In the past decade, spatial analysis has yielded new ways to engage with historical information and revealed previously hidden patterns, trends, and understandings. From small-scale network representations and large scale mapping projects to a wealth of important articles and monographs, considerable new insight has been gained into processes of movement, spatial representation, migration, experience, and the dynamics of the early modern period.
Université Toulouse Jean Jaurès, 27th October 2017.
(deadline: 1st June 2017)
Timothy Hampton reprises Grotius’ definition of truce as “the slumber of war” to show how early modern European playwrights staged that moment of negotiation as a paradox, as “an action that spends action, and by that very gesture reinstates power as potentiality” (Early Modern Diplomacy, Theatre and Soft Power, Palgrave, 2016, 28). A truce is thus a true moment of action, but an action that runs in parallel to a continuing state of war.
The Society seeks nominations for awards for scholarly work published or completed in the previous year. Any work on women and gender in the early modern period (ca. 1450-1750) is eligible.
Période foisonnante, le XVIIe siècle littéraire voit progressivement émerger un ensemble d’œuvres qui va recouvrir ce que nous appelons aujourd’hui « littérature ». Cette émergence entraîne avec elle l’apparition d’un public qui prend conscience de lui-même, s’exerce à la critique et revendique un espace où le débat échappe à l’emprise politique.
Cet ouvrage examine les notions de vérité et de certitude chez Spinoza afin de comprendre le sens et la portée de sa célèbre thèse « veritas norma sui et falsi est ». Il montre ainsi que la théorie spinoziste de la vérité contient une solution cohérente pour le problème de la certitude.
