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Abstract In this lesson, Nathan Wachtel discusses the history of his discipline, going back to the great founders at the time of the discovery of America   : Bernardino de Sahagun and Bartolomé de Las Casas, he then emphasizes the complementary nature of …

Abstract Pierre Toubert begins his opening lecture with the story of the reluctant lecturer, taken from a 10th-century text circulating in Cordoba. In the 12th century, this story was translated from Arabic into Latin, and then passed on to Italy. It …

Résumé La philosophie romane s'est toujours préoccupée de la condition temporelle du langage en examinant le dispositif grammatical des temps verbaux qui structurent les textes narratifs. Or d'après une théorie très remarquée de Walter Benjamin, l'art de …

Summary Medieval letters crystallize all the associations between the past and literature, all the indications that an essential link unites the notion of literature with a sense of the past. The curiosity aroused by medieval literature since its …

A Collège de France coproduction - Doriane Films Abstract The aim is to show how Europe, at the very moment when it was losing the two universal languages that had ensured communication within the known world - Greek and Latin - and as the first vulgar …

Summary A disconcerting amalgam of commonalities, divergences and even symmetrical inversions, the religion of the Veda and that of the Avesta make up a complex set of representations, whose structure can ideally be postulated and progressive development …