A province of the Byzantine Empire that became independent in 1204, Epirus had—during the centuries that followed—a complicated relationship with the notion of empire. While constantly refusing to join the Empire of Nicaea, and then the restored Byzantine Empire, it attempted to become an Empire its...
`!-- Début du contenu @xml:lang="en" --bThis article intends to analyze the regulatory process of the cross-border mobility of mountain populations in the Northern Apennines towards the Maremma plains in the Napoleonic era. The methodological perspective adopted to investigate the practices and tec...
The Letters of Pliny the Younger preserve 121 letters from him to Trajan, and 51 answers from the emperor. This exceptional corpus allows us to see, even through arbitrary choices and the rewriting related to publishing, Trajan’s action in concentric circles, from his immediate entourage to the bord...
`!-- Début du contenu @xml:lang="en" --bRelations between Latin people and Greeks regarding the matter of the Empire are often seen in the light of the debates of the ninth and tenth centuries. To better appreciate its scope, it is worth starting from the end of the sixth century to observe how the...
The Latin term Imperium signifies first of all the civilian and military power in Rome, then the domination by the city of a vast territory, and finally the political system governed by an imperator. It allows us to return to the approaches proposed since the Age of the Enlightenment until the turni...
For nearly a millennium, the House of Savoy reigned over an alpine state opening onto the sea, from the acquisition of Nice in 1388 to the acquisition of Liguria in 1815. Indeed, the sea played an important role in the rise of this dynasty with Mediterranean ambitions, something that historians rare...
This article is the continuation of a contribution made at the colloquium “Imperium Imperii,” which took place in Perpignan on November 22, 2016. The contribution briefly outlined the formation of a diplomatic network integrated into imperial entities that didn’t use diplomacy when it interacted wit...