La mémoire du crime. Complaintes de tradition orale, justice et société dans la Bretagne d’Ancien Régime by Éva Guillorel

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Éléments pour une étymologie culturelle de la censure dans l’aire anglophone, du XVIe au XXIe siècle by Delphine Lemonnier-Texier

“…When analysing the early modern period, the issue is even more problematic in so far as our perception of censorship tends to be tainted by contemporary phenomena attached to our conception of the freedom of expression. …”
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The Irish Catholic clergy, Stuart sovereignty and the 1650 appeal to the Duke of Lorraine by David FINNEGAN

“…This article seeks to explore the wide range of Irish Catholic political thinking in the early modern period by looking at its role in shaping events at a moment of particular stress during the British and Irish wars of the mid-seventeenth century. …”
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Rules and Practices: Builders’ Examinations in Early Modern Lisbon (17th-18th Centuries) by Sandra M.G. Pinto

“…This article explores the taking of examinations in Lisbon by those involved in the building trade in the early modern period. It contrasts rules with examination practices based on information gathered from regulatory documents and over two thousand records of craftsmanship examinations conducted between the mid-seventeenth and mid-eighteenth centuries. …”
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«Chi potrebbe esplicar con parole»: il lessico dei disastri nelle relazioni di età moderna tra scarti e continuità by Rosa Anna Paradiso

“…At the same time, we observe how a new discursive tradition is being created in the early modern period, exemplified on the one hand by the continuity in the use of syntagms that cannot be seen in the repertoires and the aforementioned descriptive strategies, and on the other by the affirmation of a sensationalist approach to information about the disaster. …”
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I segni della colpa: il giurista e la lettura del corpo a Venezia nella prima età moderna by Manuela Bragagnolo

“…The reading and interpretation of “moti” (motions), “gesti” (gesture) and “cenni” (signs) played a major role in the legal practice of the Early Modern period. Not only did the uncontrolled and temporary appearance of emotions on the defendant’s face and in his gestures constitute clues of guilt, but signs on the face and body could also reveal the defendant’s inclination to crime, thus making visible to the judge who was able to interpret these signs the invisible nature of the human soul. …”
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Cardinal Purple for Maximilian of Pernstein. A Contribution to Aristocratic Women’s Political Communication by Pavel Marek

“… The aim of the study is to show what means and methods served noblewomen in the early modern period when communicating with the papal court. …”
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Mystical handbooks of the late middle ages by B. McGinn

“… Mystical handbooks, or how-do-it books describing the path to union with God, was a genre that arose in Western Europe in the 12th century and lasted into the Early Modern period. These works, though rarely original, have often been overlooked, but they played an important role in disseminating mystical teaching to an increasingly broad audience. …”
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Cesty evropské historiografie k diplomacii raného novověku by Jiří Hrbek

“…This article tries to describe that demanding way and paradigm change when exploring the history of diplomacy in early modern period, both in (western) European space and the Czech historiography, which started to accept new impulses just after 1990. …”
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O Luto em Portugal: da Corte à Gente Comum (séculos XV-XVI) by Ana Mafalda Pereira Lopes

“…We will analyze the concepts and practices of mourning and their evolution throughout the Early Modern period, by reviewing the contents mainly of royal chronicles, inserting the narratives of mourning in their political contexts. …”
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Sázka na nejistou kartu. Armádní služba a sociální úpadek Raduitů de Souches na přelomu 17. a 18. století by Vítězslav Prchal

“…They were not only the inherent part of aristocratic warrior careers, but they also, in the situation of yet undeveloped fiscal mechanisms of a premodern state that was still searching for ways how to finance its permanent army, represented a risk factor which, to a considerable extent, decided about success or failure not only of the particular individuals, but as well their families and other generations of the dynasty, in the strictly socially stratified society of the early modern period. …”
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Dreaming and Sleeping in the Children’s Poetry of Laura E. Richards  by Jennifer Lewin

“…Poems about sleep and dreams since ancient times and specifically in the early modern period have reconciled opposites such as vulnerability and control; Richards’s sleepers find themselves performing similar work with the help of external human and environmental support.…”
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À la recherche des réseaux intertextuels : défis de la recherche littéraire à grande échelle by Valentina Fedchenko, Dario Maria Nicolosi, Glenn Roe

“…Drawing on a large curated corpus of French texts of the Early Modern period, the authors describe in detail the various steps for building intertextual networks using the output of text reuse algorithms. …”
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El aprovechamiento del cauce fluvial en una encomienda andaluza de la Orden de San Juan: las aceñas de Alcolea del Río en el siglo XV by Juan Carlos Arboleda Goldaracena

“…The development experienced by Alcolea during the 15th century was the cause of an important achievement at the beginning of the Early Modern period: its independence from Lora del Río in 1504.…”
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The Relativity of Kinship and Gender-Specific Logics in the Context of Marriage Dispensations in the Nineteenth-Century Alps (Diocese of Brixen) by Margareth Lanzinger

“…It concludes that most of the classic reasons for dispensations valid during the early modern period and the nineteenth century were focused on women.…”
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In the Shadow of the Volcano: the Etna Region in the modern Period by Emanuela Garofalo

“…The aim of this article is to analyze architectural works built in the area of Etna during the early modern period by weaving together data drawn from archival and iconographical sources and the direct observation of select architectural case studies. …”
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Tracing the Origins of a Practice: The Earliest Recipes for Alcoholic Beverages in Medieval Arabic Cookbooks by Limor Yungman

“…A lexical examination, probing into the relationship between an object name, the drink, and its content, reveals linguistic practices that enabled the continuation of drinking habits at least until the threshold of the early modern period.  …”
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Singing complaintes criminelles across Europe by Una McIlvenna

“…The complainte, a song about crime and punishment, is not simply a French phenomenon, but has been found all over Europe since the early modern period. This article compares the French complaintes of 1870-1940 with their counterparts in English, Italian, German and Dutch to reveal European similarities as well as regional differences. …”
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La transmission de legs ottomans en Tunisie. La maisonnée Bū Ḥājib des années 1870 aux années 1930 by M’hamed Oualdi

“…This case study shows that families and household units – central to Ottoman society during the early modern period – remained vital to reshaping society through the action of women during the colonial period. …”
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„Kdykoliv jsem měla volnou chvilku, něco jsem sepisovala.“ Dílo Justiny Siegemund v kontextu raně novověkých ženských přírodovědných spisů z německojazyčných oblastí... by Hana Jadrná Matějková

“…On the basis of comparison of their treatises the study tries to find out the potential existence of some patterns of “women’s writing” in the field of natural sciences in the Early Modern Period. The other question is to what degree did those patterns change over the period of hundred years which lays between the publication of the first and last of the analysed books. …”
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