Vernacularization: A Cross-Disciplinary Review by Tuuli Tahko, Jani Marjanen

“…Vernacularization is a term that many linguists, historians, anthropologists, and others have adopted to refer to changing linguistic, social, and cultural hierarchies within communities. …”
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Charité bien ordonnée. Acteurs et institutions de la tsédaqah en Europe méditerranéenne au bas Moyen Âge by Claude Denjean, Juliette Sibon, Claire Soussen

“…The study of the tsedaqah’s Latin and Hebraic medieval sources also enables historians to write a history of the Jewish elites. …”
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Groupes et réseaux féminins à la Cour de Philippe IV d'Espagne (1621-1665) by Alain Hugon

“…But at the same time historians have also highlighted their exclusion from public and government life and even their reclusion in monasteries and convents. …”
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La piraterie et l’exercice de la violence dans l’espace atlantique (1713-1730) by Kevin Porcher

“…The Golden Age of Atlantic piracy (circa 1713-1730) is a theme already studied by historiography, in particular by Anglo-Saxon historians, and the details of the violence committed by pirates are of course related by most publications. …”
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Coastal Yorubaland: Habitability, Inhabitance, and Inheritances by Toyin Falola

“… Although the conference from which this Special Issue derives was convened by two prominent historians, this article is multi-disciplinary; both within and outside the boundaries of history. …”
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La mémoire de la participation des Espagnols à la Résistance française : une construction difficile by Miguel Sans

“…The occultations or glorifications which these polemics entail can only give a fragmented and incomplete knowledge of this Resistance, and make the work of historians difficult.…”
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Science du gouvernement et manière de punir dans l’espace germanique : la conception pénale de Joseph von Sonnenfels et son évolution (seconde moitié du XVIIIe siècle)  by Olivier Coelho

“…Previous scholarship has seen in Joseph von Sonnenfels one of the prominent figures of that movement in the German territories. Historians especially underlined his opposition to the death penalty and torture. …”
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Une histoire asynchrone de l’économie et de l’écologie, et de leurs « passeurs » by Sophie Boutillier, Patrick Matagne

“…Nevertheless, pollution was not an unknown fact of European populations, as historians’ works demonstrate. Ecology becomes a science one hundred years later, showing the difficult balance between human activities and natural resources. …”
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Du témoignage : à propos de quelques portraits d’Abd el-Kader en Oriental by François Pouillon

“…This question led Algerian historians to challenge the testimonies of visitors and even photographs. …”
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Acteurs et dynamiques de l’histoire de l’architecture à Bordeaux dans la seconde moitié du XXe siècle by Gauthier Bolle, Nina Mansion-Prud’homme

“…Thus, a first concrete situation, analysed during a one-day workshop held in Bordeaux in November 2018, allows a certain number of hypotheses to emerge and to feed questions around the actors, the institutions and the currents of thought that have shaped the field of Architectural History throughout the second half of the 20th century in France. The careers of historians, which bear witness to the diversity of the field and its structuring over the last fifty years, highlight both the hybridity of professional profiles and the plurality of theoretical approaches.…”
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Planetary pictures: historicizing environmental and climate sciences in the Anthropocene by Thomas Simpson, James Poskett

“…How should historians of environmental and climate sciences respond to the Earth's move from the blank canvas to a foreground feature of ‘big-picture’ scholarship? …”
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Faut-il se souvenir du républicanisme anglais ? L’héritage intellectuel du républicanisme anglais dans le temps long by Myriam-Isabelle Ducrocq

“…However, if one considers its intellectual origins, the abundance of theoretical debate at the time of the First English Revolution, the importance of its reception across the British Isles, Europe and America and the manifest or subterranean role it played in transatlantic revolutions and its legacies, it appears as a legitimate object of study for historians of political thought; which is why there has been sustained interest in the history of this intellectual tradition over the past few decades.…”
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Recognising Cartulary Studies Thirty Years after Les cartularies by Joanna Tucker

“…It reflects on how this field has developed since the early 1990s, especially what has characterised the research and the kinds of themes and questions historians have explored. It situates the latest work on cartularies within the broader development of the field, such as long established interests in cartulary function, typologies, codicology and scribes, and the influences of editorial practices, as well as emerging ideas about reading cartularies. …”
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Circulations transnationales en matière d’éducation (XIXe-XXe siècles) : note de synthèse des travaux d’un champ de recherche en expansion by Sébastien-Akira Alix, Pierre Kahn

“…Since the last quarter of the 20th century, many researchers and historians have endeavored to trace the emer-gence, development, and establishment of a site of circulation – involving actors, objects, knowledge, networks, etc. – between different regions of the world. …”
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Les enjeux de la bataille de Mânû (283/896) by Virginie Prevost

“…The battle of Mânû represents an important element of memory for Ibâḍism in North Africa and a crucial turning point in their history, often connected by Ibâḍî historians to the fall of the Imamate of Tâhart. This article, while retracing the conduct and the consequences of this event, is also focusing on the composition and evolution of Ibâḍism in North Africa during this period. …”
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Sarraounia, une reine africaine entre histoire et mythe littéraire (Niger, 1899-2010) by Elara Bertho

“…Published in 1980, he intended his novel Sarraounia  to be a form of  historical authentification, despite the fact the figure of a warrior queen was little known, if not completely unknown, to historians. He thus contributed to the creation of a 'national myth', although the subversive dimension present in the original work were gradually eliminated. …”
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Contours of pacificism: Ramsden Balmforth's advocacy of peace in the Union of South Africa and beyond by F. Hale

“…It is argued that Balmforth was not at any time an absolute pacifist, and that the distinction between “pacifism” and “pacificism” which was advanced by inter alia the British historians A.J.P. Taylor and Martin Ceadel is particularly useful for interpreting Balmforth and placing him on the spectrum of positions with regard to the ethical defensibility of taking up arms. …”
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O “pacto sucessório” revisitado: o texto e o contexto by Abel Estefânio

“…For the contemporary historians such a chronology is impossible but it was perfectly acceptable for the modern ones. …”
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The Transatlantic Political Economy by Allan Potofsky

“…On both sides of the Atlantic, a desire to deepen economic ties between the two « regenerated » nations was kindled by the ideological potentials of republicanism in the United States and of the « reform monarchy » at the end of the ancien régime and opening years of the Revolution.This article examines an overlooked element in the « master narrative » of historians who have focused on the degradation of the political and economic ties between the two nations after 1787 : the American financial debt toward France grew in significance with the awareness of the proportions of the deficit of the French state. …”
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Independent Ruler, Indefinable Role by Yihao QIU

“…However, Chinese sources present a somewhat different picture and shed new light on several issues, including the status of Jochid rulers in the eyes of Yuan historians, the importance of Jochid apanages in China, local dual-administrative structures, and local officials of the Great Khan. …”
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