés ethniques) mais aussi, de manière abstraite, comme le signe visible de forces invisibles qui simultanément transcendent et absorbent la ville dans des romans où semble se perpétuer la tradition moderniste du sublime urbain. …”
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Tradycja przedstawiania zmarłych w Cesarstwie Rzymskim od I do III w. n.e. w świetle źródeł literackich oraz wybranych wizerunków z Rzymu i Egiptu by Martyna Marszałek

“…(The Tradition of Representing the Deceased in the Roman Empire from the 1st to the 3rd Century CE in Light of Literary Sources and Selected Portraits from Rome and Egypt): This article discusses how the ancient Romans experienced the loss of their loved ones and what customs were associated with commemorating the dead. …”
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Tituli ante cocturam sur deux tegulae de Montenach (Moselle) et Thorame-Haute (Alpes-de-Haute-Provence) : nouvelle édition et apports à la question de l’organisation du travail dan... by Claudia Gatta

“…Roman bricks and tiles were often inscribed with marks and inscriptions of all kinds for a wide variety of ‘professional’ and ‘occasional’ purposes. …”
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Imaginary (Re)Vision: Politics and Poetics in Sam Watson’s The Kadaitcha Sung and Eric Willmot’s Below the Line by Estelle Castro

“…Cet article propose une analyse des stratégies mises en œuvre par Sam Watson et Eric Willmot dans les romans The Kadaitcha Sung et Below the Line, pour mettre en évidence des problématiques de territorialité et de relations interculturelles. …”
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El golpe de Estado de Focas (602) by Carlos Martínez Carrasco

“…Starting from a reassessment of the available sources, a review of one of the key moments in the historical development of the Eastern Roman Empire is proposed, the coup d’état that brought Phocas to power in 602. …”
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Mausolée, sarcophage et scène de sacrifice dans une ferme antique à Pommiers, près d’Anse (Rhône) by Jean-Claude Béal, Damien Tourgon

“…Rescue excavations carried out in the commune of Pommiers (Rhône), near the Asa Paulini (Anse) relay station, yielded a sarcophagus and a sculpted relief near a building identified as a mausoleum, built at the edge of a Gallo-Roman farm. The relief shows a sacrificial scene in the Roman tradition, unrelated to the usual images of sacrifice in Gaul. …”
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L’établissement du Runde Berg et les sites de hauteur en territoire alaman (ive-ve s. apr. J.-C.) by Dieter Quast

“…This area which is part of the Roman province of Germania Superior in the Early Empire is progressively abandoned by the Roman administration in the second half of the 3rd c. …”
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Le bâtiment routier du col de Montgenèvre (Hautes-Alpes) : fouille archéologique et patrimonialisation d’une traversée alpine by Philippe Leveau, Patrick Reynaud

“…In 2010, a preventive archaeology operation uncovered the southwest corner of a building from the Roman era that was set around a courtyard portico. …”
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Arriver à bon port : les canaux en contexte portuaire à l’époque romaine by Pauline Peter

“…This initial approach is worth extending and should be put into perspective with other navigation channels identified in Roman Gaul and more generally in the Roman world.…”
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Nouvelles identifications concernant trois enluminures du livre d’Heures de Claude d’Urfé (Rome, 1549, Huntington Library, San Marino, HM 1102) by Manuel Lalanne

“…In this manuscript, copies of compositions with sources in Roman churches can be identified; these illuminations thus bear the trace of what the ambassador saw and appreciated during his Roman sojourn. …”
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Invention et oubli des marqueurs paysagers de l’Antiquité gallo-romaine, l’exemple du Biterrois by Sidonie Marchal

“…Because of religious conflicts, Roman landscapes were seen as “pax romana.” Throughout the 18th and the 19th century, ancient landscapes fell into oblivion. …”
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Země Koruny české a Svatá říše římská v raném novověku by Petr Vorel

“…This was a contribution to a longterm discussion of the association of the Bohemian Crown with the Holy Roman Empire. On the grounds of factual argumentation, the author confirms that the Bohemian Lands, whose affiliation to the Holy Roman Empire was clearly declared by the Golden Bull of 1356 issued by Charles IV, King of Bohemia and Emperor, did not become a part of the Holy Roman Empire of the German Nation, which was formed later and which symbolically began at the Imperial Diet in Worms in 1495. …”
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