"Written between 386 and 390 during the excitement of his discovery of Neoplatonism, Augustine's correspondence with his friend Nebridius is a distillation of Platonic questions concerning the infinite, the distinction between sensible and intelligible phenomena, the imagination…
Letter writing was widespread in the Graeco-Roman world, as indicated by the large number of surviving letters and their extensive coverage of all social categories. Despite a large amount of work that has been done on the topic of ancient epistolography, material and formatting…
À partir d'exemples portant sur divers types d'écrits (dictionnaire, journal, roman, correspondance), cet ouvrage interroge les formes de la communication littéraire dans les sphères publique et privée. Le Congrès national des sociétés historiques et scientifiques rassemble chaq…
White and Epston base their therapy on the assumption that people experience problems when the stories of their lives, as they or others have invented them, do not sufficiently represent their lived experience. Therapy then becomes a process of storying or restorying the lives a…
Letter-collections in Late Antiquity give witness to the flourishing of letter-writing, with the development of the mostly formulaic exchanges between elites of the Graeco-Roman world to a more wide-ranging correspondence by bishops and monks, as well as emperors and Gothic king…
The author details how France, as the most powerful nation on the Continent and possessing a tradition of maritime interest in the Americas and West Africa dating back to the earliest years of the sixteenth-century, seemed destined to take a leading role in exploiting and settli…
During the Renaissance, collections of letters both satisfied humanist enthusiasm for ancient literary forms and provided the flexibility of a format appropriate to many types of inquiry. The printed collections of medical letters by Giovanni Manardo of Ferrara and other physici…
"During the Renaissance, collections of letters both satisfied humanist enthusiasm for ancient literary forms and provided the flexibility of a format appropriate to many types of inquiry. The printed collections of medical letters by Giovanni Manardo of Ferrara and other physic…
La 4e de couv. indique : "Souvenirs, tendresse, promenades, contes de fées, l'heure du coucher ... Baudelaire, Saint-Exupéry, Cocteau, Proust ou Hemingway, tous ont partagé ces moments privilégiés de l'enfance avec leur maman. Plus tard, les difficultés sont apparues, les désacc…
