Recordando o rei David: vivência coral e criatividade musical na Europa pós-carolíngia by Manuel Pedro Ferreira

“…Although referring both to pre-Carolingian mentality and to 16th-century humanism as mirrored in contemporary polyphony, it takes as its main object the liturgical repertory in existence around the 11th century. …”
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Handwritten pre-Tridentine Pontificals by Jan Miazek

“… The article presents the history of pontificals, which are a bishop's liturgical books, beginning with their creation in the 9th century till the 16th century. The following pontificals are analysed in detail: Roman-Germanic Pontifical of the 10th century, Roman Pontifical of the 12th century, Roman Curia Pontifical of the 13th century and William Durand's Pontifical of the 13th century. …”
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From the Fronts of Expansion to Large Development Projects: An Emergency in the Communities of the sertões of Itacuruba by Poliana de Sousa Nascimento

“…The forms of territorial appropriation are linked to the discourse of “open spaces” and the decadent spaces that are associated with the sertões of Brazil since the 16th century, in order to make the implementation of economic enterprises in the regions, considered at the margin of capital, effective.…”
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The Hostage in the Law of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania up to the First Lithuanian Statute (1529) by Lirija Steponavičienė

“…However, in the 2nd half of the 15th century - the beginning of the 16th century, the acts of the Lithuanian Metrica and other acts allow us to disclose the essence of the hostage, the object and the subject of the hostage law, the continuation, the procedure of return of the hostage, and so on. …”
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La dynamique des représentations : frontières et paysage sociopolitique postclassique des Hautes Terres mayas by Marie Annereau-Fulbert

“…Without questioning the truth of the historical facts that these may illustrate, we will see, thanks to certain passages from the Popol Vuh compiled in the 16th century and other texts from that period, that they served to subjugate several radical moments of rupture with the old world order, by redefining the boundaries of alterity and power relations in relation to a central authority whose identity was also displaced according to circumstances. …”
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La chancellerie municipale lyonnaise et la construction d’une information politique urbaine à la fin du 16e siècle by Gautier Mingous

“…Information was considered a full-fledged government tool for 16th century urban elites. Its written forms obeyed specific rules which aimed to make it official and valuable enough to be accepted as such by society. …”
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L’évolution des usages des prépositions en, dans, dedans entre le XVIe et le XXe siècle : approche distributionnelle sur corpus outillé by Denis Vigier

“…We present a diachronic study of the evolution of the collocational profile of the French prepositions en, dans, and dedans, between the 16th century and the 20th century. The historical corpus used, fully annotated (morphosyntax and lemmas), was created during the Franco-German “Presto Program 2013-2017” (http://www.agence-nationale-recherche.fr/?…”
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Par-dessus l’épaule du maître. Approche matérielle de l’adaptabilité artisanale médiévale : l’exemple des « brocarts appliqués » savoyards by Ariane Pinto

“…Dated from the end of the 15th and the beginning of the 16th century, they display « tin-relief applied brocades » attempting to mimic precious silk fabrics enhanced with gold or silver threads and highly pursued by medieval elites. …”
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„Horlivost jejich v kázání slova Božího…“ Církevní řády a rekatolizace by Ivana Čornejová

“…It was caused by the religious situation in the times of the Hussite revolution and then during the process of reformation in 16th century. That is the reason why the counter-reformation was as long as to the end of the 17th century mainly organised by the members of different religious orders. …”
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John of the Cross and Emmanuel Lévinas: The QUEST for God beyond Being by D.B. Perrin

“…What, then, brings these two eminent thinkers together: one from the upheavals of 16th-century Spain; the other from war-torn 20th-century France and Germany? …”
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Los nahuas de Tzintzuntzan-Huitzitzilan, Michoacán: historia, mito y legitimación de un señorío prehispánico by Hans Roskamp

“…Modern historiography on 15th and early 16th century Michoacán emphasizes the political-economical success of the Tarascans and their uacúsecha lineage but pays relatively little attention to other ethnic groups that lived in the region. …”
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De los candires a Kandire. La invención de un mito chiriguano by Isabelle Combès

“…This paper examines the contradiction between the current use of the term « Kandire » and what the 16th century sources – which are the only ones that actually mention the word – can teach us about it. …”
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The wandering « Leg of an Indian King ». The cultural biography of a friction idiophone now in the Pigorini Museum in Rome, Italy by Davide Domenici

“…Collected in the Mixtec Kingdom of Tututepec (Oaxaca, Mexico) during the 16th century, it passed through different Italian collections before reaching its present location in Rome toward the end of the 19th century. …”
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JOHN CALVIN ON SOCIAL CHALLENGES by PC Potgieter

“…This article endeavours to indicate that his 16th-century views have not lost their relevance for the current paradigm on social challenges. …”
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L’Arbre colonne de Kitayama : comment passer d’une ressource matérielle à un paysage culturel ? by Benoît Jacquet, Andrea Flores Urushima

“…In Japanese architecture, posts made of cryptomeria wood (Cryptomeria japonica) are used in Kyoto from the 16th century for sukiya style building, in decorative alcoves (tokonoma) and some details of townhouses (machiya). …”
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Asymmetry as a general cue for V2 (loss) by Pierre Larrivée, Cecilia Poletto, Francesco Pinzin, Mathieu Goux

“…These assumptions are tested here by a quantitative analysis of a treebank of calibrated data covering the crucial period of change (from the 14th to the 16th century) for Medieval French and Venetian. The hard quantitative evidence provided demonstrates that the main versus embedded asymmetry is indeed a micro-cue of V2 structure, and of its loss in one of the two investigated languages. …”
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An Orientalist Discovery Effort During the 19th Century through the Eyes of Some European Travelers in Ankara by Muhsin Önal

“…The city was first visited by a Western traveler in the 16th century. The number and frequency of these trips increased over time. …”
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Peace in the spirituality of Thomas á Kempis. An aesthetic perspective on the Imitatio Christi 4.25 by P.G.R. de Villiers

“… The Imitatio Christi of Thomas á Kempis reflects the transformative contribution of the Devotio Moderna as a reform movement from the 14th to the 16th century to the religious discourse up to modern times. …”
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Andinos y buenos cristianos. La inversión en lo sagrado en los trámites legales de dos caciques en el virreinato del Perú (siglo xvi) by Elfie Guyau

“…From the second half of the 16th century onwards, the argument of exemplary Christian behaviour became a common rhetorical tool in the Andean caciques’ legal procedures. …”
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La mort protestante : entre invisibilité et persistance. La difficulté d’ancrage des espaces funéraires protestants à Paris et à La Rochelle (XVIe-XVIIIe siècles) by Isabelle Souquet, Cécile Buquet-Marcon

“…From the 16th century, the Protestant Reformation spread rapidly but clandestinely through the kingdom of France, giving rise to eschatological opposition between Catholics and Protestants that crystallized around their places of burial. …”
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