Tsarist Doctors in the Implementation of Peter the Great’s Foreign Policy Initiatives in 1716–1721 by A. V. Morokhin

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Le rôle de l’intertexte et du palimpseste dans la création d’une Écosse mythique dans Waverley et Rob Roy de Walter Scott by Céline SABIRON

“…Besides, the characters, such as the popular historical outlaw Rob Roy, are romanticized and mythicized in these fictions which recount the 1715 and 1745 Jacobite Risings in an epic style. Scott’s pictorial language also participates in conveying a mythical image of Scotland.We will thus try and explain the motives of such a meshing of fictive images taken from mythical and literary works, and see how these various pictures are woven together by means of rhetorical images to shape a new Scottish identity.…”
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Letters of Friedrich Christian Weber to John Robeson from Russia, 1718-1719 by I. I. Fedyukin, A. D. Novikova

“…The letters also reflect the tasks set before him by his government, first of all, investigating the nature of relations between the Russian court and the Jacobites and monitoring the progress of the Congress of Åland, including the views of the Russian and Swedish courts regarding the prospects of a separate peace treaty between them. …”
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