Nero: The end of a dynasty by Griffin, M

“…Nero's suicide brought to an end the dynasty Augustus had founded, and placed in jeopardy the political system he had devised.</p><p>Miriam T. Griffin's authoratitive survey of Nero's reign incorporates both a chronological account, as well as an analysis of the reasons for Nero's collapse under the pressure of his role as emperor.…”

Seneca: a philosopher in politics by Griffin, M

“…<p>The relationship between Seneca's prose works and his career as a first-century Roman statesman is problematic, for while he writes in the first person, he tells little of his external life or of the people and events that formed its setting. In this book, Miriam Griffin addresses the problem by first reconstructing Seneca's career using only outside sources and his de Clementia and Apocolocyntosis. …”

Voltaire; Religion and ideology; Women’s studies; History of the book; Passion in the eighteenth century

“…Montfort Mme de Sévigné and the Jesuit in the <em> siècle des Lumières</em><br/> Elena Russo From <em>précieuse</em> to mother figure: the eighteenth-century <em>salonnière</em><br/> Philip Stewart and MIRIAM EBEL-DAVENPORT Dossier Claude Crébillon – Henriette Marie Stafford<br/> Mary Trouille Conflicting views of marriage and spousal abuse in the pre-Revolutionary France<br/> History of he book<br/> Claudette Fortuny Contrefaçons de la 3e édition de <em>l’Histoire des deux Indes</em><br/> Jefrey S.Ravel Quantitative approaches to play publication<br/> Passion<br/> Edward Nye Introduction<br/> Dominique Orsini <em>Histoire de la jeunesse du commandeur</em> de Prévost<br/> Flore Galtayries Images de la passion dans le <em>Doyen de Killerine</em> de Prévost<br/> Florence Magnot Discours sur la passion dans <em>Les Mémoires d’un homme de qualité</em><br/> Caroline Warman Mechanism of the passions in eighteenth-century French thought<br/> C.Fourny The nuances of passion in Crébillon’s <em>Les Heureux Orphelins</em><br/> Ioana Galleron Marasescu La passion, l’evidence et la certitude dans <em>Ah, quel conte!…”

The Interdisciplinary century

“…Schwarz, Evidence and analysis for interdisciplinary research in eighteenth-century law and literature<br/> Miriam L. Wallace, ‘Doing’ history, or what I learned from the 1794 London Treason Trials<br/> Lisa Jane Graham, Scandal: law, literature and morality in the early Enlightenment<br/> VI. …”