Robert of Torigni’s “pragmatic literacy”: some theoretical considerations by Benjamin Pohl

“…Pontorson), and one of the most celebrated historians of the twelfth century. In recent years, scholars have shown a renewed interest in Robert as an author and scribe, including his handwriting, his librarianship, his use of archival sources, and his working methods as a historian. …”
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Two and a half cheers for the national care standards by Kirstie Maclean

“…It is therefore vital that we celebrate the major step forward which the Standards represent for looked after and accommodated children and other children living away from home.…”

From Performance to Participation: The Origins of the Fit Nation by Natalia Mehlman Petrzela

“…Though only one-fifth of Americans do the recommended amount of daily physical exercise and most measures point to an extraordinary lack of fitness in the United States, the pursuit of regular exercise is widely celebrated not only as physically salutary, but as a sign of discipline, affluence, and virtue. …”
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"...but the poor opted for the evangelicals!" - Evangelicals, poverty and prosperity by Gideon van der Watt

“…Have the global evangelical celebrations of 2010 bridged the dichotomy between social responsibility (Ecumenicals) and the proclamation of salvation (Evangelicals)? …”
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The $\mathtt{T}$-coercivity approach for mixed problems by Barré, Mathieu, Ciarlet, Patrick

“…To support our view, we solve a series of classical mixed problems with the $\mathtt{T}$-coercivity approach. Among others, the celebrated Fortin Lemma appears naturally in the numerical analysis of the approximate problems.…”
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བྱིས་ པའི་ མནོལ་ སྐྲ་ ལེན་ པའི་ སྐོར་ གྱི་ ངོ་ སྤྲོད་ ཆེ་ ལོང་ ཙམ།... by Lhamokyab Noyontsang

“…It also marks the collective celebration of the child's joining the ranks of humans and it is conceived as heralding a bright future for the child. …”
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Shaping Pedagogy Through Practice: Reflections on the Spanish Program in International Studies at UTS by Elena Sheldon

“… As the University of Technology Sydney (UTS) celebrates 30 years of the Bachelor of International Studies (BIS), I reflect on my journey leading the Spanish program.  …”
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Façonner les rôles sexués et discipliner le corps féminin : les discours de distribution de prix en Guadeloupe et en Martinique, 1905-1920 by Clara Palmiste

“…In the context of the French colonial system in America, the aim is to understand their specificities, to examine the masculine and feminine models celebrated by the school and the social body, to question the interweaving of these gendered representations with other representations linked to race and class, and to see how they contribute to the maintenance of social order, to attempts to control the female body (the fear of the 'masculinisation' of young girls) and to the pursuit of a feminine ideal modelled on the metropolitan bourgeois model.…”
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Caroline de Solar : mobiliser son réseau lors de l’affaire du sourd-muet de l’abbé de l’Épée by Géraldine Ther

“…We can use records from the Châtelet, but also numerous factums kept at the Bibliothèque nationale de France and tales from the Causes Célèbres.…”
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La comida ritual en las fiestas de las veintenas mexicas : un acercamiento a su tipología y simbolismo by Elena Mazzetto

“…This article provides insight into the different types of ritual food prepared and consumed in the ritual context of the celebrations of the veintenas of the Mexican solar year. …”
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Short Paper - A note on the Frank–Wolfe algorithm for a class of nonconvex and nonsmooth optimization problems by de Oliveira, Welington

“…Frank and Wolfe’s celebrated conditional gradient method is a well-known tool for solving smooth optimization problems for which minimizing a linear function over the feasible set is computationally cheap. …”
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Berta Gleizer Ribeiro e as artes das vidas amazônicas by Lúcia Hussak van Velthem, Bianca Luiza Freire de Castro França, José Ribamar Bessa Freire

“…Rather, it constitutes a celebration of Berta Ribeiro and her work, which contributed to the consolidation of Brazilian and Latin American anthropology. …”
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To belong or not to belong : variations autour du mythe associatif chez Virginia Woolf by Stéphanie Ravez

“…This article proposes to confront both texts and read them in the light of her celebrated feminist essays published in the thirties where she openly rejects the membership of any society or club.…”
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When Durga Strikes. The Affective Space of Kolkata’s Holy Festival by Federico De Matteis

“…During the ten days of the celebration, the Indian city is enriched by a multitude of temporary temples, where local communities come together for both religious and social gatherings. …”
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Saving Private Ryan (Spielberg, 1998) as a Post-Vietnam War Film in Search of Moral Legibility by Mehdi Achouche

“…Yet the film still attempts to rescue the citizen-soldiers traditionally celebrated by the genre from that wilderness by relying on the codes of melodrama and the central figure of the good leader…”
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The Dialectics of Mobility: Capitalism and Apocalypse in Cormac McCarthy’s The Road by Simon Schleusener

“…By placing the novel in the context of the new capitalism, the article explores the ways in which McCarthy’s treatment of mobility deviates from previous American road narratives, which typically celebrate the pleasures and possibilities of movement and flight. …”
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Doyle’s Diogenes Club: a Delightful Oddity Screening a Metatextual Clue by Nathalie Jaëck

“…That famous inquisitive text, a positivist celebration of the powers of logos, also makes room for a crucial vindication of silence, and creates the paradoxical possibility for the text to escape the very paradigms it powerfully establishes.…”
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Psychologist. Pedagogue. Person. On the Anniversary of Tatiana Germanovna Goryacheva by E.O. Sedova

“… <p>Remarkable Russian neuropsychologist, the author of the sensory-motor correction method Tatiana Germanovna Goryacheva celebrates her anniversary in December of 2024. The article describes the milestones of her biography and marks out the main scientific interests, among them: psychology of abnormal development, neuropsychological correction, child psychosomatics. …”
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Feminizing a Colonial Epic: On Spofford’s “Priscilla” by Daniela Daniele

“…By shifting her focus from the celebration of the army leader Miles to the disempowered Priscilla who stubbornly claims her freedom in love, Spofford points to the private horrors of colonization in an exemplary feminist apologue filled with domestic sentiments which partakes of what Alide Cagidemetrio defines as a “usable past.”…”
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Lobachevsky University: On the Way to Be a Research Leader by Editorial Article

“…Lobachevsky State University of Nizhni Novgorod celebrates centenary. In his interview with the Editor, the Rector of the University E.V. …”
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