Shigemori Mirei : un regard créatif sur l’art des jardins by Murielle Hladik

“…As a landscape designer as well as a garden historian, Shigemori Mirei (1896-1975) played a major part in the new creation and reinvention of the Japanese gardens design, at the dawn of the twentieth century. …”
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L’alliance normando-tupi au xvie siècle : la célébration de Rouen by Beatriz Perrone-Moisés

“…The Norman-Tupi alliance in the 16th century: the celebration at Rouen.In 1550, the city of Rouen prepares a series of festivities for the royal entry of Henry II and his court, of which two elements point to the links between the Norman harbour merchants and the Brazilian coastal Tupi: a performance of the Indians’ daily life – called « Brazilian festival » by the historian Ferdinand Denis, involving 50 Tupi and 250 Norman sailors – and a staged naval battle between French and Portuguese. …”
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Invisible Labour in the Woodwardian Collection by Joshua Hillman

“… As is widely known, the ‘Woodwardian Collection’ at the Sedgwick Museum, Cambridge, holds the nearly 10,000 rock, mineral, and fossil specimens collected by the eccentric English natural historian John Woodward between 1688 and 1728. Less widely appreciated, however, is the extent to which Woodward’s collection depended on the ‘invisible labour’ of mineworkers, gem cutters, and other labourers. …”
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Trans-archive. Magnus Hirschfeld et l’atlas visuel des sexualités de l’entre-deux-guerres by Damien Delille

“…The Institute of Sexology in Berlin, created in 1919, which served as a location for the collection and archival preservation of this queer archeology of non-normative identities, was also inspired by a monistic conception of science and the visual, which Hirschfeld shared with art historian Aby Warburg. Art thus plays a central role in the construction of trans-archives, conceived as an expression of subjectivities, in the process of sexual emancipation, and as a place of performative knowledge of gender identities.…”
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Migrating Literatures: Bulgaria in the American Imaginary by Alexandra Glavanakova

“…Bulgaria emerges not only as a setting for the action in fictional works written by U.S. writers, but also as a sub-text rich in implications and references, as demonstrated by four novels: Elizabeth Kostova’s The Historian and The Shadow Land and Garth Greenwell’s What Belongs to You and Cleanness, which are the focus of analysis.…”
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Risquer le pédagogique, entre héritage et modernité by Loïc Chalmel

“…Conservatory memory value choices made by particular individuals in particular socio-historical context, it collates all the alternatives that can be examined further, suggesting benchmarks for action, if only the "following" does not lose memory…The historian of pedagogical ideas involved in this duty of memory, remodelling materials of the past without reproducing the same. …”
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L’Espagne recherchée et ressentie de Bartolomé Bennassar by François Zumbiehl

“…For these, he applied at a rather significant level all the traditional instruments and qualities which are expected in any prominent historian. He also used other skills thanks to his great intellectual curiosity and the acuity of his perceptions and emotions. …”
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Les défis d’une approche multisource et diachronique de l’occupation du sol : l’exemple de la vallée de la Garonne by Nicolas Poirier

“…By emphasising spatial input, the rural historian-archaeologist can deploy the whole range of spatial analysis methods provided by geography. …”
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État(s) des lieux : espaces et topographies dans la collection Gaignières by Damien Bril

“…To do so, we will first recall the nature of Gaignières’ project and the role played by topographical data in structuring his collection ; then we will look at the scientific and methodological means used to achieve it ; and, finally, we will examine the practices surrounding the constitution of the collection, and the questions that they may raise for the contemporary historian.…”
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Les chrétiens d'Allah, une recherche vivante : une base de données de 1600 renégats à partir des archives de Lucile et Bartolomé Bennassar by Marianne Delacourt

“…How can a research from the end of the 1980s, composed of typed or handwritten forms, be a part of a Digital Humanities project and open up new perspectives ? The historian Bartolomé Bennassar had donated to the CollEx Iberian studies 1600 renegades’ index cards of the courts of the Inquisition, which served as a basis for the publication : " Les chrétiens d’Allah : l’histoire extraordinaire des renégats XVIe et XVIIe siècles/Bartolomé et Lucile Bennassar " These cards evoke the conditions of their denials, the circumstances of their appearance before the courts ... they were digitized and all of the data added to the base "Renégats”. …”
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Ovidiu Papadima – o evocare by Teodor Vârgolici

“…O.P. was respected as a folklorist, literary critic and literary historian. O.P. became famous as an writer in 1942, after he published the volume A Romanian Vision of the World. …”
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Introduction by Jean-Claude Yon

“…Written by a historian of the performing arts who once worked at the Musée d'Orsay, this introduction aims to put the fifteen or so texts in this dossier into perspective. …”
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The concepts of Ludwik Fleck and their application to the eukaryotic cell cycle by Stephen Cooper

“… The concepts of Ludwik Fleck (1896–1961), a microbiologist, historian, and philosopher of medicine, can be used to analyze the conservative nature of scientific ideas. …”
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PYOTR BITSILLI IN THE PHILOSOPHICAL “CONVERSATION” OF RUSSIA ABROAD by D. V. RATUSHINA

“…The key theme of the paper is the heritage and ideas of Pyotr Mikhailovich Bitsilli (1879–1953) – historian, philosopher, literary critic. His style of thinking, special historical method of penetrating into investigated reality have not lost their relevance until today. …”
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Julian the Apostate, Claudius Mamertinus, and Ammianus Marcellinus: Filling in a “Blank Spot”? by Gregor Pobežin

“…While facing immediate tactical concerns during his campaign, Julian reportedly engaged in imperial administrative duties within Illyricum, as documented by historian Ammianus Marcellinus and panegyrist Claudius Mamertinus. …”
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Kosta Nikolić’s Book Krajina (1991–1995). An Extended Review by Savković Mirko

“…The book was written by a Belgrade-based historian and published by two Croatian publishers, one of which is the national coordinating body of the Serbs in Croatia and the other the country’s leading progressive publisher. …”
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Johannes Hoornbeeck, a monumental 17th Century Dutch theologian: continuities in his thinking on doctrine and life by J. W. Hofmeyr

“…In a later article, the focus will move to his contributions as a systematic theologian, as an historian, as a missiologist, and as a socially engaged theologian with an irenical and ecumenical orientation, in spite of him being a strong polemicist. …”
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Mitford on the causes of the Peloponnesian War by N.A. Yasnitsky

“…Mitford, an English historian at the turn of the 18th – 19th centuries. …”
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Lujanbio abizenaren historiarako zenbait datu by Oihana Lujanbio

“… Lanaren helburua Lujanbio abizenaren historian arakatzea da. Horretarako, EAEko Erregistro Sakramentalen artxibo elektronikoak baliatu dira, batez ere. …”
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“RAIN was planting the seeds”: An Interview with Tom Bender, co-editor of RAIN: Journal of Appropriate Technology by Meredith Gaglio

“…This article is an abridged transcript of an interview conducted by architectural historian, Meredith Gaglio, with one of RAIN’s co-editors, the late Tom Bender, at his home in Manzanita, Oregon, in April, 2016. …”
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