Tours Centre for the History and Study of Sources (CeTHis)

The CeTHiS is a research centre in historical sciences studying literary, archivistic and material sources on a timescale spanning from Antiquity (France, Greece, Italy) to Contemporary History (European countries). It focuses on three main topics:

Urban dynamics and spaces :

    From building to making the city.
    Ruins, urban heritage, urban development. 
    Social and cultural dynamics : housing and plurllinguism. 

Historical practices and the construction of historical objets :

    Exchanges in the societies of the Past. 
    Making and representations of knowledge. 
    Environment.

Sources and corpus - tools and data : 

    From database to data vizualisation.
    Typology, structure and materiality of sources. 
    Translation and text processing.