Le Saint-Office face au tribunal de l’opinion. Controverse et réforme de la justice inquisitoriale en Castille au temps de la congrégation de Burgos (1508) by David Kahn

“…With the aim of demonstrating that the setting up and continuing work of the Holy Office were achieved without the support of the Spaniards, and pursuing the topics of the Black Legend, the two fathers of the contemporary historiography of the Inquisition shed light on public opinion that was unfavourably disposed to the Holy Office. …”
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“The very land of romance”: Original Compositions on Spain and the Spanish in The Southern Literary Messenger (1834-1864) by José Manuel Correoso-Rodenas

“…As seen below, concepts such as honor or the so-called Black Legend will be (could not be otherwise) present; however, along with them, other less widely discussed issues will appear, such as the essence of the Canary Islands, or the tragedy of Rafael del Riego, just to mention a few examples.…”
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Landscape planning-addressed regional-scale mapping of geolithological units: an example from Southern Italy by Marcello Schiattarella, Paolo Giannandrea, Giuseppe Corrado, Dario Gioia

“…A 1:100,000-scale geolithological map has been prepared for the Basilicata region (Southern Italy) through an extensive review of official geological maps integrated by photogeological analyzes and field surveys. A double-key legend allows discriminating both lithological and technical properties of the rock bodies. …”
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Photographie et écologie aux États-Unis: l’image à contre-emploi by François Brunet

“…This contribution proposes a short history of this question through three successive stages: a) the creation of Yellowstone National Park (1872), which, according to a persistent historiographical legend, allegedly resulted from the timely distribution to Congress members of pictures by survey photographer William H. …”
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About myths and true story of Muslims of Ust-Ishim district of Omsk region (Islam through the prism of local history) by A. P. Yarkov

“…The author comes to the conclusion that the legend of the birth of the Ashevan yurts in 1226 bears little resemblance to the true «biography» of the village. …”
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Historia, legenda, fantazja. Filmowe portrety Pierwszego Cesarza by Alicja Helman

“…Fabuły tych filmów stanowią niekiedy trudny do rozwikłania splot historycznych faktów, legend, a przede wszystkim wątków czysto fantastycznych będących rezultatem inwencji scenarzystów. …”
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De L’Histoire véritable au boulet de Jules Verne : une histoire science-fictionnelle des paradigmes astronomiques by Estelle Blanquet, Éric Picholle

“…The golden legend of modern astronomy often reduces its history to two defining moments : the ‘Copernican revolution’ and Galileo’s challenge to the presumed obscurantism of the Church. …”
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Which Medievalism? The Case of Ford Madox Brown by Laurent Bury

“…Brown’s first works combining a medieval subject with a neo-medieval style were Wycliffe Reading his Translation of the Bible and Chaucer reading the Legend of Custance to Edward III. However, he later decided that, in order to be faithful to medieval spirit, it was preferable to treat modern subjects, as the superiority of medieval art was then judged to be moral, rather than aesthetical. …”
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Charles William Dyson Perrins as a Collector of Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts c. 1900-1920 by Laura Cleaver

“…Perrins has become associated with spending large sums of money on manuscripts and the account of his purchase of the Gorleston Psalter following a visit to a bookshop in search of something to read on the train is a legend of the trade. The first sale of his manuscripts after his death in 1958 achieved a record total. …”
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Chrudimský Kristus a zázračné souřadnice jeho barokní legendy by Pavel Panoch

“…Salvator, which later officially propagated its miraculous legend. …”
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The schematic structure of folk discourses of Toba Caldera Geosites as the collective memory for tourist destinations at lake Toba area by Robert Sibarani, Toshiaki Kimura, Peninna Simanjuntak

“…These discourses encompass various elements, including administrative geography, legend toponymy, geo-diversity, biodiversity, cultural diversity, local people, ecosystems, and scenic panoramas, culminating in a tourist appeal. …”
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Les transformations d'un mythe d'origine L'exemple de Gengis Khan et de Tamerlan by Denise Aigle

“…Some decades later, Rashid al-din'sJâmi' al-tawârikhtakes the same legend up again, but mentions only a « fawn creature ». …”
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Swoistość ludzkiej kultury - wampiryzm by Jacek Tomczyk, Anna Dygudaj

“…By this fact it constitutes a pattern to all situations and activities in which the event may reappear, the myth can degrade into an epical legend, a ballad or a roman, but it can also survive in a limited form in superstitions, customs and longings without losing neither its structure nor its meaning. …”
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Une famille transatlantique : les Fleuriau by Jacques de Cauna

“…The character of Aimé-Benjamin Fleuriau, plantation owner on the island of Saint-Domingue, born of a protestant family of La Rochelle, France, has become a true legend in his native town since a Ph.D. dissertation was devoted to him in 1982.It is, however, the issue of racial mixing [métissage], through one of the Domingan sons of his « housekeeper » [ménagère], which has recently inspired a novel rewarded with the Prix Renaudot, and then his whole « colored » family which has just been the object of a new Ph.D. at the university of Michigan. …”
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Study on the Method of Automatically Drawing Multiscale Engineering Geotechnical (Geological) Sections Step by Step of Engineering Layers including Lenses by Guangjun Ji, Nannan Zhao, Xiaoyuan Zhou, Qian Wang, Yan Lu, Zizhao Cai

“…Firstly, the spatial information of the top and bottom boundaries of any borehole layer were extracted, and then based on the stratigraphical column, the borehole layer was studied by a step-by-step coarsen from the finest stratigraphical column to the coarsest stratigraphical column, and the occupation relationship among layers was distinguished; secondly, from the coarsest stratigraphical column to the finest level stratigraphical column step-by-step and taking the radial basis function (RBF) interpolation as an example, top and bottom boundaries were interpolated, respectively, by following the order of current stratigraphical column; next, topological relationship among engineering layers was processed according to contact relationship of strata, and strata boundaries with 0 thickness were deleted; and finally, auxiliary information such as scaler and legend were added in section to complete the drawing of multiscale sections. …”
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Habiter l’exil : Retablo hispánico, Mexique, 1946 by Salomé Foehn

“…Indeed, as unhoused « pilgrims », they present an « altarpiece » which is also meant as the « justification » of exile as the redeeming perspective of a much darker Spain, that of the Black Legend. I will first look at several philosophical reflections. …”
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கலை நோக்கில் திருப்பரங்குன்றம் / Tiruparankundram in the Perception of Art by முனைவர் பீ. பெரியசாமி / Dr. B. Periyaswamy

“…A notable aspect of this study is the transformation of a Jain Tirthankara’s Kudaivara (rock-cut shrine) into an Ardhanareeswara shrine, illustrating the syncretic religious history of the region. Additionally, the legend within the Kudaivara is explored by shedding light on the socio-political influences that shaped the temple’s legacy. …”
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Bohuslaus of Lobkowicz and Hassenstein. A Poet between Nations and Denominations by Marta Vaculínová

“…The Catholics did not “take him back” until long after the defeat of the non-Catholic Estates, and in the second half of the seventeenth century the Jesuits presented a legend of him as a poet laureate of the Pope himself. …”
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'Жряху им, наричюще богы' ('They feel themselves the gods'): Sources of the content of ancient Russian pagan sanctuaries and their priests by M.N. Kozlov

“…They are native chronicles of the 11th – 14th centuries (Primary Chronicle, Hypatian Codex, and Novgorod First Chronicle), Lives of Saints, Legend of Yaroslavl Foundation. The materials of foreign authors of the 9th – 11th centuries (Ibn-Fadlan, Adam of Bremen) have been also considered. …”
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Węgrzy jako pars aliqua gentis Massagetum. Ślady późnoantycznej i wczesnośredniowiecznej uczoności w dziele Tomasza archidiakona Splitu. Część 2. Postrzeganie Massagetów. 2) Kontek... by Lesław Spychała

“…At the same time, echoes of the last two motifs also appear in Hartvik’s LEGEND OF KING STEPHEN, which was known to Thomas.…”
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