Memory’s Seams: Scarcity and Preciousness in Earth Pigments by Eugenia Kisin

“…More recently, artists and community stakeholders working in Devon have reanimated the natural pigment as an important piece of biocultural heritage. This object biography tells the story of Bideford black and its parallel transformations of extraction, from the exploitation of a finite resource to its displacement by synthetics, whose ‘toxic progenies’ (Davis 2022) make different kinds of claims on the future. …”
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Cheeses Lying Fallow. The Difficult Revival of Cheese Production in a Post-industrial Ariège Valley (Pyrenees, France) by Tristan Fournier, Olivier Lepiller, Guillaume Simonet

“…Based on documentary research, interviews and ethnographic observations, this article traces the social biography of this cheese since the middle of the 19th century. …”
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Un’ epica bibliografia visiva della storia della distruzione dei libri by Roberta Cesana

“…Fanno parte di un progetto decennale dal titolo Pulp: A Short Biography of the Banished Book. Iniziato nel 2014, ha portato l’artista a visitare archivi e biblioteche in tutto il mondo e a incontrare donne e uomini che quotidianamente si spendono per difendere i libri e le culture ai margini. …”
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Des œuvres en morceaux et des trous sur les murs. La difficulté d’écrire la vie des œuvres du Pérugin au XIXe siècle by Éloïse Dumas

“…This upheaval in the life of the objects had a profound effect on their biography, which historians wrote throughout the century, reuniting the dismembered altarpieces in books.…”
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Neli Cornea: o scriitoare necunoscută și jurnalui ei de război by Raluca Dună

“…The article considers the work and biography of an unknown Romanian writer, Neli Cornea, totally unknown in the history of Romanian literature. …”
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The literary portrayals of Ivan Mazepa in Byron’s Mazeppa and Pushkin’s Poltava. A comparative analysis by Tatiana Krol

“…The juxtaposition of Mazeppa and Poltava explains ways in which details from Mazepa’s biography and exploits that inspired Byron’s creative imagination and kindled his desire to recount the story of Mazepa can be contrasted with Pushkin’s presentation of the same protagonist as generated by his own viewpoints on the political aspects surrounding the events of the Great Northern War, specifically the Battle of Poltava. …”
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Sámuel Teleki and Janus Pannonius by Alfonso Lombana Sánchez

“…Not only is Teleki responsible for the first collatio of some very important manuscripts and editions of Janus, but he also completed the edition with a biography and a collection of valuable historical testimonies. …”
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Des fromages en friches. Le difficile renouveau de la production fromagère dans une vallée post-industrielle ariégeoise by Tristan Fournier, Olivier Lepiller, Guillaume Simonet

“…Based on documentary research, interviews and ethnographic observations, this article traces the social biography of this cheese since the middle of the 19th century. …”
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Lytton Strachey : l’historien intime de deux reines by Jeannine Hayat

“…The British writer Lytton Strachey (1880-1932) wrote biographies of the two most eminent Queens of England : Queen Victoria (1921) and Elizabeth and Essex (1928). …”
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La psychanalyse, est-elle homophobe? by Mari Paz Rodríguez Diéguez

“…In order to do so, we revisited Freud’s extremely well-known case of the “young homosexual woman”, starting from new historical elements published in her biography entitled, Sidonie Csillag: Jeune Homosexuelle chez Freud, lesbienne dans le siècle. …”
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Editorial by Thomas D. Wilson

“…Wilson, and when I asked for a biography of myself, one of the systems told me I was dead! …”
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« La souris ne peut pas jouer avec le chat ». Marc Christin, un écrivain à l’asile (Cery, vers 1900) by Marco Cicchini

“…The first part of the article traces the biography of its author: an asylum patient, Marc Christin is a writer who has suffered numerous criminal convictions, before being established as a case study in "constitutional psychopathy". …”
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Glorifier dans la pierre : nouvelles observations sur la production épigraphique de Guillaume Philandrier (1505-1565) à Rodez by Caroline de Barrau-Agudo

“…This will lead to the question of Philandrier’s love of monumental epigraphy, taking into account his biography documented now by the numerous studies of Madame Frédérique Lemerle. …”
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SPIRITUALITY AND CONTINGENCY IN NARRATIVE BIOGRAPHICAL INTERVIEWS WITH PRIMARY SCHOOL LEADERS OF CATHOLIC SCHOOLS IN THE NETHERLANDS by J. Copier, C.A.M. Hermans, T. Van der Zee

“… There is a growing interest in personal biographies of school leaders as a source of their leadership qualities. …”
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Power at play in paranormal history by Christine Ferguson

“… This article presents a collective object biography and discussion of the Cottingley Fairy artefacts – cameras, photographs, watercolour sketches and print materials – held at the National Science and Media Museum. …”
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Gavrilo Princip and street art: An example of ideological transformation by Lazarević-Radak Sanja

“…In order to understand the use of his biography in popular culture and in the public space, the analysis included murals in which Princip is represented as: 1. …”
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The Pathology of Aljmea fi Tarikh Alarabi Alhadis by farhad Rajabi

“…This movement has developed from the traditional biography writing into modern scientific literary history. …”
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Grodek (1914) – le testament poétique de Georg Trakl by Natalia Teuber-Terrones

“…Certainly this timeless interest in him and his work can be explained by his complex personality—which can be seen as the archetypal ‘poète maudit’—and his unconventional biography but also by his mould-breaking poetry. His work is not only considered as the origin of ‘expressionist’ poetry, but also defined as ‘hermetic’ poetry by a lot of specialists. …”
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Caught between dialogue and diktat – The International Midwives Union 1933–1945 by Anja Katharina Peters

“…The paper is based on the author’s biography of Nanna Conti. …”
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APPROACHES TO THE AMPLE-FORM WORKS IN MUSIC SCHOOLS by Cătălina GUŢANU

“…To help the student study the work more easily and approach it correctly from an interpretative and stylistic point of view, the professor should present him/her with information regarding the composer’s biography, the style of the concerto and the period in which it was composed. …”
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