La Société de l'Empire romain d'Orient. IVe-VIe siècle. Beaux-arts It constitutes the first publication

It constitutes the first publication in France on this forgotten imagery - contemporary with the famous ukiyo-e prints - which opens a window onto Japanese beliefs and popular humor

as in the 19th century at best

The most famous of these

inspired by the most recent works in sinology and social history

s'impose comme le carrefour culturel de l'Europe

La Société de l'Empire romain d'Orient. IVe-VIe siècle. Beaux-arts It constitutes the first publicationOne can choose to study the Roman Empire through its events and great figures. But one can also focus on the anonymous components of society: the women and men who populated the cities and countryside of the Roman East are presented here in a particular period, Late Antiquity. All participated in the construction of a society and a system that, emerging from the Roman Empire, proved sufficiently stable to gradually found the Byzantine Empire.