Anthropological view of plague epidemics in the his­torical past by T.F. Khaydarov, D.A. Dolbin

“…Until recently, the myths dating back to the Middle Ages have prevailed in scientific circles. They have remained unrevised despite the latest achievements in the research on the plague bacterium Yersinia pestis, the history of climate and medicine, and the extensive published data, making it of an interest to both reconsider certain established dogmas and reconstruct the algorithm of the course of major plague epidemics from the historical past using the results of the available paleogenetic, epidemiological, and climatological studies. …”
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Conceptual apparatus formation of the problem of building of communicative reflection of future specialists by Svetlana V. Sannikova

“…A brief description of reflection in the Middle Ages is based on the teachings of Augustine and Thomas Aquinas. …”
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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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Conservatism of funeral rites of the western Balts by V.I. Kulakov

“…A parallel was drawn between these features and the data of the merchant Wulfstan on the funerary jumps of the Prussians of the 9th century. In the early Middle Ages, the winner of funeral races received a significant part of the property of the buried tribesman, while the prize-winner in the Prussian funeral arrivals during the era of the Reformation was symbolically enriched only with a small change of one shilling. …”
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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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Natural Human Freedoms as the Basis of Legal Regulation by Yu. G. Izotov

“…The author reviews the existing concepts of natural law: ancient philosophers, religious figures of the Middle Ages and the New Age, philosophers of the Enlightenment, I. …”
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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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The Concept “Res Publica” and Its Reception in Byzantine Law: Transliterations by Yu. Ya. Vin

“…It has been thoroughly studied in relation to the period of the Middle Ages. The task of the author is to demonstrate, that the possibilities of applying the information approach to the field of cognitive surveying to reveal the content of receptions and LatinGreek transliterations of the concept “res publica” with the help of the Expert System “Byzantine Law and Acts”. …”
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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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VIRTUAL TOURISM ON THE EXAMPLE OF THE DEFUNCT KOSCELISKO MEDIEVAL CHURCH IN THE NORTH-WESTERN SLOVAKIA by Vladimír CECH, Pavel HRONČEK, Karol WEIS

“…This study focuses on the Middle Ages and locations in Slovakia (former Hungary), and presents a methodology that is generally applicable for the research and visualisation of any similar cultural sites, and thus opening up their potential to tourists. …”
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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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Regulation of the Employment Status of Seafarers by Boris Jerman

“…However, it is necessary to highlight that the legal regulation of seafarers is not a new phenomenon, since it is possible to find regulations from as early as the Middle Ages that contained certain provisions that could serve as an example for modern regulations. …”
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Le port romain du quartier de Saint-Lupien à Rezé/Ratiatum (Loire-Atlantique) : origine et évolution by Jimmy Mouchard, David Guitton, Martial Monteil, Xavier Favreau, Nicolas Ménez, Matthieu Yacger

“…Along with a nascent hydrological crisis at the end of the Early Roman Empire, the docks were subsequently destroyed and abandoned, gradually being replaced by the installation of a slipway, that would remain active until the beginning of the Middle Ages.…”
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“We will give you recite, and you will not forget” (Quran, 87:6). A tale of the Kazan Khan and his clever vizier by Zaytsev I.V.

“…However, as an example of playing on words of an anecdotal nature, this story could well have appeared in the Volga region in the early Middle Ages. After all, it is based on the difference in reading the Arabic language and Turkic speech recorded in Arabic script. …”
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Genres of old Serbian literature in novels of the second half of the 20th century: On the example of the novels: 'Nišči' - Vidosav Stevanović, 'Hazardski rečnik' - Milorad Pavić an... by Furtula Katarina N.

“…Distortion and deformation are consequences of the loss of order based on assured salvation, which the Christian world of the Middle Ages implied. Therfore, we attempted to answer the questions that arise before us: What makes a genre a genre? …”
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