What Is This Thing Called Mentoring? by Darío Rodríguez

“…Mentorship is an important academic formative activity with origins in medieval universities. It represents a form of collaborative self-learning that connects a professor with a student in the pursuit of knowledge. …”
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Caractérisation du phénomène de brunissement du vitrail et évaluation de traitements de réduction by Elisabeth Venault de Bourleuf

“…Manganese (Mn), minor element being part of the chemical composition of medieval glass, appears to be highly involved in the deterioration process leading to the appearance of brown stains. …”
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L’apport du diagnostic archéologique pour la lecture d’un bâti « ordinaire » : l’église de Nozières (Cher) by Victorine Mataouchek

“…Beyond the new light provided by this study on the Early medieval origin of the building, the whole history of this small parish church deserves attention. …”
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Frühneuhochdeutsche Neuerungen im Spiegel der Schreibung der Krakauer Stadtkanzlei by Piotr A. Owsiński

“…The article hereunder presents the language analysis of chosen medieval charters from 14th century taken from the “Antiquum Registrum Privilegiorum Et Statutorum Civitatis Cracoviensis” published by Stanisław Estreicher in 1936 in Cracow. …”
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Aproximaciones historiográficas a la violencia en la Edad Media by Cecilia Devia

“…This paper consists of a brief state of the question on the issue of violence in the Middle Ages, framed in the following coordinates of time and space: the late medieval Western Europe. In this opportunity, it takes into account only historiographical approaches. …”
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Darknesses over the Bistrica. On some unacceptable interpretations of the history of Prizren and its monuments by Vojvodić Dragan, Pirivatrić Srđan

“…The paper discusses some recently proposed views on the religious landscape of medieval Prizren and the region it belonged to, the history of some Serbian churches in this city in Metohija, and the claim that the staurotheke of King Milutin of Serbia and Bishop Grigorije II of Ras, now in the Dominican Monastery in Dubrovnik, was donated to a church dedicated to St. …”
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Putting Africa on the Black Death map: Narratives from genetics and history by Monica H. Green

“…The strains of Y. pestis currently found in East and Central Africa derive from one of the lineages involved in late medieval outbreaks in Central Eurasia. This post-Black Death strain, it is argued here, entered the continent most likely in the late 15th or early 16th century. …”
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Interpretation of Historical Facts in Modern Italian Literature by the Example of Umberto Eco’s Novel “Baudolino” by O. Yu. Mushtanova

“…The subject of interpretation in the novel is medieval history, in particular, the reign of the emperor Frederick Barbarossa. …”
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Des sources comptables au service de l’archéologie : essai de reconstruction documentaire de la chapelle dite Saint-Nicolas du château de Falaise (Calvados), XIIe-XVe siècles... by Isabelle Chave

“…Clearly stated, the typological problems raised by the remains dug up during an archaeological boring investigation have nevertheless been poorly explained. Medieval accouting vouchers, modern texts and a rich collection of pictures dating from about 1750 to 1880, enable a re-interpretation of these observations and a reassessment of the status of the Castle Chapel of Saint-Nicolas which was served in the Middle Ages by the clergy of the Saint-Jean Abbey in Falaise.…”
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Mor a lékařská literatura pozdního středověku by David Tomíček

“… This paper deals with the question of contagiousness an communicability of plague in the treatises of late medieval physicians and leads to conclusions that beside the generally accepted miasmatic theory (i.e. plague si communicated by aer) two other conceptions were important. …”
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Communautés rurales et pouvoirs urbains au Maghreb central (vii-xive siècle) by Allaoua Amara

“…The central Maghreb was considered by the Arab historiography of the medieval Age as the territory of the rural Berber communities and often bound to the revolts against the Arab rulers of Kairouan. …”
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L’imitation des tissus précieux sur quelques sculptures valdôtaines, entre XVe et XVIe siècle by Alessandra Vallet

“…In the Aosta Valley, research on applied brocade, especially on late medieval polychrome sculptures, is still at an early stage. …”
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Del Convento al Mundo by María Paula Castillo

“…Medieval religious orders implemented a series of devices to control the behavior of their members. …”
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Le coton, sa culture et son utilisation selon les sources arabes médiévales by Jean-Charles Ducène

“…Technical literature of the Arab medieval sources indicates a slow but continuous progression of cotton from the Iranian region towards the West, with significant regional variations. …”
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Las figuras cómicas del mono y de los portadores de pintura corporal negra entre los nahuas prehispánicos y su transformación en la época colonial by Agnieszka Brylak

“…Due to the presence of the same types—the ape and the black or devil—in medieval and Renaissance popular and carnivalesque culture, part of this study will briefly mention the transformation of pre-Hispanic jesters and their fusion with their European counterparts that occurred in colonial times in New Spain.…”
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Luxúria e iconografia na escultura românica portuguesa by Joaquim Luís Costa

“…The present article contributes to this debate by analyzing different symbolic and thematic areas that can be found on the Medieval Bestiary, on the Bible, on the human being and on the animal world representations. …”
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Authenticating Features in the TEI by Sean M. Winslow

“…This paper will discuss issues in the modeling of authenticating features across time periods and regional boundaries, from the existing element to medieval European chirographs to Japanese jitsu-in. …”
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Muzyczne harmonie i harmonia świata. „Pieśni Ziemi i Mocy” Grega Beara by Joanna Kokot

“…The multiverse is presented there as analogous to a musical piece, however — contrary to ancient and medieval concepts — it is not a finished opus, but one that undergoes contiguous change, becoming more and more intricate in the process. …”
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In memoriam Víctor M. Hurtado Pérez (1950-2024) by Marta Diaz-Zorita Bonilla, Carlos P. Odriozola Lloret

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Observations on old Serbian terminology for iron mining and processing: Želězo and gvozdje by Loma Aleksandar B.

“…The newcomers spoke Middle High German, but probably not without some Slavic admixtures based on the bilingualism that had taken hold in their native country. In the medieval Serbia, ironsmiths used to be designated simply as ‘smiths’, kovačje, and the designation of both dug and wrought iron was gvozdje, with the adjective gvozděn. …”
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