Quand les textes et les sols se taisent : le cas de Cencelle (Tarquinia, Italie, ixe-xve siècles) by Francesca Romana Stasolla, Sara Nardi Combescure

“…Cencelle has been the subject of extensive archaeological excavations for over three decades, yielding a substantial corpus of data pertaining to the daily lives of its inhabitants. The Italian Middle Ages are particularly rich in iconographic sources that reflect various aspects of urban life, rendering Cencelle a particularly compelling case study. …”
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Fortified architecture of the Hospitallers of Saint John of Jerusalem in southwest France, from the 12th to the 15th century by Yoan Mattalia

“…Only the written sources provide a few clues as to the presence of a castral architecture within the commanderies, without it being possible to determine whether it was an architectural legacy linked to the founding of the religious establishment through donations, or whether it was a real desire on the part of the religious community to build, ex nihilo, a castral complex intended to house it. At the end of the Middle Ages, during the Hundred Years' War, the hospital commanderies were the object of an important defense. …”
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L’humanisation des hybrides mi‑hommes, mi‑bêtes en question(s) by Jacqueline Leclercq-Marx

“…The present article examines the porosity of the boundaries between certain human-animal hybrids on the basis of the relatively intense cultural pressures directed at them that were evident between Antiquity and the Middle Ages. These cultural pressures, however, are less common among other creatures of the same general type. …”
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Transformation of the French external cultural policy concept at the turn of the century by S. I. Kosenko

“…From its genesis in the Middle Ages in the form of voluntary acts by its Monarchs and further by Republican Presidents this very concept was never translated into a basic programmatic document. …”
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Monuments of early East Slav-Serbian literary relations as sources for studying Serbian identity by Jelesijević Snežana V.

“…A brief overview is given of the observed traces of the application of Nomocanon and its impact on the life and consciousness of the Serbs in the Middle Ages. An important place among them is held by the realization of the idea of the symphony between the Church and the state, and their cooperation in regulating marital relations. …”
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De l’agglomération antique de la Croix de la Pierre à la paroisse de Saint-Martin-de-Claix (Beaulieu, Charbonnier-les-Mines - Puy-de-Dôme) : nouvelles données sur la topographie ur... by Philippe Bet, Bertrand Dousteyssier, Gabriel Fournier

“…Thanks to textual data, the history of this ancient terrain - abandoned probably at the end of the Early Roman Empire- can be followed during the Middle Ages: it is characterized by the Christianization of area and profound changes in the spatial organization.…”
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DIE BETROKKENHEID VAN KERK EN STAAT BY DIE BEVESTIGING VAN HUWELIKE MET ’N PERSPEKTIEF OP DRIE GEREFORMEERDE KERKORDES by P Strauss

“… There are two main reasons why the church, in general, became involved in the solemnising of marriages: the history of the church and, with it, especially the involvement of the Roman Catholic Church in the Middle Ages as the church of the Western World in this regard and theologically based principles. …”
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Obrazy války v italských městech v kázáních observanta a v cestovním deníku řeholníka z první poloviny 15. století by Jan Stejskal

“… At the beginning of the Renaissance, nobody asked questions about the natural state of mankind – that is, whether it is war or peace – as they had verifiably done on the threshold of the High Middle Ages. Dante defined war as an undesirable phenomenon devastating “poor Italy”. …”
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Enta ra norma común de l’aragonés escrito: una endrezera plena de barzals by Francho Nagore Laín

“…In the written Aragonese of the Middle Ages there was no common norm, neither in writing nor in morphology, but there were some trends. …”
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As Ordens Militares em combate nos finais da Idade Média: o caso da Guerra da Sucessão de Castela (1475-1479) by António Carlos Martins Costa

“…In the late fifteenth century, distant was the context of the emergence of the Military Orders, which occurred in the Classic Middle Ages, when Cluny diffused the ideal of a strong monasticism, chivalry was established as christianized group and the Crusade sought the freedom of holy places and the removal Islamic threat about Christianity. …”
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Wpływ nowożytnego antropocentryzmu na relację człowieka do przyrody. Część 2 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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Zatrzymać czas by Jan Zieliński

“…There is also a discussion of the allusions to Heinrich Heine and Rainer Maria Rilke, both in Napierski’s poem and in his novel, as well as a presentation of two Middle Ages legends: about the founding of the town of Trier by the king Trebeta and about the life- story of St. …”
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Snake and staff symbolism and healing by Francois P. Retief, Louise Cilliers

“…In the latter capacity Hermes also conveyed a negative connotation as protector of thieves. During the Middle Ages the caduceus entwined with the double-snake became a symbol of the healing sciences (pharmacy and alchemy in particular) and today, although mythologically incorrect, it is in common usage in the health care field. …”
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Écrire l’histoire des abbés du Mont Saint-Michel2. Robert de Torigni, ses outils, ses sources et sa méthode de travail by Stéphane Lecouteux

“…Mastering time was one of the major issues for chroniclers and historians of the Middle Ages. This investigation into the method adopted by Robert of Torigni to compose his chronicle of the abbots of Mont Saint-Michel highlights the three preliminary stages essential to its writing: updating the catalog of abbots, interpolation of pre-existing annals and building new records on the sidelines of “comput” tables (Easter annals). …”
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Quelle place pour les masculinités dans la spiritualité béguinale ? Penser les béguins au regard des études de genre by Claire Donnat-Aracil

“…By successively analyzing sermons intended for Beguine communities, pious poetry directly from these communities, and an epideictic text firmly opposed to them, this article aims, on the one hand, to highlight the possibility of a masculine reading of this spirituality, and to show, on the other hand, that the gender stereotypes conveyed by certain clerics in the 13th century have contributed, from the Middle Ages to the present day, to rendering invisible the possible presence of men within Beguine communities.…”
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New research findings on 11th-early 13th-century polychrome wood sculpture at the Royal Institute for Cultural Heritage, Brussels by Emmanuelle Mercier

“…11th- to early 13th-century medieval polychrome sculptures can be considered as ancestral testimony of knowledge, practices, and the exchange of carving and painting techniques in the Middle Ages. This paper aims to provide an analysis of 50 years of research in Belgium, including recent case studies. …”
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Le travail de Gaignières sur les archives du Val Notre-Dame. Une porte d’entrée sur un chartrier bien conservé by Marlène Helias-Baron

“…Including a list of abbots and drawings of burials, his work is a real port of entry to the history of Val Notre-Dame in the Middle Ages.…”
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From Locatio Operarum to Contratto D’Opera: Services Agreement in Italian Legal History by M. M. Pestov

“…Author demonstrates adaption of the Roman Law contract locatio-conductio in Middle Ages and Modern Period and steading forthcoming of differences characterizing this contract across European borders. …”
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Одна країна – декілька національностей: етнічний склад населення Польщі в історичній ретроспективі... by Мареш Тереза

“…In the Polish lands from the Middle Ages to today, Poles and representatives of different nations lived and functioned, interacting with each other, and mostly tried to coexist in harmony. …”
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Les Portraits nationaux à l’Exposition universelle parisienne de 1878 : un projet de galerie historique by Stéphane Paccoud

“…The aim of the National Portraits exhibition was to bring together original effigies of French historical figures from the Middle Ages to the mid-nineteenth century, presenting paintings, drawings, miniatures, sculptures and tapestries. …”
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