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Sergio Pasalodos Requejo, Michele Savonarola y el primer tratado panitaliano De balneis, Turnhout, 2023.

Éditeur : Brepols
Collection : Textes et Études du Moyen Âge, vol. 103
xi + 356 p. pages
ISBN : 978-2-503-60777-1
€ 55 (excl. VAT)

En la Italia del Renacimiento, Michele Savonarola, abuelo del famoso Girolamo, es llamado a la corte de los Este en Ferrara, donde ejercerá como médico de la familia gobernante y como profesor de la universidad de la ciudad. Poco a poco la escritura se convertirá en su principal ocupación, dando lugar a una prolija y variada producción literaria que acoge temas políticos, religiosos, históricos o morales, sin descuidar su principal interés: la medicina. En este ámbito dedica escritos a materias tan dispares como la ginecología o la parasitología, y acoge todos ellos en su obra enciplopédica Practica. Analizamos en el presente trabajo su obra monográfica sobre el termalismo y los baños de Italia, texto fundamental que marca un punto de inflexión en la evolución del género de balneis, al incluir en su estudio de los baños de Italia termas ubicadas en Sicilia y gran parte de la península itálica, desde Padua hasta Nápoles, además de analizar los diversos tipos de baños y la composición química de las aguas mineromedicinales.

Source : https://www.brepols.net

Giorgio Bonamente, Roberto Cristofoli et Carlo Santini (éd.), Luoghi, ambienti, immagini: il paesaggio in Properzio, Turnhout, 2023.

Éditeur : Brepols
Collection : Studi di poesia latina - Studies in Latin Poetry, 23
392 p. pages
ISBN : 978-2-503-60581-4
€ 95 (excl. VAT)

With an investigation into the landscapes and environments – real, topical, imaginary, recalled and traversed by Propertius' elegies – the contributors focus on the poet's complex relationship not only with the images of the literary tradition and with those of artistic culture, but also with the images Rome, Italy and the Mediterranean offered him in his days. This results in the outlines of an original ‘imaginary' in which the power of personal creation has given Assisi, Rome and the Empire a form going beyond the limits of time and space.

Elizabeth Dawson, Lives and Afterlives. The Hiberno-Latin Patrician Tradition, 650-1100, Turnhout, 2023.

Éditeur : Brepols
Collection : Studia Traditionis Theologiae
179 p. pages
ISBN : 978-2-503-60604-0
€ 70 (excl. VAT)

Saint Patrick is a central figure in the medieval Irish Church. As the converter saint he was a central anchor through which Irish people came to understand their complicated religious past as well as their new place in the wider Christian world. This study considers some of the earliest and most influential writings focused on Saint Patrick, and asks how successive generations forged, sustained and redirected aspects of the saint's persona in order to suit their specific religious and political needs.

Frederik Juliaan Vervaet, Reform, Revolution, Reaction. A Short History of Rome from the Origins of the Social War to the Dictatorship of Sulla, Saragosse, 2023.

Éditeur : Prensas de la Universidad de Zaragoza
Collection : Libera Res Publica
292 pages
ISBN : 978-84-1340-707-4
25 €

In 133 and 123/122 BCE, the Gracchan reforms opened three cans of worms, pitting the Roman landowning elites against their poorer compatriots, Roman economic interests against those of the Italian allies, and senators against equestrians. As these cumulative divisions threatened to coalesce into a perfect storm, the noble and wealthy tribune of the plebs M. Livius Drusus in 91 boldly proposed a comprehensive if costly New Deal. The eventual annulment of Drusus' visionary reform package set the stage for the armed rebellion of Rome's key Italic allies. Even before the conclusion of this gargantuan struggle in 87, the deep divisions Drusus and his backers had sought to resolve, compounded by political discontent among the enfranchised Italians, caused the Roman polity to descend into a series of devastating civil wars, terminated in 82/81 by Sulla's vindictive victory and reactionary new settlement. Offering a novel narrative analysis of the pivotal events of this well-known but often poorly understood period, this book seeks to demonstrate how the time from Livius Drusus' tribunate of the plebs to Sulla's unparalleled dictatorship was marked by momentous reform and experimentation and suggests that the former's fateful failure arguably represents the moment the Romans lost their ancestral Republic.

Source : Prensas de la Universidad de Zaragoza

D. Acolat et Y. Maligorne (éd.), Ruines méditerranéennes et photographie ancienne, Rennes, 2023.

Éditeur : Presses Universitaires de Rennes
Collection : Archéologie et culture
268 pages
ISBN : 9782753594579
35 €

Au milieu du XIXe siècle apparaît un nouveau média qui documente les sites et monuments antiques : la photographie.
Sources historiques de grande valeur, ces vues sont devenues objets d'étude pour les choix esthétiques dont elles relèvent, leur contribution à l'élaboration et la diffusion des savoirs, leur rôle dans la formation d'un imaginaire et dans la « réception » de l'Antiquité, mais aussi leur dimension commerciale dans l'histoire du tourisme autour de la Méditerranée.
De l'Afrique du Nord à la Perse, en passant par Pompéi, Rome, la Grèce, la France et l'Égypte, nous suivons les photographes dans les vestiges antiques du Bassin méditerranéen à travers des fonds inédits, pour comprendre leurs motivations, leurs démarches, et parfois leurs difficultés. Ces vues d'une grande précision se multiplient au cours des décennies, documentant les nouvelles découvertes et les mises en valeur d'un patrimoine qu'on entend préserver de la destruction.

Robert C. Bartlett et Nasser Behnegar (éd.), Political Rhetoric in Theory and Practice, Cambridge, 2023.

Éditeur : Cambridge University Press
376 pages
ISBN : 9781009367387
£ 25.99

Political Rhetoric in Theory and Practice is an introduction to the art of rhetoric or persuasive speaking. A collection of primary sources, it combines classic statements of the theory of political rhetoric (Aristotle, Isocrates, Demosthenes, Cicero) with a rich array of political speeches, from Socrates to Martin Luther King Jr., Pericles to Richard Nixon, Sojourner Truth to Phyllis Schlafly. These speeches exemplify not only the three principal kinds of rhetoric – judicial, deliberative, and epideictic – but also the principal rhetorical proofs. Grouped thematically, the speeches boast a diversity of speakers, subject matters, and themes. At a time when the practice of democracy and democratic deliberation are much in question, this book seeks to encourage the serious study of rhetoric by making available important examples of it, in both its noblest and its most scurrilous forms.

Source : Cambridge University Press