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Dura-Europos is one of Syria’s most important archaeological sites. Situated on the edge of the Euphrates river, it was the subject of extensive excavations in the 1920s and 30s by teams from Yale University and the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres. Controlled variously by Seleucid, Parthian, and Roman powers, the site was one of impressive religious and linguistic diversity: it was home to at least nineteen sanctuaries, amongst them a Synagogue and a Christian building, and many languages, including Greek, Latin, Persian, Palmyrene, and Hebrew which were excavated on inscriptions, parchments, and graffiti. Based on the author’s work excavating at the site with the Mission Franco-Syrienne d’Europos-Doura and extensive archival research, this book provides an overview of the site and its history, and traces the story of its investigation from archaeological discovery to contemporary destruction.

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Israel Finkelstein is perhaps the best-known Israeli archaeologist in the world. Renowned for his innovative and ground-breaking research, he has written and edited more than 20 books and published more than 300 academic papers. He has served as the director of the Sonia and Marco Nadler Institute of Archaeology and is the Jacob M. Alkow Professor of Archeology in the Bronze and Iron Age at Tel Aviv University. For the past two decades, he has been co-director of the Megiddo Expedition and is currently co-director of the Mission archéologique de Qiryat-Yéarim.His work has greatly changed the face of archaeological and historical research of the biblical period. His unique ability to see the comprehensive big picture and formulate a broad framework has inspired countless scholars to reexamine long-established paradigms. His trail-blazing work covering every period from the beginning of the Early Bronze Age through the Hasmonean period, while sometimes controversial, has led to a creative new approach that connects archaeology with history, the social sciences, and the natural and life sciences. Israel Finkelstein is a member of the Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities and a correspondant étranger of the French Académie des Inscriptions et Belles Lettres.Professor Finkelstein is the recipient of the prestigious 2005 Dan David Prize for his radical revision of the history of Israel in the 10th and 9th centuries BCE. In 2009, he was named Chevalier de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres by the French Minister of Culture, and in 2010 received an honorary doctorate from the University of Lausanne. He is a member of the selection committee of the Shanghai Archaeology Forum, the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences. In 2014, his book The Forgotten Kingdom was awarded the esteemed Prix Delalande-Guérineau by the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres in Paris.This volume, dedicated to Professor Finkelstein’s accomplishments and contributions, features 36 articles written by his colleagues, friends, and students in honor of his decades of scholarship and leadership in the field of biblical archaeology.

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This history of England in Anglo-Norman verse was extremely popular during the first half of the fourteenth century. Composed by Pierre de Langtoft (died c.1305), an English chronicler and Augustinian Canon, it was intended for the French-reading aristocracy. Part of the Rolls Series of publications of historical documents, the work was edited by Thomas Wright (1810–77), an antiquarian and historian with a special interest in Old English, Middle English and Anglo-Norman. Wright was also a member of many learned societies, including the Society of Antiquaries and the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres of Paris. The first volume, published in 1866, is mainly an abridgment of Geoffrey of Monmouth's Historia Regum Britanniae. It starts at the time when the legendary Brutus first colonised the island and covers the history of Saxon and Norman kings, up to the death of King Stephen in 1154.

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D'un point de vue typologique, la langue inuit (famille eskaleoute) est connue pour son caractere polysynthetique qui se manifeste non seulement au niveau de la proposition mais aussi au niveau du lexique hautement motive. Bon nombre d'entrees lexicales sont aisement decomposables et l'on constate qu'un meme radical peut servir de denominateur commun a toute une serie d'unites lexicales designant des realites variees. Cependant l'histoire phonetique du tunumiisut, dialecte inuit du Groenland oriental, a contribue a rendre plus opaques certaines unites lexicales. On presentera tout d'abord les entrees lexicales analysees suivies des derivations s'y afferant puis une liste des affixes attestes dans le corpus. Il s'agit d'une analyse synchronique fondee sur des enquetes de terrain. L'ouvrage presente enfin une liste des entrees et des affixes en langue anglaise et danoise. Cet ouvrage a ete decerne du Prix de la Fondation Lantier de l'Academie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres (Institut de France). This book has been bestowed with the Lantier Foundation Prize. The Lantier Foundation Prize is an offshoot of the Academie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres of the Institut de France.

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Endymion Wilkinson’s bestselling Chinese History: A New Manual has been continuously in print for fifty years. It has achieved this unusual distinction because the author expanded its scope with each new edition. In the process it has grown from a modest research guide to Chinese imperial history into an encyclopedic, 1.7-million-word introduction to Chinese civilization and the primary and secondary resources and research problems for all periods of Chinese history. In recognition of its unique value, the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres (France) awarded the third edition the Stanislas Julien Prize, and in 2016, Peking University Press published the entire Manual in a three-volume Chinese edition.The sixth edition of the Manual has been revised and expanded throughout to include the latest developments in digital tools and the two dozen ancillary disciplines essential for work on Chinese history. In addition, its temporal coverage has been extended to the death of Chairman Mao.In celebration of a half century of continuous publication, the enlarged sixth edition consists of two volumes. Volume 1 covers topics ranging from Language, Education, and the Arts to Science, Technology, and the Environment. Volume 2 presents primary and secondary sources chronologically by period from the Neolithic to 1976.

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Endymion Wilkinson’s bestselling Chinese History: A New Manual has been continuously in print for fifty years. It has achieved this unusual distinction because the author expanded its scope with each new edition. In the process it has grown from a modest research guide to Chinese imperial history into an encyclopedic, 1.7-million-word introduction to Chinese civilization and the primary and secondary resources and research problems for all periods of Chinese history. In recognition of its unique value, the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres (France) awarded the third edition the Stanislas Julien Prize, and in 2016, Peking University Press published the entire Manual in a three-volume Chinese edition.The sixth edition of the Manual has been revised and expanded throughout to include the latest developments in digital tools and the two dozen ancillary disciplines essential for work on Chinese history. In addition, its temporal coverage has been extended to the death of Chairman Mao.In celebration of a half century of continuous publication, the enlarged sixth edition consists of two volumes. Volume 1 covers topics ranging from Language, Education, and the Arts to Science, Technology, and the Environment. Volume 2 presents primary and secondary sources chronologically by period from the Neolithic to 1976.

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Endymion Wilkinson’s bestselling Chinese History: A New Manual has been continuously in print for fifty years. It has achieved this unusual distinction because the author expanded its scope with each new edition. In the process it has grown from a modest research guide to Chinese imperial history into an encyclopedic, 1.7-million-word introduction to Chinese civilization and the primary and secondary resources and research problems for all periods of Chinese history. In recognition of its unique value, the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres (France) awarded the third edition the Stanislas Julien Prize, and in 2016, Peking University Press published the entire Manual in a three-volume Chinese edition.The sixth edition of the Manual has been revised and expanded throughout to include the latest developments in digital tools and the two dozen ancillary disciplines essential for work on Chinese history. In addition, its temporal coverage has been extended to the death of Chairman Mao.In celebration of a half century of continuous publication, the enlarged sixth edition consists of two volumes. Volume 1 covers topics ranging from Language, Education, and the Arts to Science, Technology, and the Environment. Volume 2 presents primary and secondary sources chronologically by period from the Neolithic to 1976.

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Endymion Wilkinson’s bestselling Chinese History: A New Manual has been continuously in print for fifty years. It has achieved this unusual distinction because the author expanded its scope with each new edition. In the process it has grown from a modest research guide to Chinese imperial history into an encyclopedic, 1.7-million-word introduction to Chinese civilization and the primary and secondary resources and research problems for all periods of Chinese history. In recognition of its unique value, the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres (France) awarded the third edition the Stanislas Julien Prize, and in 2016, Peking University Press published the entire Manual in a three-volume Chinese edition.The sixth edition of the Manual has been revised and expanded throughout to include the latest developments in digital tools and the two dozen ancillary disciplines essential for work on Chinese history. In addition, its temporal coverage has been extended to the death of Chairman Mao.In celebration of a half century of continuous publication, the enlarged sixth edition consists of two volumes. Volume 1 covers topics ranging from Language, Education, and the Arts to Science, Technology, and the Environment. Volume 2 presents primary and secondary sources chronologically by period from the Neolithic to 1976.

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Nicolas Vatin est l’auteur d’une œuvre importante sur l’histoire de l’Empire ottoman, tout particulièrement aux XVe-XVIe siècles. Au lendemain de son entrée à l’Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres, 34 de ses amis et collègues travaillant dans neuf pays différents ont souhaité lui rendre hommage. Leurs travaux, en français et en anglais (un texte est en allemand), ont été réunis par Elisabetta Borromeo, Frédéric Hitzel et Benjamin Lellouch. Organisés en huit parties thématiques, ils reprennent les nombreux domaines d’étude de Nicolas Vatin: l’historiographie ottomane, la conquête ottomane, les relations diplomatiques entre Orient et Occident, les élites ottomanes, l’identité ottomane, la piraterie en Méditerranée, l’épigraphie funéraire… Nicolas Vatin is the author of a major work on the history of the Ottoman Empire, especially during the 15th and 16th centuries. Following his nomination to the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres, thirty-four of his friends and colleagues from nine different countries wished to pay tribute to him. Their contributions, written in French and English (and one in German), are edited by Elisabetta Borromeo, Frédéric Hitzel, and Benjamin Lellouch. Organized around eight themes, they touch on Nicolas Vatin’s numerous areas of study: Ottoman historiography, the Ottoman conquest, diplomatic relations between East and West, the Ottoman elites, Ottoman identity, piracy in the Mediterranean, funerary epigraphy…

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Detailed documents describing Richard II's holdings of treasure highlight the magnificence of the 14th-century English court, often underrated by historians. Awarded the 'première medaille des Antiquités de France' for 2016 by the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres The remarkable treasure of gold and silver from England and France which Richard II had amassed by the end of his reign in 1399 is fully revealed for the first time in this richly illustrated book. The author explores the nature of the objects themselves, their provenance and later fate, and examines the crucial role the treasure played in diplomacy and in financing the Hundred Years War, especially at the time of Agincourt. This fresh analysis is based on the discovery in the National Archives at Kew of a roll over 28 metres long, compiled around the time of Richard's deposition. English courtiers and Valois princes are named as the donors of many gifts. Concealed among the treasure are valuables Richard seized from the magnates he executed or exiled in 1397. Publication in full of this exceptional inventory leads to completely new perspectives on Richard II's court and on its splendour in the last years of the fourteenth century. Jenny Stratford began her career in the Department of Manuscripts, the British Library. Her books include The Bedford Inventories (1993). She is a Senior Research Fellow of the Institute of Historical Research, University of London.

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L’ouvrage Ougarit, un anniversaire, bilans et recherches en cours (Ras Shamra – Ougarit XXVIII), édité grâce au soutien du Ministère de l’Europe et des Affaires étrangères, de l’Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres et de la Fondation Hugot du Collège de France, rassemble vingt-cinq contributions. Deux-tiers des articles correspondent à des communications données lors du colloque international Ougarit, 90 ans après (Collège de France, Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres, Institut national d’histoire de l’art, Paris, 13-16 novembre 2019). Trois volets structurent l’ouvrage. Le premier est consacré aux activités de la mission (missions, publications, actions de valorisation). Le second volet rassemble des synthèses consacrées à plusieurs champs disciplinaires, la publication d’inédits, les résultats d’études techniques et archéométriques, ainsi que des mises au point sur des recherches en cours. L’éventail des thématiques traitées est large. L’ouvrage n’illustre toutefois qu’une partie des travaux menés dans la cadre de la mission de Ras Shamra – Ougarit. La troisième partie du livre accueille des études consacrées à d’autres documentations, archéologiques ou épigraphiques, dont l’analyse apporte un éclairage sur Ougarit et sur le contexte dans lequel s’est développée la civilisation ougaritique. De Chypre au Kurdistan, le cadre chronologique est celui de l’âge du Bronze. Les trente-trois auteurs sont des membres et collaborateurs (post-doctorants, chercheurs, enseignants-chercheurs) de la mission ou des chercheurs extérieurs, spécialistes de la Méditerranée orientale et du Proche-Orient. Archéologues, historiens, épigraphistes, géographes... croisent leurs regards, confrontent leurs idées, pour faire revivre cette civilisation du Levant nord, tout en convoquant une réflexion historiographique et épistémologique.

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Si Antoine Galland (1646-1715) doit d'etre passe a la posterite a sa "traduction" des Mille et une nuits, il n'en etait pas moins avant tout un savant verse tant en numismatique qu'en orientalisme. Pour soutenir sa memoire, il prit note, des son adolescence, semble-t-il, mais peut-etre pas de maniere continue, des evenements du jour qui le concernaient de pres ou de loin. Ce journal, dont seuls quelques volumes nous sont parvenus, concerne deux periodes: les annees 1672-1673, epoque oA' il se trouvait a Constantinople, et les annees 1708-1715, annees qui correspondent a la fin de sa vie, lorsqu'il vivait a Paris. Cette derniere periode est indubitablement une des plus riches sur le plan professionnel puisqu'elle voit A. Galland acceder a la plus haute fonction qu'il pouvait esperer jamais atteindre: la chaire de langue arabe au College royal (1709). Le journal de ces annees constitue donc une source de premiere importance tant pour retracer les dernieres annees de la vie de ce savant digne representant de la Republique des Lettres, qui nous fait part consciencieusement du contenu des seances bi-hebdomadaires de la venerable Academie royale des inscriptions, que pour reconstruire son reseau de correspondants, d'amis, de collegues dans ce Siecle des Lumieres qui est en train de se dessiner. Le projet qui vise a publier de maniere critique l'integralite du Journal d'A. Galland se concretise avec la parution de cette premiere livraison qui contient les deux premieres annees de la periode parisienne (1708-1709). L'edition d'un texte aussi dense en informations ne pouvait qu'etre accompagnee d'une riche annotation due a des specialistes de chaque domaine concerne (litterature du XVIIIe s., Academie des inscriptions et belles-lettres, orientalisme, Mille et une nuits, antiquite classique, numismatique).

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