A human geography analysis of the evolution of the urban morphology of ancient Foshan city from the perspective of Cantonese trading culture by Shaobin Wang, Ye Hou, Weihui Zhang, Cheng Liao, Rongyi Wang

“…Trading and political influences have been the primary drivers of urbanization in Foshan from the Tang to the Qing Dynasties, while military influence played a secondary role during the Qing Dynasty.…”
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A GIS-Based Modeling Approach for Determining the Efficiency of the Traffic System between Ancient Military Castles by Lifeng Tan, Huanjie Liu, Jiayin Zhou, Yukun Zhang, Jiayi Liu, Shenge Shen, Tong Li, Chaonan Wang, Wanjing Lin

“…The Weihai area, a typical representation of sea defense during the Chinese Ming Dynasty, was taken as an example for simulation. Overall, five ancient military transportation routes were restored. …”
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Les évêques de Provence et la diplomatie royale sous Charles II (1285-1309) by Thierry Pécout

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The ‘cursed’ queen by Gergely Kiss

“…She was widowed the following year, and before her death in 1328, she witnessed the extinction of the male line of the Capetian dynasty. The period is rich in narrative sources, and this study seeks to answer the question of how they portrayed Clemence, how 'Hungarian' she really was, and what attracted the interest of chroniclers in the 'age of the cursed kings'.…”
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Posthumous coins of the Legnica-Brzeg Piasts by Robert Pieńkovski

“…Posthumous coins are an interesting supplement to the funeral ceremonies and a valuable - still sought after memento of the Piast dynasty. …”
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Hledat a nalézat: Barokní Valdštejnové a jejich informační síť by Jiří Hrbek

“… This article deals with the information network linking the members of the House of Waldstein, a top aristocratic dynasty in the society of the early Modern Age. It focuses on the formation of an intelligence network within the Habsburg monarchy in the 17th and 18th centuries, while the special social position occupied by the Waldsteins enabled them to make use not only the publicly available resources (newspapers), but also a network of personal relations with agents in Central Europe’s key strategic spots. …”
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Dlaczego w czasach jagiellońskich zanika w Polsce pieczęć majestatyczna? by Michał Knapik

“…According to the author, the disappearance of the Polish majestic seal was the result of the crisis and dispersion of royal majesty as a result of the final extinction of the Piast dynasty at the end of the fourteenth century.   …”
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De l’aurore à la nuit : le parcours du roi-soleil maya by Claude-François Baudez

“…These images in sequence compare the royal career to the course of the sun from dawn to darkness, and the solar cycle to the dynasty. The solar metaphor was used to legitimate the absolute power of the Maya kingship as well as to justify the necessity of dynastic continuity, while demonstrating the special relationship that existed between the king, the earth and his land.…”
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Transparent Celadon with Phase-Separated Structure: Study on the Technological Characteristics and Coloring Mechanism of Celadons from the Lieshan Kiln by Qijiang Li, Jingyun Wang, Chao Chen, Tao Fang, Chenyi Gao, Jinwei Li

“…Celadon bodies from both periods were crafted from local sedimentary clays in a single-ingredient formula, with the Jin Dynasty refining the preparation, leading to enhanced density and higher firing temperatures compared to the Northern Song Dynasty. …”
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Staging deaths: King Sverre or a usurper’s path to the throne by David Brégaint

“…The present study explores how the Norwegian usurper, King Sverre (1184-1202) exploited three princely burials to overthrow the ruling king and establish his dynasty. Both in 1179 and 1184, King Sverre took full advantage of his military victories to gain popular support for his claims to the throne, in transforming the burial of his most prominent enemies felt on the battlefield into a rostrum for his political propaganda, through speeches and ritual staging. …”
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Sázka na nejistou kartu. Armádní služba a sociální úpadek Raduitů de Souches na přelomu 17. a 18. století by Vítězslav Prchal

“…They were not only the inherent part of aristocratic warrior careers, but they also, in the situation of yet undeveloped fiscal mechanisms of a premodern state that was still searching for ways how to finance its permanent army, represented a risk factor which, to a considerable extent, decided about success or failure not only of the particular individuals, but as well their families and other generations of the dynasty, in the strictly socially stratified society of the early modern period. …”
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De João das Regras ao Conselho Régio by Armando Luís de Carvalho Homem

“…As for the Royal Council, the king reserves to himself the right to organize the political level of the governmental organs (of more or less intense activity), and to appoint their members. The new dynasty will also reinforce the legal image of royalty, through idea of King-legislator, not so much as the result of creation, as of collection and systematization of the law in force.…”
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Autun/Augustodunum, cité des Éduens by Yannick Labaune, Michel Kasprzyk

“…The excavations conducted over the last fifteen years gave us a better insight into the processes of the foundation of Autun/Augustodunum and its development under the Julio-Claudian dynasty. Despite undeniable advances in knowledge and the gradual clarification of the chronology and of the different kinds of settlements, it must be noted that only a small (around 1 %), unevenly distributed sample of the urban area has been excavated down to the earliest levels. …”
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A sigilografia portuguesa em tempos de Afonso Henriques by Maria do Rosário Barbosa Morujão

“…His heraldry became itself the symbol of the new king and of the dynasty he gave birth to, thus remaining in all the Portuguese monarchs seals.…”
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Potridentské překračování hranic klausury Svatojiřského kláštera na Pražském hradě jako potvrzení „odvěké“ prestiže by Jindřich Kolda

“…George’s abbess in the coronations of Bohemians queens, in the case of a passive enclosure, the visits of the members of the ruling dynasty and the presence of official guests at the coronations of princess­abbesses. …”
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Toucher, regarder, préserver la cire et le plomb. Autour du scellement pratiqué dans l’environnement des comtes de Toulouse (xiie-xiiie siècle) by Laurent Macé

“…By taking as a subject of study the sigillary practices of the last counts of Toulouse belonging to the raimondine dynasty (1148-1249), the subject aims to show the interrelation established between the announcements of sealing and the manifestations of the princely authority that this induces. …”
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The Justification of Tyrannicide in the Chronicle of Dalimil. The Czech Nobility as the “Mystical Body” of the Realm by Éloïse Adde

“…In the context of the succession crisis (interregnum of 1306-1310) entailed by the death of Venceslas III, murdered without descent, and the extinction of the Přemyslide dynasty, its author’s plane was to establish the political role of the Czech nobility. …”
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Les calebasses nka’a kügha : du contexte d’origine à la mise en exposition en Europe by Ninon Arbez-Gindre

“…These symbols of victory were the used for rituals and considered the dynasty’s regalia. During the colonial period, they became artefacts collected by Europeans, particularly missionaries. …”
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The Narrative Approach: Leveraging Storytelling Techniques for Enhanced English Fluency by Najm Burhan, Nia'am Hasan

“…It attempts to explore the history in the novel as a manifestation of the consecutive exemplification of the contemporary dynasty and how it affects the current social and political status quo. …”
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Research on Optimization of 3D Tourism Virtual Crossover Scene based on Semantic Perception Analysis by Guixia Wang

“…Using the digital elevation model, an empirical study on the semantic perception of cultural landscape in the western Tombs of Qing Dynasty is carried out. Taking the traditional Chinese culture of the site selection of royal tombs and the feudal hierarchy represented as the semantic criteria, eighteen feature points were extracted from two representative tomb cultural landscapes from different landscape perspectives, and the corresponding weight coefficients were assigned to each feature point from different landscape perspectives; based on the results of perceptual degree calculation, the semantic mining of the existing sightseeing routes is carried out and the optimization scheme is designed. …”
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