2012 « EastWestWestEast

Les militaires nord-africains pendant la Seconde Guerre mondiale

Le 8 mai est une date anniversaire qui marque la fin de la Seconde Guerre mondiale en 1945. Les médias français se sont contentés de relayer une “belle image” : les deux présidents, Hollande et Sarkozy, posant “ensemble” une gerbe sur la tombe du soldat inconnu. Mais le 8 mai 1945 marque aussi une journée sanglante : le massacre de Sétif en Algérie. Ironie de l’histoire (il y en a d’autres). La victoire des Alliés contre les Nazis a été possible aussi grâce aux militaires nord-africains qui ont combattu pendant la Seconde Guerre mondiale pour libérer l’Europe.

L’historien Belkacem Recham nous livre une tranche d’histoire sur « Les militaires nord-africains pendant la Seconde Guerre Mondiale ».
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►http://eastwestwesteast.wordpress.com/2012/05/08/les-militaires-nord-africains-pendant-la-seconde-guerre- _

Global Interests : #Renaissance Art between #East and #West: East and West fixed each other with an equal reciprocal gaze… by Lisa Jardine and Jerry Brotton.

European civilization defined itself between 1450 and 1550. Over this period Europe was in trading terms with the East, and notably with the #Ottoman_Empire of #Mehmet the Conqueror and Süleyman the Magnificent. The authors analyze cultural exchanges taking place between East and West, relationships between Hapsburg emperors, Kings of Europe and Ottoman sultans, through “portraits medals”, “tapestries”, and “equestrian art”.

“Boundaries between […] East and West were thoroughly permeable in the Renaissance”.

It might seem surprising for a contemporary audience, but the image of Saint George slaying a dragon, for example, was used in both Eastern and Western churches, sitting in a pivotal position “on the permeable boundary between East and West”.

►http://eastwestwesteast.wordpress.com/2012/04/11/renaissance-art-between-east-and-west

Global Interests : #Renaissance Art between #East and #West: East and West fixed each other with an equal reciprocal gaze… by Lisa Jardine and Jerry Brotton.

European civilization defined itself between 1450 and 1550. Over this period Europe was in trading terms with the East, and notably with the #Ottoman_Empire of #Mehmet the Conqueror and Süleyman the Magnificent. The authors analyze cultural exchanges taking place between East and West, relationships between Hapsburg emperors, Kings of Europe and Ottoman sultans, through “portraits medals”, “tapestries”, and “equestrian art”.

“Boundaries between […] East and West were thoroughly permeable in the Renaissance”.

It might seem surprising for a contemporary audience, but the image of Saint George slaying a dragon, for example, was used in both Eastern and Western churches, sitting in a pivotal position “on the permeable boundary between East and West”.

►http://eastwestwesteast.wordpress.com/2012/04/11/renaissance-art-between-east-and-west