O comércio de “couro dourado”/guadameci entre Córdova e Lisboa: um contrato de venda de 1525 by Franklin Pereira

“…Besides commenting such contract, the author refers the uses of gilt leather in both Iberian countries coming out of the Reconquest as part of the mudejar fashions of the 15th-16th centuries.…”
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La peur du prolétaire et les paradoxes du socialisme shavien dans Widowers’ Houses by Stéphane Guy

“…Beyond the fear that is represented throughout and the dread of capitalism that it seeks to bring about among the Victorian public, the play builds up a dramaturgy of threat, breaking with the fashionable theatres of late nineteenth century London and paradoxically making the proletarian into both a victim and symptom of capitalist immorality.…”
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Hydration Myths by Lauren Caruso, Karla P. Shelnutt, Gail Kauwell

“… Whether at school, work, or running errands, it is common to see people sipping on their water bottles. This fashionable trend is a healthy one because water is essential for life. …”
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Hydration Myths by Lauren Caruso, Karla P. Shelnutt, Gail Kauwell

“… Whether at school, work, or running errands, it is common to see people sipping on their water bottles. This fashionable trend is a healthy one because water is essential for life. …”
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Le vers comme indice d'artificialité dans le théâtre de T.S. Eliot : The Confidential Clerk by Daniel Jean

“…As a part of his agenda for reinventing Verse Drama for the contemporary stage, which he set out on in wake of WW2, Eliot presented the play as an attempt to make verse acceptable on the stage by using a fashionable form of drama, and by leaving out all poetry. …”
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Donald Barthelme’s The King: The Manifold Guises of (an) American(’s) Memory by Aurélie Delevallée

“…It also argues that despite the extensive cultural library that goes into the book’s making and the prominence of the English protagonist and setting, Barthelme fashions an American novel from the myth of King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table by featuring emblematic American texts: a metafictional illustration of Pierre Nora’s argument that memory is both collective and individual.…”
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Les Sex Pistols à Liège : un cas (relatif) de panique morale by Christophe Pirenne

“…This ambivalence makes it possible to reflect more generally on the reception of new fashions and the construction of taste, which simultaneously reveal the enthusiasm of specialized newspapers, the indifference of public authorities and the sometimes timid reception of the public.…”
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Camera, Set, Action: Process Innovation for Film and TV Production by Ouyang Chun, Wang Kenneth, Hofstede Arthur ter, Rosa Marcello La, Rosemann Michael, Shortland Katherine, Court David

“…However, despite the era of fast developing technology, film production processes are carried out in an old fashioned way. This is reflected, for example, by the fact that document processing accompanied by daily shooting activities is still primarily paper-based and coordinating geographically distributed cast and crew is purely manual or at best through emails. …”
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L’appropriation du modèle du Louvre par les musées de province au tournant du xixe siècle by Camille Doutremépuich

“…The complex ties between provincial museums and the central administration and the Louvre are in the image of a plural history of these institutions, teaching us that, fashioned by a profoundly local history made of both personal and collective initiatives, the museums experiencing multiple trajectories, modelled by the import of identity issues. …”
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Ladies-in-Waiting and Portraiture at Philip II’s Court: Portraits of the Habsburgs and of “Unknown Lady” in the Museo del Prado by Vanessa De Cruz Medina

“…Their letters show how ladies-in-waiting were portrayed inside the royal palace, how they self-fashioned, the portraits they saw and their thoughts about them. …”
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Yoruba Traditions in the Midst of Foreign Influences, A Critical Evaluation by Kola Adekola

“…The paper also provides evidence to suggest that the Yoruba, just like every other ethnic groups in Nigeria, could have fashioned their own developmental frameworks but for the imposition of foreign ideas/ideals. …”
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"The Duchess’ cabinet": Objets domestiques et construction de la personne dans La Duchesse d’Amalfi de John Webster by Anne-Marie Miller-Blaise

“…It focuses on the ways in which they serve a purpose of self-fashioning. It shows how the Duchess is taken between two conflicting economies and discourses of domestic culture over which she is ultimately unable to hold sway. …”
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Les femmes et les plantes : accès négocié à la botanique savante et résistance des savoirs vernaculaires (France, xviiie siècle) by Émilie-Anne Pépy

“…However, as botany was becoming a fashionable and socially accepted activity, a few learned women from the social elites managed to engage in mainstream scientific practice. …”
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The Empty Stage in Edward Hopper’s Early Sunday Morning, Girlie Show, and Two Comedians by Philip Smith

“…These paintings, I argue, depend upon innovations and fashions in lighting and set design from Hopper’ era. …”
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Par-delà Nietzsche by Victor Kocay

“…We argue that as a romantic notion, the notion of Übermensch fashions an ideal of what life could be but overlooks the importance of otherness and the role that otherness plays in defining the individual. …”
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Memories of Africa, Home, and Abroad in the United States by Olayombo Raji-Oyelade

“… There are certain books that will continue to be relevant to contemporary discourse as it fashions themselves out of history, Toyin Falola’s book, Memories of Africa, Home, and Abroad in the United States, is one of those. …”
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Wady środowiskowe jako etyczne i antropologiczne źródła kryzysu środowiskowego by Dominika Dzwonkowska

“…The word “virtue” is an old-fashioned one, representing tradition, and today we mostly associate it with academic discussion. …”
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Environmental vices as ethical and anthropological roots of the environmental crisis by Dominika Dzwonkowska

“…The word “virtue” is an old-fashioned one, representing tradition and today we mostly associate it with academic discussion. …”
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Utiliser la polysémie de la résilience pour comprendre les différentes approches du risque et leur possible articulation by Magali Reghezza-Zitt

“…Resilience is a fashionable buzzword. But the polysemy of the concept may weaken his relevance. …”
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What Hitchcock Taught Us about Whodunnits by Dominique Sipière

“…Although he specialised in crime thrillers, Alfred Hitchcock avoided filming whodunnits: his dislike gives a clue to both readers and spectators about the nature of what could be termed a “Hitchcock-genre” and about the thrill some still get from seemingly old fashioned novels of the 1930s. Whodunnits follow a strict pattern of double narration (the inquest strives to recreate the hidden story of the crime) and of a double “game” (the “author” challenges the reader and the characters keep challenging each other). …”
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