Bengal: From a Periphery to the Heartland of South Asia by Csaba M. KOVÁCS

“…The historical province of Bengal, one of South Asia’s most densely populated areas from ancient times, was mainly a periphery within the states that succeeded on the subcontinent until the late Middle Ages. Conquered in the 16th century by the Mughals, an important part of its population embraced Islam. …”
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LİVÂYÎ’NİN MANZÛM YASİN TEFSİRİ / LIVAYI’S POETICAL INTERPRETATION OF “YASEEN” (SURA YASEEN) by Ahmet SEVGİ

“…</p><p>Abstract:</p><p>The text of poetical interpretation of “Yaseen” (Sura Yaseen) appeared in Livayi’s, one of the 16th century poets, the work (the beginning part missing) stored under the number Diez A. 8⁰.192 in Berlin Königliche Library, is given in this essay. …”
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« Wolves in sheep’s clothing » : la rhétorique du combat chez Thomas Becon  by Christian Jérémie

“…This article deals with an aspect of the Church in 16th century England: what kind of supper is being prepared there behind whose backs — a double question related to a decisive period in the history of the English Church, the reign of Mary Tudor, on both sides of the Channel. …”
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Imported figured textiles from the Belorechensky burial ground in the collection of the State Hermitage Museum by Teplyakova A.N.

“…However, there are several examples of Chinese and Italian production, and one damask, the technical features of which make it related not only to Italian and Syro-Egyptian, but also to early 16th century Safavid textiles. In this regard, the dating of the mounds from which these textiles originate was examined and clarified; issues of trade in the Northern Black Sea region were touched upon, as well as non-economic ways of the appearance of high-status imported products.…”
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Buhara Hanlığı ve Afganistan by Muhammed Bilal ÇELİK

“…The territory of Afghanistan was divided into three zones of influence after the complete dissolution of the Timurid Empire at the beginning of the 16th century. The west was under the control of the Safavid State, while the east was subordinated to the Baburid Empire. …”
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Personal identity during the Time of Troubles in Russia (setting up a problem) by A.A. Kuznetsov

“…The unremitting wars that took place in the second half of the 16th century favored the development of personal identity at the public level. …”
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« ‘A flat dichotomist’ : Critique marlovienne de la méthode ramiste » by Laetitia Sansonetti

“…This article studies the reception of Ramus (Pierre de La Ramée, 1515-1572) in England over the last quarter of the 16th century, which corresponds to the heyday of the publication of his major works, Dialectics and Rhetoric. …”
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Les transformations d’un faubourg de Blois : les terrasses de l’Évêché (ve-xixe siècle) by Marie-Denise Dalayeun, Jérôme Bouillon, Françoise Yvernault

“…At the end of the 16th century, the ditch was largely backfilled and no longer fulfilled its defensive role.The development of the terraces by the addition of a large embankment took place as early as the 15th century, as evidenced by the remains of a building built partly over the ditch. …”
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Putting Africa on the Black Death map: Narratives from genetics and history by Monica H. Green

“…This post-Black Death strain, it is argued here, entered the continent most likely in the late 15th or early 16th century. This coincides with hitherto unexplained population migrations and other cultural signs of reactions to a deadly emerging disease. …”
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Conservatism of funeral rites of the western Balts by V.I. Kulakov

“…The paper introduces a fragment of the text dating back to the middle of the 16th century, which contains eyewitness accounts of the unique features of the rituals of the Western Balts in the Reformation era. …”
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Symbolization and domesticity in the Andean home: A phenomenological approach to dwelling in Coporaque, Peru by Gonzalo Ríos-Vizcarra, Luis Enrique Calatayud-Rosado, Aleixandre Brian Duche-Pérez

“…To achieve this objective, we focused on the Peruvian Andes, specifically on Coporaque, an Indigenous village founded in the 16th century during colonial times. In this locality, qualitative research was carried out using the phenomenological approach, prioritizing the lived experience of the native inhabitants in their daily “life world” through in-depth interviews and direct observations. …”
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Medicalização do parto: a apropriação dos processos reprodutivos femininos como causa da violência obstétrica by Kenia Martins Pimenta Fernandes, Carlos Mendes Rosa

“…Childbirth, conducted in western societies exclusively by midwives until mid-16th century, became medicalized and institutionalized in the second half of the 20th century. …”
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PAN-ISLAMIC COOPERATION AND ANTI-COLONIALISM BETWEEN THE OTTOMAN CALIPHATE AND THE MALAY WORLD by ARSHAD ISLAM, RUQAIA TAHA AL-ALWANI

“…This paper explores Pan-Islamic cooperation between the Ottoman Caliphate and Southeast Asia in the context of anti-colonial resistance, focusing on specific diplomatic relations between the Sublime Porte and the sultanates of Aceh, Riau, and Jambi from the 16th century onwards, analysing the role of Malay Muslims in the Ottoman Caliphate, and the role of the Ottomans in Sumatran resistance to Dutch colonialism. …”
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Centra, zázemí a periferie hospodářského života raně novověké společnosti v zemích České koruny. O smyslu hospodářských dějin raného novověku by Václav Ledvinka

“…The first is a microhistorical insight into the management and function of the suburban estates of the Czech nobility in the immediate vicinity of the provincial capital, Prague, at the end of the 16th century, as can be observed through the example of the small manor of Košíř, owned in the years 1585–1597 by the lords of Hradec. …”
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Trauma Surgery and War: A Historical Perspective by Kun Hwang

“…The aim of this review is to introduce the progress in trauma surgery made during war. In the 16th century, Paré reintroduced ligature of arteries, which had been introduced by Celsus and Galen, instead of cauterization during amputation. …”
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Sur les origines du concept de méthode à l’âge classique : La Ramée, Bacon et Descartes by Philippe Hamou

“…Our contemporary concept of method, as a formal discourse that comes before science itself and aims at directing scientific inquiry, prescribing several steps and checking-procedures, is not the concept of method that was familiar to educated 17th-century minds. In the 16th century, the French scholar Petrus Ramus (Pierre de la Ramée) was instrumental in importing the notion of “method” from rhetoric into logic. …”
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Livourne, ville de la diversité : un concours d’idées pour l’aménagement d’une zone portuaire by Simona Corradini, Francesca Morucci, Francesca Pichi

“…The city was founded by the Medici family from the Grand Duchy of Tuscany in the 16th century. The ambition at the time was to build a cosmopolitan city, the idea being that the coexistence of people of different nationalities with different languages and religions would facilitate the influx of visitors and boost trade. …”
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Manuscript 50 of the Alessandrina University Library: user manual for the Libraria of Francesco Maria II della Rovere by Daniela Fugaro

“…Of the Libraia impressa that Francesco Maria II della Rovere collected and organised between the end of the 16th century and the first thirty years of the 17th century in Casteldurante - a Bibliotheca universalis of imperishable fame, transferred in 1667 at the behest of Pope Alexander VII to the newly established Biblioteca Alessandrina - a manuscript inventory still exists. …”
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The Russian Orthodox Church and Moscow-the Third Rome Concept by Ş. Muhammed Duali

“…Russian priests believed that Nestor's prophecy had been fulfilled and Moscow developed the concept of the Third Rome. Appearing in the 16th century, the Moscow-Third Rome concept soon became the ideological basis for the formation of the Moscow kingdom. …”
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Orden dentro del desorden: circulación de libros de derecho en Nueva España, 1585–1640 by Idalia García

“…The books were either trans- ported from Europe or acquired in New Spanish cities, where they were available due to the commercial networks established by booksellers from the 16th century onwards. These books contributed to the recreation of a Western normative order in American societies and thus played a key role in the emergence of a new legal culture. …”
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