LA LIBERTAD MORAL EN THOMAS REID LA CUESTIÓN DEL MÉTODO by María Elton

“…Precisamente en momentos en que el determinismo humeano de la voluntad estaba comenzando a tener fuerza de tradición, surge Thomas Reid con una filosofía de la voluntad libre que tiene los rasgos principales de la tradición clásica anterior a Hume, medieval y tempranamente moderna. Su método inductivo, sin embargo, está tomado de Newton y del sentido común. …”
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Déols, places Carnot et La Fayette : mutation fonctionnelle d’un espace, entre cimetière paroissial et place, du Xe au XIXe siècle (Indre) by Gwenaël Roy, Françoise Yvernault

“…The information collected concerns the mutations of a space around the Saint-Étienne church whose function alternates between churchyard and place during the medieval and modern periods. Masonry was also uncovered, among which a massif could be correspond to the Sainte-Marie’s chapel, which has now disappeared. …”
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The Tomb of D. Rodrigo Sanches: the rediscovery of an iconographic program by Carla Varela Fernandes

“…Salvador Grijó since 1626.This transfer, which had as its main consequence the possibility of visualization of the remaining sides of the chest tomb, as well as the improved visualization of the tomb effigy and other figures of the slab brought interesting news to the panorama of History of Portuguese Medieval Art, from the iconographic point of view and also from the plastic/aesthetic point of view, since all faces are carved. …”
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Les systèmes graphiques de l’occitan by Hervé Lieutard

“…The graphic codes used to write Occitan have been the subject of occasional studies, but have never so far been the guiding thread for studying the history of the language in all its extent, perhaps because of the compartmentalization that exists and persists today between medieval philologists on the one hand and linguists and dialectologists on the other, who often give the impression of working on two distinct objects, where there is only one and the same language. …”
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Une maison du quartier cathédral de Tours (Indre-et-Loire) : évolution architecturale et techniques de construction by Bastien Lefebvre

“…The house is in fact constructed inside the site of the ancient amphitheatre and contains reused masonry from this building, itself very complex. Different medieval states have also been recognised. There are four significant periods of use of the site which have been identified before the 16th century, each evoking a different topographical situation.Besides discovering the complexity of the building, this study highlights particular points (choice of material, size of stone, scaffolding, structure…), the construction techniques used at the end of the Middle Ages, phase 4.…”
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La crítica postmoderna de A. MacIntyre a la Universidad liberal: tres ficciones rivales de la Universidad by Ignacio Serrano Del Pozo

“…Esta crítica no siempre se ha entendido en su profundidad, y se suele ver en ella una actitud reaccionaria de retorno nostálgico a la Universidad medieval. Se analizan esas ficciones: la sobreespecialización como sinónimo de profundidad investigativa, la neutralidad y la objetividad como posibilitadoras de racionalidad, y la excelencia en la gestión como forma de asegurar el logro de sus objetivos. …”
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Les établissements perchés de l’Auvergne (ive-viie s. apr. J.-C.) : de nouvelles formes d’habitat groupé by Sandra Chabert, Damien Martinez

“…The resurgence of hilltop settlements that began in the Late Antiquity in Gaul is now at the heart of Roman period and medieval archaeological research. For a long time this subject was considered anecdotal, however it is now being reconsidered and incorporated into the discourse on such new forms of concentrated settlement. …”
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WEBER E HABERMAS: ACERCA DE ALGUMAS DIFERENÇAS SOBRE A CONSTITUIÇÃO DA DEMOCRACIA MODERNA by Edilene M. de Carvalho Leal

“…Esse artigo tem a pretensão de comparar a análise weberiana acerca da constituição e destruição histórica da autonomia da cidade do ocidente medieval com a que foi empreendida ror Habermas sobre o nascimento e o esfacelamento àa " esfera pübúca burguesa" em tempos àe '-'1>a'lxa" e "alta" modernidade ocidental. …”
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Osoba i przesłanie św. Franciszka by Roland Prejs

“…Francis` life although written according to the medieval hagiographical canons. St. Bonaventure was a theologian and philosopher first of all. …”
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Życie i twórczość Antoniusa de Butrio by Aleksandra Szymańska

“…The present study was created as part of a comprehensive research on legal advice and its authors in the medieval and early modern periods. The purpose of the article is to introduce the biography and works of this canonist, who also boasted knowledge of Roman law. …”
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Cotton in ancient Sudan and Nubia by Elsa Yvanez, Magdalena M. Wozniak

“…The aim of this article is to survey the whole span of data pertaining to cotton in ancient Sudan, collecting information from different sources and chronological periods, so as to trace the evolution of cotton production from the Meroitic to the medieval times. New discoveries have led to a regain of interest for textile research in this part of the world, which will help us contextualize cotton cultivation within the wider framework of clothing and social display, as well as textile craft and the organization of the economy. …”
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Les sarcophages de plâtre d’Allonnes (Eure-et-Loir) : un enrichissement de la chrono-typologie funéraire régionale by Sacha Kacki, François Capron

“…The discovery made in Allonnes enriches the archaeological knowledge about the diversity of the early medieval funerary practices in this geographic area.…”
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Des allégories des Saisons sur les tissus coptes by Amandine Mérat

“…This search for identities is moreover often distorted or led astray by the Western vision of researchers who, influenced by Christian art of the medieval period, regularly attribute a Christian saintly dimension to any figure with a nimbus around his or her head. …”
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The Battle of Žalgiris / Grunwald: Unanswered Questions by Alfredas Bumblauskas

“…Criticism is lacking in both cases because Ekdahl's hints about the medieval tactics in the battle of Grunwald are disregarded. …”
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Rome ou la solution à tous les problèmes européens : Georg Moenius et le concept de romanité durant l´entre-deux-guerres by Joris Lehnert

“…Admirer of Maurras, he frequented the circles of the Action française and translated into German Henri Massis’ programmatic work The Defense of the West which he introduced with a long manifest describing a new Christian Empire guided by Rom, on the model of the medieval Holy Roman Empire, as the response to all European problems.…”
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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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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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Prêter son nom et simuler des transactions. Des stipulations d’Abû Ja‘far al-Ṭaḥâwî (ixe-xe siècles) aux consultations et actes juridiques des xviie-xviiie siècles by Brigitte Marino

“…Most illuminating here is a handbook of legal stipulations (shurûṭ) written by a medieval Egyptian jurist, Abû Ja‘far al-Ṭaḥâwî, that allows us to seriously reconsider our approach to court records.After a brief discussion of the formularies concerning the use of a straw man and the simulation of transactions as proposed by Ṭaḥâwî, this article considers some of the fatâwâ of the Ottoman period dealing with these issues and examines how such transactions appear in legal acts and court records of Ottoman Damascus.…”
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Probati auctores by Christoph H. F. Meyer

“…The respective category originated both from a personalization of the doctrine of communis opinio which was developed in the late medieval Ius Commune, and from older theological notions such as the ideal of the holy Church Father and the Doctor of the Church. …”
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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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