Ženy a peníze v českých zemích ve středověku a novověku by Dagmar Grossmannová

“… If we look at the relationship between women and money in numismatic terms, in the history of Bohemia we can find several interesting women who minted their own money or were at least involved in the production of money. In the Middle Ages these included Duchess Emma Regina († 1006), the wife of the Bohemian Duke Boleslaus II, and Eufemia of Hungary († 1111), the wife of the Olomouc duke Ota I the Fair. …”
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Bœufs gaulois et bœufs français : morphologies animales et dynamiques économiques au cours de La Tène et des périodes historiques by Colin Duval, Benoît Clavel

“…From the first decrease in livestock size as a consequence of domestication, to growth between the Iron Age and the Roman period, and small individuals during the Middle Ages to the heavy Charolais breeds currently grazing in our pastures, this study aims to link cattle morphology and economic variations in order to improve our vision of French pastoral history, based on archaeozoological remains. …”
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Le pouvoir laïque est-il profane ? Classement distinctif et spiritualisation seigneuriale en Haute-Allemagne à la fin du Moyen Âge by Joseph Morsel, Camille Noûs

“…The article proposes a different interpretation of this practice, starting from a specific empirical terrain – secular lords in Upper Germany in the late Middle Ages – and considering seriously the caro/spiritus schema – instead of the common, albeit dated profane/sacred binomial couple –, not only as a discursive system but also and above all as the actual ideational matrix of social practices. …”
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Ambivalent and Contradictory: Victorian Architects’ Responses to Technology by Richard W. Hayes

“…Both Augustus Welby Northmore Pugin and John Ruskin saw architecture as the optimal site from which to mount vigorous critiques of the modern world as they idealized the Middle Ages in order to denounce the social ills concomitant with industrialism. …”
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Sung-Wook Moon, Rutebeuf ou une écriture du « divers » by Sung-Wook Moon

“…Rediscovered for two centuries, Rutebeuf now has the status of a great poet of the Middle Ages. This reputation, however, had the side effect of discouraging the effort to revisit his work on a fresh basis. …”
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An inversion archaism of the Russian revolution by E.A. Nagornov

“…The roots of the revolution go back to the Russian Middle Ages and the Mongol yoke, to the popular uprisings of the past centuries. …”
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Expressões retóricas do amor no Cancioneiro Geral de Garcia de Resende by Geraldo Augusto Fernandes

“…In antiquity, the orator was guided by elocutio to make his speech a rich ornament with the intention of convincing his audience that he, the orator, defended a correct thesis, and that his oratory was, above all, a piece for delight. In the Middle Ages, the ornaments used by orators became poetic composition not only as a work of lexicon, but also as the way in which poetry was structured. …”
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AN EXAMINATION OF THE CONCEPT AND CLASSIFICATIONS OF MAQAM IN THE HISTORICAL PROCESS (13th-20th CENTURIES) by Emre Akgün

“…Classical Turkish music, which has been continuing to be fed with the Middle Ages Islamic world since the 10th century, owes its development to the pieces written by many theorists and composers, especially Fârâbî, İbn-î Sînâ, Safüyüddin Urmevî, Abdülkâdir Merâgî, Bedri Dilşad, Lâdikli Mehmed Çelebi, Abdülbâkî Nâsır Dede, Dimitri Cantemir, Rauf Yektâ. …”
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Lost and Found: The Missing Flamboyant Gothic Door from the Château de Varaignes by Martha Easton

“…In the late 1920s, the Flamboyant Gothic portal that had graced the Château de Varaignes since the late Middle Ages was sold after the château itself had fallen into disrepair. …”
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Conversions to Catholicism among Fin de Siècle Writers: A Spiritual and Literary Genealogy by Claire Masurel-Murray

“…They were also influenced by their Pre-Raphaelite predecessors’ interest in the Catholic Middle Ages as well as by their emphasis on the aesthetic dimension of religious experience, and claimed their kinship with the art for art’s sake creed of French Parnassians and Symbolists (Gray, in particular, translated several of Verlaine’s Catholic poems). …”
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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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