Bucarest, été 1986. La Roumanie de Ceau escu n’a jamais semblé aussi proche de l’implosion. Censure, arrestations arbitraires, privations…La dictature resserre son étau, et chaque jour les opposants au régime s’organisent. Parmi les étudiants, la ferveur est à son comble : il faut lutter, sans alternative.Avides de liberté plus que de révolution, Andrei et Silvia ont aussitôt noué une amitié instinctive, évidente. Reste qu’ils ont le sentiment d’avoir 20 ans au mauvais endroit, au m...

Scholarship has come to value the uncertainties haunting early modern knowledge cultures; indeed, awareness of the fragility and plurality of knowledge is now offered as a key element for understanding early modern science as a whole. Yet early modern actors never questioned the possibility of certainty itself and never objected to the notion that truth is out there, universal, and therefore safe from human manipulation. This book investigates how early modern actors managed not to succumb...

Over recent decades, historians have become increasingly interested in early modern Catholic missions in Asia as laboratories of cultural contact. This book builds on recent ground-breaking research on early modern Catholic missions, which has shown that missionaries in Asia cooperated with and accommodated the needs of local agents rather than being uncompromising promoters of post-Tridentine doctrine and devotion.Bringing together some of the most renowned and innovative research...