Aquitaine (Lot-et-Garonne, Pyrénées-Atlantiques), midi-pyrénées, languedoc-roussillon. Forts villageois du bas Moyen Âge

Lyon et ses pauvres au moyen-âge (1350–1500)

NICOLE GONTHIER, Lyon et ses pauvres au moyen-age (1350-1500), Lyons, Editions L'Hermes, 1978, 8vo, pp. 271, illus., F.5 1.00 (paperback). This study is inspired by a desire to reveal those who have been "hidden from history" using whatever documents are available for the period. Relying heavily on wills, church archives, and fiscal documents, Gonthier has skilfully reconstructed the changing m...

Bibliographie des textes médicaux latins. Antiquité et haut moyen âge

ALINE ROUSSELLE, Porneia: on desire and the body in antiquity, trans. Felicia Pheasant, Oxford, Basil Blackwell, 1988, 8vo, pp. x, 213, £19.95. This is a provocative, innovative, and erudite study of attitudes towards the body in antiquity, and, in particular, in the Roman Empire during the transition from paganism to Christianity from the second to the fifth century. Dr Rousselle breaks away f...

First evidence of a whale-bone industry in the western European Upper Paleolithic: Magdalenian artifacts from Isturitz (Pyrénées-Atlantiques, France).

The economy of the hunter-gatherers from the Upper Paleolithic (UP) of western Europe is generally thought to have been based on the exploitation of land game. These animals were the main source of food and a major source of raw materials (e., this biased view of UP groups as "inland hunters" is first and foremost due to the Flandrian rise in sea level: the UP sites most likely to attest to the...

La médecine à Montpellier, Vol. 1, Le Moyen Âge

Isotopic characteristics of the Garonne River and its tributaries.

The Garonne is the largest river in the south-west of France, and its drainage basin stretches between the Pyrénées and the Massif Central mountains. Until now, no water stable isotope study has been performed on the whole Garonne river basin which is composed of different geological substrata, and where the water resources are limited during the dry summer period. This study focuses on the Gar...