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Le fil de Marianne
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Revue D'Histoire Litteraire de la France
Contributeurs : Laurent Angard, Helene Boons, Jean Bourgeois, Sebastien Cote, Diane Desrosiers, Florence Dujour-Pelletier, Nicolas Frery, Chanel de Halleux, Patrick Hochart, Florence Magnot-Ogilvy, Christophe Martin, Jeremy Naim, Anne-Marie Paillet, Jean-Alexandre Perras, Marie-Clemence Regnier et Kazuyoshi Yoshikawa.
Madeleine Pelletier
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European Clocks in the J. Paul Getty Museum
Among the finest examples of European craftsmanship are the clocks produced for the luxury trade in the eighteenth century. The J. Paul Getty Museum is fortunate to have in its decorative arts collection twenty clocks dating from around 1680 to 1798: eighteen produced in France and two in Germany. They demonstrate the extraordinary workmanship that went into both the design and execution of the cases and the intricate movements by which the clocks operated. In this handsome volume, each clock is pictured and discussed in detail, and each movement diagrammed and described. In addition, biographies of the clockmakers and enamelers are included, as are indexes of the names of the makers, previous owners, and locations.
Making Sense Of: Health, Illness and Disease
Health, illness and disease are topics well-suited to interdisciplinary inquiry. This book brings together scholars from around the world who share an interest in and a commitment to bridging the traditional boundaries of inquiry. We hope that this book begins new conversations that will situate health in broader socio-cultural contexts and establish connections between health, illness and disease and other socio-political issues. This book is the outcome of the first global conference on “Making Sense of: Health, Illness and Disease,” held at St Catherine's College, Oxford, in June 2002. The selected papers pursue a range of topics from the cultural significance of narratives of health,...
