Censorship, Control and Resistance in Eugene O’Neill’s “black plays” The Emperor Jones and All God’s Chillun Got Wings by Gwenola Le Bastard

“…In particular, O’Neill’s expressionistic techniques in the plays, with their symbolist staging and inexorably shrinking and oppressive settings, may be seen as a dramatization of the limitations of the American stage, which was then unable to accommodate his vision of a reshaped and modernized theater as well as the idea of a more tolerant American society. …”
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Funding of the Papal Army’s Campaign to Germany during the Schmalkaldic War by Petr Vorel

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O capodoperă a literaturii române din secolul al XVIII-lea by Dan Zamfirescu

“…This text describes the circumstances in which the icon arrived in Neamţ, as the journey made by the future Byzantine emperor John VIII Paleologus through Moldavia and his meeting with Alexander the Good, long thought to be a mere legend, but which is actually based on historical facts.…”
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Co-evolution of fish and rice farming by Austroasiatic communities in the Neolithic Era and early documentation of aquaculture in China by Peter Edwards

“…Farming common carp was prohibited in the Tang Dynasty (618 AD-907 AD) because the name of the fish, Li, was the same as that of an emperor, and this possibly led to farming Chinese carps in polyculture. …”
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THE MEASURE OF ALL GODS: RELIGIOUS PARADIGMS OF THE ANTIQUITY AS ANTHROPOLOGICAL INVARIANTS by A. V. Halapsis

“…I proceed from the fact that each historical community has a set of inherent ideas about the principles of reality, which found unique "universes of meanings". …”
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NGUYEN DU’S PERCEPTION ABOUT CHINA UNDER THE QING DYNASTY THROUGH BAC HANH TAP LUC by Lê Quang Trường

“…In the 12th year of Gia Long (1813), Nguyen Du was appointed the mission leader on a yearly tribute trip to China, during which he wrote a collection of poetry titled “Bac hanh tap luc” (Trivial Notes on the Northward Trip). …”
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Matérialiser la frontière autour de l’empereur dans l’Antiquité tardive by Maxime Emion

“…This paper investigates the various elements materialising a frontier between the emperor and common mortals in Late Antiquity, between the 4th and the 6th century AD, especially in the framework of the imperial court ceremonial. …”
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‘Des nouvelles de mon infortunée sœur’: Marie-Antoinette dans les lettres de l’archiduchesse Marie-Christine à l’empereur François by Catriona Seth

“…La difficulté d’obtenir des renseignements fiables, la circulation de rumeurs diverses sur le sort de l’illustre prisonnière et des siens se conjuguent, pour les puissances étrangères, avec des réticences palpables à intervenir par crainte des retombées politiques et militaires alors même que les Pays-Bas autrichiens, dont le duc et la duchesse de Saxe-Teschen sont gouverneurs, sont en ébullition et que la guerre est déclarée entre le pays de naissance de Marie-Antoinette et celui sur lequel elle espère voir régner un jour son fils, le dauphin. …”
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L’animal, l’humain et la sextualité fabuleuse: la chasse à la narration transculturelle et zoopoétique dans 'L’acrobatie aérienne de Confucius' de Dai Sijie by Shuangyi Li

“…Puisant des théories de la « sextualité » (Cristina Carrigós) et de la zoopoétique (Anne Simon), je chercherai à déceler le tissage sophistiqué du texte transculturel et réencadrer la genèse et la diégèse du roman dans une « zoologie littéraire » aussi bien qu’une « ecology of world literature » (Alexander Beecroft), c’est-à-dire, un environnement littéraire marqué par les dynamiques de la circulation, la confluence et l’hybridation littéraires. …”
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Un journal « mal conçu et mal rédigé » : le Corriere d’Italia (1807-1808), ou comment relire les pratiques politiques des exilés italiens dans le Paris napoléonien by Paolo Conte

“…After examination of the distribution of the Corriere, this paper deepens its editorial line in order to understand the political purposes supporting this initiative. In this way, the aim is to reduce the dichotomy between political practices and cultural practices: the latter is not a simple alternative to the first one, but a way of re-articulating, in another context and under other forms, the commitment of previous years.…”
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Ostrov Pereon a středoevropská misie kolem roku 1000 by Jan Stejskal

“…Young emperor supported various attempts to expand the Christianity together with his own influence beyond the border of his empire. …”
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THE TRIEU TUONG MAUSOLEUM SITE: RESULTS OF THE 2019 EXCAVATION by Hoang Hiep Trinh

“…This is also where Nguyen Kim (Emperor Tinh) was buried. To conserve, embellish, and promote the historical and cultural heritage of the mausoleum, the Department of Culture, Sports and Tourism of Thanh Hoa Province coordinated with the Vietnam Institute of Archaeology to conduct a third excavation at the site in 2019. …”
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Renovatio imperii Romani: The aspect of Christian wored outlook by Marius Ščavinskas

“…Civitas terrena was a temporary shelter for a man. The same temporality is waiting for a soul in the "another world" until the day of the Last Judgment. …”
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The image of Nicholas I in sources of personal origin: Russian-Polish discourse by N. A. Cherkasskaya

“…The main result of this evolution can be called the moment of separation of the image of the Russian emperor from the image of the polish king, which was repeatedly emphasized by both Russian and Polish contemporaries, and by the emperor himself. …”
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Genealogical analysis and identification of donors and sources of valuable breeding traits in the sweet cherry gene pool (overview) by O. V. Eremina

“…L. gene pool has identified sources of important breeding traits which can be recommended for the use in programs aimed at breeding new varieties and clonal rootstocks of sweet cherry. …”
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Země Koruny české a Svatá říše římská v raném novověku by Petr Vorel

“…It was not until the turn of the 17th and 18th centuries, when the Habsburgs' diplomacy strove to enhance its influence among the Electors at the Imperial Diet (which was crowned with success in 1708), that we can see the special-purpose historical interpretation stating that the affiliation of the Bohemian Lands to the Empire had never been interrupted from the Middle Ages and the absence of the King of Bohemia at the Electors' sessions was explained as a consequence of the fact the king also held the office of the emperor. …”
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Peter The Great's Foreign Policy in the Assessments of Russian Conservatives of the 19th Century by E. V. Linkova

“…The conservatives criticized the emperor's 19th century heirs for what they saw as abandonment of national interests in favor of pan-European ones.…”
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The Portrait of heshuo Guo-qinwang Yunli as the Source for Weapons and Horse Equipment of Oirats and their Neighbors in the first half of the 18th Century by Leonid A. Bobrov

“…The comprehensive analysis of the sources showed that the heshuo Guo-qinwang combines Qing clothing with parts of equipment of the Central Asian type. These items include a quiver of the so-called “Oirat type”, a saddle of the “Oirat type” (elete shi ma’an ), and possibly some other elements of horse equipment. …”
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Long-term wage inequality in imperial China: From 202 BCE to 1912 CE. by Qiang Wu, Guangyu Tong, Peng Zhou

“…The intra-class wage inequality has a secular decline trend. We propose a unified framework incorporating technological, institutional, political, and social (TIPS) mechanisms to explain both long-term and short-term patterns. …”
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La ‘géographie appliquée’ au service de l’expansion allemande avant 1914 by Philippe Alexandre

“…The researcher, going beyond the scope of his common skills, presented himself as an adviser and promoter of this project.Hugo Grothe was in narrow relationship with Pan-German circles and he came up with a skillfull editorial policy in order to reach a wide audience, ranging from those involved in the economy of the country to the general public that he wanted to support this idea. …”
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