Misremembering Ciceronian Rome in Ben Jonson’s Catiline by Philip Goldfarb Styrt

“…By centralizing Rome around a single powerful figure (Cicero), both practically and rhetorically, Jonson’s Cicero is a forerunner of Renaissance monarchy, rather than remaining rooted in the contemporary factional conflicts that both Roman and early modern historians saw as central to his time. In portraying him this way, I argue, the play uses its Rome, and particularly its Cicero and Catiline, to comment on then-contemporary concerns about the efficacy and usefulness of empire. …”
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The Importance of Being Uncertain―or What I Learned From Writing History With Rumors by Sebastian Jobs

“…In the end, rumors became collective stories that help us, as historians, to understand the ambiguous character of uncertainty that can both challenge and stabilize power structures. …”
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Le musée de Sculpture comparée au prisme de la collection de cartes postales éditées par les frères Neurdein (1904-1915) by Dominique Jarrassé, Emmanuelle Polack

“…Beyond the patrimonialisation of this exceptional collection, the article focuses on the first series of 486 cards organised chronologically and proposes an analysis of the intrusion of this medium, during its “golden age”, into the art historian’s studio.…”
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Burial customs, the afterlife and the pollution of death in ancient Greece by Francois P. Retief, Louise Cilliers

“…The sources consulted include Homer's epic poems, archaeological data and vase paintings, as well as the writings of later historians, philosophers and other prominent people. …”
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La Ratio studiorum de 1599 et la normalisation de la figure du contestataire au sein des collèges de la Compagnie de Jésus by Véronique Castagnet‑Lars

“…The recent historiography of student history invites us to re-read “the Genealogy of the ratio Studiorum” of 1599 (Dominique Julia) in order to highlight the work of the first two generations of Jesuit teachers concerning the typical profile of the troublemaker, a type of student one would not expect to find in a Jesuit school whose teachers, as historians have insisted upon so far, perfectly master discipline. …”
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Histoire des idées politiques et sources littéraires : L'Éducation sentimentale dans le contexte des jugements historiques sur Juin 1848 by Fausto Proietti

“…In fact, in order to support his description, Flaubert uses mainly four historical accounts, those written by the “leftist” historians Hippolyte Castille, Daniel Stern, Marc Caussidière and Louis Blanc. …”
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Just Who Was Wearing the Trousers in Victorian Britain? Violent Wives and Violent Women by Anne-Marie Kilday

“…Intra-marital violence is a subject often examined by sociologists, psychologists and historians alike, albeit from a very traditional perspective. …”
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La Première Guerre mondiale et les jeux vidéo by Antoine Maillard

“…The representation of the First World War in this game was analyse several times by developers, media and historians.…”
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Dater Bellechaise. Chroniques du Mont Saint-Michel et chronologie architecturale by Yves Gallet

“…The article focuses on the chronology of the work, and on the relationship with the buildings of the “Merveille”, which housed the monastic quarter on the north side of the abbey. While historians of the abbey, from the 17th century unto Édouard Corroyer, Paul Gout and their successors, have seen the work as dating to 1257 and as a separate construction site from the building of the Merveille, the analysis of textual evidence, combined with an examination of the construction techniques and the architectural style, leads us to propose an earlier date, contemporaneous to the work on the Merveille and to the creation of the new portal of the abbey church. …”
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Condamner et punir dans une ville moyenne de province au temps des Lumières : les exécutions publiques à Tours (1762-1768) by Fabrice Mauclair

“…The study also tackles the use of torture and that of an “object” of recent interest to both archeologists and historians: the “patibulary forks”. As a general viewpoint, the paper seeks to rise new interrogations on the characteristics and evolutions of the criminal justice in a medium-sized town of province during the Enlightenment.…”
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Saliamonas Antanaitis (1894–1973) and his research into the old mathematics by Juozas Banionis

“…Antanaitis having made a thorough analysis of works of European science historians presented these science personalities and underlined importance of their works for the development of the higher mathematics. …”
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The Irish Catholic clergy, Stuart sovereignty and the 1650 appeal to the Duke of Lorraine by David FINNEGAN

“…The ‘hidden transcript’ of Irish Catholic political thinking, shaped by the Irish Catholic clergy, intruded into the public sphere and revealed perceptions of faith, nation and state that historians have largely ignored because they do not fit the pre-existing historiographical model of what constituted Irish political thinking in the early modern period.…”
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Reaping the Returns of a Runaway Economy by Stan Pannier

“… Over the past few decades, economic and maritime historians have shown growing interest in the wages earned by regular seamen in merchant shipping. …”
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Entitlements/rights, dignity and liberal democracy. Against the backdrop of the text by Cardinal Gerhard Müller “The Popes as Guardians of Human Dignity” by Bogdan Szlachta

“…In his interesting contribution, Cardinal Gerhard Müller once again turned to this category to expound upon its significance for Catholic reflection, to draw attention to its role in the teachings of 20th century Popes, and to bring it to light in connection with the increasing disputes concerning the ability/validity of “improving human nature”. Historians of political thought are interested in these disputes, and see them - insofar as they are carried out by using categories developed mainly in Western reflection - not as new ones, but rather embedded in past polemics, referring to old approaches, notably those which are prevailing today. …”
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The Firebombing of Tokyo: Views from the Ground by Cary Karacas, Bret Fisk

“…In stark contrast to the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, however, historians and other scholars working in the English language have paid little attention to the tremendous societal impact - both immediate and long-lasting - of the destruction by firebombing of Japan's cities. …”
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Vestiges de collections by Margaux Dumas

“…Through the archives of the Commission de Récupération Artistique from 1944 to the 1950s, and by delving into Le Répertoire des biens spoliés published beginning in 1947, historians can bring to life rare objects, private collections, and dismantled and disappeared sets, recounting their respective biographies and offering a perspective on the tastes of the time, thanks to the descriptions, photographs and drawings that accompany the inventories. …”
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How far it is gone in the Soviet historiography from H. Lowmianski's study about the genesis of Lithuanian state by Edvardas Gudavičius

“…Only in 1959 did a study by the Russian historian V. Pashuto appear in Moscow, which provided limited possibilities for Lithuanian historians to work in this direction. …”
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L'œuvre d'art en tant que témoignage: les artistes confrontés à la guerre by Dolores Fernández Martínez

“…This article springs off as an answer to the question of whether we can consider art, as a testimonial source like the written documents that historians use to manage for their studies? But this issue, related to art, is rather complex. …”
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Some remarks and documents concerning the emigration of Polish mathematicians during the 1930s and early 1940 by Reinhard Siegmund-Schultze

“…The paper contributes to the discussion with some archival documents from two specific sources, which have so far found relatively little attention among historians of mathematics. These are the files of the Society for the Protection of Science and Learning (SPSL) at the Bodleian Library in Oxford, UK, and the files related to the Asylum Fellowship Planorganized by the Astronomer at Harvard University Harlow Shapley, now in possession of the Harvard University Archives. …”
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Looking for the Terra di u Cumunu. Genesis, Evolutions and Perspectives of the Collective Lands of the Corsican Mountain by Gilles Guerrini

“…Probably appeared in the Middle Ages, for the few specialists, historians, or ethnologists, who were interested in the evolution of the nature of island land, they would have disappeared in the 19th century. …”
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