Another Genealogy: Art philosophy, politics and personalism. The case of Edgar De Bruyne by Rajesh Heynickx

“…To understand the complex nature of 20th century Belgian personalism, historians and political scientist have mainly focused on the political context in which it developed. …”
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Hermann Jakob Czernin von Chudenitz’ Diplomatic Mission in Warsaw in 1695. A Contribution towards the Travel Arrangements of Imperial Diplomats by Jiří Kubeš

“…Neither Polish nor Czech nor Austrian historians paid any attention to it. Based on this, however, it is possible to demonstrate perfectly how tense the relations between Emperor Leopold I and the Polish King John III Sobieski, who, at the end of their lives, were officially allies in the Holy League. …”
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The South African Families Database by Jeanne Cilliers

“…The primary reason for this lacuna is a shortage of adequate data. Historians and genealogists have, over the last century, worked to combine the rich administrative records that are available in the Cape Archives in Cape Town and beyond, into a single genealogical volume of all settlers living in the 18th, 19th and early 20th century. …”
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TEORINĖS KARTOGRAFIJOS PROBLEMOS: VILNIAUS ATVEJIS by Nerijus Milerius

“…It is argued that history of cartography not only confirms this controversial dictum but even radicalises it. Historians of cartography see a map not only as product of scientific modelizing but also as closely tied to various historical and cultural contexts that, in turn, actively participate in the process of mapping. …”
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White Women in the 1960s Freedom Movement, From Memory to History: The writing of “Shiloh Witness,” a chapter in Deep in Our Hearts (2000) by Joan Browning

“…In addition to this personal account, she probes into the scientific issues of writing the history of the Civil Rights Movement, i.e. the place of women in historiography, the relationship between historians and their living subjects, the question of privacy, the tension between objectivity and subjectivity, and the difficult negotiation between history and activism in the self-writing process.…”
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Právní institut apelace v pražském procesním traktátu Parvus ordinarius by Jakub Razim

“…As argued in the text, the chosen topic is a great starting point not only for multidisciplinary collaboration between lawyers and historians of different specializations but also for the search for links between the functioning of the judiciary in the past and the present.…”
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Two Chancellors: Metternich and Nesselrode by E. P. Kudryavtseva

“…According to estimates of historians, Nesselrode was just an obedient apprentice of the Austrian Chancellor who orchestrated the whole European policy. …”
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The Athenian Democracy by Chiara Lasagni

“…Athenian democracy, with its emphasis on direct citizen participation and the practice of lottery-based selection, is often idealised as an innovative and counter-democratic model, offering alternatives to modern systems shaped by economic monopolies and global information networks. Ancient historians play a pivotal role in this discourse, not merely as observers but as active participants, tasked with providing historically informed insights to enhance public understanding. …”
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Erat simplicis ingenii: A deposição de Garcia da Galiza vista pelos cronistas dos séculos XII e XIII by Maria Joana Gomes

“…However, it is in the 13th century that historians elaborate more solid justifications to make sense, not only Garcia’s fate but also the anoumalous power transmission that took place. …”
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Arthur ainda vive? by Isadora Cristine Martins

“…Virginie Greene questions the pertinence of using the term “messianism” in the Middle Ages and argues that it cannot be used in the same sense as used by historians to refer to Modernity4.In this essay we try to withdraw the analysis from the courtly environments in which they were reproduced, through some selected chronicles, from a History from Below perspective, to understand who are the people waiting for Arthur’s return and whether this hope represents more than a speech constructed by the chroniclers.From a crossing between chronicles and archaeological studies, we try to map cults, traditions, and pilgrimages linked to Arthur that circulated through Great-Britain under the Norman rule. …”
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« Bien sûr, les personnes âgées doivent en règle générale être interrogées en priorité. » by Luc Charles-Dominique

“…Ethnomusicologists and historians, as well as musicians and cultural players, must therefore be extremely cautious when making scientific or artistic use of these sources.…”
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Yalta 1945: the Black Sea Straits and the War in the Far East by M. S. Monakov

“…Contemporary Russian historians are in line with the tradition, a feature of which was a lack of attention to the maritime policy of the Soviet Union, especially in the 1921 - 1955. …”
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(Nie)zwyczajna kremlowska codzienność - Fabien Nury, Thierry Robin: "Śmierć Stalina. Prawdziwa historia... radziecka" by Marcin Kowalczyk

“…The insights they offer into the actions of top-ranking communist officials serve as an artistic commentary on the findings of professional historians, inviting further interpretations.…”
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L’histoire et « l’avenir possible » : Laroui, Djaït et la modernité du Maghreb dans les années 1970 by Idriss Jebari

“…In 1974, Abdallah Laroui and Hichem Djaït, two emerging Maghrebi historians and intellectuals wrote political essays affirming the necessity of re-historicizing the national projects of Tunisia and Morocco. …”
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TEORINĖS KARTOGRAFIJOS PROBLEMOS: VILNIAUS ATVEJIS by Nerijus Milerius

“…It is argued that history of cartography not only confirms this controversial dictum but even radicalises it. Historians of cartography see a map not only as product of scientific modelizing but also as closely tied to various historical and cultural contexts that, in turn, actively participate in the process of mapping. …”
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“O melhor e mais obediente filho” by Tiago Viúla de Faria

“…This was to become known to historians as the prince–king “association”. This essay departs from an interrogation, of whether Duarte was able – or expected at all – to play a role of his own in diplomatic affairs. …”
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«Popovsky mutiny»: on the issue of anti-Bolshevik riots in Omsk in February 1918 by A. V. Sushko

“…Comparing the information of the sources with the works of historians and the memoirs of an eyewitness, the author comes to the conclusion that a chronologically broader view of the unrest in Omsk is necessary, as well as that the anti-Bolshevik «church side» was not a passive victim, but a full subject of the conflict, which was a manifestation of the flaring fratricidal confrontation — The Civil War in Russia. …”
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Revolution and counter-revolution in the Cossack’s village of Cherlakovskaya. 1918–1928 by M. S. Novikov

“…The history of the Revolution of 1917 and the Civil War in Russia continues to attract the interest of modern historians and sociologists. The socio-economic transformations of the end of the XX century and the development of the methodology of history led to an increase in the relevance of questions about land use and land ownership, the emergence of new assessments and approaches to solving them. …”
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From Philosophical Narrative of History to Narrative of Philosophy of History: A Critical Reading of the Book History by the Narrative of Philosophy; From Herodotus to Alain Badi... by Mohsen Alviri

“…After reflecting on the technical and editorial aspects of the work, the paper concludes that although the book fails to distinguish between the philosophical narrative of history and narrative of the philosophy of history, and so it has been far from the conventional mentality of historians, but it has many useful benefits for them.…”
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Nathan Lyons: In Pursuit of Magic at the George Eastman Museum (Rochester, NY), retrospective or exhibition? by Bruno Chalifour

“…He was a curator then an assistant director of the George Eastman Museum (1957 – 1969), working with Beaumont Newhall and Minor White, the co-founder of the Society for Photographic Education (1963) and Oracle (international conference of photo historians and curators since 1983), the founder of Visual Studies Workshop (1969) and its magazine (Afterimage, 1972 – 2018), and a consultant for the National Endowment for the Arts and the New York Foundation for the Arts (president 1976 – 1991). …”
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