PHILOLOGY AS A SCIENTIFIC AND EDUCATIONAL PROJECT by Pavel P. Shkarenkov

“…The institutionalization of comparative studies as a complex specialization - not only for philologists but also for historians, translators, theatre and cinema critics and experts - has already proven its heuristic value and educational effectiveness over the years.…”
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Rechtsgeschichte und Ordnungsdenken. Zum rechtshistorischen Werk von Paolo Grossi by Thomas Duve

“… Paolo Grossi (1933–2022) was one of the most influential legal historians of his generation. His works on the legal history of the Middle Ages and the modern period, not least his critique of the law of the modern age, have been widely received in Europe and Latin America. …”
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«Lo que son los sirionoses hoy, eran, hace algunos decenios, los guarayos». Algunas reflexiones sobre la conquista y reducción de los Sirionó, 1926-1943 by Pilar García Jordán

“…Taking into consideration the point of view of historians as well as a few theoretical loans from anthropology, the aim of this work is to propose a wider knowledge of the Sirionós as a group through several sources, the main one being the Diaries written by the missionaries in charge of successfully leading the process of «conquest».…”
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Être, se représenter, se dire. Lettres d’étudiantes norvégiennes dans une nation en construction (fin XIXe – première moitié du XXe siècle) by Anna Cabanel

“…Not only does it allow historians to measure the feminisation of the student population in the first half of the 20th century, it also offers the means to reflect on the construction and evolution of a feminine ‘public-self’. …”
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Des femmes écrivent l’histoire des femmes au milieu du XIXe siècle : représentations, interprétations by Isabelle Ernot

“…This article addresses the difficult achievement of this project through an analysis of earlier writings by women historians/femmes de lettres who forged representations concerning the similitude of the sexes in the mid-nineteenth century. …”
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L’édition scientifique des documents comptables médiévaux : enjeux et perspectives d’une entreprise pluridisciplinaire by Aude Wirth-Jaillard

“…Nonetheless, accounts are of great interest for linguists, historians and archaeologists. Thus, it appears necessary to come up with editions of such documents according to a standard shared by all medievalists and based on the broad idea of faithfulness to the original text. …”
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Josip Broz in Omsk. To the history of Russian Revolution, Russian Civil War and Socialist Construction by S. V. Novikov

“…However, it is in the Omsk period of life of the permanent leader of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia that it is advisable to seek answers to questions from historians and journalists related to the intricacies of his personal life and the choice of political course. …”
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Hadot Among the Medievalists: Revisiting the Historiography on “Intellectual Felicity” in the Thirteenth Century by Matteo Johannes Stettler

“…The reception of Hadot’s work on the tradition of spiritual exercises among historians of medieval philosophy has rarely produced the results one might reasonably have expected. …”
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Une copie de L’Origine du monde par René Magritte ? by Catherine Defeyt, David Strivay

“…For more than 20 years, the copy of The origin of the world of Courbet, which Joseph-Marie Lo Duca attributed to René Magritte, has duped historians and amateurs. Although the deception was unmasked, the date of realization, the context of realization and the author of this copy remained unknown. …”
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Les procès d’animaux en Lorraine (XIVe-XVIIIe siècles) by Laurent Litzenburger

“…Examples are rare and were long been considered by historians as a epiphenomena, betraying some archaism of ancient societies. …”
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The Greek Ethnography. A critical overview by Aris Tsantiropoulos

“…The main argument of this article is that the introduction of postmodernism in Greek Anthropology prevented a dialogue with the pre-existing field research work that had been conducted in Greece by non Greek Ethnographers and Greek Folklorists or Historians. This fact has specific consequences at the epistemological, theoretical and methodological level of contemporary Greek Ethnography. …”
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Kazakh khans of the 15th–17th centuries in the scientific heritage of Shigabutdin Marjani by Atygayev N.A.

“…It is established that the main sources for his work were the studies of such historians of the previous period as A.I. Levshin, V.V. …”
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La mise en scène d’un procès pénal : réflexion sur les médias et le procès Demjanjuk by Rainer Volk

“…It also highlights the fact that much of the media coverage was limited to the dramatic circumstances of the case, while less attention was paid to the gaps in the evidence, which historians consider problematic. However, the court find the defendant guilty, which also raises the question of whether the Demjanjuk trial was intended to make up - very late in the day - for the German justice systems’ failure to deal with Nazi crimes.…”
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La connaissance des maîtres allemands anciens en France, de Dominique-Vivant Denon à Henri Focillon by Isabelle Dubois-Brinkmann, François-René Martin

“…Knowledge of the old German masters, the so-called "Primitives", from the end of the 18th century to the middle of the 20th century, is the result of an immense collective effort, to which art historians, museum curators, critics and writers have all contributed. …”
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«Let’s remember everyone by name»: reflecting on the martyrology of the victims of Civil War in Omsk region by V. V. Kalinovsky

“…The paper provides an analytical review of the scientific reference publication «Victims of the Civil War: a reference book-martyrology on the act records of the parish registers of the temples of the Omsk region (June 1918–December 1919)», prepared by the creative team of Omsk historians-archivists — candidates of historical sciences Dmitry Igorevich Petin and Maxim Maksimovich Stelmak. …”
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Que vaut un négociant ? Prix et compétences des commerçants dauphinois, des années 1750 aux années 1820 by Boris Deschanel

“…The daily work of merchants and traders, in the eighteenth century, was the subject of many investigations by historians of commercial firms or commercial techniques. …”
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Les outils de représentation graphique de l’espace relationnel face au secret : le cas des conspirateurs du 19 août 1820 by Vivien Faraut

“…Often neglected by historians working on the opponents to the restored Bourbons, the August 19, 1820 conspiracy is a founding moment for the armed opposition. …”
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Les luttes sociales dans les campagnes andalouses : usages et significations du mot campesino de 1931 à 1936 by Arnaud Dolidier

“…However, most of these historians have been misusing the term « peasant », defining it in an ahistorical manner, therefore assimilating the social to the natural, especially the actors of rural Andalusia. …”
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History of science, religion and the ‘big picture’ by Sarah Qidwai, James Poskett

“…The academic subfields of ‘science and religion’ and ‘Islamic sciences’ have witnessed significant developments in recent decades. Despite historians discrediting outdated narratives, persistent ideas within the public sphere prompt the need for a comprehensive ‘big picture’. …”
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Du Moyen-Âge barbare au Moyen-Âge matrice de la modernité : histoire d’une métamorphose historiographique. Du romantisme à l’histoire des mentalités 1830-2015. by Christian Amalvi

“…Yet, one hundred and fifty years later, the works of the historians of the Annales School – Georges Duby, Jacques Le Goff, Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie, Jean Favier – present a much more positive face of the medieval period. …”
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