The History of Urinary Stones: In Parallel with Civilization by Ahmet Tefekli, Fatin Cezayirli

“…Ancient Arabic medicine was based mainly on classical Greco-Roman works. Interestingly, the Fourth Lateran Council in 1215 forbade physicians from performing surgical procedures, as contact with blood or body fluids was viewed as contaminating to men. …”
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Semiotic insights on the socio-cultural influence of the San Sebastian Church architectural facade, Lumban, Laguna, Philippines by Ronald Allan S. delos Reyes, Jomel Paulo G. Ebron, Jhona N. Gamez, Christie C. Amores, Ma Rovilla C. Sudaprasert

“…From documents that are gathered, it has been found that the Philippines has had a very active interchange both economically and culturally dating back to Roman times with the Western Hemisphere. These interactions have paved the way in the expeditious construction of churches and cathedrals once Spanish rule was established in the 16th century. …”
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Victims of Compromise by J. Gertrud Tönsing

“…The household code of Colossians is analysed as a possible accompaniment to the letter to Philemon and the sending back of Onesimus, using the Pauline passage on submission in Ro- mans 13 as a basis, complemented by known Graeco-Roman traditions on the household. Slaves, and not women were the primary addressees of this probably earliest Christian household code, but undoubtedly then the status of women became an issue of contention. …”
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Moral Aspects of Some Combat Sports by Jacek Meller

“…Their history shows a process of gradual brutalisation, in antiquity from battles during the Greek Olympics, to competitions in  Roman arenas; in the modern age from regulations introduced in the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th century, to formation or restoration of combat, where almost no rules exist. …”
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Lovinescu şi Baudelaire în Poezia nouă (1923) by Teodora Dumitru

“…Anticipant son grand projet historiographique Istoria literaturii române contemporane/ Histoire de la littérature roumaine contemporaine (1926–1929) et notamment son troisième tome – Evoluția poeziei lirice/ Lʼévolution de la poésie lyrique (1927), lʼétude Poezia nouă doit être perçu tout dʼabord en tant quʼantichambre théorique et critique du „modernisme” littéraire roumain, espace préliminaire où Lovinescu forge ses outils pour mettre en évidence la différence spécifique de ce concept. …”
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Pre-Modern Bosom Serpents and Hippocrates' <i>Epidemiae</i> 5: 86: A Comparative and Contextual Folklore Approach by Davide Ermacora

“…The story is embedded in a broad set of Graeco-Roman ideas and practices surrounding ancient beliefs about snakes and attitudes to the drinking of unmixed wine.…”
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Právní institut apelace v pražském procesním traktátu Parvus ordinarius by Jakub Razim

“…Of all the content of the Parvus ordinarius, the focus is on the appeal, seen as a merge of traditions of both Roman and ecclesiastical law. As argued in the text, the chosen topic is a great starting point not only for multidisciplinary collaboration between lawyers and historians of different specializations but also for the search for links between the functioning of the judiciary in the past and the present.…”
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Intericonicity in Disguise in Madame Yevonde’s Goddesses series and Cindy Sherman’s History Portraits/Old Masters by Julie MORÈRE

“…In her 1935 Goddesses series, Yevonde photographed society beauties dressed as Greek and Roman goddesses and icons. In Sherman’s History Portraits/Old Masters series, pure fun is at work when she outrageously poses in various costumes and elaborate settings, explicitly referring to the artworks of famous European Masters. …”
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From St Winifred’s Translation to Medieval Whodunnit: Ellis Peters and the Cadfael Chronicles by Catherine Lanone

“…Alors que le roman de détection historique tend aujourd'hui à multiplier les récits néo-victoriens, Ellis Peters choisit de recréér au contraire un Moyen Age à la fois distant et familier ; certes, la période est simplifiée pour plaire au public, et le récit reste dans la tradition d'Agatha Christie ; mais les Chroniques de Cadfael ont le mérite de ressusciter une période troublée, et de placer le crime sur fond de guerre civile. …”
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Nevada’s Non-Anglo European Immigrants And Their Interpreters In Contemporary American Fiction by David Rio

“…En effet, la plupart des œuvres de fiction récentes situées dans le Nevada décrivent avec succès les formes hybrides interculturelles et multilingues qu’adopte le nouvel Ouest américain, tel qu’il apparaît spécifiquement dans les romans et les nouvelles écrits par des auteurs d’origine ethnique. …”
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“Not the Lover’s Choice, but the Poet’s”: Classical Receptions in Portrait of a Lady on Fire by Benjamin Eldon Stevens

“…Céline Sciamma’s film Portrait of a Lady on Fire (Portrait de la jeune fille en feu, 2019) tells its 18th-century story of love and loss in part by retelling an ancient story, the myth of the poet Orpheus and his beloved Eurydice, as related by the Roman poet Ovid in his epic Metamorphoses (c. 8 CE). …”
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Conversions to Catholicism among Fin de Siècle Writers: A Spiritual and Literary Genealogy by Claire Masurel-Murray

“…During the last decade of the 19th century, a number of English writers converted to Roman Catholicism: the “Decadent” poets John Gray, Lionel Johnson and Ernest Dowson joined the Church in 1890 and 1891, while Oscar Wilde flirted with the Catholic faith during his college years at Oxford, and received the last sacraments on his deathbed in 1900. …”
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Modélisation 3D et évocation du port du Bas-Empire de Bordeaux (Gironde) by Frédéric Gerber

“…This work, carried out as part of the creation of a multimedia module for the permanent of the Cité du Vin in Bordeaux, makes it possible to propose a realistic evocation of the inner port of the Late Roman Imperial period and to visualise the aspect of the port basin positioned at the mouth of the Devèze river and its channel opening onto the Garonne river. …”
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The multifaceted nature of Egyptian mummification: Paleoradiological insights into child mummies. by Stephanie Zesch, Stephanie Panzer, Alice Paladin, M Linda Sutherland, Susanne Lindauer, Ronny Friedrich, Tanja Pommerening, Albert Zink, Wilfried Rosendahl

“…Most of the mummies date from the Late Period to the Roman Period (664 BC-395 AD). Differences were identified concerning techniques of wrapping and embalming and removal of brain and internal organs, depending on age at death, social status and the archaeological site of the individuals. …”
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La « révolution de l’espace » et l’architecture comme « réalisation de la philosophie » dans Écumes de Sloterdijk by Jean-Hugues Barthélémy

“…Cependant, la « sphérologie » de Sloterdijk ne dépasse conjointement – pour les unifier - l’ontologie philosophique et l’anthropologie empirique qu’en se faisant « roman philosophique » ou théorie métaphorique de l’« habiter » comme « domestication », et revisite pour ce faire la thématique phénoménologique de l’intersubjectivité en définissant la « sphère » minimale comme cette relation entre deux êtres par laquelle l’environnement va devenir ce qu’il faudra habiter afin que puisse par là se dessiner un Monde. …”
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Usages de la pierre dans la construction du port romain de Saint-Lupien à Rezé/Ratiatum (Loire-Atlantique) : extraire, transformer, bâtir by Thibaud Maisonneuve

“…Research carried out into the Roman port site of Saint-Lupien at Rezé/Ratiatum (Loire-Atlantique) has made it possible to examine the construction methods of port facilities established in the upper part of the Loire estuary as early as the end of the 1st c. …”
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Representations of the First Colonial “Civil War” in Victoria’s Reign: the Canadian Rebellions in the English Press (1837–1838) by Françoise Lejeune

“…Combined to the frightful news from Canada, Victorian fears of the civil war were also heightened in 1837, by the representations of civil wars and revolution published by Edward Gibbon and Thomas Carlyle whose histories of the decline of the Roman Empire and the French revolution. The Canadian “civil war” was described as a threat to the harmonious working of the British parliamentary monarchy at home and in the Empire. …”
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Judicial protection of real property rights by Tasić Anđelija, Lazić Miroslav

“…The classical civil law institutes, such as protection of real property rights, have withstood the test of time from Roman law to the present day. In case of violation of subjective real property rights, the injured party may file a claim for judicial protection. …”
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La guerre des voix by Raphaël Baroni

“…Pour illustrer mon propos, je me servirai d’un court extrait tiré du roman de Michel Houellebecq, La Carte et le territoire. …”
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Percepción de los estudiantes de la Facultad de Ciencias Económicas y Sociales de la Universidad de Los Andes (FACES-ULA) con relación a la Responsabilidad Social Empresarial by María Virginia Baptista de C., María de Fátima León de Álvarez, César Enrique Mora Contreras

“…En este entendido, es primordial el rol que juegan los gerentes que se forman en las universidades, razón por la cual el presente estudio busca analizar la percepción de los estudiantes del último semestre de la carrera Administración de Empresas de la Facultad de Ciencias Económicas y Sociales de la Universidad de Los Andes (Venezuela) con relación a la RSE y, a través de esta visión, comprender las debilidades de las que adolecen nuestros pensa de estudios. …”
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