Montréal 1850-1914

The church and the family in Belgium, 1850-1914.

What is the attitude and what are the positions adopted by the Catholic Church in Belgium vis-à-vis the family between the middle of the nineteenth century and World War I? The question is important for several reasons. Between 1750 and 1950, the family underwent impressive changes (Ariès, 1960; Burguière, 1986). The Church occupied an exceptional, and contested, place within the conjugal and f...

Parenthood, child-rearing and fertility in England, 1850–1914

Fertility declines across Europe and the Anglo-world have been explained as the result of reversals of intergenerational flows of wealth. According to this theory, the child was transformed from an economically-useful household asset to an emotionally-valued parental burden. This article is based on a comparative study of changing understandings of parenthood in three provincial English localit...

Technological Selection , Information , and Changing Household Behavior , 1850 - 1914

Visualizing Longitudinal Data. Rooted Cosmopolitans in the Low Countries, 1850-1914

In this article we describe the overall structure of our Virtual Research Environment ‘TIC Collaborative’, designed for the study of nineteenth and early twentieth century international congresses and organizations related to social and cultural reform issues. The VRE consists of a digital text platform, which includes documents related to the congresses, organizations and their members, and a ...

Université de Montréal

Sampling is a process that is omnipresent in computer graphics. Specifically, it plays an important role in the estimation of integrals used in digital image synthesis. It is also used in digital halftoning, image processing, as well as geometric modelling. There is no definitive sampling strategy that can ensure the best results in all cases ; regular sampling proves to be inefficient and ofte...