This thesis deals with the social status of women and their role during the late 19th century to the seventies of the 20th century. In the first part, there is sketched out the development of women's image inclusive the Women's Movement in historical and social context. This description is followed by an analysis of female characters and roles on the basis of selected prose works Effi Briest of Theodor Fontane, The Murder of Captain Hanik of Hermann Ungar and Group Portrait with Lady of Heinrich Böll. Keywords women, 19th century, 20th century, women's emancipation, Women's Movement, women's rights, social roles, social history, gender inequality

This thesis examines the representation of social conditions and historical events in Isabel Allende's first novel from a moral perspective. Using David Hume's moral theory, we explore Allende's judgement of the causes of the 1973 Chilean coup d'etat based on her representation of both the event itself and the social conditions surrounding it. The thematic focus of this study is on issues of affectivity and violence in the novel. This thesis is written in Spanish.

This thesis examines the representation of social conditions and historical events in Isabel Allende's first novel from a moral perspective. Using David Hume's moral theory, we explore Allende's judgement of the causes of the 1973 Chilean coup d'etat based on her representation of both the event itself and the social conditions surrounding it. The thematic focus of this study is on issues of affectivity and violence in the novel. This thesis is written in Spanish.

Cette thèse propose une nouvelle édition critique de la seconde pentade de la Bibliothèque Historique, l’une des nombreuses parties de l’histoire universelle de Diodore de Sicile (Ier siècle avant J.-C.) qui nous est parvenue à l’état de fragments ; elle l’assortit d’une traduction et d’un commentaire, largement historique, mais aussi philologique, linguistique ou stylistique. La tradition indirecte qui, par sa compilation, permit la transmission d’extraits de l’œuvre originale, qui recouvrent ici une période allant de la fin de la période mythologique (livre VI) à la première médique (fin du livre X), est relativement homogène, et divisée en deux branches : d’un côté, les Excerpta Constantiniana, l’encyclopédie que Constantin VII Porphyrogénète entreprit au Xe siècle, compilent un nombre très important de fragments de Diodore, appréciés surtout pour la teneur morale de l’histoire qu’ils délivrent ; de l’autre côté, quelques auteurs chrétiens et byzantins citent Diodore dans leurs œuvres : ce sont pour la plupart des chroniqueurs intéressés par le récit de son histoire universelle. Les notices et les notes de commentaire tâchent de rétablir à chaque fois ces reliquiae dans leur contexte historique précis ainsi que dans le projet historiographique général de l’œuvre, afin de cerner, dans la mesure du possible, la méthode employée par l’historien sicilien, et de cibler l’intérêt particulier que revêt son œuvre, au-delà d’une valeur documentaire indéniable que le lecteur moderne peut apprécier. / This thesis offers a new critical edition of the second pentade of the Library of History, one of the many parts of Diodorus of Sicily’s universal history (first century B.C.), which was transmitted to us in fragments; along with this study comes a translation and a mainly historical, but also philological, linguistic and stylistic commentary. The indirect tradition, thanks to its compilation work, made the transmission of some of the text’s original parts possible; these parts go, historically, from the end of the mythological period (book VI) to the first Persian war (end of book X). It is relatively homogeneous and divided into two separate parts: on the one hand, the Excerpta Constantiniana (an Encyclopedia that Constantine VII Porphyrogenitus wrote in the Xth century) includes a large number of Diodorus’ fragments, mainly used for the moral enlightening they provide with. On the other hand, a few Christian and Byzantine authors have quoted Diodorus in their work (mainly chroniclers interested in his view on universal history). All introductory notes and other notes included in this analysis try to always link these reliquiae with their precise original and historical context, as well as with the general historiographical project of Diodorus’ work, in order to understand the method used by the Sicilian historian and to underline the specific interest of his work, putting aside its unquestionable value as a documentary, which the modern reader will certainly be able to appreciate.