Aristocracia, monasterios y conflictos por la tierra. Reforma eclesiástica y relaciones sociales en León (siglos XI-XII) by Mariel Pérez

“…This paper examines a series of disputes over land between the Benedictine monastery of Sahagún and Leonese noble families in order to understand the transformations in the relationship between laymen and clerics in the Kingdom of Leon after the impact of the Gregorian Reform. The essay posits that those disputes were an expression of the development of a more competitive kind of relationship between the aristocrats and the monastery in which pious donations got integrated into a negotiated logic of reciprocal exchange.…”
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There is No Hop(p)e neboli Blaise Pascal a ambivalence kosmické hrůzy by Zika, Richard, Váša, Ondřej

“…The essay focuses on the survival of Pascal’s metaphors concerning the cosmic wasteland. …”

Housing for a Lonely Generation by Marija Maric

“…Organised around the advertising language for three co-living platforms—WeLive, Quarters (now Habyt), and the Collective—this essay frames the corporate housing model as inseparable from the digital media infrastructures that distribute its contents. …”
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Locke’s Composition Principle and the Argument for God’s Immateriality by Tyler Hanck

“…Locke’s argument for God’s immateriality in Essay IV x is usually interpreted as involving a principle that in some way prohibits the causation of thought by matter. …”
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Courbet, Catlin, and the Exploitation of Native Americans by Jane M. Roos

“…This essay interrogates connections between Gustave Courbet’s The Painter’s Studio (1855; Musée d’Orsay) and the visual culture of American Indian performance in Paris. …”
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Early Nineteenth-Century New Yorkers and the Invention of New York City by François WEIL

“…This essay explores the « invention » of New York City in the antebellum era, or the parallel forms of cultural processes and elaborations that led to the emergence of a new sense of self-awareness in the city. …”
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Impressionist Art in Private Clubs: The Case Study of the Union League Club (1886-1902) by Claire Hendren

“…Not only did impressionist art become a way for club members to assert their advanced taste in art, but the Union League Club’s early praise of Impressionism, this essay argues, was key to the country’s reception of the movement.…”
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Byron and Nineteenth-Century Literary Philhellenism in America by Maria Schoina

“…This essay traces Byron’s presence in early nineteenth-century American culture and his extensive influence on philhellenic poetry written during and after the Greek Revolution. …”
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O campo é um laboratório para a gestão ambiental by Neli Aparecida de Mello-Théry

“…In this way, reality becomes an essential laboratory, vital for understanding the complex processes between nature and society and for understanding different ways of doing management. This methodological essay aims to point out some paths for the elaboration of territorial environmental management plans, covering from the choice of the place to be studied to the final stage of participatory restitution. …”
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Venezuela such as an example of a stable dictatorship in Latin America by Alejandro Diaz Castro

“…Abstract   The following article aims to analyse the current situation in Venezuela, identifying some helpful information written by academics on this topic. Thus, this essay will focus on the five stages a government faces when it loses legitimacy, as described by Samuel Huntington in his book Democracy's third wave. …”
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YOU The Obscure, un pronom très personnel by Monique DE MATTIA-VIVIES

“…Report from the Interior by Paul Auster is an autobiographical narrative told in the 2nd person. This essay focuses, from a linguistic and psycholinguistic perspective, on the title itself, Report from the Interior, as bearing the trace of a conflict, which is reflected in the use of the 2nd person. …”
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A paper Caliphate: understanding the Islamic State through its documents by Diogo Bercito

“…The Islamic State is a terror organization that distinguishes itself from other similar groups by the establishment of a bureaucratic structure that projects the image of a state. This essay investigates documents produced in Iraq under the banner of the caliphate. …”
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Of an Apocalyptic Tone Recently Adopted in Theatre: British Drama, Violence and Writing by Dan Rebellato

“…In the twenty-first century, however, these representations have evolved in a new way, characterised both by an escalation of the scale and intensity of the violence, to a point one could call apocalyptic, coupled with specifically non-realist dramaturgical and theatrical modes of production. The essay explains these phenomena as two sides of an attempt to resist neoliberal capitalism’s totalising colonisation of our experience of the real and to imagine the unimaginable end of capitalism.…”
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The School of Hawthorne: New England Women Writers after the Civil War by Marek Wilczyński

“…The main argument of the essay is that New England women writers of the late 19th century, such as Mary E. …”
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Generational Shadows: Parties of Memory and Hope in El Salvador by Ellen Moodie

“…This essay contemplates generation and memory in the recent history of El Salvador. …”
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Comparing Exceptionalism in France and the USA by Elsa Devienne

“…By observing the French media’s reactions to the two major decisions taken by the Supreme Court in the 1970s and their direct consequences, this essay analyzes not only the French gaze on American practices but also how these American decisions were manipulated by the journalists to stoke the French debate about abolition.…”
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Local communities on-line: mapping local Web-TVs in Italy by Giacomo Andreucci

“…A specific role is being played by local communities (neighborhoods, social centers, parishes, etc.) which, thanks to the on-line spreading of video content, can have their own TV channel to reach their members and promote themselves in global networks. This essay will map the distribution of these locally-originated web TVs in Italy investigating their ways of strengthening communication within the community and at the wider level of the global Internet network.…”
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El preludio de la tormenta: Conflictos y movilización social en Nicaragua 2014-2018 by Elvira Cuadra Lira

“…Initial analyses argued that the uprising was impossible to foresee (Marti i Puig 2019; Cabrales 2019); however, for several years before, there had been protests and mobilizations that fed an underground current of discontent. This essay provides an overview of these social actions and analyzes three emblematic cases of emerging actors.…”
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Small Elegies for America by Lindsey Freeman

“…Many contemporary artists are utilizing small-scale artworks to represent difficult truths of contemporary American life, such as alienation, disenchantment, precarious housing, and economic insecurity writ large. In this essay, focusing on the artists Michael Paul Smith, Thomas Dolye, and James Casebere, the imaginations that encircle homes, neighborhoods, and small towns are complicated through utopian and dystopian art works that draw attention to past attachments to the future and the need for large changes now. …”
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The problem of governance by Jennifer Brick Murtazashvili

“…For all its insight, this essay makes a case that governance remains especially significant to promote peace and prosperity in fragile states. …”
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