Apollo in the North: Transmutations of the Sun God in Walter Pater’s Imaginary Portraits by Lene Østermark-Johansen

“…Although he chose historical settings in medieval France and eighteenth-century Germany for his tales, they reflect recent debates about the disappearance of the sun and the folkloristic animalism of Apollo the nature god. …”
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Par-delà le sang et la guerre : les enjeux de la conceptualisation diplomatique de l’Alliance franco-écossaise au Moyen Âge by Clément GUÉZAIS

“…The history of the relationship between France and Scotland is deeply rooted in the unstable context of late medieval Europe. First drafted in the late 13th century, the yet-to-be Auld Alliance” was to stand for several centuries. …”
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Representações interculturais de gênero no romance A república dos sonhos, de Nélida Piñon by Lúcia Osana Zolin

“…Brazilian author Nélida Piñon's novel A república dos sonhos (The Republic of Dreams) (1984) engages, on the one hand, gender representations of a medieval- inspired Galicia, with its oral traditions, pilgrimages and emigrants. …”
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Ibn Taymiya y el Estado Islámico (Dā ʿeš) by Felipe Medina Gutiérrez

“… Diversos medios de comunicación y analistas han reiterado que una de las mayores fuentes de inspiración del Estado Islámico es el controvertido pensador medieval musulmán Ibn Taymiya (1263-1328), de quien se dice fue su “padre espiritual”. …”
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Dieu ou les hommes ? Vivre l’obéissance dans les couvents anglais en exil (1598-1688) by Laurence LUX-STERRITT

“…They chose to be inspired by the mystics and by the examples of the great medieval saints which their spiritual director, Augustine Baker, incited them to discover on their own to meet God without the mediation of confessors or of their exercises. …”
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Una galería de pintura italiana antigua para el VII duque de Berwick y XIV duque de Alba by Gonzalo Redín Michaus

“… El texto realiza algunas consideraciones sobre la pinacoteca del XIV duque de Alba y su gusto por la pintura italiana antigua –con aperturas al arte medieval– en relación a las anotaciones en sus diarios de viaje y sus compras, aportando datos extraídos de su libro de cuentas. …”
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Un corps à soi : la réécriture du blason dans Odes de Sharon Olds by Juliette Bouanani

“…These poems bring the “blazon” to mind, a French medieval poetic form in which the feminine body is fragmented and mapped, from head to toe. …”
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Le corps entre sacré et profane : la réforme des pratiques pèlerines en Égypte (xixe-xxe siècles) by Catherine Mayeur-Jaouen

“…The European travellers were pleased to describe these popular festivals, with this typical mixture of religious medieval tradition and scandal. All agree on denouncing the exhibition of the body which characterizes these mouleds : the body is the main vehicle for sacred rituals. …”
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Preamplification Procedure for the Analysis of Ancient DNA Samples by Stefania Del Gaudio, Alessandra Cirillo, Giovanni Di Bernardo, Umberto Galderisi, Theodoros Thanassoulas, Theodoros Pitsios, Marilena Cipollaro

“…In this study we extracted the DNA from nine human skeletal remains of different ages found in the Byzantine cemetery of Abdera Halkidiki and in the medieval cemetery of St. Spiridion in Rhodes (Greece). …”
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L’écriture du monde (I). by Nicolas Perreaux

“…By varying geographic, chronological and typological scales, we show that the distribution of these objects reveals the unequal social dynamics of Medieval Europe. The examination of a corpus composed of more than half a million of diplomatic texts and 8600 Romanesque buildings, indeed shows a close geographical correlation between the production of texts for the tenth and eleventh centuries and a high density buildings. …”
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Le témoignage de la parenté : la mémoire généalogique dans les dispenses matrimoniales à Florence (xve-xvie siècles) by Jasmin Hauck

“…This article is based on a source that has been so far rather neglected when studying the genealogical memory: the witness accounts given by kin couples that were connected up to the 4th canonical degree which they had to provide ecclesiastical courts with in order to prove a kinship tie and thus obtain a matrimonial dispensation. Starting from late medieval Florentine sources, we developed a new method of graphically representing the genealogical memory. …”
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Cerâmica de tradição islâmica em contexto português by Marco Liberato, Isabel Inácio, Gonçalo Lopes, Constança dos Santos, Jacinta Bugalhão, Helena Catarino, Sandra Cavaco, Jaquelina Covaneiro, Isabel Cristina Fernandes, Ana Sofia Gomes, Susana Gómez, Maria José Gonçalves

“…The excessive tutelage of Political History over the study of medieval materials, frequently results in attempts to link directly the archeological record with an historical conjuncture, generally disruptive. …”
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Marmoutier (Tours) : de l’hôtellerie médiévale à la maison du Grand Prieur by Élisabeth Lorans, Émeline Marot, Gaël Simon

“…This paper sets out the succession of buildings on the site, and the medieval and modern transformations of the guest house, and proposes a few comparative interpretations.…”
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The population of the posad of the fortress city of Tetyushi in the 17th century and its occupational structure by E.V. Pashina

“…The analysis is based on the materials of medieval censuses (data taken from the census books of 1646, 1656–1657, and 1678; all being stored in the Russian State Archive of Ancient Acts, Moscow). …”
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Arguing sovereignty in Songhay by Bruce S. Hall

“…Recent archaeological, historical, and anthropological literature on the development of social and political complexity in Africa challenges older models of state formation that used to shape the understanding of medieval Sahelian empires, such as Songhay. As we now know, there were multiple paths to complexity that did not necessarily lead to state formation; and there was a heterarchical distribution of power in many African political formations. …”
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Metamorphoses of Corpus Christi: Eucharistic Processions & Clashes in Fifteenth- and Sixteenth-Century Vienna by Károly Goda

“…In this sense, the way of celebrating the feast in festive trains was actually in itself continuously compromising the original medieval mission of the cult and so became a perfect tool of early modern Catholic reform. …”
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Pigs, people, and proximity: a 6000-year isotopic record of pig management in Ireland by Eric Guiry, Fiona Beglane, Finbar McCormick, Eric Tourigny, Michael P. Richards

“…While pig diets show an emphasis on pannage throughout much of the period, husbandry was fundamentally reconstructed in the early medieval period. Through prehistory, pigs were herded in areas distant from human settlements, whereas later they were relocated to live near people. …”
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Evidências de Patrocínio em Bestiários Medievais by Tiago de Oliveira Veloso Silva

“…The present article is part of an ongoing Master’s degree research in Universidade de Brasília (UnB), and proposes to indicate visual evidence of patronage in two British medieval bestiaries of the second family, Bodley Ashmole Ms. 1511 and Aberdeen Bestiary Ms. 24. …”
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Afinidades e desencontros entre a concepção de Max Weber e Georg Simmel sobre a Cidade e a Liberdade by Edilene Maria de Carvalho Leal

“… Esse artigo pretende comparar as concepções de Weber e Simmel, respectivamente, sobre o fenômeno do advento histórico da cidade medieval e da cidade moderna. Nesses dois pensadores da modernidade, aparece como tema central, a relação problemática entre a constituição da cidade e a liberdade. …”
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Actitudes lingüísticas en tres comunidades hispano-lusas de fronteira: Miranda do Douro, Val do Ellas e Olivença by Xosé-Henrique Costas

“…On the border between Spain and Portugal there are some enclaves that resist linguistic and cultural assimilation under the pressure / oppression of the corresponding state linguistic ideology, Portuguese or Spanish.This is Miranda do Douro (Tras-os-Montes, Portugal) where there is still a community of 3.500 people speaking a variety of Asturian-Leonese Language called Mirandes; of the Val do Río Ellas, or Xálima (northwest of Cáceres, Spain), where there is a community of 4.500 speakers of varieties derived from medieval Galician; and from Olivenza (Badajoz, Spain) where still 3.000 people keep the Portuguese language alive. …”
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