Le babillard

Portraits of Women of the Middle-Ages

Pierre Marchant — 2019-03-15T17:00:00Z

We willingly imagine the middle Ages' women of as beings entirely submitted to the authority of men, fathers, husbands, priests. Nonetheless, we regularly meet astonishing women, from all conditions, who escaped this domination.
They were Vikings, Franks or Saxons.
They lived in Norway, Normandy, England, Provence or even Greenland! Their names were Marie, Juette, Chrodielde, Constance, Audr the Wise, Gerberge, Marion the Righteous or Huguette du Hamel. They were queens, nuns or (…)

- Rights / Histoire, Biographie et mémoires, Haut Moyen-Âge, Moyen-Âge

The Relic

Pierre Marchant — 2018-06-15T16:11:00Z

At the eve of the 12th century, three monks were sent in search of a relic that could save their abbey from ruin.
An inflexible and temperamental priest, an epic night of drunkenness, a furious herbalist and master of hypocrisy, wandering bones and impossible welders, pathetic thieves and a devouring dog, tempting beauty and a few states of mind further on, the three monks will have experienced a crazy and fearsome pilgrimage, pursued by the mysteries of faith.
Necessity being the law, (…)

- Rights / Roman, Littérature, Poche, Moyen-Âge

The real Face of Catharism

Pierre Marchant — 2016-02-16T17:02:00Z

Catharism with a true face... We will not find here a construction of this "void-filling" imagination which, since the beginning of the 20th century, has led so many authors to fabricate a mythological Catharism with hidden treasures, from Pyrenean Grails to unpublished works by Plato or Buddhist dreams.
Catharism was one of the great currents of the Christian Middle Ages: especially, but not exclusively, established in Occitania, uprooted by the iron and fire of the Catholic armies, it (…)

- Rights / Histoire, Essai, Moyen-Âge, Foi et religions, Catharisme et pays cathare

A Witch's Confession

Pierre Marchant — 2015-10-16T16:14:00Z

1642. In the Franciscan convent of Louviers, a few young nuns are seized by possession crises.
They point out one of them, Madeleine Bavent, as being responsible for the Devil's intrusion. Accused of witchcraft, interrogated, exorcised, tortured, Madeleine then reveals the curious practices imposed by their former director of conscience, Mathurin Picard. Ten years after Loudun, the Louviers affair becomes one of the most famous witchcraft cases of the 17th century.
Author: Stéphane (…)

- Rights / Histoire, Témoignage, Foi et religions, Documents et sources, Ancien régime

Vikings

Pierre Marchant — 2014-03-25T17:05:00Z

Great sailors, powerful warriors and wise traders, the Vikings occupy a special place in the Europe's history.
Thanks to a meticulous, scrupulously documented reconstruction, this exceptional work offers you the opportunity to discover in pictures the daily life of these Nordic communities.
Author: Jérémy Dardenne, Yann Kervran
The author
Jérémy Dardenne is dedicated at conveying his passion for archaeology and history to a wide audience, using modern media techniques and (…)

- Rights / Histoire, Beau-livre, Photo, Reconstitution

Life of a Gallic Warrior

Pierre Marchant — 2011-03-25T17:07:00Z

The 19th century made them the "Gauls ancestors" but the daily life of these men of Antiquity is just beginning to reveal itself.
They were the heirs of the powerful Celtic civilization, extended to the borders of Asia Minor. At the dawn of our era, their journey came face to face with Julius Caesar. From this famous "War of the Gauls" a new world was born, a brilliant synthesis: the Gallo-Roman culture.
Thanks to a meticulous, scrupulously documented reconstruction, this exceptional (…)

- Rights / Histoire, Beau-livre, Photo, Reconstitution

Emma of Normandy, queen during the Vikings era (c.987-1052)

Pierre Marchant — 2011-01-15T16:57:00Z

From the queen of the vikings ages to the Vikings : Valhalla series icon
England, spring of the year 1002. In order to lead her to the altar, the Saxon monarch Æthelred II watches impatiently the arrival in his kingdom of a Norman princess named Emma.
No one could then suspect the astounding destiny that awaits this young girl. In a context of continuous Scandinavian attacks, she married successively two kings, gave birth to two others, and imposed herself on the political scene of her (…)

- Rights / Histoire, Biographie et mémoires, Moyen-Âge