Liège, 1297 : sur les terres de Humbert Corbeau, seigneur d’Awans, vit une riche serve qu’il désire marier à un de ses familiers. Mais un cousin du chevalier Guillaume, seigneur de Waroux, l’enlève et l’épouse…

At the turn of the 15^th and 16^th centuries, an ideology took shape among the men and women of letters at the court of France known as Franco-Italia, changing the Peninsula into nothing less than a new France.

This collective work on Belgian colonisation in Central Africa takes into account the   diversification in current approaches to colonial history.

The Encyclopedia of Global Archaeology, an 11-volume opus with more than 8,000 pages and 2,600 illustrations, was just published by Springer. Marcel Otte served as Section Editor with Rebecca Miller for the Geographical and Cultural Overview Essays.

To mark the centenary of the start of the First World War, Christophe Bechet has published a book on Alfred von Schlieffen’s German war strategy. It makes for a fascinating read.