La violence seigneuriale à la fin du Moyen Âge, vue par les représentations pédagogiques en France by Pierre Prétou

“…The iconography deployed, continuously since the Second World War, insert systematically crude or discreet representations of violence at the heart of the lordship system. …”
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The Storia della Biblioteca Berio of Luigi Marchini: reflections about the recent printed edition by Francesca Nepori, Graziano Ruffini, Valentina Sonzini

“…The unpublished work offers a detailed narrative from the birth of the Berio collection in the eighteenth century to the Second World War, with an appendix edited by Laura Malfatto to complete the contemporary history of the institution. …”
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La protection de la jeunesse comme légitimation du contrôle des médias by Jean-Matthieu Méon

“…This paper proposes a comparative analysis of the systems created in France and in the United States after the Second World War in order to control the content of youth publications. …”
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Femmes et activités physiques sous le régime de Vichy : politiques et enjeux médicaux by Fatia Terfous

“…This paper examines the political and medical ideas of women’s sport and physical education during the Second World War in France. The study uses national and private archives to show how, although women’s sport was not a priority either for politicians or doctors under the Vichy regime, they nonetheless raised the participation of French women in physical and sporting activities into a patriotic imperative. …”
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Felix Mitterer et le Volksstück by Marc Lacheny

“…Mitterer’s relation to the Volksstück—sitting between tradition and innovation—must be considered in the more general context of the continuation and renewal of this genre in the German-speaking countries after the Second World War. The first part of this contribution examines Mitterer’s vision of the Volksstück; the second analyses the way in which the Tyrolean playwright appropriates this genre by strengthening social criticism. …”
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Guerres et jeux vidéo : représentations et enjeux de mémoire de la Seconde Guerre mondiale by Thomas Facchini

“…The first is the evolution of videogame representations of the Second World War in the 2000s and various aesthetic (temporal, visual and sound) of combat that are reflected in these games. …”
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L’étude préalable et la conservation - restauration des graffitis des internés au camp de Drancy by Mélanie Curdy

“…During the Second World War, the Jewish prisoners of the transit camp in Drancy inscribed messages on the walls of their prison. …”
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Une revenance dans l’écriture poétique : les disparus et Vittorio Sereni by Yannick Gouchan

“…His work is marked by an existential injury due to his imprisonment during the Second World War making it impossible for him to take part in History in that period. …”
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Katharine Hepburn s’en va-t-en guerre / Katharine Hepburn goes to war by Jules SANDEAU

“…This article focuses on a relatively unstudied period of Hepburn’s career, which corresponds to the US participation in the Second World War. It analyses the way in which the films Woman of the Year (1942), Keeper of the Flame (1943), Dragon Seed (1944) and Without Love (1945) shape the star’s image in order to adapt it to their specific socio-historical context. …”
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Oživlá historie Ratenic. Orální historie jako nástroj komunitního zkoumání lokální historie by Michal Louč

“…Then the article presents the project outcomes on the three selected topics – the historical changes of landscape and public space, the working life and finally the life during the Second World War. …”
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L’aroumain, dialecte du roumain ou langue à part ? by Nicolas Trifon

“…The idea that Aromanian was a dialect of Romanian was long taken for granted, but it was not until after the Second World War that an attempt was made to argue it scientifically. …”
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Existențialismul românesc by Paul Cernat

“…Romanian Existentialism is rigorously described from its very beginnings with the Criterion group in the 20s: there are few Existentialisms identified in the Romanian culture and a special attention is given to the main tendencies and to the characteristics of the literary works associated with Existentialism in the 30s and 40s (when we had the so-called “war generation”). After the Second World War, when Existentialism became a well-known and significant philosophical and cultural movement in the world, we may also talk about Existentialism as present in the creation of few Romanian writers reviewed in this article.…”
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Juliette Dissel (1902-1962) : la passion du théâtre occitan by Joëlle Ginestet

“…Influenced by Léon Chancerel theatrical projects, she settled down in Toulouse just before the second world war. Supported by instigators of the Révolution nationale régionaliste to give work to her actors, she was then abandoned by almost everybody until she died in Pessac (Gironde) in 1962.…”
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Tsurumi Shunsuke et les frontières du pragmatisme, 1945-1960 by Michael Lucken

“…Less well known, however, is his philosophical work in the early part of his career, between the end of the Second World War and the renewal of the Japan-US Security Treaty. …”
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The Crisis of Human Rights. On the Importance and Timeliness of their Catholic Critique by Michał Gierycz

“… Human rights, as they developed after the Second World War, were intended to protect the objective goods necessary for the development of the human person. …”
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The Societal Relevance of the “Rheinischer Merkur” by Regina M. Frey

“…The Rheinischer Merkur, founded in 1946 shortly after the end of the Second World War and shut down by the German Bishops’ Conference in 2010, was a newspaper of this kind. …”
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L’identité nationale canadienne  au travers des affiches de propagande des Première et Seconde Guerres mondiales by Jean Quellien, Andrew Ives

“…This change in status obliged the country to invent a series of national symbols, and to discard the First World War strategy of appealing to isolated groups of citizens according to their ethnic or cultural origins. The Second World War posters reveal the federal government’s plan to create a new pan-Canadian nationalism, a process that would continue into the 1960s.…”
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Le luxembourgeois, enfant naturel de la Seconde Guerre mondiale by Nicolas Lefrançois

“…From simple oral and regional variety of the High German, it acquired the status of language to support an identity and political demand of the population during the Second World War: to dissociate itself from Nazi Germany and to affirm its cultural peculiarity. …”
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Appropriating the closure of Jesuit missions: Fritz Hochwälder's Das heilige Experiment by F. Hale

“… Since the eighteenth century the history of the Jesuit missionary endeavours in South America, especially their forced closure in 1760s, has been used rhetorically by writers in several genres, providing them with historical evidence to support a variety of latter-day causes. During the Second World War the Viennese Jewish playwright Fritz Hochwälder, then living in exile in Switzerland, followed in this tradition when he wrote his tragedy, Das heilige Experiment. …”
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L’Armure de François Ier : histoires d’un présent diplomatique by Juliette Allix

“…This Doppelküriss became a collector’s item, the incarnation of a royal figure, a European diplomatic issue, a trophy of war and was even considered an arm during the Second World War. The history of this armour sheds light on the way the life of an object can alter its nature and enrich one’s reading of it; it also examines the status accorded from the modern period to the present to the particular cultural heritage constituted by military objects.…”
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