Re-envisioning Astraea: Myth and Vision in Jeremy Bentham’s “Blackstone Familiarized” by Claire Wrobel

“…Poetic and pictorial rewritings of the myth of Astraea have often sought to legitimize political regimes, with the return of the goddess of justice symbolizing the inauguration of a new golden age. Jeremy Bentham’s “Blackstone Familiarized” offers a fascinating counter-example. …”
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« Ici, pas de politique » by Alfredo Mignini

“…Italians are the largest immigrant community within the Swiss melting pot during the “Golden age” of 20th century. Their migrant experience was however far from being free of conflicts. …”
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La Saveur des Alpes : Les Britanniques d’hier et d’aujourd’hui en Haute-Savoie by Christine Geoffroy

“…The Golden Age of mountaineering in the Alps is most often remembered in terms of conquest and physical exploit, and associated with the somewhat arrogant appropriation of the alpine mountain range as a would-be favourite British "playground".This paper proposes a reading of the writings of two British alpinists of the time, Leslie Stephen and Alfred Wills, showing that the motive for their presence in the mountain was not only a sportive one but derived from a special link that they had formed with the alpine scenery. …”
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Significance of the heritage of the Great Duchy of Lithuania in popular interpretations of the national narrative by Irena Šutinienė

“…The myths supporting the continuity of national identity (the founding, "descent" myths) grow in popularity, while the significance of the myths serving mobilization for collective action (that of the "golden age" and others) is on the decrease. The significance of the interpretations of symbols and myths supporting civic-territorial dimensions of Lithuanian national identity increases as well: it is expressed in importance for contemporary identity of the values of tolerance, civic national identity, multiculturalism that are highlighted in popular interpretations. …”
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Nación, historia y canon literario en la prensa decimonónica. El «Siglo de Oro» visto por los románticos by Mercedes Comellas

“…Construction processes in the periodical press (1801-1868) (SILEM III), part of the Spanish National Research Plan, which brings together forty researchers from Spanish and European universities to explore, through an interdisciplinary approach blending historical and literary perspectives, the significant role of the nineteenth-century periodical press in shaping one of the foundations of Spanish literary historiography: the «Golden Age». This concept was instrumental in the construction of the liberal nation, relying on literary history—a nascent disciplinary field at the time—and the press as vehicles for disseminating liberal-bourgeois ideologies. …”
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Herkules Poirot i marny kryminał. Na marginesie powieści Agathy Christie „Morderstwo w Orient Expressie” (1934) by Anna Gemra

“…In the late 1920s, detective fiction was entering its golden age and already had a huge readership. In addition to original crime stories, many highly formulaic works began to appear, whose authors had no ideas of their own, but wanted to use the publishing and financial success of the crime story for their own purposes. …”
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Motyw nadziei w twórczości Igora Talkowa by Aleksandra Ancerowicz

“…Moreover, the conducted research shows that the poet, recalling the literary image of hope in his work, repeatedly referred to biblical texts and the works of the authors of the Golden Age, which, as works by Igor Talkov, allows to distinguish another characteristic feature of the presented speech master. …”
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Hyperborea: The Arctic Myth of Contemporary Russian Radical Nationalists by Victor Shnirelman

“…While rejecting medieval and more recent Russian history as one of oppression implemented by ‘aliens’, the advocates of the Aryan myth are searching for a Golden Age in earlier epochs. They divide history into two periods: initially the great Aryan civilisation and civilising activity successfully developed throughout the world, after which a period of decline began. …”
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Gavrilo Princip and street art: An example of ideological transformation by Lazarević-Radak Sanja

“…Relying on the concepts of Girardet golden age and the Laclau empty signifier, the author interprets the visual adaptations of Gavrilo Princip's character to different chronological and cultural circumstances.…”
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Reforming the Welfare State: Camden 1965-73 by Mark Swenarton

“…While it began in what Hobsbawm called the ‘golden age’ of postwar capitalism, the Cook years (1965-73) saw the onset of the crisis of the 1970s and with it the rise of the New Right and the Hard Left, both of which viewed the Camden housing projects as a legitimate target for attack. …”
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The Geopolitics of Nordic Noir by Dodds Klaus, Hochscherf Tobias

“…The “golden age” of Scandinavian television has often been associated with Nordic Noir crime dramas, yet many of the acclaimed serials also engage with geopolitical themes such as migration, cross-border crime, military conflicts, and global terrorism. …”
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Pentecostal Churches and Capitalism in a South African Township: Towards a Communism of the Market? by Thibaut Dubarry

“…We conclude with the idea that we have observed a fourth wave of Pentecostalism, anticipating that the golden age of Gesara/Nesara may be considered as a secular faith, forming a Hegelian synthesis of the two so-called secular religions of the 20th century, capitalism and communism. …”
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Spectroscopic and Gas Chromatographic Studies of Pigments and Binders in Gdańsk Paintings of the 17th Century by Justyna Olszewska-Świetlik, Bożena Szmelter-Fausek, Ewa Pięta, Edyta Proniewicz

“…This work presents spectroscopic (optical microscopy, OM; micro-Raman, Raman; and Fourier-transform adsorption infrared, FT-IR) and gas chromatographic studies of two famous panel paintings from the Gdańsk artists of the 17th century Golden Age, “Servilius Appius” by Isaac van den Blocke and “Allegory of Wealth” probably by Anton Möller. …”
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Institute of Philosophy of St. Petersburg State University: Pages of History by S. I. Dudnik

“…In the 60s it gained relative independence, promoted the development of the theory of cognition, sociology and theory of values. The “golden age” of Russian philosophy began in the 90-s thanks to the talented workers of the Faculty of Philosophy, who published many original works that had a significant impact on the worldview of society. …”
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Virginia Woolf’s “New School of Biographies” and Eighteenth-century Life-Writing: a Sense of Kinship by Maryam Thirriard

“…This paper explores the way in which Woolf, Lytton and Nicolson describe, through their criticism of biography, the eighteenth century as being a golden age for biography, in accordance with the principles Woolf set in her essay “The New Biography”. …”
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Hugo Chavez : le renouveau du populisme vénézuélien ? by Olivier Folz

“…Thanks to this technique, Chavez could drew the attention of the poor and the deceived people of the system asserting he was the candidate of the rupture, of the change in favour of a participative democracy and a return to the golden age, inspired by Bolivar, judged more able to lead Venezuela towards a better future. …”
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How Did Imam At-Thabari's Interpretation with Tafsir bil Ma'tsur Style Influence Qur'anic Exegesis and Ulama During the Abbasid Dynasty Era? by Diana Durrotul Lumah, N Nasrullah, Bilqist Adna Salsabila, Faruk Almaliki

“…This study contributes to the understanding of the evolution of tafsir methodology in the golden age of Islam and its relevance to the development of contemporary studies.…”
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The influence of Christianity on Graeco-Roman medicine up to the Renaissance by Francois P. Retief, Louise Cilliers

“…However, during the 5th century Nestorian Christians, fleeing from persecution by the Church, settled in Persia where they initiated a  blossoming of medical science during the Golden Age of Islam (8th to 13th centuries), coexisting with the Dark Ages of Medieval Europe. …”
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Salas de cine en Bogotá (1897-1940): la arquitectura como símbolo de modernización del espacio urbano by Andrés Avila Gómez, Alfredo Montaño Bello

“…It also encompasses the elements that led to its adaptation and consolidation at the beginning of the so-called “golden age” of cinemas (in the1940´s). The spatiality of the new activity and its acceptance within a society rooted in strong nineteenth-century traditions are also studied. …”
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Commémoration et écriture de l’histoire dans la grande presse allemande à l’époque de Guillaume II : 1789 – 1813 – 1848 by Philippe Alexandre

“…Their discussion of German history can also be analyzed as a consequence of the vivid critical public opinion in imperial Germany, in a golden age of opinion press. This study will first show the variety of article genres that contributed to the debate; this attempt at a typology is followed by a content analysis that illustrates—following the scheme: causes, developments, consequences—how all the newspapers in the corpus used interpreted history according to an ideology and an editorial line. …”
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