Staging Sedition despite Censorship: the Representation of the People on the Shakespearean Stage in 2 Henry VI by Delphine Lemonnier-Texier

“…Due to the lack of archival evidence, circumscribing the phenomenon of stage censorship in Early Modern England is a difficult task. Thanks to The Book of Sir Thomas More, there is proof that the Master of the Revels did censor scenes of popular sedition, and the presence of similar and yet apparently uncensored scenes in other Elizabethan plays is somewhat puzzling, even more so when these scenes of popular rebellion appear ambivalent, which is the case of the Jack Cade rebellion in Shakespeare’s 2 Henry VI. …”
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Numérique et apprentissages : prescriptions, conceptions et normes d’usage by Georges Ferone

“…Thus, student teachers contrast the book with the screen and the pen with the keyboard. …”
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Os leitores do Espelho de Cristina: um recorte das cortes by Ana Luisa Sonsino

“…In 1405, Christine de Pisan wrote a book of instruction that reached great success at the time: the Livre des Trois Vertus. …”
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Junqueiro and Saramago : Portugal, God and the human being by Carlos Nogueira

“…Starting from José Saramago's words about the book of poems Finis Patriae (1891) by Guerra Junqueiro, this article draws parallels between the lives and works of these two Portuguese authors who, during their lifetimes, had a significant impact on the national collective consciousness. …”
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Acedia and David Foster Wallace’s The Pale King by Zuzanna Ladyga

“…They can be classified as what Lauren Berlant calls “self-interruptions”: the events that guard the heterotopic territory of the subject’s (as well as the author’s) agency against interpellative calls of the book industry for self-exploitation and productivity.…”
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THE CRIMES OF THE NATIONS IN AMOS 1-2 by R Kessler

“…This lays solid ground for the Book of Amos, in which the social violence of the powerful against the weak and vulnerable in Israelite society is judged in the same way as a crime against God. …”
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Ce que la littérature fait au droit : le cas Emmanuel Carrère by Nicolas Thirion

“…In this a priori repulsive context, Carrère manages to deconstruct the myths, which form the fundament of legal science, of axiological universality and neutrality of law and jurists. Carrère’s book thus reveals what legal dogmatism seeks to mask : the preponderant place that judges occupy in the construction and evolution of law and power relations which characterize the legal field. …”
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On Love and the Canon: H.D., Robert Duncan, and “Venice-Venus” by Lara Vetter

“…Robert Duncan’s The H.D. Book offers an alternative literary history of modernism and contemporary poetry that moves H.D., Pound, Lawrence and Williams to its center, and that thus positions poets influenced by these four (including himself) as foundational to the post-WWII era. …”
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The 'Consensus Genvensis' revisited: the Genesis of the Genevan consensus of divine election in 1551 by E. A. de Boer

“… In the weekly Bible study meetings on Fridays in Geneva, called les congrégations, biblical books were expounded in lectio continua. On one occasion the doctrine of divine election was presented over against the intervention of Jerome Bolsec. …”
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Uncharitable Film Review by Susan Appe, Bruna De Morais Holanda

“… "Uncharitable" is a 2023 documentary directed by Stephen Gyllenhaal, based on Dan Pallotta's 2008 book of the same name, and incorporating Pallotta's Ted Talk delivered in March 2013. …”
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Livres de compte de la princesse Sanguszkowa (XVIIIe siècle) : la vie quotidienne au château en Pologne by Agnieszka Jakuboszczak

“… This article that is based upon the book of accounts, inventories and correspondence deals with princess Barbora Sanguszkowa (1718–1791), very well educated widow after Pawol Karol Sanguszko and a «muse» of one Polish salon. …”
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Introduction: Science, race and Nazism by Pedro Jesús Teruel

“…This sentence by Reiner Kunze opens a powerful testimony: that of Traudl Junge, Adolf Hitler’s very young secretary from December 1942 until the dictator’s death on 30 April 1945. In her book Bis zur letzten Stunde (published in English as Until the final hour: Hitler’s last secretary), Junge recounts how she gained access to the intimate circle of a man who – she would later realise – had committed monstrous acts beyond any known measure of inhumanity. …”
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Human Rights in Judaism and the Jewish Legal Tradition by A. V. Krylov, A. V. Fedorchenko

“…Book Review: V.P. Vorobev, R.L. Iliev. Human Rights in Judaism and the Jewish Legal Tradition. …”
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Capital punishment or capitol forgiveness? The enduring message of Dead Man Walking by Frederick Hale

“… The best-selling book and internationally popular film Dead Man Walking address squarely the issue of capitol punishment which has been extensively debated throughout much of the world and challenged the ethical thinking of Christian and non-Christian moralists. …”
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Krieg, Robert A., Treasure in the Field: Salvation in the Bible and in Our Lives by Jakub Urbaniak

“… In this concise book, Robert Krieg recasts the soteriological insights of the Bible in psychological-existential terms, i.e., by reflecting on salvation as God’s gift of one’s personal wholeness. …”
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Chammah J. Kaunda (ed.), Genders, Sexualities, and Spiritualities in African Pentecostalism: “Your Body is a Temple of the Holy Spirit.” by Johnathan Jodamus

“… Moral discourses pertaining to gender and sexuality in Africa are certainly shaped by various religious norms and cultural beliefs, and for more than a decade, Pentecostalism has emerged as a primary area of research focus on this subject.1 The particular book under review fits within the ever-expanding body of literature on the intersections between African Pentecostalism, gender, and sexuality. …”
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Vilnius and the Problem of Rococo, 1803–1830 by Tomasz Jędrzejewski

“…The author of the article presents the local Rococo culture on the basis of three examples: the periodical Tygodnik Wileński (1804), selected book publications from the early 1820s, and the activities of youth societies (Philomaths, Filarets, and ‘promieniści’ [‘Radiants’]). …”
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Paul Auster, Report from the Interior.“From you to you, and conversely” by Jean-Louis CLARET

“…The presence of a series of photographs at the end of the book provides a different and complementary point of view that prompts a subtle dialogue between text and image. …”
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La subsistance de l’homme : l’économie selon Karl Polanyi by Pierre Alary

“…In a historical perspective this book, primarily theoretical, leans on the role of the economy in society. …”
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Séries literárias juvenis: autoria e circulação da cultura by Andréa Borges Leão

“…Observing the phenomenon of cultural movement since the onset of Brazilian publishing industry, the essay offers some ideas on the status of authorship in contemporary series books for young adults. It studies the case of the writer Paula Pimenta. …”
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