Welcome to the story of rats

Wolves, cats, horses and, now, rats. Are they objects of disgust, vectors of the plague, or useful aids in cleaning

An elevation through the body

The body has long been the point of crystallization of racial hatred. Nicolas Martin-Breteau shows how African-Americans were able to

Family honor

After the patriarchal and controlled domestic world of the Florentines of the Quattrocento, the medievalist historian Christiane Klapisch-Zuber makes us

The worry of literature

Thinking about current literature from the invisible, the irrational and the strange, this is the original line that Anne-Sophie Donnarieix

Kant's invention

Experience can only lead to knowledge if it is organized by concepts which do not come from experience. A. Grandjean

Search the cataclysms

A new archeology is born. His contributions on mass violence in XXe century oscillate between history and memory. A specialist

When China reforms

Isabella Weber offers a deep dive into the economic and political debates behind the Chinese reforms of the 1980s. A