La République romaine face aux crises Traumatismes, résilience et recompositions aux temps des guerres hannibalique et civiles (

Resiliare in Latin refers to the action of "jumping backwards" but also  of "bouncing back", and, therefore, of "resisting". It is precisely this property that seems to characterize both the times of the Second Punic War and the Civil Wars of the end of the Republic. These two "events" have been unanimously considered as traumatic moments, affected by deep structural upheavals. And yet, if the sources are to be believed, the institutions and the actors of the Roman Republic found, in these times of horror and devastation, the necessary resources to maintain the res publica and even to regenerate it. 

In order to revisit these two apparently destructive episodes, a five-year research program (2019–2023) was devised at the ANHIMA research center and the University of Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne. This book presents its findings. With the aim of integrating the new approaches that have emerged since the publication of Arnold Toynbee's Hannibal's Legacy and Ronald Syme's The Roman Revolution, the purpose has been to (re)question these two conflicts and their impacts.

The war against Hannibal like the conflicts between imperatores are two privileged fields of exploration for detecting innovations and continuities, resilience and recompositions of all kinds. The cross-analyses of some forty specialists from various thematic and regional backgrounds have made it possible, in the course of five annual workshops, to reconsider the term "crisis" by exploring the mechanisms of protection and adaptation that these "fluid political states-of-affairs" were able to produce.

This first volume, which begins with historiographical reflections, focuses on the recompositions at work in the military field during these two "total" wars, and in the context of constantly redefined alliances. It also questions the reconfigurations that took place both in the institutional field and in political practices. The second volume will examine the socio-economic, religious and cultural change and continuity of these two times of turmoil.