Christ as once for all sacrifice: a cultrual reading of Hebrews by K. J. Pali

“… The practice of sacrifices to the ancestors is still prevalent among some African Christians and it is inspired by various factors such as religious considerations or political aspirations through African renaissance. Furthermore, scholars argue as to whether this practice of sacrifices to the ancestors is Biblical or not. …”
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Les anciens vignobles « ornements des villes » : legs, images, opportunités, perspectives by Jean-Pierre Husson

“…This landscape environment was partly overlaid by urban sprawl but sometimes goes through a kind of renaissance. It is now contemplated as part of the urban green infrastructure and urban cultural heritage. …”
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Konec hippocratovského světa? Příspěvek k otázce pojetí nemoci mezi renesancí a 19. stoletím by Daniela Tinková

“…Essential were primarily the decomposition of ancient Hippocratic-Galen paradigm and the birth of a new model of consideration and defining of illness in the period between the Renaissance and the mid-19th century. We focus on three issues: the question of the definition of illness; efforts to create “nosological” classification schemes; efforts to understand the disease contagion, and the transmission and spread of disease. …”
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Un largo proceso en la definición historiográfica de las fuentes del arte medieval: el arte antiguo como referente para la escultura románica by José Alberto Moráis Morán

“…Since the appearance of the "Romanesque" term, coined by Charles de Gerville in 1818, until the publication in 1960 of the Erwin Panofsky´s book Renaissance and Renascences in Western Art, it was advanced a lot in the definition of such influences. …”
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The birth of the Yoruba hegemony in post-abolition candomblé by Luis Nicolau Parés

“…While the Yoruba ethnogenesis and the racial and cultural nationalism of the « Lagosian Renaissance » in the 1890s may have indirectly contributed to the late 19th century Bahian « Nagôization » of candomblé, the paper suggests that the increasing religious predominance of the Nagô « nation » was mainly the result of competitive local Creole micro-politics.…”
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INTERPRETATION PHILOSOPHY AND E. MEŠKAUSKAS METHODOLOGY by Krescencijus Stoškus

“…But in this case whole ages (e.g. the Middle Ages, the Renaissance, even the Roman epoch) and world countries may be remained outside the field of philosophical creation. …”
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Kontrapunkt im 17. Jahrhundert – ein Lehrgang by Johannes Menke

“…Entscheidend für diesen Zeitraum ist nicht die Komplexität des Kontrapunktischen an sich, sondern die Integration neuer Techniken wie Figuren, Figuration, Sequenz, Chromatik und Variation in die aus der Renaissance tradierte Satztechnik. Dies kann anhand des zweistimmigen Choralvorspiels, der dreistimmigen Partita oder der vierstimmigen Toccata geübt und erlernt werden.…”
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Zoomorphism, Biomimetics and Computational Design by Benedetta Terenzi, Saverio Mecca

“…In architecture, the image of the animal has been used both in allegorical and structural terms: from the Sphinx to the humanistic-Renaissance representations, Art Nouveau to biomorphic architecture. …”
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Tsardom of Muscovy Traditional Culture and Peter's Westernization Project by T. V. Chernikova

“…These two approaches were also reflected in the dispute between the jurists of the late 16th century about the legitimacy of the state power in Russia – “illegitimate tyranny” by Herberstein and Fletcher and “legitimate despotism” by Boden. These debates in RenaissanceEurope informed and shaped the concept of the patrimonial monarchy (patrimonial system) in Russia, which was subsequently developed by Russian influential historians (V.O. …”
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L’Éducation nouvelle et l’idée de liberté : approche trialectique by Emilie Osmont

“…From a model of thinking based on a trialectic logic, this article proposes to study the conditions of existence of the link between freedom and education since the humanism of the Renaissance was defined as consubstantial. More specifically, referring to the paradigm of complexity, which is enriched by the contributions of trialectic logic, we study the relationship freedom / education on repositioning it in a complex network of influences in order to highlight the concepts third who successively governed it. …”
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Las figuras cómicas del mono y de los portadores de pintura corporal negra entre los nahuas prehispánicos y su transformación en la época colonial by Agnieszka Brylak

“…Due to the presence of the same types—the ape and the black or devil—in medieval and Renaissance popular and carnivalesque culture, part of this study will briefly mention the transformation of pre-Hispanic jesters and their fusion with their European counterparts that occurred in colonial times in New Spain.…”
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‘I’m no Medievalist’: George Gilbert Scott and the Interpretation of the Gothic Revival in Remarks on Secular and Domestic Architecture: Present and Future (1857) by Isabelle Cases

“…This definition of a true Gothic Renaissance owed him harsh criticisms from famous medievalists, especially on the questions of restoration and the industrial society of his time, but also reveals contradictions and tensions within the Gothic Revival.…”
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Pouvoirs en conflit dans le personnage de Jane Shore dans The First and Second Parts of King Edward IV de Thomas Heywood by Frédérique Fouassier

“…This paper purposes to study the skein woven by the concepts of femaleness, conflict and power in Heywood’s Jane Shore, by comparing her to other Renaissance versions of her character. She unwillingly arouses Edward’s desire, unaware as she is of the power of her beauty on men. …”
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D’imagier à ymaginero : la présence de sculpteurs septentrionaux en Espagne aux xve-xvie siècles by María Teresa Rodríguez Bote

“…Renaissance sculpture in Spain welcomes an important migration flow of carvers from northern countries, mainly from France ; most of them settle down in the former Kingdom of Castile. …”
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Pater : de la décadence à l’euphuisme by Bénédicte Coste

“…Le rapport de Walter Pater à la Décadence est complexe et nécessite une explicitation de son rapport à la temporalité afin de constater que les concepts de renaissance et de décadence finissent par se recouper à travers l’élévation de l’articulation temporelle à la dignité d’un culte ou au trivial de la mode ou de la babiole. …”
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From Dumas fils’s Étrangère to Wilde’s Aventurière: French Theatrical Forerunners of the Wildean Female Dandy by Ignacio Ramos Gay

“…My aim is thus twofold: first to recognize the debt British playwrights contracted towards French drama and, secondly, to state that French theatrical stereotypes, even when being the main cause of native playwrights’ drowsiness, were also the first step towards the renaissance of English drama, as it can be observed throughout Oscar Wilde’s, Pinero’s, Gilbert’s and Jones’s dramaturgies.…”
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Les dialogues de Walter Pater avec Platon : le philosophe et l’amoureux by Anne-Florence Gillard-Estrada

“…And in his essays on Plato, collected in Plato and Platonism (1895), he took up the aesthetics and the principles formulated in The Renaissance (1873). In his very personal reconstruction of Plato, Pater thus reasserted the role given to the sensible and the visible.…”
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A longitudinal blended learning curriculum for bedside ultrasound education in pulmonary and critical care fellowship by Harry Kuperstein, Kunal Gada, Werda Alam, Sahar Ahmad

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Britomart Quest Anew, Victorians Revive the Elizabethan Faerie Queene as Campaigns for Women’s Suffrage Intensify by Susan Clayton

“…Nineteenth century reeditions and reworkings of the Renaissance The Faerie Queene, can be equated with renewed interest in one of Spenser’s leading protagonists, Britomart, daughter of a knight, who herself passed as one. …”
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Le jardin japonais en Europe by Ursula Wieser Benedetti

“…The enthusiasm for Japanese Gardens which arose in Europe towards the second half of the 19th century in the wake of the “Japonism” movement, has in recent years encountered a vivid renaissance which has given rise to various representations of the Japanese Garden in the West. …”
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