Claire Norton

Celle que je suis

Eté 1988. Théo, Maxime et Julien réchappent d'un terrible incendie. Les trois adolescents se jurent alors une amitié " à la vie, à la mort ". Vingt années passent. Le 1er juin 2009, Marine, l'épouse de Théo, doit embarquer sur un vol Rio-Paris. Lorsque Théo apprend que l'avion s'est abîmé en mer, il s'effondre. Le soutien indéfectible de ses amis ne suffit pas à l'empêcher de sombrer dans une profonde dépression. C'est alors que la révélation d'éléments troublants vient tout remettre en cause. Se pourrait-il que Marine soit toujours en vie ? Théo n'a désormais plus qu'un objectif : découvrir la vérité. Mais celle-ci n'a-t-elle qu'un seul visage ?

Malgré nous...

Ces petits riens qui nous animent...

Red Snow in Colorado

​Si vous aviez su ce que la vie vous réservait, auriez-vous fait les mêmes choix ? Farouchement indépendante, Lisa n'a jamais cru au " grand amour ". Pour elle, un couple est avant tout un partenariat. Et la vie, une succession de décisions à prendre. Pragmatique, elle s'efforce d'oublier la rencontre magique faite lors d'une nuit festive, afin de poursuivre son chemin, sereinement. Mais le destin est têtu : lorsque, quelques années plus tard, elle recroise cet homme, toutes ses certitudes volent en éclats. Lisa doit alors se confronter à ses contradictions, à ses choix et, par la force des choses, à ceux des autres et à leurs conséquences. Rien n'est plus difficile à décrire qu'un amour qui emporte tout sur son passage. C'est pourtant ce tour de force que réussit Claire Norton en nous entraînant dans l'inoubliable histoire de Lisa et Victor. Une fresque amoureuse et familiale, bouleversante, qui défie le temps.

Par la force des choses

Été 1988. Théo, Maxime et Julien réchappent d'un terrible incendie. Les trois adolescents se jurent alors une amitié " à la vie, à la mort ". Vingt années passent. Le 1er juin 2009, Marine, l'épouse de Théo, doit embarquer sur un vol Rio-Paris. Lorsque Théo apprend que l'avion s'est abîmé en mer, il s'effondre. Le soutien indéfectible de ses amis ne suffit pas à l'empêcher de sombrer dans une profonde dépression. C'est alors que la révélation d'éléments troublants vient tout remettre en cause. Se pourrait-il que Marine soit toujours en vie ? Théo n'a désormais plus qu'un objectif : découvrir la vérité. Mais celle-ci n'a-t-elle qu'un seul visage ?

Une bouleversante histoire de résilience qu'on lit le cœur battant dans l'espoir que son héroïne s'en sorte. Valentine vit dans une petite résidence d'une ville de province. Elle travaille à temps partiel au rayon librairie d'une grande surface culturelle. Les livres sont sa seule évasion ; son seul exutoire, le journal intime qu'elle cache dans le coffre à jouets de son fils. Et son seul bonheur, cet enfant, Nathan, qui vient de souffler ses six bougies. Pour le reste, Valentine vit dans la terreur qu'au moindre faux pas, la colère et la jalousie de son mari se reportent sur Nathan... L'arrivée d'un couple de voisins âgés dans l'appartement d'en face va complètement bouleverser sa vision du monde. Car comment résister à la bonté de Guy, qui se conduit avec Nathan comme le grand-père qu'il n'a jamais eu ? Comment refuser la tendresse de Suzette, cette femme si maternelle, elle qui a tant manqué de mère ? Peu à peu, Valentine se laisse apprivoiser. Jusqu'au jour où elle commet une minuscule imprudence aux conséquences dramatiques... Mais une chose change tout, désormais : elle n'est plus seule pour affronter son bourreau et reconstruire sa vie volée.

Robert Lakeland

Carl Nugent

MiNZC 5

Maths Homework Book

David Thomas

Radu G. Păun

Lejla Demiri

John Chesworth

Reza Purğawādi

Carsten-Michael Walbiner

Emma Gaze Loghin

ʻUmar Riyāḍ

E. J. Brill (Lejda).

A Bibliographical History. Ottoman and Safavid empires (1600-1700) / edited by David Thomas and John Chesworth ; with Lejla Demiri, Emma Gaze Loghin, Claire Norton, Radu Păun, Reza Pourjavady, Umar Ryad, Carsten Walbiner

Christian-Muslim Relations

Alan Chong

Anna Contandini

An international group of scholars trace encounters and exchanges between Christian Europe and the Ottoman Empire. The new material and insights enrich our understanding of artists Like Gentile and Giovanni Bellini as well as of book design, architecture, textiles, Italian humanism, and the making of political identities.

New Perspectives on Cultural Encounters in the Mediterranean Before 1700

Crossing Boundaries

MiNZC 4

How to Grow Spring Flowers from Bulbs

Spring Flowers from Bulbs

The essays in this collection explore both how the employment of nation-state dominated discourses have caused a re-imagination of the past, and how the past has been re-constructed to accord with nationalist agendas. Although other works have considered in general terms how nations are imagined, this collection takes a different stance and specifically focuses on how 'the past' is used in such imaginations. This collection was conceived in an interdisciplinary spirit, drawing insights from art history, intellectual history, literature, archaeology, heritage studies, political science, and film studies. The authors combine a sophisticated theoretical approach with illuminative case studies from all across the globe, including the Balkans, South Africa, Rwanda, the Yemen, Italy, Turkey, Greece, and Uzbekistan.

Nationalism, Historiography, and the (re)construction of the Past

A History of the Renmark Racing Club

Through a study of a variety of Ottoman and modern Turkish accounts of the Ottoman-Habsburg sieges of Nagykanizsa Castle (1600-01) including official documents, correspondence, histories, and more literary genres such as gazavatnames [campaign narratives], Plural Pasts explores Ottoman literacy practices. By considering the diverse roles that the various accounts served – construction of identities, forging of diplomatic alliances and legitimization of political ideologies and geo-political imaginations – it explores the cultural and socio-political significance the various accounts had for different audiences. In addition, it interweaves theoretical reflection with textual analysis. Using the sieges of Nagykanizsa as a case study, it offers a sophisticated contribution to ongoing historiographical arguments: namely, how historians construct hierarchies of primary sources and judge some to be more truthful, or more valuable, than others; how texts are assigned to particular genres based on perceived epistemological status – as story or history, fact or fiction; and the circular role that historians and their histories play in constructing, reflecting and reinforcing cultural and political imaginaries.

Power, Identity and the Ottoman Sieges of Nagykanizsa Castle

Plural Pasts

The topic of religious conversion into and out of Islam as a historical phenomenon is mired in a sea of debate and misunderstanding. It has often been viewed as the permanent crossing of not just a religious divide, but in the context of the early modern Mediterranean also political, cultural and geographic boundaries. Reading between the lines of a wide variety of sources, however, suggests that religious conversion between Christianity, Judaism and Islam often had a more pragmatic and prosaic aspect that constituted a form of cultural translation and a means of establishing communal belonging through the shared, and often contested articulation of religious identities. The chapters in this volume do not view religion simply as a specific set of orthodox beliefs and strict practices to be adopted wholesale by the religious individual or convert. Rather, they analyze conversion as the acquisition of a set of historically contingent social practices, which facilitated the process of social, political or religious acculturation. Exploring the role conversion played in the fabrication of cosmopolitan Mediterranean identities, the volume examines the idea of the convert as a mediator and translator between cultures. Drawing upon a diverse range of research areas and linguistic skills, the volume utilises primary sources in Ottoman, Persian, Arabic, Latin, German, Hungarian and English within a variety of genres including religious tracts, diplomatic correspondence, personal memoirs, apologetics, historical narratives, official documents and commands, legal texts and court records, and religious polemics. As a result, the collection provides readers with theoretically informed, new research on the subject of conversion to or from Islam in the early modern Mediterranean world.

The Lure of the Other

Conversion and Islam in the Early Modern Mediterranean

Mark Donnelly

Liberating Histories makes an original, scholarly contribution to contemporary debates surrounding the cultural and political relevance of historical practices. Arguing against the idea that specifically historical readings of the past are necessary or are compelled by the force of past events themselves, this book instead focuses on other forms of past-talk and how they function in politically empowering ways against social injustices. Challenging the authority and constraints of academic history over the past, this book explores various forms of past-talk, including art, films, activism, memory, nostalgia and archives. Across seven clear chapters, Claire Norton and Mark Donnelly show how activists and campaigners have used forms of past-talk to unsettle ‘common sense’ thinking about political and social problems, how journalists, artists, curators, filmmakers and performers have referenced the past in their practices of advocacy, and how grassroots archivists help to circulate materials that challenge the power of authorised institutional archives to determine what gets to count as a demonstrable feature of the past and whose voices are part of the ‘historical record’. Written in a lucid, accessible manner, and combining insightful critical analysis and philosophical argument with clear consideration of how different forms of past-talk influence the narration of pasts in a variety of socio-political contexts, Liberating Histories is essential reading for students and scholars with an interest in historiography and the ethical and political dimensions of the historical discipline.

Liberating Histories

"History as an academic discipline has dramatically changed over the last few decades and has become much more exciting and varied as a result of ideas from other disciplines, the influence of postmodernism and historians' incorporation of their own theoretical reflections into their work. The way history is studied at university level can vary greatly from history at school or as represented in the media and Doing History bridges that gap. Aimed at students of history in their final year of secondary education or beginning degrees, this is the ideal introduction to studying history as an academic subject at university. "Doing History" presents the ideas and debates that shape how we "do" history today, covering arguments about nature of historical knowledge and the function of historical writing, whether we can really ever know what happened in the past, what sources historians depend on, and whether the historians' version of history has more value than popular histories. This practical and accessible introduction to the discipline introduces students to these key discussions, familiarises them with the important terms and issues, equips them with the necessary vocabulary and encourages them to think about, and engage with, these questions. Clearly structured and accessibly written, it is an essential volume for all students embarking on the study of history"--

Claire Norton

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