Jeudi, 15 Janvier 2026 11:23
Stavroula Kefallonitis
Stavroula Kefallonitis (dir.), Constitutions mixtes. Généalogie d'une idée, Paris, 2025.
Éditeur : Classiques Garnier
Collection : Rencontres, n° 698 - Série : Science politique, n° 16.
593 pages
ISBN : 978-2-406-19008-0
58 €
La constitution mixte parcourt l'histoire politique occidentale. Gouvernement idéal ? Combinaison de monarchie, d'aristocratie, de démocratie ou autre ? Elle répartit les pouvoirs de manière variable, plasticité qui explique sa pérennité, mais aussi la difficulté d'en saisir continuités et ruptures.
The mixed constitution runs through Western political history. Ideal government? A combination of monarchy, aristocracy, democracy or something else? It distributes powers in various ways, a plasticity explaining its durability, but also the difficulty of understanding its continuities and ruptures.
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Mercredi, 14 Janvier 2026 15:22
Hermann Amon
Hermann Amon, The Roman Empire Third Century “Crisis”, Leyde-Boston, 2025.
Éditeur : Brill
Collection : Brill Research Perspectives in Ancient History
viii-156 pages
ISBN : 978-90-04-74628-2
73.85 €
The years from the assassination of Severus Alexander to Diocletian's rise to power (235–284) remain of interest to ancient historians. This period, commonly known as the Third Century “Crisis,” exerted a significant influence on the political, economic, and socioreligious developments of late antiquity. This period witnessed assaults on the empire's borders by Germans and Persians, along with an acceleration of changes resulting from these attacks. Drawing on ancient literary sources and the work of modern scholars, this volume offers an overview of critical issues faced by the empire, including border wars, the roles of the emperor, the Senate, and the equestrian order, as well as issues of finance and currency. Furthermore, specific attention is given to the regions of Gaul, Palmyra, and Egypt.
Source : Brill
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Mardi, 13 Janvier 2026 08:37
Marie Ledentu
Vassiliki Panoussi et William Hutton (éd.), Memory, Ritual, and Identity in Ancient Greece and Rome, Berlin, 2025.
Éditeur : De Gruyter
446 pages
ISBN : 9783111197319
139,95 €
The essays in this volume consider the triptych of memory, ritual, and identity in ancient Greece and Rome. The issue of identity has recently dominated the arena of public discourse with renewed urgency, and in antiquity as in the current day, identities were created through an amalgamation of multivalent views and values. Individual identities were inextricably linked to collective identifications and informed by shared memories and experiences; these in turn shaped the narratives and practices that perpetuated connections within the community. Ritual played a foundational role in this process, as a deeply felt, iterative action that brought members of a community together to form powerful memories through which they negotiated their relationships with one another and with society at large. With contributions on ancient Greek and Roman literature, politics, religion, and material culture, and with a chronological scope ranging from archaic Greece to early Christendom, this volume examines the synergy of memory, ritual, and identity from multiple disciplinary perspectives and provides both an illustration of the variety of configurations that synergy took in Greco-Roman antiquity and how they persisted and evolved over time.
Source : De Gruyter Brill
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