Macro phenomena vs micro responses. Multiscale approaches in the dynamic relationship between envelope and context by Maria Teresa Lucarelli, Martino Milardi, Mariateresa Mandaglio, Caterina Claudia Musarella

“…On many fronts, it is evident that this need is determining an acceleration towards a transformation that has concrete Renaissance characteristics. An example is the use of the ‘multiscalar vision’ in research as a useful criterion for understanding phenomena, both material and immaterial. …”
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German Loans in Early English by Ulrich Busse

“…The paper outlines the contribution of German to the word stock of English in the three periods of Old English, Middle English, and Early Modern English, or, in other words, from the early Middle Ages up to 1700, and relates these words to major cultural events, such as the Christianisation of England, the Norman Invasion, the Reformation and to the beginnings of science and technology during the Renaissance. Methodologically, the term German will be used in the sense of High German and its antecedents rather than Low German or Low Dutch. …”
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Une norme pour la langue d’oc ? Les débuts d’une histoire sans fin by Philippe Martel

“…Laquelle de ses variantes dialectales choisir comme la plus digne d'être l'organe de la renaissance (faut-il, d'ailleurs, obligatoirement en privilégier une ?) …”
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Les monstres d’Aubrey Beardsley et le « grotesque darwinien » by Catherine Delyfer

“…The Paterian individual described in the conclusion of The Renaissance (1873) is someone who is traversed by intense but ephemeral sensations and emotions, and whose body and psyche are shaped by the Heraclitean experience of the perpetual flux constantly making and unmaking him (or her). …”
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Les montagnes et la montée des clercs dans l’Algérie coloniale. Viticulture, montagnes et réformisme (iṣlāḥ) aux xixe-xxe siècles by Kamel Chachoua

“…Using the example of the Algerian Muslim reformist movement , Iṣlāḥ (Renaissance Naḥḍa in Egypt), often described as a "city" movement, "petit-bourgeois" and essentially "Arabic", this paper shows, on the contrary, that large parts of the founding scholars and promoters of the Algerian reformist movement are almost all from the eastern mountains, Berber, modest social origin, early orphans. …”
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Hugh MacDiarmid’s Poetics of Commitment: the Modern Stigmata of Bereavement by Béatrice DUCHATEAU

“…In the 1930s, the lingering absence of God and of a stable reality engulfed the work of the poet Hugh MacDiarmid, leader of the Scottish Renaissance Movement. To counter this void, like many others at the time, MacDiarmid found refuge in communism and nationalism and started to write political and idealist poetry. …”
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Obrazy války v italských městech v kázáních observanta a v cestovním deníku řeholníka z první poloviny 15. století by Jan Stejskal

“… At the beginning of the Renaissance, nobody asked questions about the natural state of mankind – that is, whether it is war or peace – as they had verifiably done on the threshold of the High Middle Ages. …”
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Dans l’ombre du prestige. Établissements de bains isolés et micro-stations thermales des Pyrénées occidentales by Viviane Delpech

“…In close proximity to the Western Pyrenees' prestigious spa resorts, a web of healing sources scantily exploited has welcomed local people since protohistory. From the Renaissance on, and with the development of the spa industry, these sites have equipped themselves with balneal installations in line with larger neighbouring resorts. …”
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The Artistic Commitment of Kenyon Cox: An American Neoclassical Artist by Marc S. SMITH

“…This led to an alteration of the urban social fabric and to a repositioning of the country on the international scene.Since the 1870s, the American Renaissance had been a vehicle for the diffusion of new values and new concepts. …”
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Acceptable Amazons? Female Warriors on the English and French Early Modern Stage by Nathalie Rivère de Carles

“…Mettant en perspective la représentation et l’identité féminines, nous explorerons les stratégies d’acceptation de la figure emblématique sans cesse resémiotisée de l’Amazone à la Renaissance.…”
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Społeczne podstawy poznania i rozwoju – konstruktywizm społeczno-kulturowy Lwa S. Wygotskiego. Nowe odczytania, rekonstrukcje, tropy epistemologiczno-metodologiczne by Ewa Filipiak

“…For many years the interest in Vygotsky’s concept has been experiencing a renaissance all over the world, also in Poland. The cognitively sophisticated concept has original terminology. …”
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Liberté, éducation et pouvoir. Lecture non-directive à partir des travaux de Daniel Hameline by Émilie Osmont

“…The Renaissance humanism ordered education for freedom and, typically, philosphy usually links the concept of freedom with the idea of political community, whose power is one of the attributes. …”
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“Not a Thing of the Past”, Zora Neale Hurston and the Living Legacy of Folklore by Margaret Gillespie

“…Auteur important bien qu’atypique de la Renaissance de Harlem et premier anthropologue afro-américain à avoir étudié sa propre culture, Zora Neale Hurston est, à de nombreux titres, un écrivain d’exception. …”
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Les meubles médiévaux aux xviiie et xixe siècles : entre dédain et vision romantique by Cécile Lagane

“…The Middle Ages has, since the Renaissance period, been considered a poor, dark and uninteresting time. …”
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Montaigne and the rise of modern cultural diplomacy [version 2; peer review: 2 approved, 1 approved with reservations, 3 not approved] by Gabriel Gherasim

“…Specifically, the consequential insights of Montaigne's post-Renaissance humanist stance highly impacted upon certain salient developments in the field of cultural diplomacy that could be analytically framed as i) a personal imprint on reforming political culture(s) tantamount to a conspicuous signature in the field of cultural pedagogy, and ii) a commendable approach to cultural pluralism, and an influential modus operandi in the practice of cultural relations. …”
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Der Himmel über Indien oder: Die Rückkehr des Wundermotivs in Ulla Lenzes Indienroman Schwester und Bruder by Swati Acharya

“…Ce travail scientifique, couplé à la « vocation » littéraire et, le cas échéant, poétique des adeptes de l’Inde à l’époque romantique, explique le phénomène de « Renaissance orientale » qui a entraîné dans son sillage de nombreux écrivains du XIXe siècle. …”
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L’art du portrait entre l’esthétique occidentale et persane dans l’Iran safavide 1501-1736 by Aya Sakkal

“…The study highlights the impact of Western pictorial on Iranian art with the introduction of the techniques of the Renaissance such as perspective, shadow, light as well as the adoption of the Western-style art of the portrait. …”
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Disseminated histoplasmosis and hemophagocytic lymphohistiocytosis: A case report by Ruth C. Angrand, Lauren Telesca, Muhammad Aslam

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À propos de la datation des marques du groupe de Clarianus sur les terres cuites architecturales antiques by Jean-Claude Béal

“…Roman bricks stamped with the names Clarianus and Nebrigiac were used in the construction of the Gier aqueduct and potentially offer a clue to its date.Roman bricks bearing the Clarianus stamp have been known since the Renaissance and their dating has been a matter of discussion since 1900. …”
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„Occisio Gregorii Vodae…”, între document şi prelucrare literară by Ileana Mihăilă

“…It is then argued that it, in fact, is a mascherata (masquerade), which owes much to the Italian Renaissance tradition of carnival shows bearing this generic name. …”
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