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Jean Marie Aladel's 'The Miraculous Medal' unfurls the history and spiritual significance behind the venerated object of Marian devotion. Blending meticulous historical research with theological insight, Aladel chronicles the medal's inception, following the Marian apparitions to Saint Catherine Labouré in 1830. The goldsmith Adrien Vachette's craftsmanship illuminates a narrative anchored in the Catholic tradition, with the book adopting a tone that is both reverent and narratively engaging. Aladel's account is set against the backdrop of 19th-century France, a period replete with religious turmoil and fervor, thereby situating the medal within a broader socio-religious context. The author, possessing both an intimate knowledge of ecclesiastical history and a deep Marian devotion, is well positioned to embark on this literary endeavor. Aladel, as a member of the Congregation of the Mission, aligns his erudite perspective with his spiritual mission, offering a work that is as much a historical record as it is an act of faith. His personal connection to the subject matter, evident in his refined prose, gives readers an authentic glimpse into the sacred phenomenon and its enduring impact on the faithful. 'The Miraculous Medal' by Jean Marie Aladel is highly recommended for those interested in religious artifacts, Catholic history, and the interplay between faith and material culture. The detailed account is both enlightening and thought-provoking, making it a valuable addition to the libraries of historians, theologians, and lay readers alike. Such a tome serves not only as scholarly work but also as spiritual nourishment for those drawn to the stories of divine intervention and the tangible tokens of faith they inspire.

In the collection of the J. Paul Getty Museum are more than six hundred ancient lamps that span the sixth century BCE to the seventh century CE, most from the Roman Imperial period and largely created in Asia Minor or North Africa. These lamps have much to reveal about life, religion, pottery, and trade in the ancient Graeco-Roman world. Most of the Museum’s lamps have never before been published, and this extensive typological catalogue will thus be an invaluable scholarly resource for art historians, archaeologists, and those interested in the ancient world. Reflecting the Getty's commitment to open content, Ancient Lamps in the J. Paul Getty Museum is available online at http://www.getty.edu/publications/ancientlamps and may be downloaded free of charge in multiple formats, including PDF, MOBI/Kindle, and EPUB, and features zoomable images and multiple views of every lamp, an interactive map drawn from the Ancient World Mapping Center, and bibliographic references. For readers who wish to have a bound reference copy, a paperback edition has been made available for sale.

English history as observed through the eyes of a medieval French knight, from Henry V's death to Joan of Arc's trial.

As a businessman, financier, diplomat, minister, and first Managing Director of the IMF, Camille Gutt (1884–1971) was involved in all the important financial negotiations between the 1920s and the 1950s. Using Gutt’s personal archives as his starting point, Crombois examines the rise and fall of financial diplomacy as a largely private enterprise.

This is the first ever book-length study of the a cappella masses which appeared in France in choirbook layout during the baroque era. Though the musical settings of the Ordinarium missæ and of the Missa pro defunctis have been the subject of countless studies, the stylistic evolution of the polyphonic masses composed in France during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries has been neglected owing to the labor involved in creating scores from the surviving individual parts. Jean-Paul C. Montagnier has examined closely the printed, engraved and stenciled choirbooks containing this repertoire, and his book focuses mainly on the music as it stands in them. After tracing the choirbooks' publishing history, the author places these mass settings in their social, liturgical and musical context. He shows that their style did not all adhere strictly to the stile antico, but could also employ the most up-to-date musical language of the period.

The first full-length history of England, by a medieval French knight, ends with the trial of Joan of Arc.

Jean-François Lyotard (1924-1998) was one of the most important French philosophers of the Twentieth Century. His impact has been felt across many disciplines: sociology; cultural studies; art theory and politics. This volume presents a diverse selection of interviews, conversations and debates which relate to the five decades of his working life, both as a political militant, experimental philosopher and teacher. Including hard-to-find interviews and previously untranslated material, this is the first time that interviews with Lyotard have been presented as a collection. Key concepts from Lyotard's thought – the differend, the postmodern, the immaterial – are debated and discussed across different time periods, prompted by specific contexts and provocations. In addition there are debates with other thinkers, including Emmanuel Levinas and Jacques Derrida, which may be less familiar to an Anglophone audience. These debates and interviews help to contextualise Lyotard, highlighting the importance of Marx, Freud, Kant and Wittgenstein, in addition to the Jewish thought which accompanies the questions of silence, justice and presence that pervades Lyotard's thinking.