FR

 Welcome to the website of the Librairie Droz

Le Roman de Perceforest. Cinquième partie
Librairie Droz | Le Roman de Perceforest n° 615
The fifteenth-century prose composition the Roman de Perceforest is one of the most successful literary works of the later Middle Ages. In a grandiose six-part fresco, the work evokes the adventures of the distant ancestors of Arthur ...


Frank Lestringant
Une Sainte horreur ou le voyage en Eucharistie
XVIe-XVIIIe siècle
Librairie Droz | Titre courant n° 46
This book begins with the meeting between the Eucharist and the New World. The conflict between Catholics and Huguenots, and the conflict over the real and substantial presence of Christ in the wine and bread of communion was transported to Brazil, ...




A bibliography of Claude-François Menestrier
Printed Editions, 1655 - 1765
Librairie Droz | Travaux du Grand Siècle n° 40
Claude-François Menestrier of the Society of Jesus was undoubtedly the most important and prolific seventeenth-century theoretical writer on symbolic imagery and spectacle. His treatises cover such diverse topics as ancient ballet...


Transmigrations. Essays in Honour of Alison Adams and Stephen Rawles
University of Glasgow | Glasgow Emblem Studies n° 14
Table of Contents : Laurence Grove and Alison Saunders, Introduction: Transmigrations ; Noël Peacock, " Alison Adams and Stephen Rawles: A Biographical Note " ; Julie Makinson, “ Alison Adams and Stephen Rawles: A Bibliography of Publications ”...


Samuel Fasquel
Quevedo et la poétique du burlesque au XVIIe siècle
Casa de Velazquez | Bibliothèque de la Casa de Velázquez n° 53
The esthetic and ethical values of the Spanish Golden Age deeply affected burlesque literature and its artistic status. Burlesque writing challenged readers with its mix of erudite poetry with ridiculous characters alongside mythological heroes...


La France et les Français en Russie
Nouvelles sources, nouvelles approches (1815-1917)
Ecole nationale des Chartes | Etudes et Rencontres de l'Ecole des Chartes n° 34
Franco-Russian relations have been an important part of European history. However, historians have mainly concentrated on either the Enlightenment or the Russian Revolution, neglecting the period between 1789 and 1917...