The imperial capital of Mâli (14th century) by François-Xavier Fauvelle

“…Despite its international fame during the Middle Ages, our knowledge of the empire of Mâli remains patchy. …”
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Projectos de investigação em História Medieval financiados pela FCT nos últimos 10 anos by Ana Maria Rodrigues

“…We concluded that the Middle Ages had always a discrete but equivalent position both among the applications and the approved projects; this only changed in 2008, when none of the thirteen projects on Medieval History was approved, precisely when not a single medievalist was part of the jury. …”
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Rechtsgeschichte und Ordnungsdenken. Zum rechtshistorischen Werk von Paolo Grossi by Thomas Duve

“…His works on the legal history of the Middle Ages and the modern period, not least his critique of the law of the modern age, have been widely received in Europe and Latin America. …”
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Remarques sur les fonctions érudites et méditatives de l’eschatologie dans le haut Moyen Âge ibérique by Gaelle Bosseman

“…Taking a stance in the historiographical debate on the reality of millenarian fears at the approach of the year 800 and the year 1000, this article offers a reinterpretation of some texts on the end of times in the Iberian Peninsula in the Early Middle Ages. By observing their composition and their context of transmission, the objective is to show that these texts have assumed erudite and scholarly functions – compilation of knowledge, inculcation of eschatological doctrine, teaching, etc. – a priori detached from any fearful expectation of the last days. …”
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Dans la solitude des autres : pour une histoire sociale et politique du concept de solitudo au Moyen Âge by Gabriel Castanho

“…This article is a study of the relationship between the word solitudo and the definitions attached to it during the Middle Ages. Our investigation begins with the establishment of a vocabulary of solitude to specify the particularities of the semantic field studied. …”
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Interpreting Monastic Cartularies in Northwest Europe, 900-1200: Thirty Years of Scholarship by Robert Berkhofer

“…This article offers an overview of interpretive trends since then, focusing on monastic cartularies in northwestern Europe in the Central Middle Ages. It outlines the diverse discourses incorporated in these cartularies, involving patrimony, commemoration, communal identity, and history. …”
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Pioniers of Microsurgery: the Touch of History by Saulius Špokevičius

“…Who ever new or were familliar with them experienced feeling as it was “the royal touch” for those who had a scropulosis in the middle ages: the touch was healing and left the unforgettable memories – they were toutched by a queen or a king. …”
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La lettre des frères pontifes contenant la Vita lyonnaise de saint Bénezet (1245) : une forgerie au service d’un récit fondateur lyonnais ? by Jean-Benoît Krumenacker

“…These elements then suggest a forgery from the late Middle Ages or the early Renaissance to provide a history for the Lyon bridge when Lyon’s bourgeois rediscover the history of their city.…”
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Exposer la sculpture au Louvre au temps de Rodin, 1860-1914 by Geneviève Bresc-Bautier

“…The Department of Sculpture was then divided into two entities: Middle Ages and Renaissance in the south wing of the Cour Carrée, modern times in the west wing. …”
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Qualques reflexions sul principi poetic e la temporalitat liura dins Sonets barròcs enta Iseut by Laurent Alibert

“…If the book is freed from temporality, this is never with the aim of recreating an ersatz of Middle Ages. The analysis of some poems in this paper suggests that the connection between the medieval reference and the poetical language is made around the death and resurrection of the Occitan language : as Iseut (Yseult) seems to die and be reborn, the lost language comes back again, in a new shape, both alike and different.…”
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„Rózga i karcenie udziela mądrości…” . O społecznym micie przydatności bicia w wychowaniu by Ewa Jarosz, Cezary Kurkowski

“…A lot of historical resources indicate that violence in upbringing was a common reality for children in Poland from the Middle Ages and during the following centuries. Today in Poland violence in upbringing is banned in our law and although violent behaviours towards children are less popular and not as severe as in the past, still as a way of disciplining a child violence is in some forms socially accepted. …”
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Viktor Denisenko’s Novel The Vilnius Apocalypse (2022) in the Context of the Christian Apocalyptic Tradition by Aleksej Burov, Diana Ickovič-Zenovič

“…It aims to examine the relationship between the novel’s plot and the Christian apocalyptic tradition, which gained its form in the High Middle Ages. To achieve this, a comparative analysis of the apocalyptic motifs and figures found in the narrative is carried out. …”
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Le silence et le cri : Salomé, d’Oscar­­ Wilde à Richard Strauss by Pascal Aquien

“…Wilde’s play and Strauss’s opera can be considered as the acme of the literary, pictorial and musical currents that have been exploring the theme of Salome since the Middle Ages. The two works are however radically different. …”
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Conrad's allegorical reading of 1 Samuel 14: an analysis of a sermon by Conrad of Saint George on the worthy reception of the blessed sacrament by Jos Huls

“… The sermon on 1 Samuel 14 is a paradigm for the allegorical mode of reading in the Middle Ages. This mode of reading first of all relates the Bible text to our life and in doing so places the relationship with God in a central position. …”
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La femme allaitant des serpents et ses liens avec la Luxure by Raphaël Guesuraga

“…Conversely, an investigation of the representations of Lust as a capital sin throughout the Middle Ages shows that it is rather depicted as a woman looking in a mirror than by a woman suckling snakes. …”
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De l’Anjou à la Bohême : le double portrait équestre de Pierre de Rohan-Gié by Jeanne Alis

“…The presence of these artistic models is a precious testimony to the family history, as they come from works that adorned the Château du Verger at the very end of the Middle Ages and disappeared in the eighteenth century, a hundred years before they were reused at Sychrov. …”
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Samogitia and Lithuania in 13-18th Centuries: the Splendour and the Poverty of Regional (Provincial) Self-Goveming by Eugenijus Saviščevas

“…In the course of this period, Samogitia experienced different patterns of relationship towards Lithuania: hostile western cultural pressure in the Middle Ages; legitimate agreement on the part of Samogitians with the Lithuanian monarchy which provided for the autonomy of Samogitia in 15-16 c.; the merge of Samogitian nobles with the nobility of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania at the end of the 16 c. to 18 c. …”
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El aragonés: historia de una lengua minoritaria y minorizada by Mª Pilar Benítez Marco, Óscar Latas Alegre

“…Despite the fact that Aragonese is a language exclusive to the Autonomous Community of Aragon and that it was the language used during the Middle Ages in different public and private spheres, it is currently in danger of extinction, according to UNESCO. …”
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An outline of typology of social relations in the countries of Byzantine civilization in the VII-XIV Centuries by Nerijus Babinskas

“… The main concepts which the author operates in his attempt to describe typologically a type of social relations in the area of Byzantine civilization in the Middle Ages are: an Asiatic mode of production, a slave mode of production, feudalism, and so-called semi-feudalism. …”
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Histoire graphique de la langue bretonne : la question de la norme by Herve Le Bihan

“…The history of the Breton spelling begins in the Middle Ages, when the language was then a part of the lingua britannica which gives birth too to Welsh and Cornish. …”
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