Historical reality and „understanding" the hermeneutical approach by Kęstutis Dubnikas

“… The contemporary philosophy of historiography widely discusses a problem of the cognitive claims. …”
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« Nos a Gulielmo victi... » ou histoire, linguistique et idéologie by Christophe Bord

“…In English-speaking countries, particularly in Britain, linguistic historiography as applied to English often seems dominated by rather unscientific sentiments of a nationalistic nature and does not hesitate to go to great lengths to negate the loss of the Germanic character of the language. …”
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Une constellation invisibilisée by Marie-Dominique Gil

“…Examining the theoretical genesis of the film, the stories of the deterioration of relations within the team as well as the cross-effects of feminist criticism and mainstream criticism of its reception, will take into account the silences of historiography as a way to think, or rethink, the history of women’s art.…”
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The Hostage in the Law of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania up to the First Lithuanian Statute (1529) by Lirija Steponavičienė

“… The hostage institution in the Law of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania has got an exhaustive historiography, that's why the manifestation of this institution in the earliest written source of GDL and the regulation of its standards up to the First Lithuanian Statute is discussed in this article. …”
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Memória social da Batalha do Jenipapo: trilhas e enredos patrimoniais em Campo Maior (PI) by Maria Dione Carvalho de Moraes, Juliana Rodrigues Cavalcante

“…Within this memory boom, we focus the process of assigning meanings to an event narrated by historiography and oral tradition as an important fight in the process of Brazil's independence, viz. the battle of Jenipapo, which occurred in the village of Campo Maior (PI), in the northeastern region of Brazil, on the banks of the River Jenipapo on March 13, 1823. …”
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Genealogies of African Nationalism and the Idea of Africa by Bongani Ngqulunga

“… The historiography of the African nationalist movement in South Africa tends to focus on the struggle for political liberation. …”
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Monstruos, prodigios y maravillas en los viajes de Pero Tafur by Pablo Castro Hernández

“…While the recent historiography argues that the supernatural and wonderful events are scarcely used by the traveler in his work, our research examines how the notion of the monstrous is inserted into the tradition of the wonders of the medieval travel. …”
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Spiritualiteit in het Lucasevangelie: geschiedenis en bevrijding by H. Welzen

“… This first article of a series of three is about the spiritual nature of the gospel of Luke as a historiography. Luke presents his work as a history guided by God in which the reader of his book participates. …”
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Éclairage sur le rôle des moines chartreux du Val-Saint-Esprit dans le démantèlement du château comtal de Gosnay (comté d’Artois, Pas-de-Calais) au début du xvie siècle by Mathieu Béghin

“…Within the framework of an interdisciplinary research concerning the Carthusian monastery of Val-Saint-Esprit located in Gosnay, we’ve been able to provide a perspective concerning the role the Carthusian monks played in the dismantling of the comtal castle of Gosnay in 1518. Historiography having mainly covered the destructions led by princes as sentences, or to a smaller extent as a preventive policy for territorial defense, this case is unusual as the dismantling is a private action whose purpose is to defend the access to a monastery. …”
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La presse pour enfants au XIXe siècle en Espagne : un objet d’étude fécond et prometteur by Aliénor Asselot

“…Often described as conservative because of its austerity and the density of its texts, it suffers in the historiography from comparisons with the press of the following century and with the editorial paths of neighbouring nations. …”
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Portuguese Architecture in Transit(ion) by Bruno Gil, Susana Lobo, José Ribau Esteves

“…This article retraces the Portuguese participation in the Amsterdam Town Hall Competition to refute the generalised idea of cultural mismatch with the European scene of the time and assesses the impact of this particular event on the transition of Portuguese architecture to international recognition, an impact that Portuguese architecture historiography has to this day completely ignored.…”
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La dimension vocale de la propagande by Oksana Bulgakowa

“…The vocal dimension of propagandaThe visual aspect of the propaganda films, the manipulation produced by montage, dramaturgy and the specific relation between the text of the comments and presented images attracted comprehensibly much more attention than the voice used in the war propaganda films. The recent historiography approaches the exam of the “vocal mechanisms” of indoctrination in the public sphere and the history of the national voice politics. …”
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The absolutist origin of capitalism by Nicolas Pinsard

“…This paper offers new insights into the role of absolutism in Marxist historiography. It argues that absolutism constitutes a distinct social formation from feudalism, paving the way for the transition to capitalism by proletarianizing a part of the French peasantry.…”
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L’effort de guerre des exploitants non-professionnels du cinéma en URSS (1939-1949) by Irina Tcherneva

“…This paper is specifically aimed at introducing the Soviet case into historiography, devoted to the use of cinema by churches, political parties and trade unions in European countries. …”
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Los nahuas de Tzintzuntzan-Huitzitzilan, Michoacán: historia, mito y legitimación de un señorío prehispánico by Hans Roskamp

“…The Nahuas of Tzintzuntzan-Huitzitzilan, Michoacán: history, myth and legitimization of a Prehispanic señorío. Modern historiography on 15th and early 16th century Michoacán emphasizes the political-economical success of the Tarascans and their uacúsecha lineage but pays relatively little attention to other ethnic groups that lived in the region. …”
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“An Enormous Amount of Human Waste”: Self-esteem, Capitalism, and the US Prison, 1973-1989 by Anaïs Lefèvre

“…The concept became a vector of capitalist ideology in a context of rising incarceration rates and growing prominence of neoliberal logics. While the historiography of mass incarceration has explored the rise of punitiveness starting in the mid-1970s, this article suggests that there was also a seemingly benevolent side to the legitimation of the carceral state. …”
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Mujeres y liturgia parroquial by Raquel Torres Jiménez

“…This paper analyses some aspects of the religious life of common secular women, neither religious nor wealthy ─a topic rarely addressed in historiography─, living in rural villages of the Calatrava lordship in Castile in the 15th and 16th centuries. …”
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Ali se mudou a aventura… O imaginário mítico no pensamento de Luís Krus by Carlos F. Clamote Carreto

“…Recognizing the rhetorical, anthropological and ideological importance of the fictional narrative for the legitimization of the lineage and the construction of a discourse on the past, Luís Krus has devoted not only his work to an important renewal of the traditional viewpoints of Portuguese Medieval Historiography. He has deeply reinvented the dialogue among Literature, History and Studies on the Imaginary (as, for example, “A cidade no imaginário medieval” [1983] or “O imaginário português e os medos do mar” [1998]) creating bridges through people, disciplines, knowledge, languages and methodologies that are still largely lacking today.…”
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Crossing Texts, References and Images. A Survey of a City Planner’s Personal Library in São Paulo (1920-1960) (2/2) by Heliana Angotti-Salgueiro

“…The analysis of the intellectual path of an urban planner in São Paulo, Brazil, between the 1920s and the 1950s, is a subject that leads to little-studied issues in urban historiography: personal libraries, reference sources and appropriations. …”
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Crossing Texts, References and Images. A Survey of a City Planner’s Personal Library in São Paulo (1920-1960) (1/2) by Heliana Angotti-Salgueiro

“…The analysis of the intellectual path of an urban planner in São Paulo, Brazil, between the 1920s and the 1950s, is a subject that leads to little-studied issues in urban historiography: personal libraries, reference sources and appropriations. …”
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