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Time is a luxury we don't all have...Emery Matterson's life has been broken for a while. First, she lost her twin sister to an incurable autoimmune disease, then her father left, then her mother fell apart when Emery herself was diagnosed with the same disease that killed her sister. The only option for Emery seems to be to move in with the father she hasn't seen in ten years, and start over.Enter Kaiden Monroe, the brooding athlete who has baggage of his own. Kaiden makes Emery feel normal. Hated. Cared for. Loathed. And...loved. Somewhere along the way, Emery finds solace in the guy with the sad eyes.But everything happens in stages. And nothing good ever lasts.From fan-favorite author B. Celeste comes an raw, real, and unforgettable story of love and loss between two young people grappling with the harsh reality of invisible disease.

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TELL ME YOUR SECRETS… ‘Tense and compulsive’ Louise Candlish, bestselling author of Our House ‘Suspicion, betrayal and dark secrets abound’ T M Logan, bestselling author of The Mother ‘A delicious web of lies’ Jane Corry, bestselling author of Coming to FInd You When Alice and Leo move into a newly renovated house in The Circle, an exclusive gated community, it is everything they’ve dreamed of. But appearances can be deceptive… As Alice is getting to know her neighbours, she discovers a devastating secret about her new home, and begins to feel a strong connection with the therapist who lived there before. Alice becomes obsessed with trying to piece together what happened. But no one wants to talk about it. And her neighbours are hiding something… The million-copy Sunday Times bestselling author B A Paris returns to her heartland of gripping psychological suspense in this powerful tale of a house that holds a shocking secret. Praise for The Therapist: ‘Alice’s smart new home in The Circle comes with a nightmarish secret in B A Paris’s tense and compulsive new thriller – I gobbled it up in two sittings’ Louise Candlish ‘Suspicion, betrayal and dark secrets abound in this tense story – all hidden just beneath the surface of a seemingly perfect suburban life’ TM Logan ‘A delicious web of lies. Be prepared for your head to spin and your fingers to fly!’ Jane Corry ‘B A Paris is the queen of psychological thrillers and her latest does not disappoint’ My Weekly ‘This spooky thriller with excellent twists and a really fast-paced shock finale’ Heat ‘Totally hooked. Completely gripping’ Mel McGrath ‘A propulsive and deliciously dark page-turner. Perfectly paced and tightly plotted’ Lucy Clarke ‘Domestic suspense at its very best. An aspirational setting, an unsolved crime, a plethora of suspects and twisted allegiances at every turn … I loved it’ Caz Frear ‘Tense and suspenseful … a delicious slice of suburban noir shot through with secrets, lies, paranoia and the unsettling claustrophobia of a staunchly closed community’ Kia Abdullah

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The million-copy bestselling author B A Paris returns with a breathtaking thriller. ‘We’re in a new golden age of suspense writing now, because of amazing books like Bring Me Back’ Lee Child ‘Made me stay up way beyond my bedtime!’ Jane Corry Finn and Layla: young and in love, their whole lives ahead of them. Driving back from a holiday in France one night, Finn pulls in to a service station, leaving Layla alone in the car. When he returns, minutes later, Layla has vanished, never to be seen again. That’s the story Finn tells the police. It’s the truth – but not the whole truth. Twelve years later, Finn has built a new life with Ellen, Layla’s sister, when he receives a phone call. Someone has seen Layla. But is it her – or someone pretending to be her? If it is her, what does she want? And what does she know about the night she disappeared? Bring Me Back is the utterly compelling, white-knuckle thriller from Sunday Times bestseller B A Paris. Praise for B A Paris: ‘An addictive new voice in suspense fiction’ Sophie Hannah ‘Just finished this BRILLIANT book… Clever, addictive and twisty, I couldn’t sleep until I found out the truth… The twist floored me! Utterly compelling from beginning to end’ Claire Douglas ‘Made me stay up way beyond my bedtime! B A Paris has a knack for getting into your head’ Jane Corry ‘A page-turning masterpiece’ Amanda Prowse ‘A tale of dark secrets, with mystery and intrigue building up and up to an ending with a fabulous twist. I devoured it – I couldn’t turn the pages quick enough’ Mel Sherratt ‘This book is compulsive reading from start to finish. A perfectly crafted work of art, seamless and mesmerising. I envy those yet to read it for the pleasure they have in store’ Amanda Robson ‘A cracking page turner with a killer twist' Camilla Way ‘An incredibly pacy, heart-pounding thriller – the twist at the end left me reeling. B A Paris does it again in this exhilarating exploration of love, jealousy and betrayal. A must read!’ Phoebe Morgan ‘Bring Me Back will not leave your hands until you have turned the last page!’ Wendy Walker

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En vertu de quoi les donnees sensorielles revetent-elles des formes stables et se pretent-elles a des significations partageables qui font que chaque chose est ce qu'elle est en depit de la diversite de ses apparences ? Comment l'objectivite de ce sens et de cet etre se concilie-t-elle avec la subjectivite de ces apparences ? Et comment se fait-il que, au-dela de la multiplicite des points de vue sur le monde, la Raison puisse faire valoir des pretentions universelles auxquelles elle donne les noms de "vrai", de "bien" ou de "beau" ? Ces grandes questions sont celles que cristallise l'idee d'"idee". De cette histoire, certains jalons semblent particulierement bien connus: le statut objectif des Idees chez Platon et leur nette opposition avec les apparences sensibles; le statut subjectif des idees dans la philosophie moderne, ou elles tendent au contraire a coincider avec les apparences et a s'opposer aux eventuelles "choses en soi"; la fonction rationalisante des Idees chez Kant, qui prend acte de l'irrealite des idees mais ne renonce pas a rendre compte de leur nature regulatrice. La question reste cependant de savoir comment un meme terme a pu recouvrir des conceptions aussi diverses et, en apparence, meme antithetiques. C'est a elucider cette enigme et a eclairer par la meme le probleme de l'idealite dans l'extraordinaire continuite de son traitement philosophique que se sont collectivement livres des specialistes de ces differentes periodes de l'histoire de la philosophie. Fortement chevillees aux textes memes des auteurs concernes, leurs investigations ici rassemblees constituent un dossier qui devrait fournir au lecteur une vision fine et bien documentee de l'itineraire philosophique de l'idee.

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Landscapes of Extraction explores the art of mining, the transformative industry of the American West, competing in sublimity and striking color with the natural scenic landscape on its own terms. These landscapes of enterprise altered the natural environment on a spectacular scale, with open pit mines, coal tipples, and oil rigs. How artists portrayed the mining industry in the American West is explored in the book with four scholarly essays. Artworks were inspired by the multiple landscapes created by large-scale mining, specifically the mines themselves, the towns that grew up around them, and the miners and their families who lived and worked there. The industry shaped communities and landscapes throughout the West: Arizona, California, Colorado, Montana, New Mexico, Nevada, Oklahoma, Texas, and Utah. Landscapes of Extraction explores a powerful regional narrative that is a fundamental element of national identity played out on a vast geographical scale.

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The present volume has been prepared in honour of Prof dr Jacques Noret, member of the Institute for Palaeochristian and Byzantine Studies of the Catholic University of Leuven and editor of the "Series Graeca" of the "Corpus Christianorum". It contains the contributions of some forty leading scholars - M. Bibikov, C. Boudignon, P. Canart, W. Clarysse, G. Conticello, V. Conticello, J. Declerck, K. Demoen, D. Desmet, G. Dorival, R.Y. Ebied, M. Featherstone, S. Gysens, H. Hauben, A. Jacob, B. Janssens, P. Karlin-Hayter, M. Kohlbacher, C. Laga, C. Mace, N. Maes, B. Markesinis, J. Munitiz, B. Neil, J. Nesbitt, Th. Olajos, M. Pirard, G. Podskalsky, C. Riedweg, B. Roosen, J. Schamp, J. Scharpe, D. Sieswerda, M. Starowieyski, C. Steel, A. Tihon, Fr. Thomson, P. Van Deun, J. Van Reeth, J. Verheyden, S. Voicu, L.R. Wickham and U. Zanetti - and focuses on the themes dear to the honoree: critical editions of Patristic or Byzantine texts; the transmission and contents of literary works of the Patristic and By

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Ghostnotes: Music of the Unplayed is an extended photo essay with more than two hundred images that represent a mid-career retrospective of B+’s photography of hip-hop music and its influences. Taking its name from the unplayed sounds that exist between beats in a rhythm, the book creates a visual music, putting photos next to each other to evoke unseen images and create new histories. Like a DJ seamlessly overlapping and entangling disparate musics, Cross brings together LA Black Arts poetry and Jamaican dub, Brazilian samba and Ethiopian jazz, Cuban timba and Colombian cumbia. He links vendors of rare vinyl with iconic studio wizards, ranging from J Dilla and Brian Wilson to Leon Ware and George Clinton, David Axelrod to Shuggie Otis, Bill Withers to Ras Kass, Biggie Smalls to Timmy Thomas, DJ Shadow to Eugene McDaniels, and DJ Quik to Madlib. In this unique photographic mix tape, an extraordinary web of associations becomes apparent, revealing connections among people, cultures, and their creations.

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The definitive textbook for Power Systems students, providing a grounding in essential power system theory while also focusing on practical power engineering applications. Electric Power Systems has been an essential book in power systems engineering for over thirty years. Bringing the content firmly up-to-date whilst still retaining the flavour of Weedy's extremely popular original, this Fifth Edition has been revised by experts Nick Jenkins, Janaka Ekanayake and Goran Strbac. This wide-ranging text still covers all of the fundamental power systems subjects but is now expanded to cover increasingly important topics like climate change and renewable power generation. Updated material includes an analysis of today's markets and an examination of the current economic state of power generation. The physical limits of power systems equipment - currently being tested by the huge demand for power - is explored, and greater attention is paid to power electronics, voltage source and power system components, amongst a host of other updates and revisions. Supplies an updated chapter on power system economics and management issues and extended coverage of power system components. Also expanded information on power electronics and voltage source, including VSC HVDC and FACTS. Updated to take into account the challenges posed by different world markets, and pays greater attention to up-to-date renewable power generation methods such as wind power. Includes modernized presentation and greater use of examples to appeal to today's students, also retains the end of chapter questions to assist with the learning process. Also shows students how to apply calculation techniques.

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Publius Ovid (43 BC-17/18 AD) describes in his Metamorphoses Niobe’s transformation into a weeping rock. Niobe’s transformation incorporates the form and matter of the medium of sculpture. According to the humanist paragone debate, painting and sculpture struggle to be the medium with the highest qualities of virtuosity. Aby Warburg (1866-1929) refers to the Niobe motif’s Nachleben in his Tafel 5: Beraubte Mutter. (Niobe, Flucht und Schrecken). This displays the images of both the bereaved mother (Niobe) and the murderous mother (Medea). The montage also introduces the theme of the descent to the underworld. It becomes clear how the cluster of motifs around the figure of Niobe - hybris, lamentatio and the chthonic substrate - functions as a direct entry to a bipolar hermeneutics of the visual medium: the ‘historical psychology of human expression’ that navigates between Apollo and Dionysus. The 'weeping rock' that according to legend still stands on Mount Sipylus in Turkey, draws upon deeper anthropological patterns. Petrification indicates inertia, frigidity and a Medusan psychosis of fear. In nature, stones and rocks have a 'slumbering insistence' that can be captivating. Stones are after all visible but impenetrable, they index an irrevocable absence in their presence, and ‘have abode’ in an otherworldly region of utter blindness and silence. From a psychoanalytical perspective, Niobe’s petrifaction symbolises the straitening of her life and the loss of anima within a culture divorced from authentic feeling, nature, and instinct. Here Niobe meets Echo.

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This volume contains sixteen papers on Eastern Christian liturgies: on their origins, historical developments, current practices, and their theologies. The subjects range from initiation in Syriac Christianity to the origins of the feast of the Ark of the Covenant, and to the Book of Hours of Armenia and Jerusalem; from Coptic liturgy to an ancient Ethiopian catechesis with liturgical comments, and to the Palestinian Typicon; from Byzantine vesting rituals to the rite of marriage in the South-Slavic tradition, and to the fifteenth-century Archbishop Symeon of Thessalonica; from present-day Romanian liturgy `between Greeks and Slavs’ to Catholic veneration of Russian saints, and to the American Orthodox monastery of New Skete; and from the interactive web 2.0 to Robert Taft looking back on his impressive academic career. Thus the Society of Oriental Liturgy, dedicated to inquiries into the manifold worship traditions of the Eastern Churches, once more demonstrates that its research is an attractive cornucopia.

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Ce volume contient les actes d'un double colloque qui s'est tenu à Louvain-la-Neuve et à Poitiers en mai 2013 pour célébrer le bicentenaire de la Science de la logique de Hegel et qui a réuni quelques-uns des meilleurs spécialistes internationaux du philosophe allemand. La thématique autour de laquelle s'organise la réflexion est celle de l'identité: la logique spéculative de Hegel, pivot du système tout entier, est-elle en fin de compte foncièrement identitaire, une «fabrique d'identité», ne creusant la différence que pour mieux l'assimiler, ou bien faut-il entendre autrement, de façon plus créative et originale, la manière dont elle articule identité et différence? Telle est la question décisive que selon diverses perspectives - historique, systématique, critique - les contributions de ce volume s'attachent à creuser.

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La spiritualité bernardine et la fin’amor se rejoignent en de nombreux points, particulièrement dans l’exercice des vertus et le rejet des vices. La pratique de l’humilité et le renoncement à l’orgueil, ainsi que la question de l’accord des volontés, sont constants dans les deux expressions d’un amour qui doit conduire au perfectionnement des protagonistes humains, ainsi qu’à une joie ineffable. Néanmoins, le cheminement spirituel de Bernard de Clairvaux est parsemé de revirements et de doutes, tandis que les troubadours se révoltent contre Amour, entité universelle, au pouvoir quasi absolu. Dans les deux cas, il ne s’agit pas de l’expression d’un amour fou, balayant les contraintes sociales. Les excès en sont limités par la raison, constitutive de l’âme humaine chez Bernard, et la mezura des poètes. Ce qui n’exclut pas l’expression du désir, désir de Dieu ou désir de la dame. Les troubadours ont aussi chanté la seule satisfaction des sens.

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The present volume is intended as a special present on the occasion of Professor Marc Vervenne’s retirement from the Faculty of Theology of the Catholic University of Leuven (KU Leuven). It intends to honour Marc Vervenne as an academic scholar, deeply engaged in the research of Ancient Hebrew literature. The book opens by the editors’ presentation of Marc Vervenne’s scientific biography and bibliography. Thereafter, and against the background of his own main interests in textual criticism, redaction criticism and linguistic-grammatical research, predominantly on texts of the Pentateuch, this volume equally presents a selection of contributions in those three domains. In admiration, respect and true friendship for Marc Vervenne, more than thirty colleagues from all over the world have contributed to this volume. In the first part, `The Pentateuch in Texts, Themes, and Methods’, scholars focus on Pentateuch texts from a multiplicity of methods and perspectives: historical research, historical-critical exegesis, literary criticism, redaction-criticism, themes and theology, reception history and narrative criticism. The second part, entitled `Textual Criticism’, deals with text-critical approaches of the text, on the basis of different textual witnesses with their own respective redaction and theology; it also discusses the close relationship and methodological intertwinement of textual and literary criticism in the current scholarly debate. In the third and final part, several perspectives on `Hebrew Language and Linguistics’ are offered against the background of Marc Vervenne’s interest in grammar and linguistics. The title of this volume reflects his first love for the book of Exodus and especially the Sea Narrative, which guided his whole career. The present volume is intended as a special present on the occasion of Professor Marc Vervenne’s retirement from the Faculty of Theology of the Catholic University of Leuven (KU Leuven). It intends to honour Marc Vervenne as an academic scholar, deeply engaged in the research of Ancient Hebrew literature. The book opens by the editors’ presentation of Marc Vervenne’s scientific biography and bibliography. Thereafter, and against the background of his own main interests in textual criticism, redaction criticism and linguistic-grammatical research, predominantly on texts of the Pentateuch, this volume equally presents a selection of contributions in those three domains. In admiration, respect and true friendship for Marc Vervenne, more than thirty colleagues from all over the world have contributed to this volume. In the first part, `The Pentateuch in Texts, Themes, and Methods’, scholars focus on Pentateuch texts from a multiplicity of methods and perspectives: historical research, historical-critical exegesis, literary criticism, redaction-criticism, themes and theology, reception history and narrative criticism. The second part, entitled `Textual Criticism’, deals with text-critical approaches of the text, on the basis of different textual witnesses with their own respective redaction and theology; it also discusses the close relationship and methodological intertwinement of textual and literary criticism in the current scholarly debate. In the third and final part, several perspectives on `Hebrew Language and Linguistics’ are offered against the background of Marc Vervenne’s interest in grammar and linguistics. The title of this volume reflects his first love for the book of Exodus and especially the Sea Narrative, which guided his whole career.

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Met de Romeinse kolonisatie en pacificatie van Noord-Gallië onder keizer Augustus (27 v.Chr.-14 n.Chr.) werden verschillende nederzettingsvormen in onze streken geïntroduceerd. Naast steden, grote landbouwbedrijven (villae), boederijen en militaire kampen onderscheiden archeologen ook nog de vici. Een vicus is een landelijke nederzetting die regionale functies op vlak van religie, economie, administratie, politiek en ontspanning vervulde. Het waren belangrijke centra van ambachtelijke activiteit die gericht waren op de productie en handel van gebruiksgoederen. In Asse, Elewijt (Zemst), Kester (Gooik) en Tienen in de provincie Vlaams-Brabant wijzen archeologische sporen op de aanwezigheid van een vicus. In de publicatie `Tussen stad en platteland. De Romeinse vici van Vlaams-Brabant’ verzamelen onderzoekers van het agentschap Onroerend Erfgoed , de KU Leuven en het Koninklijk Belgisch Instituut voor Natuurwetenschappen voor het eerst alle beschikbare informatie over deze kleinhandelscentra. Bovendien worden de resultaten in het licht van de Romeinse vici in het algemeen in Vlaanderen geplaatst.

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Cette etude porte sur les discours theoriques et les dispositifs rhetoriques auxquels la fiction de langue anglaise a recours pour se legitimer, dans un contexte de ferme condamnation morale et de mepris de la part des doctes. Ces discours et ces dispositifs se deploient dans des titres, des prefaces et au coeur meme des recits. Les auteurs les mobilisent pour affirmer que leur recit contient une verite morale ou, le plus souvent, pour presenter ce dernier comme un compte rendu factuel. Cette revendication de l'historicite fait intervenir la figure du narrateur temoin, garant de la veracite des faits relates, ainsi que celle de l'editeur de manuscrit, qui s'impose a partir des annees 1700. Avec la parution de "Joseph Andrews" (1742) de Henry Fielding la fiction se met a exhiber sa propre fictionalite: elle devient auto-reflexive.This study explores the theoretical discourses and rhetorical devices used by writers to legitimate fiction at a time when it was considered immoral by theologians and despised by scholars. The use of such discourses and devices is found in titles, prefaces and throughout the narratives themselves; they are employed to assert that the narratives contain moral truths or to assert their status as fact, thus rendering the narratives acceptable to the readership. The claim to factuality is asserted by the figure of the narrator-as-witness, who guarantees the veracity of the facts relayed, and, from 1700 onwards, by that of the manuscript editor. Following the publication of Henry Fielding's "Joseph Andrews" in 1742, the fiction of the period begins to flaunt its own fictionality, marking the emergence of self-reflexive fiction.

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The author studies the thought of the Japanese philosopher Nishitani. He examines the contradictory relationship existing between his political engagement in favour of ultra-nationalism and his religious ontology based on buddhist and christian values.

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All of us form some kind of idea about what we see, hear or read in the media, not only about the content of the reports but also about the way in which they are presented and their relevance. We judge the reports as good or bad for this or that reason. And yet most people remain convinced that 'media ethics' has nothing to do with them. The term 'media ethics' leaves many people with the false impression that it refers to an exclusive specialist discipline for professionally trained experts. Ethics is not a field like biochemistry or ancient history : ethics has more to do wit the skill of being able to distinguish good institutions, actions and ideas from ones that are not so good, a skill everybody needs to exercise, certainly in this age where media are so influential. It is important for the well-being of our societies and democracies that the questions about good media are on the top of the agenda of everyone involved in it : producers, broadcasters, journalists, politicians, internet providers and media users. In this volume, well known ethicists and social scientists present their introduction to this question from various perspectives and different points of departure. With their contributions they hope to open a balanced social dialogue that will prevail over commercial and rhetorical violence.

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The analysis of metaphors constitutes an ideal point of entry into the exegesis of Biblical Hebrew poetic texts because it forces the exegete to examine the said text from a variety of perspectives. How can one discern the presence of metaphorical speech? What are the various types of metaphorical speech available to and employed by the biblical poet? How does the structure of a piece of Hebrew poetry carry its metaphorical dimensions? How did the biblical poet make use of the various types of metaphor and to what end? Can we ultimately gain access to the poet's meaning? The present study endeavours to provide at least a partial answer to these questions. In maintaining focus on the biblical text, moreover, the author hopes to anchor some of the abstractions of metaphorical theory with chosen examples taken from the so-called 'Apocalypse of Isaiah'. The Hebrew prophets constitute fertile ground in their use of metaphorical language for speaking the unspeakable, especially concerning the relationship between the people and God.

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El enigma que siempre envolvió la personalidad de B. Traven ha ido a menudo unido a la fascinación que han creado sus obras. El barco de los muertos (1926, de próxima aparición en esta misma editorial) y El tesoro de Sierra Madre que hoy presentamos (1935), entre otras, alimentaron la leyenda de un luchador por los derechos de los más débiles y enemigo de la injusticia. En ella se nos narran las aventuras de tres norteamericanos sin dinero ni trabajo en busca de oro en una mina de Sierra Madre. Alegato contra la ambición y sus consecuencias, la novela adquiere una enorme tensión dramática. Llevada al cine por John Huston con gran éxito, el lector encontrará hoy en sus páginas la frescura que le hizo ganar miles de lectores en su día.

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Ce livre porte sur la culture alimentaire byzantine, sa constitution et la manière dont elle se différencie des cultures alimentaires juive, musulmane et chrétienne occidentale. Il se penche sur ses sources d'inspiration puisqu'elle opère une synthèse entre les exigences religieuses du christianisme et les recommandations diététiques de la médecine grecque. Le choix des aliments, la préparation de la nourriture, comme sa consommation lors de repas, obéissent à des règles qui changent à travers le temps; or, durant les onze siècles de son existence, le monde byzantin a connu de profonds changements religieux, culturels et politiques. Il est entré en contact avec des populations ayant leurs propres traditions culinaires ou leurs interdits alimentaires et il a donc été soumis à des influences diverses. La culture alimentaire byzantine naît d'une rencontre entre les traditions culinaires du monde romain, les habitudes alimentaires des différentes populations du monde méditerranéen et les nouvelles règles de l'éthique alimentaire chrétienne, favorisant la frugalité, voire l'ascèse en matière d'alimentation. Le christianisme byzantin modifie les habitudes alimentaires, non pas à la manière de l'islam ou du judaïsme en établissant une liste d'aliments et de boissons interdits, conduisant à une modification des productions agricoles, mais en créant une éthique alimentaire chrétienne dans laquelle le jeûne tient une place prépondérante. Le livre étudie la mise en place d'un calendrier du jeûne, faisant alterner des périodes festives et des périodes de restrictions alimentaires. Le milieu monastique fait naître un régime ascétique rigoureux qui doit faciliter la maîtrise du corps, dans la recherche d'une proximité spirituelle avec Dieu, égale à celle des anges. La création d'un régime alimentaire ascétique par les moines a une forte influence sur le reste de la société byzantine, parce que la vie monastique y est perçue comme la voie royale pour entrer au Paradis. La société byzantine médiévale suit une version adoucie, plus modérée de cette ascèse alimentaire, qui est toutefois devenue une norme du comportement chrétien, rejetant le gourmand et, encore plus, le glouton parmi les pécheurs. Ce livre analyse la manière dont la religion s'est insérée dans l'alimentation en bénissant ou en sacralisant certains aliments, par exemple dans le rituel eucharistique. Histoire religieuse et histoire sociale se combinent donc dans ce travail pour essayer de comprendre comment s'est élaborée cette culture alimentaire byzantine que les étrangers de passage perçoivent comme différents de la leur au Moyen ge et dont les Byzantins eux-mêmes ont conscience quand ils critiquent leurs voisins, en particulier les Latins.

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