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Abstract In today's Muslim world, apprenticeship is often associated with religious schools, where pupils are taught writing, grammar and Quranic recitation. We also know from medieval treatises the curriculum of the elite kuttâb (or secretaries), who …

Temples and fire chapels from the 3rd   century AD : Paykend ; Erkurgan (?) ; Dil'berdzhin (?) ; Surkh Kotal. …

A scholia in the Dialogues des courtisanes by the satirist Lucien of Samosata describes in unusual detail the ritual manipulations performed during the Thesmophoria. This Byzantine gloss is probably based on a scholarly text from the Hellenistic period, …

Abstract The talk gives a brief overview of our book "Functional Algorithms, Verified!" and its approach to verifying not just correctness but also running time of a large collection of functional algorithms. Then, two examples are presented in more …

Abstract Amortization is a principle of data structure design which aims to guarantee an average cost per operation over any sequence of operations, with the high cost of some operations being amortized by the low cost of previous operations. After a …

This conference is not available in audio or video. This conference will examine the enlargement of the European Union after the fall of the Berlin Wall and the dismemberment of the Soviet Union. The horizon of peace is no longer limited to the West, but …

Against the backdrop of the Roman conception of "  natura  ", and in particular Cicero's De natura deorum , the lecture will offer an interpretation of a famous, powerful and enigmatic text by Ulpian (D. 1.1.3-4 and D. 1.1.6). Three categories of law are …

Abstract Horapollon, whom we met in the Dioscore anthology, is a famous figure in 5th-century Alexandria   , who will serve as our guide into the world of higher learning. At the crossroads of networks Alexandria 's position as an interface between its …

Abstract With climate change and population growth, securing water resources has become one of the greatest challenges of the coming decades. To meet growing demand, water must be recovered and purified. In this context, the development of membranes with …

Membrane separation is at the heart of technologies for the remediation and purification of water and fluids in general. Membranes are generally made of polymeric materials that achieve separation by steric or electrostatic effect. The underlying vision …

Abstract After the Second World War, Roger Caillois played a key role within UNESCO in the creation of a world heritage of literature. One of his initiatives was to have the classics translated, which involved drawing up a list of them, identifying the …

Abstract Literature is both the power and the enactment of the properties of language, but it realizes only some of them. The case of Rousseau shows that the proper name takes on three essential values for him, and constitutes one of the focal points of …

Abstract While Paul Valéry's criticism in the years 1920 focused on the commercial value of his work (the relationship between actual work and the price of publications), it also concerned his intellectual value. This offensive against the work itself, …

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Internal difficulties within couples could lead to divorce. A family's worsening economic situation sometimes resulted in the pledging of certain members, or even imprisonment for debt. In the event of military defeat, whole families were sometimes …

Abstract With the consolidation of the centralized state around the Three Readings of Buddhism, Confucianism and Taoism (tam giáo ) , and the predominance of Confucianism from the 15th  century onwards, women lost their political prerogatives over time. …

Abstract " Hide the causes of the crisis from us . I propose to examine together another way of reading the ecological crisis. Not by exposing the symptoms that scientific ecology has been scrutinizing for decades, but rather by identifying what …