Hadot Among the Medievalists: Revisiting the Historiography on “Intellectual Felicity” in the Thirteenth Century by Matteo Johannes Stettler

“…In this revisitation of the historiography on the notion of “intellectual felicity,” I thus hope to be able first to provide a corrective to the faulty understanding that some medievalists still seem to have of Hadot’s contribution to the study of philosophy as a way of life in the Middle Ages, and second, to show how ongoing debates in medievalist circles might point us toward the possible limitations with Hadot’s own understanding of philosophy as a way of life and its history in and beyond the Middle Ages.…”
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‘I’m no Medievalist’: George Gilbert Scott and the Interpretation of the Gothic Revival in Remarks on Secular and Domestic Architecture: Present and Future (1857) by Isabelle Cases

“…This definition of a true Gothic Renaissance owed him harsh criticisms from famous medievalists, especially on the questions of restoration and the industrial society of his time, but also reveals contradictions and tensions within the Gothic Revival.…”
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On the nature of civilization in the Grand Duchy of Lithuania by Alfredas Bumblauskas

“… The article by the medievalist historian presents a critical review of the reports on the nature of civilization in the Grand Duchy of Lithuania in Polish, Russian, German, and Lithuanian historiography based on the definition of civilization by the Polish theorist of history, Feliks Koneczny ("Civilization is a method of arranging communal life"), and proves that this civilization was neither Western-Latin nor Eastern-Byzantine, but, rather, quite an independent one, with its own necessary minimum of European values.   …”
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Light of personality by Petr V. Abramov

“…He was not only a researcher - Germanist and medievalist, but a Teacher first of all. For 60 years he worked at the first educational institution in Russia – Moscow State Pedagogical University and has educated and trained the whole pleiad of philologists, researchers and higher school pedagogues.…”
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Projectos de investigação em História Medieval financiados pela FCT nos últimos 10 anos by Ana Maria Rodrigues

“…We concluded that the Middle Ages had always a discrete but equivalent position both among the applications and the approved projects; this only changed in 2008, when none of the thirteen projects on Medieval History was approved, precisely when not a single medievalist was part of the jury. We also tried to evaluate the productivity of the financed projects through an Internet search and found out that the data provided is partial and insufficient; the research teams need to make an additional effort to disclose the results of their projects in the World Wide Web and the FCT should also be more demanding concerning that issue.…”
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The Concept of Medieval Stasis: From Medieval Studies to Medievalism, from Medievalism to Political Culture by Maksym W. Kyrchanoff

“…It is shown that 1) the concept of medieval stasis in modern historiography is gradually perceived as part of the intellectual history of the medieval studies, 2) medievalism perceives the stability of feudal structures as its positive characteristic, 3) the use of the concept of medieval stasis in modern medievalism allows to construct the preservation of chronologically prolonged images of Middle Ages, 4) within the framework of the idealization of the Middle Ages, modern medievalist discourse synthesizes the “real” and the “magical”, which excludes the development of narrative structure and the transformation of social, economic and political relations and institutions, 5) the archaic vision of the Middle Ages through the prism of stasis confirms the limitations of the cognitive capabilities of medievalism.…”
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E. W. Godwin’s Month in Normandy: Travel Writing as Intertext by Richard W. Hayes

“…In Godwin’s case, his articles participated in a discursive field formed not only by Ruskin’s The Seven Lamps of Architecture but also by the accounts of Norman architecture published by the eminent French medievalist Eugène Emmanuel Viollet-le-Duc (1814‒79) and restoration architect Aymar Pierre Verdier (1819‒80), in addition to the drawings by Godwin’s British colleagues Eden Nesfield (1835‒88) and William Burges (1827‒81), all of whom Godwin mentions. …”
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St. Genevieve in the Revolution : Sylvain Maréchal’s Counter-History by Sheila Delany

“….), won the first Labarge Prize awarded by the Society of Canadian Medievalists for best book in medieval studies. Her new book, published by University of Alberta Press, is an annotated translation of Maréchal’s Nouvelle légende dorée, extending her work in medieval hagiography and her lifelong interest in revolutionary history.…”
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Ut commutando donemus : An Approach to Female Artistic Patronage in Northeast Iberia (1000-1100) by Verónica Carla Abenza Soria

“…Centring on the specific context of northeastern Iberia in the eleventh century, this article offers a concept of patronage as it was understood by the women who performed it. While medievalists are accustomed to reconstructing the circumstances in which an artwork was born, when studying artistic patronage there is still a general tendency to avoid consideration of the social, economic, and legal differences between men and women in the Middle Ages. …”
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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

“…Nevertheless, those possibilities were not well used because the new generation of medievalists in Lithuania was not yet grown enough.   …”
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