East Africa and oceanic exchange networks between the first and fifteenth centuries by Philippe Beaujard

“…Abu-Lughod (1989), it did play an active role in the world-system, even after the arrival of the Portuguese during the 16th century.…”
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Peníze a peněžní početní jednotky v raném novověku by Petr Vorel

“… The author defines the term “monetary calculation unit” in the economic context of the Early Modern Times and explains why, until the 16th century, this virtual concept was of exceptional importance. …”
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“One Nation under God?”: Ethnicity and Identity in Modern America by Gary D. German

“…This paper examines the sources of “Anglo-Saxonism”, the invention of English ethnicity and the manner in which the latter came to fuse with Protestant Christianity from the 16th century onwards in creating the notion of the WASP. …”
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Rhetoric to Alexander: text and intertexts by Alius Jaskelevičius

“… For a long time, Aristotle was considered the author of the “Rhetoric to Alexander”. However, in the 16th century, Anaximenes of Lampsacus came to be considered its author. …”
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Lékaři, lazebníci a porodní báby z řad moravských novokřtěnců v 16.–17. století by Andrea Loukotová

“…They were required by both the Bohemian and Moravian nobility, regardless of their theological radicalism, for their skilfulness and for the increasing demand for physicians in the 16th century. In consequence of their long­term absence in the Anabaptist communities, caused by the travels to the noble patients, the physicians and barber­surgeons were predisposed to be independent and reluctant to submit to the order prevailing in the Anabaptist communities. …”
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Pardubičtí Židé a jejich náboženská obec do roku 1918 by Jitka Vojtková, Luboš Kokeš

“… This study describes the Jewish settlement of Pardubice from the first mentions of their residence in primary sources in the early 16th century to the period of the First World War. The main emphasis was put on the establishing and development of the Jewish religious community in the first half of the 19th century, its subsequent institutional consolidation and the resulting influence of the growing Jewish population on the economic, social and cultural emancipation of the town of Pardubice at the turn of the 19th and 20th century. …”
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Est-il permis de tuer son père hérétique ou de le dénoncer à l’Inquisition ? L’évêque d’Orihuela et les fils de morisques by Isabelle Poutrin

“…This article studies the corpus of authorities used by Esteve, showing that, during the 16th century, several influential authors close to the Inquisition firmly established the obligation, for the children of heretics, to denounce them to the Holy Office. …”
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Pretiosa est in conspectu Domini mors sanctorum eius. The Chapter Book Necrologies of Mont Saint-Michel, Avranches, Bibl. patrimoniale, ms 214 by Katharine S. B. Keats-Rohan

“…Examination of Avranches, Bibl. patrimoniale, ms 214 shows that it contains the Chapter Book used for memorialization of the dead in the office of Chapter from c. 1212 to c. 1450, with obits going back well into the tenth century; names were added throughout the 13th and 14th centuries, continuing sporadically into the late 16th century. Additional texts, a customary and a ceremonial, were added under Abbot Pierre Le Roy (d. 1411). …”
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The cartulary of the monastery of Tiron by Kathleen Thompson

“…At the beginning of the 16th century, the cartulary received its current binding and two gatherings were added, one written at that time and covering the Norman priory of Bacqueville-en-Caux, the other containing Pope Eugenius III’s confirmation and other material dating from the 12th century.…”
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Marguerite de Roberval et l’imaginaire colonial de l’affrontement entre les femmes et les bêtes sauvages by Zoé Marty

“…The story of Marguerite de Roberval, as it was told in the 16th century, includes a bear-hunting episode that differs from the traditions in which women and wild beasts are placed in opposition. …”
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Religion, privilèges et inégalités : vers un désétablissement de l’Église d’Angleterre ? by Hervé Picton

“…Since it was established in the 16th century, the Church of England has almost always enjoyed a number of privileges including a monopoly of civil and religious life. …”
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L’enseignement de la culture arabe et islamique dans le département de Soaw, province de Bulkiemde, Burkina Faso by Adama Ouedraogo

“…In the Soaw district, there are, on the one hand, the Coranic school which was introduced back in the 16th century by Yarse Muslims, and, on the other hand, the medersa which was founded as late as 2001. …”
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Fazer-se multidão: multiplicidade, classe e comum by Bruno Tarin

“…In order to support the analyzes and elaborations on this concept, the article begins with a brief reflection on how the idea of large groups or collective subject has been seen throughout history, with emphasis on the period of the philosophical and political formation of the sovereign States (16th century) and the period of formation of those that became known as mass societies (19th century). …”
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Les liminalités dans les représentations du cycle solaire quotidien by Danièle Dehouve

“…The article studies the division of the daily solar cycle in Mexico, among the Aztecs of the 16th century based on ethnohistorical documents, and among the contemporary Tlapanec people based on ethnographic observations. …”
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La reconfiguración de la colonialidad del poder y la construcción del Estado-nación en América Latina by Luís Martinez-Andrade

“…The concept «colonialism of power» provided by Anibal Quijano will be use in an axial perspective to explain the social processes conceived since the 16th century. As far as we are concerned, we will offer the concept of «colonialism of the do» to develop the debates about the social historical dynamic in Latin America. …”
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Ancient Art in the Collection of the National Museum in Gdańsk by Grzegorz First

“…The remaining artifacts stored in Gdańsk have not been thoroughly studied; they do not form a homogeneous collection, and it cannot be ruled out that they may also be remnants of former bourgeois collections dating back to the 16th century or German collections acquired in Gdańsk after World War II. …”
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L’alliance normando-tupi au xvie siècle : la célébration de Rouen by Beatriz Perrone-Moisés

“…The Norman-Tupi alliance in the 16th century: the celebration at Rouen.In 1550, the city of Rouen prepares a series of festivities for the royal entry of Henry II and his court, of which two elements point to the links between the Norman harbour merchants and the Brazilian coastal Tupi: a performance of the Indians’ daily life – called « Brazilian festival » by the historian Ferdinand Denis, involving 50 Tupi and 250 Norman sailors – and a staged naval battle between French and Portuguese. …”
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Origin and originality of John Calvin's 'Harmony of the Law', the expository project on Exodus-Deuteronomy (1559-1563) by E. A. de Boer

“…A surviving manuscript of Calvin’s introductory exposition to the series, studied here for the first time since the 16th century, reveals intriguing details on the conception and execution of this plan. …”
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Recordando o rei David: vivência coral e criatividade musical na Europa pós-carolíngia by Manuel Pedro Ferreira

“…Although referring both to pre-Carolingian mentality and to 16th-century humanism as mirrored in contemporary polyphony, it takes as its main object the liturgical repertory in existence around the 11th century. …”
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Alejo Venegas de Busto : un moraliste tolédan du xvie siècle face à l’hérésie by Marc Zuili

“…The purpose of this work is to analyse how a 16th-century Toledan moralist, Alejo Venegas de Busto (1498 or 1499?…”
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