Panem nostrum quotidianum da nobis hodie by Iria Gonçalves

“…The Europeans of the Middle Ages have always valued bread within their food system, especially as meat, another highly valued food, became scarcer. …”
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Pointing out persuasion in Philemon by P.B. Decock

“…He has selected, as the subtitle indicates, 50 readings of Philemon from three periods, the early church (starting with Ambrosiaster in chapter 1), the Middle Ages (chapter 2), and the period from the 16th to the 18th century (Chapter 3). …”
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CroALa by Neven Jovanović

“…Croatiae auctores Latini (CroALa), a text collection first published in 2009, makes freely accessible Latin texts written by or about people of Croatian origin from the Middle Ages to the twentieth century. The collection is intended primarily for scholars of Latin and neo-Latin literature and language and of Croatian history and culture. …”
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Which Medievalism? The Case of Ford Madox Brown by Laurent Bury

“…Brown thus went from a patriotic valuation of feudal Britain to a totally free interpretation of the Middle Ages, through a more social appreciation of medieval art. …”
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Bengal: From a Periphery to the Heartland of South Asia by Csaba M. KOVÁCS

“…The historical province of Bengal, one of South Asia’s most densely populated areas from ancient times, was mainly a periphery within the states that succeeded on the subcontinent until the late Middle Ages. Conquered in the 16th century by the Mughals, an important part of its population embraced Islam. …”
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The periodisation of Lithuanian history in the context of social history by Alfredas Bumblauskas

“…Such concepts, related to the political, cultural, and social history, as the Middle Ages, the Early New Ages, the Renaissance, Baroque, and the Age of Enlightenment are under discussion in the article, and the optimal approach to the periodization of the Early History of Lithuania (1009-1795) from the point of view of the history of society is being searched for. …”
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Un aménagement de berge antique sur l’Auron, pour la villa de Lazenay à Bourges (Cher) by Alain Ferdière, Emmanuel Marot

“…They are part of the very vast archaeological complex of the “Lazenay” site occupied from Protohistory to the Middle Ages, more particularly linked to the large villa that developed in this area between the 1st c. …”
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The Stoic Tradition by John Sellars

“…The Neoplatonic practice of writing commentaries on the works of both Plato and Aristotle in late antiquity was central, laying the foundations for the subsequent philosophical traditions in Greek, Arabic, and Latin during the Middle Ages. The Stoics had no equivalent commentary tradition. …”
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NEW WORLD OUTLOOK IN THE LIGHT OF THE WESTERNIZATION OF PETER I by T. V. Chernikova

“…It removed all barriers to direct communication between Russians and foreigners, discredited the old ecclesiastical postulate that all Western Christians were “heretics”, paved the way for the beginning of internal modernization as well as for the tragic fate of the socio-cultural split in Russia between the upper educated social strata and the bulk of the Russian population that remained in the Middle Ages.…”
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The Phenomenon of «Islamic State» by A. V. Fedorchenko, A. V. Krylov

“…Current goals ofjihadists include the use of a power vacuum, bringing chaos in the various territories in the Muslim world, and prepare the ground for the transition to the ultimate goal of the program, namely the re-establishment, as it is declared, of the powerful theocratic state - the Caliphate, in the likeness of that which existed in Middle Ages, during the victorious Muslim conquests in the VII-IX centuries. …”
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Makroszczątki roślinne w torfie w analizie paleośrodowiskowych uwarunkowań osadnictwa na przykładzie stanowiska Łane Małe w dolinie Kłodnicy by Krzysztof J. Wójcicki, Marek Kloss

“…In the Fate Roman Period (the Przeworsk Culture settlement) and in the early Middle Ages, the peatland was subject to inundation due to frequent flooding, the peat accumulation was then halted by the delivery of fine-grained products of soil erosion.…”
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The Beginning of Liturgical Formation in Romania: The First Liturgical Manual in the Romanian Language by Dumitru A. Vanca

“…While different political realities shaped the three Principalities (Moldova, Wallachia and Transylvania) that later formed Romania (1918), the spiritual unity of the Romanian people has been nourished since the Middle Ages by the Eastern Christian faith. Situated at the intersection of cultural and religious currents, Romanian spirituality has often interacted with that of the Ruthenian Slavs, Serbs or Bulgarians, Greeks, Hungarians, Catholics, Lutherans, and Calvinists. …”
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EUROPEAN PLASTIC ART IN ANTHROPOLOGICAL DIMENSION: FROM THE CLASSICS TO THE POSTMODERNISM by R. M. Rusin, I. V. Liashenko

“…The article is devoted to the analysis of corporality as an attribute of plastic art in the Ancient art, the Middle Ages, the Renaissance, the modernism and the postmodernism. …”
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The Piesberg: A NW-German site of international importance for the Pennsylvanian (Late Carboniferous) by Angelika Leipner, Tobias Fischer, Patrick Chellouche

“…The importance of the Piesberg for international geosciences has been enabled through its very rich mining history beginning in the Middle Ages and its long scientific history beginning at the end of the 18th century. …”
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Archaeological heritage and problems of its preservation in Ghor province, Afghanistan by Aleksiejus Luchtanas

“…Ghor province is full of easily recognizable objects of archaeological heritage: • Ancient settlements (tapa), which have chronology from Eneolithic and Bronze Age to the Islamic period of the Middle Ages; • Remains of castles and fortresses from the 1st millennium A.D.; • Monuments from Buddhistic period - monastery of Vayguna Sange Bar (first half of the 15th millennium); • Remains of settlements and cult objects of Kabre Zabok; • Monuments of technology and engineering - mills, brickyards, ruins of bridges, caravanserais - still exist in many places. …”
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Mesa Redonda Complex (Villaverde del Río, Seville): a tell above the Lower Guadalquivir Valley by Marta Diaz-Zorita Bonilla, Martin Bartelheim, Döbereiner Chala-Aldana, Javier Escudero Carrillo, Francisco José García Fernández, Eduardo Ferrer Albelda, Pablo Garrido González, Fernando Daza Pastrana

“…According to the results of the archaeological survey, test pits and geoelectric prospection, the archaeological site offers a multi-layered continuous use of the summit from the Bronze Age to the Islamic Middle Ages (12th century AD). Due to its size and long diachronic sequence, in this case covering at least four millennia, the structure of the site complies with the definition of an archaeological tell. …”
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Transformation of Space Discourse: from Traditional Society to Postmodern Era by V. A. Shchipkov

“…The author refers the archaic society, the Antiquity and the Middle Ages to the traditional stage, the Renaissance, the Modernity and the Postmodernity to the post-traditional. …”
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Wpływ nowożytnego antropocentryzmu na relację człowieka do przyrody. Część pierwsza by Anita Ganowicz-Bączyk

“…One can distinguish at least several stages of the process, which led to this crisis, namely: stage of Magic and Myth, Ancient Times, Middle Ages, and Modern Times. The aim of this article is to show the process of development of an anthropocentric thought in Modern European culture when the culmination of this process is observed. …”
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Starożytne źródła antropocentryzmu by Anita Ganowicz-Bączyk

“…One can distinguish at least several stages of the process, which led to this crisis, namely: stage of Magic and Myth, Ancient Times, Middle Ages, and Modern Times. The aim of this article is to show the process of development of an anthropocentric thought in Ancient European culture. …”
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Entre peste et famine : caractérisation d’une crise de mortalité par l’étude de trois sépultures multiples du site de Kutná Hora – Sedlec (République tchèque, XIVe siècle)... by Auxane de Lépinau, Dominique Castex, Hana Brzobohatá, Jan Frolík, Filip Velímský, Jaroslav Brůžek, Petr Velemínský, Sacha Kacki

“…The later centuries of the Middle Ages were a time of recurrent epidemics and famines, some of which caused such huge mortality that mass graves and emergency burial grounds had to be created. …”
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