This project aims to study on a diachronic way (through Middle and Modern ages), the different original forms of Christianity that were to be found in the « border territories », located on political, religious and linguistic borders, i.e. the lotharingians territories, later on called during the Middle Ages the « inbetween lands » (from the North Sea to Savoy). This territories, along with the Milanese, formed the « catholic Ridge » during the modern era (the border of the catholic influence, between the Protestants in the east and the Catholics in the West). These specificities were asserted often by the historians, but rarely demonstrated, if it is not by case studies. The objective thus is to rethink the explanatory causes and the processes of such a multiplicity and variety of religious experiments, as well as their spread, their successes or failures, while highlighting more efficiently what is due to the circumstances and what is to be credited to the structural phenomenons, linked to the political and religious specificities of these regions. To cover this space and assure a really comparative and transverse approach, an international consortium with 7 historian research teams was established : 4 French teams (the CRULH of Lorraine – coordinator –, the LARHRA of Lyon, the LSH of Besançon, the CREHS of Arras) and 3 foreigners (Transitions of Liège, Institute of history of the University of Luxembourg, History Department of Università degli Studi of Milan). All in all, 37 people are committed in the project, which concerns essentially the history but also assures openings towards the art history and the musicology, to deal with the evolution of the liturgical practices : 12 medievalists, 21 modernists, 2 art historians, 2 musicologists. Given the tremendous size of the region and of the period to be studied, the project will focus on a comparative study of three main topics, by using in particular the methods of the historic anthropology, the gender studies, the prosopography : • The commitment of religious women (specificity of the feminine vocations ; the relations with the male management of the churches ; the feminine writings) : organization of three rounds tables and a final colloquium, with publication of the acts in the form of common synthesis ; three volumes of editions of texts ; on-line publishing and digitalizations of texts ; constitution of a database on these communities. • The pastoral models (episcopal models, formation and skills of the bishops, the organization of the diocesan staff, the legal or liturgical norms’ production, « clericalization » of the Protestant ministers) : organization of three round tables and a final colloquium with publication of the acts ; constitution of a prosopographical database on the episcopal staff (14th-17th c.). • Devotions and politics (promotion and spread of the devotional practices : specific ways of the Marian worship, « political » saints, specific devotion to the angels) : organization of two round tables and a final colloquium with publication of the acts ; one exhibition with realization of a catalog (Museum of sacred art from Fourvière in Lyon) ; on-line edition of an inventory of the editions of a devotion book, "best-seller" during two centuries in the considered region. All the works will give rise to the production of a web site and a global synthesis in the form of a book-atlas, which will contain hundred maps accompanied with long recapitulative notes and with iconography.

Looting and trafficking of cultural heritage from conflict areas to the European markets stand for an increasing phenomenon with strong consequences in terms of security, economics, culture and society. Smugglers take advantage of disparate frameworks, providing the artefacts with a fake background in order to give them the appearance of legality, before proposing them to the market. Although the protagonists in the fight (law enforcement agencies, justice, structures devoted to cultural heritage, art market) can know each other, the potential for cooperation still remains underexploited: time, resources and space limitations, discrepancies between approaches, practices and work cultures. The gap which is noticeable at the national level gets broader at the European scale. Nevertheless, each of those professional bodies is keeping a part of the solution: resource inventory, knowledge of the artefacts, production areas and fraudulent cases, proof culture, rates and trends changing. A cooperation protocol as well as a Pan-European collaborative tool for control, able to cross investigation data, are strongly required. POLAR project (“POLice and ARchaeology against cultural heritage trafficking”) was born in 2016 through the National Council of Scientific Research “Attentats Recherche” special call for proposals. It aims to identify relevant structures and tools, facilitating dialogue between professional spheres (methodology sharing, legal frameworks, slowdown levers identification). It is composed of three phases: Understand, Act and Prevent. As POLAR implies to work at the European level, an international consortium is currently built in keeping with professional divisions such as LEAs/Justice/Cultural Heritage/Art Market. The Cultural Heritage team maps the “artefacts in peril” as presented on the ICOM Red Lists. A digital tool will be built in order to find occurrences on Internet and to compare the proposed background to the archaeological evidences. In so doing, the protocol will reinforce the expertise and detect possibly fraudulent cases. If needed and according to the recognitions, a warning notice could be transmitted to the authorities. The approach will offer guarantees to honest buyers and sellers, avoiding the potential misfortunes related to ancient transactions led without due diligence and facilitating the lasting recovery of misled-traceability works of art, bringing the proof of the ancient provenance. POLAR will lead to training and information actions in a complex and unknown field. The dissemination phase implies to explore restitution ways for saved artefacts. Those actions will help to know more about them and to raise public awareness. Outputs are expected in the field of security, economics, society and culture. POLAR manages a large quantity of data, opening up fieldworks and enable the expression of innovative methodologies in order to face a security challenge. This cooperation is brand new in its form and breadth. A consultation about frames, methods and strategy is required to tackle the European scale. The planned call for the proposal is SU-FCT03-2018 (republished in 2019-2020): Information and data stream management to fight against (cyber)crime and terrorism. The ANR MRSEI tool seems to be the appropriate launch pad in order to lead the preliminary discussions, reinforce the consortium and provide it with the dedicated working space. The project also meets the needs of the SU-TRANSFORMATIONS-09-2018 call, whose topic is « Social platform on endangered cultural heritage and on illicit trafficking of cultural goods ». For this one, the deadline for submission is 13 March 2018, without assurance of renewal, which imply a more tightened calendar.

IThAC aims at the study of the reception of Ancient Drama in XVIth c. Europe through the analysis of the scholarly printed paratexts of its editions, and at the diffusion of the French translation of this corpus thnaks to a dynamic website. Our hypothesis is that the gathering, translation and analysis of this corpus, which has been neglected for a long time because it was hard to find and composed in Latin, if not in Greek, will enable researchers to grasp how Ancient Drama has been first received and understood by its « inventors ». It will also help investigate how the ideas and methods at work in thoses paratexts circulated and evolved, thanks to their large diffusion made possible by printing, in the very context of the invention of modern drama and modern philology. Those paratexts, which were most of the time written by major scholars of the time, have had a wide audience and circulated much more than those written in vernacular, because Latin was then the language by scholars to communicate : by neglecting them, one omits a major stage of the intellectual debates on drama, philology and the reception of Antiquity ; by taking them into account, IThAC will help reconstructing this debates. Though there has been studies on the reception of some Ancient dramatists, and on some paratexts to their editions, this corpus has not yet been studied as a whole. IThAC, by gathering together philologists, historians of Drama, specialists of Greek, Latin and neo-Latin Drama, will study this important corpus by translating it and developing digital tools to explore it systematically. This will enable researchers to spot the major concepts used and build by the scholars and to visualise their chronology, the evolution of the nomber of editions by poet, genre, language, country ; to map places of print, nets of humanists and to highlight their collaborations. Thanks to this interdisciplinary approach of the genesis, the transformation, the evolution and the circulation of the ideas on Ancien Drama in XVIth c. Europe, IThAC will allow a new insight on the Reception of Ancient Drama, the birth of Modern Drama and more broadly on scholarship in XVIth c. Europe. It will also give access to an unknown european heritage.

This interdisciplinary collaboration project combines the study on ancient literature and the history of science, in order to get a better understanding of a crucial stage in the history of agriculture and agronomical discourses, by analysing the topic of growing cereals and legumes in Greek and Latin agronomical discourses and particularly in Book II of Columella’s De re rustica (1st century A.D.). This research program will highlight a corpus which, despite its worth to the history of science and techniques, remains little read and studied today: for instance, Columella's De re rustica Book II has not been published or translated in France since the 19th century. The purposes of this collective research will be two-fold. Firstly, the aim of the project is to associate the research devoted to agricultural practices in Antiquity with an ideological and aesthetical analysis of this so-called technical literature. Secondly, the project will link together an edition of Columella’s De re rustica Book II with the creation of a digital corpus encoded in XML, using tools devoted to digital humanities. All the data will be available online. This digital corpus will compile ancient texts regarding the topic of growing cereals and legumes and will include in particular: the Latin agronomical discourses of Cato, Varro, Columella, Palladius; book XVIII of Pliny the Elder’s Natural History; Greek scientific literature (Theophrastus, Galen); the Geoponica; didactic poetry (Hesiod, Vergil) and relevant fragments. This broad collection of technical texts will be used to analyze the ancient agronomical precepts dedicated to similar topics by serializing and comparing the interactions between those various texts. Finally this project will produce new translations, two glossaries (botanical and technical) and thematic notes which will synthesize the results. The notes, written by an interdisciplinary team working in close collaboration, will explain the technical background by taking into account not only recent studies on ancient linguistics or rural archaeology, but also today’s traditional knowledge or practices. They will show how an agronomical knowledge was created in the Greco-Roman world in relation to specific climate and soil conditions and how it was transmitted and changed over time. They would later be useful for other research fields or studies devoted to other cultural areas. The AgroCCol project will thus make Greek and Latin agronomical discourses understandable to a large readership, by carrying out several actions: not only the Web site and the scientific edition of Columella’s book II, but also an academic blog, the publication of the proceedings of the symposium which will take place at the end of the project, an anthology of ancient agronomical texts in a collection intended for the general public, and, in collaboration with the Lyon Public Library, a virtual exhibition dedicated to the edition, translation and reception of the ancient agronomical treatises in the early modern period.

Combining philology, history of philosophy and history of science, the project deals with Peripatetic physics and Alexander of Aphrodisias’ Quaestiones in the context of his own school. How has Aristotle’s model of the Nature become the so-called "paradigm" it has been for Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages? According to the project’s main hypothesis, this is because, after Aristotle, the Peripatetics have renewed, discussed and thus, transmitted Aristotle’s model. This hypothesis implies that for the Peripatetics, Aristotle's epistemic authority was plastic enough to allow scientific and philosophical innovations and to preclude them from being merely iconoclastic. The project aims to offer the first general study of the Peripatetic physics, focusing on three tasks: 1) to deliver the first sourcebook on Peripatetic physics, from Theophrastus to Alexander; 2) to examine their methods of scientific inquiry, by making the hypothesis that the Peripatetic scientific practice and their norms of inquiry formed the signs of belonging to Peripateticism, and that Aristotle’s epistemic authority was more procedural than substantial; 3) to offer a new edition and the first French translation of Alexander’s Quaestiones. Those “School-puzzles and Solutions on Nature” gather 3 books, composed of 69 rather short and heterogeneous texts which all relate to physics and invite to read a philosophy in the making. The project aims to deliver new material and to forge new tools for extending the understanding of a field of knowledge of greatest historical significance, i.e. Peripatetic physics, and the global representation of nature it conveyed.