O couro lavrado de estética mudéjar na Casa-Museu e Fundação Guerra Junqueiro – memórias do al-Andalus em terras portuguesas by Franklin Pereira

“…The connections that such motives allow highlight Portugal as a deposit of continuities and adaptations of archaic aesthetics; they have remained in the elite’s leather art c. 1500-1600 before the Renaissance motives becoming dominant.…”
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Leo Perutz (1882-1957): Nachts unter der steinernen Brücke. Ein Roman aus dem alten Prag (1953) by Annie Zdenek

“…Démontant le mythe de la « Ville d’or », haut-lieu intellectuel dans l’Europe de la Renaissance sous Rodolphe II (1552-1612), l’auteur porte un jugement sur son époque, l’après-guerre, marquée par le chaos et la destruction de la culture européenne par les nazis ; écrivain oublié et déraciné, juif errant entre l’Autriche et Israel, Perutz ironise en même temps sur sa propre mythification d’une époque révolue.…”
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A Phono-Stylistic Analysis of Langston Hughes’ Poem “Harlem” by Rahmadsyah Rangkuti, Susanty Tannada

“…By leveraging the collective cultural scheme of the Harlem Renaissance, Hughes establishes a connection with the reader, eliciting specific cultural and emotional reactions. …”
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Left Ventricular Assist Devices – Past, Present, and Future: A Narrative Review by Devesh Kumar, Sandeep Seth, Rajiv Narang

“…Left ventricular assist devices (LVADs) help in expanding the treatment armamentarium to those for whom transplant is either a contraindication or unavailable (destination therapy) and those who need stabilization before transplant (bridge to transplant). LVADs are truly a renaissance in the management of AHF as they make treatment available to a much larger population and improve not only symptoms and quality of life but also survival as compared to patients on medical therapy only. …”
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De la meilleure façon de constituer une collection. Le cas des émaux « byzantins » de Mikhaïl Botkine by Aglaé Achechova

“…Ivanov, European medieval and Renaissance objets d’art, and then medieval Russian art. …”
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Le marxisme égyptien (1936-52) : nationalisme, anti-impérialisme et réforme sociale by Joël Beinin

“…La renaissance du marxisme égyptien dans la seconde moitié des années 1930 se fit sur un arrière-plan de défaite, de dispersion organisationnelle et de trouble idéologique après l’échec du premier parti communiste au début des années 1920. …”
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La poésie lyrique, un outil d’unification linguistique et politique by Anne-Marie Le Baillif

“…We propose to examine how lyric poetry was used as a politic tool by French kings of the Renaissance period (1515–1589). In France, the building of a specific identity starts with François I Ordonnance de Villers-Cotterêts (1539): all official documents previously in Latin, had now to be in French. …”
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Псалтирь царя Давида Симеона Полоцкого в контексте паралитургической и парафрастической традиции XVI–XVII вв.... by Żanna Niekraszewicz-Karotkaja

“…In this article, King David’s Psalter (1680) of Symeon is considered not in the context of the poet’s entire creative heritage, but in terms of the evolution of the European book tradition of paraliturgical discursive psalmic practices and the poetic paraphrase of the psalms, beginning with the German poets of the Renaissance Helius Eobanus Hessus and Ioannes Mylius Libenrodensis. …”
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Pedagogika muzealna. Cele, idea, kierunek rozwoju i zastosowanie w praktyce na przykładzie „lekcji muzealnej” w polskim muzeum historycznym by Mallek Anna

“…The fi rst museums are claimed to have existed during the Italian Renaissance, for instance Pope Sixtus IV hired Michaelangelo Buonarrotti to create a special place for ancient collections. …”
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Livres et pratique de la lecture chez les chrétiens (Syrie, Liban) XVIIe - XVIIIe siècles by Bernard Heyberger

“…This second genre deserves to be the object of more attentive study since it contributed towards shaping modern tastes and psychology of future readers living during the Arab Renaissance.…”
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Critical Review of Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow by Hamed Vahdati Nasab, Alieh Abdollahi

“…In this book, the writer has first reviewed the history behind the formation of the human mindset from Paleolithic to the renaissance with particular emphasis on the scientific revolution and appearance of the humanism paradigm and its subdivisions (liberalism, socialism, and fascism). …”
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Preface by Nikoletta Hendrik

“…Our aim was to introduce Stoicism to a wider audience with no prior philosophical education but an interest in the modern renaissance of the movement on the one hand, and to generate in-depth scholarly discussions of classical texts and the afterlife of the Portico on the other. …”
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Myth and Biblical Imagery in De Profundis by Ignacio Ramos Gay

“…L’Écriture Sainte devient alors aussi bien le moyen que l’expression de la transition unitive s’opérant entre le dramaturge et le mythe, entraînant la renaissance de l’auteur et de son inspiration.…”
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The periodisation of Lithuanian history in the context of social history by Alfredas Bumblauskas

“…Such concepts, related to the political, cultural, and social history, as the Middle Ages, the Early New Ages, the Renaissance, Baroque, and the Age of Enlightenment are under discussion in the article, and the optimal approach to the periodization of the Early History of Lithuania (1009-1795) from the point of view of the history of society is being searched for. …”
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The Introduction and Critical Analysis of Uber den Prozess der Zivilisation by Hamid Ebadollahi Chanzanaq, Hadi Qolipur

“…The celebrated German sociologist, Norbert Elias, in his magnum opus, Uber den Prozess der Zivilisation, through a long-term social-historical analysis, recasts the processual configurations of manners since Renaissance, searching how the Europeans came to be known 'civilized.' …”
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Řeholní kongregace v Čechách na přelomu 19. a 20. století v kontextu proměn náboženského milieu by Miroslav Novotný

“…It views complex situation in Czech lands in a wider context of transformations and creation of the modern European industrial society in the second half of the 19th century, which also strongly mirrored in the activity of individual Churches and led, among others, to the “religious renaissance” and to the search for new or renewed forms of religious activities, as well as spiritual life and also to the formation of new regular communities (men and especially women congregations) together with lay confraternities (Marian communities, in the first place). …”
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Chrudimský Kristus a zázračné souřadnice jeho barokní legendy by Pavel Panoch

“…., or they made a groundless direct connection between the oil-painting and the works of German Renaissance painter Lucas Cranach the Elder. But this late mannerist oil-on-wood influenced by Dutch naturalism and representing an impressive replica of Vera Effigies won ́t be coming from an earlier period than the turn of the16th and the17th Centuries. …”
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Censorship, Control and Resistance in Eugene O’Neill’s “black plays” The Emperor Jones and All God’s Chillun Got Wings by Gwenola Le Bastard

“…In this context of severe prohibition and regulation, Eugene O’Neill wrote and produced The Emperor Jones (1920) and All God’s Chillun Got Wings (1923), two plays which bear witness to the then rising interest of white avant-garde writers and artists in African-American life and culture, and to their productive connection with the emerging literature of the Harlem Renaissance. But these two controversial plays (each of which featured a black actor in the leading role) also highlighted the difficulty of tampering with the “color line”. …”
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Pratiques funéraires dans l’Arabie antique : la nécropole de Thaj by Marie Laguardia, Olivia Munoz, Jérôme Rohmer, Patrice Courtaud

“…A remarkable aspect of this "renaissance" was the development of vast tumulus necropolises, which seems to have revived a regional building tradition dating back to the 3rd millennium BCE. …”
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Futures thinking becomes a priority for all globalized societies by Roland Benedikter

“…This text presents the most central buzz words, framings, concepts and overall style prevalent in contemporary global future fora and initiatives, taking them as symptomatic for an ongoing renaissance of approaches towards “futuring” in the advanced forms of “futures staging”, “futures casting” and “futures design” which, if this trend continues, could eventually lead to a more stable, post-conventional and wide-spread trans-national implementation of the discipline of “critical futures studies” in academia, policy and practice.…”
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