Vertrauen und Politik im Alltag

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A.J.B. Johnston

"Three [Catholic] religious groups served the French stronghold of Louisbourg during the eighteenth century. They were the Récollets of Brittany, who acted as parish priests and chaplains; the Brothers of Charity of Saint John of God, who operated the King's Hospital; and the Sisters of the Congregation of Notre-Dame, who conducted the local school for girls. [The author] establishes the secular and religious contexts of life in Louisbourg, and then traces the mixed fortunes of each of these groups.".

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Timothy Hampton

"Assessing the relationship between the emergence of modern French literary culture and the ideological debates that marked Renaissance France, Timothy Hampton explores the role of literary form in shaping national identity.". "The foundational texts of modern French literature were produced during a period of unprecedented struggle over the meaning of community. In the face of religious heresy, political threats from abroad, and new forms of cultural diversity, Renaissance French culture confronted, in new and urgent ways, the question of what it means to be "French." Hampton shows how conflicts between different concepts of community were mediated symbolically through the genesis of new literary forms. Hampton's analysis of works by Rabelais, Montaigne, Du Bellay, and Marguerite de Navarre, as well as writings by lesser-known poets, pamphleteers, and political philosophers, shows that the vulnerability of France and the instability of French identity were pervasive cultural themes during this period.". "Contemporary scholarship on nation-building in early modern Europe has emphasized the importance of centralized power and the rise of absolute monarchy. Hampton offers a counterargument, demonstrating that both community and national identity in Renaissance France were defined through a dialogic relationship to that which was not French - to the foreigner, the stranger, the intruder from abroad. He provides both a methodological challenge to traditional cultural history and a new consideration of the role of literature in the definition of the nation."--BOOK JACKET.

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Hervé Cheuzeville

<a href="javascript:pop_img(' class=encadrevitrine2>Lire les articles parus dans France Soir<a><br> Des massacres de masse se déroulent discrètement en Afrique Centrale depuis des années. Le prétexte : les "rébellions" et les "luttes tribales". Mais en vérité, ce sont les conséquences d'un combat féroce entre chefs pour s'approprier le pouvoir exclusif sur les ressources locales. Les groupes armés des milices ethniques impliquées sont composés en majorité de jeunes et d'enfants presque toujours recrutés de force : les Kadogo. Leurs récits de vie dramatiques rompent avec le silence qui couvre les guerres chroniques au Soudan, en Ouganda, en R.D du Congo, au Rwanda.

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Catherine Jinks

""I hereby record those events which took place in and around the city of Lazet relating to the assassination of our venerable Brother Augustin Duese in the year of the Inicarnate Word, 1318." So writes Brother Berneard, an Inquisitor of Heretical Depravity, following the discovery of his superior's dismembered corpse."--Jacket.