Le musée Konso au cœur de l'arène : quand les courtiers en développement (re)dessinent les contours du champ politique éthiopien by Chloé Josse-Durand

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„Votre Excellence est trop philosophe“. Pobyt Františka Antonína Šporka u císařského dvora v roce 1727 by Jiří Kubeš

“…At the same time the study deals with strategies employed by Sporck in order to win the favour of influential courtiers and seeks to answer the question whether he succeeded in this effort or was considered a weirdo. …”
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„O svoje zdravie maj usilovnú starosť“ Prevencia a liečba chorôb na esterházyovskom dvore v 17. storočí by Diana Duchoňová

“…The study will focus on health care on his court and not just about his family, but all the courtiers, which oversaw the court master whose responsibilities were in this area given by written instruction. …”
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National Rivalry among Hospitallers? by Karl Borchardt

“…After the reunification of the Habsburg lands in the early 1460s the commandery of Mailberg was given by Emperor Frederick III and his son Maximilian to their courtiers and creditors, some of whom were not even Hospitallers. …”
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‘Queer Reverence’: Aubrey Beardsley’s Venus and Tannhäuser by Nicole Fluhr

“…It recasts the legendary Christian bard who tries and fails to renounce pagan pleasures as a sexually adventurous dandy; visiting the underground realm of the exiled goddess Venus, he finds it equal parts Alice in Wonderland and My Secret Life, peopled by decadent courtiers who feast, gamble, and gambol together. Critics have read the text as an autobiographical reckoning with mortality; as authorial wish-fulfillment; as a self-reflexive satire of Decadence; as an exposé of excess; as a ‘decadent counterpublic’ that critiques nationalism; and as a parodic rewriting of Wagner that seeks to undercut his political and aesthetic legacies. …”
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