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A unique re-interpretation of the city of ancient Rome and its empire, using the tools offered by the latest information technology and graphic design. Packed with cleverly designed graphics, charts and diagrams, Ancient Rome: Infographics uses data visualization to tell the epic tale of the city of Rome and its empire. Every aspect of the Roman world is explored, from the birth of the Republic to the imperial dynasties, from the political and legal system to Rome’s military might. Drawing on international sources, this complex history is made clear and comprehensible to modern readers, while offering the insights and rigour that historians demand. Original, accessible and fascinating, Ancient Rome: Infographics will delight history buffs, graphic design aficionados, and everyone seeking an overview of a civilization that shaped the world.

Packed with cleverly designed graphics, charts and diagrams, Ancient Rome: Infographics uses data visualization to tell the epic tale of the city of Rome and its empire. Every aspect of the Roman world is explored, from the birth of the Republic to the imperial dynasties, from the political and legal system to Rome’s military might. Drawing on international sources, this complex history is made clear and comprehensible to modern readers, while offering the insights and rigour that historians demand. Original, accessible and fascinating, Ancient Rome: Infographics will delight history buffs, graphic design aficionados, and everyone seeking an overview of a civilization that shaped the world.

The fundamental gesture of weaving in The Craft of Zeus is the interlacing of warp and woof described by Plato in The Statesman—an interweaving signifying the union of opposites. From rituals symbolizing—even fabricating—the cohesion of society to those proposed by oracles as a means of propitiating fortune; from the erotic and marital significance of weaving and the woven robe to the use of weaving as a figure for language and the fabric of the text, this lively and lucid book defines the logic of one of the central concepts in Greek and Roman thought—a concept that has persisted, woof and warp crossing again and again, as the fabric of human history has unfolded.

Roman religion has long presented a number of challenges to historians approaching the subject from a perspective framed by the three Abrahamic religions. The Romans had no sacred text that espoused its creed or offered a portrait of its foundational myth. They described relations with the divine using technical terms widely employed to describe relations with other humans. Indeed, there was not even a word in classical Latin that corresponds to the English word religion.In The Gods, the State, and the Individual, John Scheid confronts these and other challenges directly. If Roman religious practice has long been dismissed as a cynical or naÏve system of borrowed structures unmarked by any true piety, Scheid contends that this is the result of a misplaced expectation that the basis of religion lies in an individual's personal and revelatory relationship with his or her god. He argues that when viewed in the light of secular history as opposed to Christian theology, Roman religion emerges as a legitimate phenomenon in which rituals, both public and private, enforced a sense of communal, civic, and state identity.Since the 1970s, Scheid has been one of the most influential figures reshaping scholarly understanding of ancient Roman religion. The Gods, the State, and the Individual presents a translation of Scheid's work that chronicles the development of his field-changing scholarship.

Roman religion has long presented a number of challenges to historians approaching the subject from a perspective framed by the three Abrahamic religions. The Romans had no sacred text that espoused its creed or offered a portrait of its foundational myth. They described relations with the divine using technical terms widely employed to describe relations with other humans. Indeed, there was not even a word in classical Latin that corresponds to the English word religion.In The Gods, the State, and the Individual, John Scheid confronts these and other challenges directly. If Roman religious practice has long been dismissed as a cynical or naÏve system of borrowed structures unmarked by any true piety, Scheid contends that this is the result of a misplaced expectation that the basis of religion lies in an individual's personal and revelatory relationship with his or her god. He argues that when viewed in the light of secular history as opposed to Christian theology, Roman religion emerges as a legitimate phenomenon in which rituals, both public and private, enforced a sense of communal, civic, and state identity.Since the 1970s, Scheid has been one of the most influential figures reshaping scholarly understanding of ancient Roman religion. The Gods, the State, and the Individual presents a translation of Scheid's work that chronicles the development of his field-changing scholarship.

Depuis la nuit des temps, la lumière a fasciné et inquiété les hommes. Dans l’Antiquité, les cultes solaires étaient importants, et les historiens des religions du XIXe siècle leur ont donné une plus grande importance encore, au point de vouloir comprendre toutes les divinités antiques comme des métaphores du Soleil. Très tôt, les hommes ont tenté d’expliquer les manifestations de la lumière, en particulier par la pratique de l’astronomie, et proposé des théories diverses qui ont abouti non seulement à des cosmologies, mais aussi à la physique et à ses innombrables applications. Ainsi, qu’elle soit un phénomène visible ou un rayonnement électromagnétique invisible, la lumière entre en jeu dans un grand nombre de technologies modernes. À côté de ces développements scientifiques, les penseurs européens du XVIIIe siècle ont recouru à la métaphore de la lumière pour définir une démarche intellectuelle ayant pour fin d’éclairer les esprits (Lumières, Enlightenment, Aufklärung), alors que la création artistique n’a cessé de mettre en œuvre la lumière ou l’obscurité dans la représentation ou la transfiguration de la réalité. Cet ouvrage regroupe les contributions du colloque tenu au Collège de France à l’automne 2015. John Scheid est professeur au Collège de France, titulaire de la chaire de Religion, institutions et société de la Rome antique (2002-2016). Introduction d’Alain Prochiantz, administrateur du Collège de France, titulaire de la chaire des Processus morphogénétiques. Avec les contributions de Dominique Charpin, Marc Fontecave, Serge Haroche, Pascale Hémery, Anne-Marie Lagrange, Alain de Libera, Jean-Noël Robert, Daniel Roche, José-Alain Sahel, Philippe Walter, Claire Wyart.

Die Gewaltfrage ist eine der großen Fragen der Menschheitsgeschichte. Die Urszene der Gewalt ist die biblische Geschichte von Kain und Abel und dem Brudermord. Der »homo violens« steht im Zentrum der Beiträge dieses Bandes, der den Zusammenhang von Hochkultur und Gewalt behandelt und im Rahmen der Kooperation der Universität Bonn mit dem Collège de France (Ernst-Robert-Curtius-Gastprofessur) entstanden ist. Im ersten Teil widmen sich sieben Beiträge der Theorie und Geschichte der Gewalt in Theologie, Medizin, Politischer Theorie, Philosophie und Geschichte; im zweiten Teil befassen sich sechs Beiträge speziell mit dem Zusammenhang von Literatur und Gewalt im Zeitraum vom 18. bis zum 20. Jahrhundert. Die multidisziplinären Beiträge verstehen sich als Elemente einer Diskursgeschichte der Gewalt.The question of violence is one of the great questions of human history. The primal scene of violence is the biblical story of Cain and Abel and fratricide. This anthology deals with the connection between high culture and violence and was produced as part of the cooperation between the University of Bonn and the Collège de France (Ernst-Robert-Curtius Visiting Professorship). In the first part, seven contributions are devoted to the theory and history of violence in theology, medicine, political theory, philosophy, psychology and history; in the second part, six contributions deal specifically with the connection between literature and violence in the period from the 18th to the 20th century. The multidisciplinary contributions are understood as elements of a discourse history of violence.

Desde hace algunas décadas, los historiadores de la creencia han insistido en que el concepto moderno de religión es de factura relativamente reciente (siglo XVIII). De allí, la necesidad de considerar la creencia como noción clave para entender los modos de la espiritualidad premoderna. Se trata de una conceptualización que enfatiza las distancias de naturaleza entre el concepto moderno de religión (entendido como adhesión individual a un conjunto de enunciados doctrinarios) y la creencia (concebida como un conjunto concreto de reglas prácticas ligadas a procesos específicos de poder y conocimiento). Pensar la creencia como un creer, es decir, como una acción, una praxis, ha permitido un abordaje más apropiado para comprender los comportamientos públicos y las modalidades rituales de los sujetos premodernos, que pueden ir más allá del plano que hoy llamamos religioso. Anclado en esta línea interpretativa, el propósito de este libro es el análisis de las modalidades, las técnicas y los dispositivos de la creencia desde la Antigüedad romana a la primera Modernidad. La perspectiva de abordaje teórico hace que este libro se haya pensado en función de un lector multiforme: además de atender a historiadores del mundo premoderno, convoca también a profesionales de otras disciplinas como la antropología, la sociología, el psicoanálisis o la epistemología, interpelados en su contemporaneidad por las cuestiones relativas a la creencia, sus modos de operación, sus marcos de producción y su papel performativo en la generación de hechos sociales.Escriben: John Scheid, Jean-Claude Schmitt, Jean Wirth, Rodrigo Laham Cohen, Héctor Francisco, Dolores Castro, Eleonora Dell''Elicine, Paola Miceli, Alejandro Morin, Ismael del Olmo y Constanza Cavallero