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

a true monument of ancient thought

as in the 19th century at best

After 1910

they relied on the astonishing know-how of marine engineers and architects to create breakwaters

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.