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Continuing the excavations he conducted at Bulla Regia, he devoted much of his research to Roman Africa and the architecture of Roman baths, topic of his State thesis. He also devoted much of his work to the study of social and cultural mechanisms of ancient history, offering a critical analysis of the concepts of romanization or conquest, from the analysis of social hierarchies rather than cultural hyphenation.
Africa Proconsularis was a Roman province on the northwest African coast that was established in 146 BC following the defeat of Carthage in the Third Punic War. It roughly comprised the territory of present-day Tunisia, the northeast of Algeria, and the coast of western Libya along the Gulf of Sirte. The territory was originally inhabited by Berber people, known in Latin as Mauri indigenous to all of North Africa west of Egypt; in the 9th century BC, Phoenicians built settlements along the Mediterranean Sea to facilitate shipping, of which Carthage rose to dominance in the 8th century until its conquest by the Roman Republic.
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1977: Azedine Beschaouch(fr ), Roger Hanoune, Yvon Thébert (éd.), Les ruines de Bulla Regia, CEFR 28, Rome
1989: Jean-Louis Biget(fr ), Jean-CIaude Hervé, Yvon Thébert (éd.), Les cadastres anciens des villes et leur traitement par l'informatique: actes de la table ronde, CEFR 120, Rome
1993: Henri Broise, Yvon Thébert (éd.), Recherches archéologiques franco-tunisiernnes à Bulla Régia. 2. 1, Les architectures. Les thermes memmiens: étude architecturale et histoire urbaine, CEFR 28/2, 1, Rome
2000: Henri Broise, Patrick Boucheron, Yvon Thébert (éd.), La brique antique et médiévale: production et commercialisation d'un matériau: actes du colloque international de Saint-Cloud, 16-18 novembre 1995, CEFR 272, Rome
2003: Yvon Thébert, Thermes romains d'Afrique du Nord et leur contexte méditerranéen: études d'histoire et d'archéologie, École française de Rome
1980: Réflexions sur l'utilisation du concept d'étranger: évolution et fonction de l'image du Barbare à Athènes à l'époque classique », Diogène, 112, (pp.96-115).
1983: L'évolution urbaine dans les provinces orientales de l'Afrique romaine tardive », Opus, 2,(pp.99-131).
1982: recension of A. Giardina and A. Schiavone (dir.), Società romana e produzione schiavistica, Vol. I., L'Italia: insediamenti e forme economiche, vol. II, Merci, mercati e scambi nel Mediterraneo, vol III, Modelli etici, diritto e trasformazioni sociali in Annales. Histoire, Sciences Sociales, 37, 5-6, (pp.788-791)
1985: "Vie privée et architecture domestique en Afrique romaine", in Paul Veyne dir., Histoire de la vie privée I, Paris, (pp.301-415).
1986: "Permanence et mutations des espaces urbains dans les villes d'Afrique du Nord orientale: de la cité antique à la cité médiévale", Actes du IVe congrès international d'histoire et de civilisation du Maghreb, Tunis, 11-13 April 1986, Cahiers de Tunisie, 34, (pp.31-46).
2002: "L'esclave" in Andrea Giardina dir., L'homme romain, Paris, Éditions du Seuil, (pp.179-225)(translation of the Italian edition, 1989)
1995: "Nature des frontières de l'empire romain: le cas germain", in Aline Rousselle éd., Frontières terrestres, frontières célestes dans l'antiquité, Perpignan, (pp.221-235)
2005: "Royaumes Numides et hellénisme", Afrique et histoire, 2005, 3, (pp.29-37) (supplemented edition of an article written for the exhibition catalog "Carthage" (Petit-Palais, 1995).
The Mélanges de l'École française de Rome is a journal of history and archeology published by the École française de Rome.
Éditions du Seuil is a French publishing house created in 1935, currently owned by La Martinière Groupe. It owes its name to this goal "The seuil (threshold) is the whole excitement of parting and arriving. It is also the brand new threshold that we refashion at the door of the Church to allow entry to many whose foot gropes around it".
Bibliography
Afrique & histoire, vol. 3, 2005/1 Dossier: "Afriques romaines: impérialisme antique, imaginaire colonial. Relectures et réflexions à l'école d'Yvon Thébert".
Antiquité tardive, volume 10/2002, p.16-17.
A. Beschaouch, Yvon Thébert, Antiquités africaines, t. 38-39, 2002-2003, p.7-10 (obituary)
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