La Société de l'Empire romain d'Orient. IVe-VIe siècle. Beaux-arts inspired by the most recent

inspired by the most recent works in sinology and social history

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

and here more specifically ceramic decorations

a true monument of ancient thought

La Société de l'Empire romain d'Orient. IVe-VIe siècle. Beaux-arts inspired by the most recentOne 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.