In what social and cultural milieus were francophone texts composed and disseminated outside France during the Middle Ages’ Is there a transnational medieval francophone literary culture, and how does it […]

Présentation générale Ce programme a pour objec’tif d’appré« hen’der les dif« fé?ren’tes for?mes de la pré?sence étrangère à la cour de France et, ce faisant, de cons’truire un objet d’étude […]

Ancient Greece and Rome are rarely depicted objectively in modern popular culture. Sometimes these ancient cultures, epitomised by smooth white marble and classical beauty, are idealised and glorified. More commonly, […]

The publication of early witchcraft texts created witches by creating controversy about them. Witch-dramas, pamphlets, testimonies about witch-encounters, sermons, and accounts of trials published the anxieties, recounted the long standing […]

Despite the attempts of feminists the conjunction between evil and the feminine seems unbroken. Established as secondary, derivative and hence inferior, women have been long suspected of being the source […]