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L’histoire de Masr al Gadîda, l’Héliopolis d’Égypte, remonte à la nuit des temps. Sa situation géographique et son histoire en ont fait un lieu de passage et de rencontres culturelles multiples depuis l’Antiquité. À l’époque pharaonique, elle est le berceau d’un temple dédié au culte du Soleil ; la ville nommée par les Grecs «Cité du Soleil», Héliopolis, renommée par la science et le savoir de son clergé, attire de nombreux savants et philosophes tels Platon. La ville et le temple antiques ont été démantelés. In situ, subsiste un seul des nombreux obélisques qui s’y dressaient autrefois. Le toponyme arabe Aïn Chams («Source du Soleil») conserve la mémoire du temple antique. Les fouilles archéologiques contemporaines révèlent des pans méconnus de ce passé prestigieux. Au sud du site antique, une tradition médiévale situe à Matareyya (Matarieh) un lieu de séjour de la "Sainte Famille" chrétienne. Elle a entraîné des pèlerinages à cet endroit pendant des siècles. Nombre de voyageurs occidentaux et orientaux rapportent leur visite en ces lieux. C’est à proximité de ces endroits chargés d’une histoire plurimillénaire qu’au début du XXe siècle, l’industriel belge Édouard Empain ainsi que Boghos Nubar élaborent le projet d’une nouvelle cité moderne sortie des sables du désert, l’Héliopolis moderne, connue sous le nom de Masr al Gadîdah (le «Nouveau Caire» ou la «Nouvelle Égypte»). Lieu de rencontre entre les cultures depuis des millénaires, l’Héliopolis moderne témoigne aussi des liens culturels privilégiés entre l’Orient et l’Occident.

Heliopolis (Egypt : Extinct city) --- Exhibitions --- History of Africa --- religious history --- obelisks [monumental pillars] --- Egypt --- Empain, Edouard --- Héliopolis --- Egypte

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First English translation of seminal essays on heresy and other aspects of medieval religious history.

Religion --- Heresy --- Inquisition --- Church history --- Christianity --- Holy Office --- Autos-da-fé --- Heresies --- Offenses against religion --- Apostasy --- Religious history --- History. --- Middle Ages, 600-1500 --- Grundmann, Herbert,

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The humanist perception of fourteenth-century Rome as a slumbering ruin awaiting the Renaissance and the return of papal power has cast a long shadow on the historiography of the city. Challenging this view, James A. Palmer argues that Roman political culture underwent dramatic changes in the late Middle Ages, with profound and lasting implications for city's subsequent development. The Virtues of Economy examines the transformation of Rome's governing elites as a result of changes in the city's economic, political, and spiritual landscape.Palmer explores this shift through the history of Roman political society, its identity as an urban commune, and its once-and-future role as the spiritual capital of Latin Christendom. Tracing the contours of everyday Roman politics, The Virtues of Economy reframes the reestablishment of papal sovereignty in Rome as the product of synergy between papal ambitions and local political culture. More broadly, Palmer emphasizes Rome's distinct role in evolution of medieval Italy's city-communes.

Political culture --- Christianity and politics --- Papacy --- History --- Rome (Italy) --- Politics and government. --- Medieval History, Renaissance History, religious History, documentary culture/practice, urban history.

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The history of medieval learning has traditionally been studied as a vertical transmission of knowledge from a master to one or several disciples. *Horizontal Learning in the High Middle Ages: Peer-to-Peer Knowledge Transfer in Religious Communities* centres on the ways in which cohabiting peers learned and taught one another in a dialectical process - how they acquired knowledge and skills, but also how they developed concepts, beliefs, and adapted their behaviour to suit the group: everything that could mold a person into an efficient member of the community. This process of 'horizontal learning' emerges as an important aspect of the medieval learning experience. Progressing beyond the view that high medieval religious communities were closed, homogeneous, and fairly stable social groups, the essays in this volume understand communities as the product of a continuous process of education and integration of new members. The authors explore how group members learned from one another, and what this teaches us about learning within the context of a high medieval community.

Medieval history --- Social & cultural history --- Learning and scholarship --- Education, Medieval. --- History --- Education --- Medieval education --- Seven liberal arts --- Civilization, Medieval --- Erudition --- Scholarship --- Civilization --- Intellectual life --- Research --- Scholars --- Learning, education, medieval culture, medieval religious history.

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This book shows how, through a series of fierce battles over Sabbath laws, legislative chaplains, Bible-reading in public schools and other flashpoints, nineteenth-century secularists mounted a powerful case for a separation of religion and government. Among their diverse ranks were religious skeptics, liberal Protestants, members of minority faiths, labor reformers and defenders of slavery. Drawing on popular petitions to Congress, a neglected historical source, the book explores how this secularist mobilization gathered energy at the grassroots level. The nineteenth century is usually seen as the golden age of an informal Protestant establishment. Timothy Verhoeven demonstrates that, far from being crushed by an evangelical juggernaut, secularists harnessed a range of cultural forces—the legacy of the Revolutionary founders, hostility to Catholicism, a belief in national exceptionalism and more—to argue that the United States was not a Christian nation, branding their opponents as fanatics who threatened both democratic liberties as well as true religion. .

United States-History. --- Law-History. --- Religion-History. --- World politics. --- US History. --- Legal History. --- History of Religion. --- Political History. --- Colonialism --- Global politics --- International politics --- Political history --- Political science --- World history --- Eastern question --- Geopolitics --- International organization --- International relations --- Law --- Religion --- Legal history --- Religious history --- History. --- History and criticism --- United States --- United States—History. --- Law—History. --- Religion—History.