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When forgeries make sense to jurists : paretymologies between puns and metaphors
Dario Mantovani

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Lecture
The body of law, "Corpus Iuris". Imagining law through bodily metaphors in Roman legal literature (2)
Amphithéâtre Maurice Halbwachs, Site Marcelin Berthelot
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Sacrifice and oath : elements of a ritual language
Vinciane Pirenne-Delforge

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Lecture
In the cities: Greece as a sacrificial culture
Amphithéâtre Maurice Halbwachs, Site Marcelin Berthelot
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The end of David's reign and Solomon's rise to power
Thomas Römer

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Lecture
The origins of the Israelite monarchy: Saul, David and Solomon
Amphithéâtre Marguerite de Navarre, Site Marcelin Berthelot
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David in the book of Chronicles
Sophie Ramond

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Seminar
Legitimations and contestations of political power in the Hebrew Bible and the Ancient Near East
Amphithéâtre Marguerite de Navarre, Site Marcelin Berthelot
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The origins of medieval Khurâsân: interactions between Sassanid Iran and Central Asia (3rd-7th c. AD) (8)
Frantz Grenet

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Lecture
The origins of medieval Khurâsân: interactions between Sassanid Iran and Central Asia (3rd-7th c. AD)
Amphithéâtre Maurice Halbwachs, Site Marcelin Berthelot
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Being a copyist in the Middle Ages: between passion, profession and devotion
Filippo Ronconi

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Seminar
Unpublished papyri or papyrological novelties
Salle 1, Site Marcelin Berthelot
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The Lord of the Covenant: Mihr the Judge and the Celebration of Mihragān
Frantz Grenet & Samra Azarnouche

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Seminar
Mithra in dialogue
Salle 2, Site Marcelin Berthelot
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Don't look at the emperor ! The fatherland, the father's father and the family as a metaphor for power
Dario Mantovani

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Lecture
The body of law, "Corpus Iuris". Imagining law through bodily metaphors in Roman legal literature (2)
Amphithéâtre Maurice Halbwachs, Site Marcelin Berthelot
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Metaphors and the limits imposed by natural ontology
Marco Fasciolo

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Seminar
Put Another Way: What Is Metaphor?
Amphithéâtre Maurice Halbwachs, Site Marcelin Berthelot
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Touraj Daryaee (1)
Touraj Daryaee

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Guest lecturer
Touraj Daryaee
Salle 5, Site Marcelin Berthelot
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Mithra and Mithraism in the Gaze of Modern Iranians
Frantz Grenet & Touraj Daryaee

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Seminar
Mithra in dialogue
Salle 2, Site Marcelin Berthelot
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History and Memory: In Search of Lost Time
Touraj Daryaee

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Guest lecturer
Touraj Daryaee
Salle 5, Site Marcelin Berthelot
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The body of law, "Corpus Iuris". Imagining law through bodily metaphors in Roman legal literature (2) (8)
Dario Mantovani

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Lecture
The body of law, "Corpus Iuris". Imagining law through bodily metaphors in Roman legal literature (2)
Amphithéâtre Maurice Halbwachs, Site Marcelin Berthelot
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Orienting the Occident: Mithra and the quest for origin
Frantz Grenet & Nina Mazhjoo

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Seminar
Mithra in dialogue
Salle 2, Site Marcelin Berthelot
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The laws of attraction : metaphorical alluvia in the language of Roman jurists
Dario Mantovani

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Lecture
The body of law, "Corpus Iuris". Imagining law through bodily metaphors in Roman legal literature (2)
Amphithéâtre Maurice Halbwachs, Site Marcelin Berthelot
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Sensitive metaphor and technical metaphor in private law
Michel Boudot

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Seminar
Put Another Way: What Is Metaphor?
Salle 2, Site Marcelin Berthelot
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Mapping Men and Empire: The Sacred Topography of Erānšahr
Touraj Daryaee

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Guest lecturer
Touraj Daryaee
Salle 5, Site Marcelin Berthelot
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David Bivar and the Foundations of the Historiographic Myth of Iranan Mithraism
Frantz Grenet

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Seminar
Mithra in dialogue
Salle 2, Site Marcelin Berthelot
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Socio-Political Transformation and Biblical Interpretation: The Case of Post-Apartheid South Africa
Louis Jonker

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Guest lecturer
Changing Biblical Interpretation?
Salle 5, Site Marcelin Berthelot
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 fall silent in the face of arms  Silent inter arma leges. The voice and scent of laws
Dario Mantovani

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Lecture
The body of law, "Corpus Iuris". Imagining law through bodily metaphors in Roman legal literature (2)
Amphithéâtre Maurice Halbwachs, Site Marcelin Berthelot
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Paul Casanova, Egypt and the Koran
François Déroche

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The Vision of the World in Late Antique Erānšahr
Touraj Daryaee

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Guest lecturer
Touraj Daryaee
Salle 5, Site Marcelin Berthelot
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Reforming History: The Book of Chronicles and Its Reception in Post-Apartheid South Africa
Louis Jonker

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Guest lecturer
Changing Biblical Interpretation?
Salle 5, Site Marcelin Berthelot
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From petitions to letters: an integrated appeal system
Petra Sijpesteijn

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Guest lecturer
Righting wrongs: justice and redress in medieval Egypt
Salle 2, Site Marcelin Berthelot
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Documents related to the course topic  Bactrian documents (1)
Frantz Grenet, Philip Huyse

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Seminar
Mithra in dialogue
Amphithéâtre Guillaume Budé, Site Marcelin Berthelot
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Who owns Enlightenment science?
Antoine Lilti

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To be born, to grow, to diminish, to die  the metaphorical life of Roman slaves’ savings, suspended between law and nature
Dario Mantovani

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Lecture
The body of law, "Corpus Iuris". Imagining law through bodily metaphors in Roman legal literature (2)
Amphithéâtre Maurice Halbwachs, Site Marcelin Berthelot
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'Iudicium iudicate'. Metaphorical impossibility
Carlo Ossola

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Seminar
Put Another Way: What Is Metaphor?
Amphithéâtre Maurice Halbwachs, Site Marcelin Berthelot
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Who owns Enlightenment science?
Antoine Lilti

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Introduction: Egyptology must speak of Egyptian art and artists (?/!)
Dimitri Laboury

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Guest lecturer
Comments on Egyptian art and its artists
Amphithéâtre Guillaume Budé, Site Marcelin Berthelot
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