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16 Mar 2022
17:30 - 18:30
Guest lecturer

Handling winds, fighting storms

Jean-Pierre Devroey
Hail and thunder. Understanding bad weather in the peasant hinterland in the Middle Ages
16 Mar 2022
17:30 - 18:30
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    Wednesday 16 March 2022
    Salle 2, Site Marcelin Berthelot
    Open to all
    17:30 - 18:30
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    Abstract

    The second lecture is devoted to wind "manipulation" practices. This inventory allows us to compare Christian and non-Christian cultural fields, to specify their modalities, their raison d'être and their fields of action, and to identify their human actors, words and gestures.

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    Jean-Pierre Devroey

    Professor Emeritus, Université libre de Bruxelles (ULB), Managing Director of the Belgian College of the Royal Academy of Belgium

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