Susan Emanuel

Aline Kiner

In the heart of 14th century Paris the great beguinage is an enclave, under royal protection, where single women can live apart from men. Widowed or unmarried, rich or poor, here they can study, work and trade in freedom. Ysabel chose to withdraw here twenty years ago. She watches over the hospital and knows all the secrets of plants, nursing bodies as well as souls. For Ade as well, the beguinage is a refuge. Upon the death of her husband, killed in the battle of Courtrai, she settled here, withdrawn from the world. But a newcomer is about to shatter the tranquility of this little universe. One morning in January 1310, Ysabel discovers a wild child in rags at the door of the beguinage. Her red hair is hidden under a coarse kerchief. Silent, rebellious, Maheut the Red has fled a horrible arranged marriage to the lord of Hainaut, her native region. Since then, throughout the entire city, a sinister Franciscan monk is relentlessly tracking her down...

The Mirror of Simple Souls

Pierre Bourdieu

Alain Accardo

Under the direction of Pierre Bourdieu, a team of 22 researchers spent three years studying and analyzing the new forces of social suffering that characterize contemporary societies.

Social Suffering in Contemporary Society

The Weight of the World

Mona Chollet

How the Patriarchy Sabotages Heterosexual Relations

Reinventing Love

Dominique Kalifa

A Cultural History, Paris and Beyond

Belle Époque

Aviad M. Kleinberg

One of the most prominent public intellectuals in Israel examines the arts of sinning and of finger pointing in a compassionate, original, and witty look at the stuff that makes us human.

A Very Partial List

7 Deadly Sins

Frédéric Bozo

This timely book explores the often stormy French-U.S. relationship and the evolution of the Atlantic Alliance under the presidency of Charles de Gaulle (1958D1969). The first work on this subject to draw on previously inaccessible material from U.S. and French archives, the study offers a comprehensive analysis of Gaullist policies toward NATO and the United States during the 1960s, a period that reached its apogee with de GaulleOs dramatic decision in 1966 to withdraw from NATOOs integrated military arm. This launched the French policy of autonomy within NATO, which has since been adapted without having been abandoned. De GaulleOs policy often has been caricatured by admirers and detractors alike as an expression of nationalism or anti-Americanism. Yet Frederic Bozo argues that although it did reflect the GeneralOs quest for grandeur, it also, and perhaps more important, stemmed from a genuine strategy designed to build an independent Europe and to help overcome the system of blocs. Indeed, the author contends, de GaulleOs actions forced NATO to adapt to new strategic realities. Retracing the different phases of de GaulleOs policies, Bozo provides valuable insight into current French approaches to foreign and security policy, including the recent attempt by President Chirac to redefine and normalize the France-NATO relationship. As the author shows, de GaulleOs legacy remains vigorous as France grapples with European integration, a new role within a reformed NATO, and relations with the United States.

De Gaulle, the United States, and the Atlantic Alliance

Two Strategies for Europe

Guy G. Stroumsa

The religious transformations that marked late antiquity represent an enigma that has challenged some of the West's greatest thinkers. But, according to Guy Stroumsa, the oppositions between paganism and Christianity that characterize prevailing theories have endured for too long. Instead of describing this epochal change as an evolution within the Greco - Roman world from polytheism to monotheism, he argues that the cause for this shift can be found not so much around the Mediterranean as in the Near East. The End of Sacrifice points to the role of Judaism, particularly its inventions of new religious life following the destruction of the Second Temple in 70 CE. The end of animal sacrifice gave rise to new forms of worship, with a concern for personal salvation, scriptural study, rituals like praying and fasting, and the rise of religious communities and monasticism. It is what Christianity learned from Judaism about texts, death, and, above all, sacrifice that allowed it to supersede Greco - Roman religions and, Stroumsa argues, transform religion itself. A concise and original approach to a much - studied moment in religious history, The End of Sacrifice will be heralded by all scholars of late antiquity.

Religious Transformations in Late Antiquity

The End of Sacrifice

Susan Emanuel

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