Le silence et le cri : Salomé, d’Oscar­­ Wilde à Richard Strauss by Pascal Aquien

“…Wilde’s play and Strauss’s opera can be considered as the acme of the literary, pictorial and musical currents that have been exploring the theme of Salome since the Middle Ages. The two works are however radically different. …”
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Conrad's allegorical reading of 1 Samuel 14: an analysis of a sermon by Conrad of Saint George on the worthy reception of the blessed sacrament by Jos Huls

“… The sermon on 1 Samuel 14 is a paradigm for the allegorical mode of reading in the Middle Ages. This mode of reading first of all relates the Bible text to our life and in doing so places the relationship with God in a central position. …”
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Conflict and Identity in Valgrisenche by Alessandro Celi

“…In particular, the presence of the Col du Mont, which provided easy passage to Tarentaise, encouraged the development of trade that, during the Middle Ages, granted the valley a measure of wealth. …”
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La confrontation des genres au tribunal au Moyen Âge (XIVe-XVIe siècles). Une relecture des relations de couples en conflit by Martine Charageat

“…The analysis of matrimonial conflicts using the concept of gender, which goes beyond the verification of whether judges applied or not canonical law, draws more on socio-anthropological trends in the history of the married couple in the middle ages than on legal trends. The new historiographical optimism present in recent works testifies to how women were able to refuse some matrimonial situations despite the existence of domestic violence, forced sexual abstinence (impotence) and limited sentimental exchanges with their husbands. …”
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La femme allaitant des serpents et ses liens avec la Luxure by Raphaël Guesuraga

“…Conversely, an investigation of the representations of Lust as a capital sin throughout the Middle Ages shows that it is rather depicted as a woman looking in a mirror than by a woman suckling snakes. …”
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De l’Anjou à la Bohême : le double portrait équestre de Pierre de Rohan-Gié by Jeanne Alis

“…The presence of these artistic models is a precious testimony to the family history, as they come from works that adorned the Château du Verger at the very end of the Middle Ages and disappeared in the eighteenth century, a hundred years before they were reused at Sychrov. …”
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De Normandie en Angleterre : enquête sur la poétique de trois rouleaux mortuaires by Monique Goullet

“…From the early Middle Ages to the modern era, funeral rolls circulated within confraternity networks. …”
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Représenter le passage dans l’au‑delà : les images de rites funéraires sur les tombeaux (xiii e‑xiv e siècles) by Haude Morvan

“…It also highlights the two-way influences between funerary art and hagiographic iconography, which reveal how porous was the boundary between the saint and the prestigious deceased in the Middle Ages.…”
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Pas d’armes et vide iconographique : quand le texte doit remplacer l’image (xve siècle) by Guillaume Bureaux

“…However, if the Pas had a real success at the end of the Middle Ages, these were very rarely the object of pictorial representations. …”
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Samogitia and Lithuania in 13-18th Centuries: the Splendour and the Poverty of Regional (Provincial) Self-Goveming by Eugenijus Saviščevas

“…In the course of this period, Samogitia experienced different patterns of relationship towards Lithuania: hostile western cultural pressure in the Middle Ages; legitimate agreement on the part of Samogitians with the Lithuanian monarchy which provided for the autonomy of Samogitia in 15-16 c.; the merge of Samogitian nobles with the nobility of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania at the end of the 16 c. to 18 c. …”
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El aragonés: historia de una lengua minoritaria y minorizada by Mª Pilar Benítez Marco, Óscar Latas Alegre

“…Despite the fact that Aragonese is a language exclusive to the Autonomous Community of Aragon and that it was the language used during the Middle Ages in different public and private spheres, it is currently in danger of extinction, according to UNESCO. …”
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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

“…What were the stakes of the implementation of the tsedaqah in Mediterranean Europe during the Late Middle Ages? Although the sources are incomplete and scattered because of the loss and of the dispersal of the medieval Jewish communities’ archives, the comparison with the Christian majority’s charities reveals a Jewish specificity: the medieval Jews developed more varied kinds of charity than the Christians and the nature of their actions was more «social» than «religious». …”
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Retour sur un patrimoine parisien méconnu : les espaces de transmission du savoir à l’époque moderne (I). De la maison à l’amphithéâtre by Christian Hottin

“…This article studies the emergence, from the end of the Middle Ages, of specific spaces in Paris devoted to the transmission of knowledge. …”
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An outline of typology of social relations in the countries of Byzantine civilization in the VII-XIV Centuries by Nerijus Babinskas

“… The main concepts which the author operates in his attempt to describe typologically a type of social relations in the area of Byzantine civilization in the Middle Ages are: an Asiatic mode of production, a slave mode of production, feudalism, and so-called semi-feudalism. …”
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L’introuvable Terra di u Cumunu ? Genèse, évolutions et perspectives des terres collectives de la montagne corse by Gilles Guerrini

“…Probably appeared in the Middle Ages, for the few specialists, historians, or ethnologists, who were interested in the evolution of the nature of island land, they would have disappeared in the 19th century. …”
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Histoire graphique de la langue bretonne : la question de la norme by Herve Le Bihan

“…The history of the Breton spelling begins in the Middle Ages, when the language was then a part of the lingua britannica which gives birth too to Welsh and Cornish. …”
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Nouvelles données sur l’agglomération antique d’Epomanduodurum (Mandeure et Mathay, Doubs) by Philippe Barral, David Billoin, Séverine Blin, Gilles Bossuet, Cédric Cramatte, Catherine Fruchart, Clément Laplaige, Antoine Mamie, Jacques Monnier, Pierre Mougin, Pierre Nouvel, Jean-François Piningre, Matthieu Thivet

“…These studies lead to a better understanding of the appearance, development and decline of Epomanduodurum ; a better knowledge of its morphology, and its religious, economic and social organization between the end of the Iron Age and the Early Middle Ages.…”
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Conflits et identité en Valgrisenche by Alessandro Celi

“…In particular, the presence of the Col du Mont, which provided easy passage to Tarentaise, encouraged the development of trade that, during the Middle Ages, granted the valley a measure of wealth. …”
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Medieval Naturalia by Chantal Stein

“…The nascent global age at the close of the Middle Ages introduced exotic objects from distant lands into Western Europe. …”
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The Doctrine of Natural Law as the Ideology of the Western Legal Tradition by E. Komleva

“…As the author demonstrates, natural law was inherently linked to the legal traditions of antiquity and the Middle Ages, shaping both the dominant historical type of legal thinking and the models of legal regulation implemented within the respective traditions for the behavior of participants in legal communication. …”
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