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Le crime de poison au Moyen Age
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ISBN: 2130524702 9782130524700 Year: 2003 Volume: *7 Publisher: Paris : PUF - Presses Universitaires de France,

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Cet essai, mené à l'échelle de la Chrétienté latine et des dix siècles médiévaux, met en lumière la pratique, les usages et la perception d'un crime "caché", à la différence des homicides sanglants, "ouverts" et liés à l'honneur. Ce crime révèle également un condensé des anti-valeurs de la civilisation médiévale, de ses angoisses et de ses phantasmes.


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The Poison King
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ISBN: 9780691126838 0691126836 9781400833429 1400833426 1282608207 9781282608207 9786612608209 661260820X Year: 2009 Publisher: Princeton, NJ

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A new account of one of Rome's most relentless but least understood foes. Claiming Alexander the Great and Darius of Persia as ancestors, Mithradates inherited a wealthy Black Sea kingdom at age fourteen after his mother poisoned his father. He fled into exile and returned in triumph to become a ruler of superb intelligence and fierce ambition. Hailed as a savior by his followers and feared as a second Hannibal by his enemies, he envisioned a grand Eastern empire to rival Rome. After massacring eighty thousand Roman citizens in 88 BC, he seized Greece and modern-day Turkey. Fighting some of the most spectacular battles in ancient history, he dragged Rome into a long round of wars and threatened to invade Italy itself. His uncanny ability to elude capture and surge back after devastating losses unnerved the Romans, while his mastery of poisons allowed him to foil assassination attempts and eliminate rivals.--From publisher description.

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