Call for Papers: Demography Prize for Young Researches 2016/2017 by IF and FRFG

“…While the results of these indices have been found to vary in the details, they all point in a similar direction: most industrialised countries are imposing increasing burdens on younger and future generations, as is evidenced, for example, by their high sovereign debts, youth unemployment and poverty, and perennial ecological crises. …”
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Écrire au réconfort de Dieu. La patrimonialisation des savoirs administratifs des monarchies marocaine et tunisienne sous le Protectorat by Antoine Perrier

“…This strategy let political tools to Muslim Sovereigns and their servants to resist the French domination. …”
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Du discours dynastique au corps social. Retour sur la terminologie des groupes aristocratiques incas de Cuzco by Laurent Segalini

“…The existence in Cuzco of social groups supposedly uniting the descendants of the successive Inca sovereigns constitutes an essential datum for the various interpretative models of Inca dynastic history elaborated in the last decades, opposing those who defend an historical interpretation to those with a mythical conception of the narratives and their protagonists. …”
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Catherine I: «Tsarina-Assistant»: to typology of women-rulers of the New Age in Russia by O. N. Mukhin

“…An attempt is being made to determine the «typological» place of Catherine I among the Russian sovereigns of the New Age, for which the concept of «Tsarina -Assistant» is proposed and characterized, denoting the type of monarch’s wife, which first representative was Catherine and which, after the era of palace coups, will become the norm in the Russian Empire…”
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Représenter la victoire militaire d’une femme by Marjolaine Massé

“…It is also indicative of a time when sovereigns – in need of dynastic legitimacy for power they have usurped – attempted to consolidate their lineage, here with the use of imagery, on a volatile political chessboard.…”
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Les relations entre les Zirides et les Fatimides à la lumière des documents épigraphiques by Lotfi Abdeljaouad

“…Indeed, the political titles and the shiite expressions, appearing in the official texts of the first Zirid sovereigns, testify their subjection to the Fatimids. …”
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Die betekenis en funksie van die himnes in Openbaring 4-11 by F. P. Viljoen

“…They revolve around the theme of the sovereignity of God and the Lamb, his coming in judgement and the establishment of the kingdom of the saints. …”
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Traite, esclavage et fortifications dans l’Ouest africain by Jean-Michel Deveau

“…They could install only bastions on the coasts with the authorization of the African sovereigns to whom they gave a counterpart in the form of gifts and of royalties. …”
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De Madagascar à Sumatra : une route négrière peu commune. Le voyage du navire Binnenwijzend de la VOC en 1732 by Rafaël Thiébaut

“…Together with other data compiled from similar expeditions, this voyage allows us to better understand the commercial interactions between Dutch merchants and Malagasy sovereigns during a poorly known period when maritime trade with Europeans was developing rapidly. …”
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Triomphes royaux dans les Entrées toulousaines des xvie et xviie siècles by Colin Debuiche

“…Toulouse, capital of the Languedoc region, was often visited by its sovereigns for whom ephemeral settings were conceived. …”
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Aragonese and Bourbons Taught by Giovanni Pontano by Margherita Sciancalepore

“…The paper investigates how these works were read, interpreted, and re-proposed by Grisolia for the education of members of the royal family, confirming the universality of Pontano’s teaching ad institutionem principis, whose validity has spanned the centuries, proving capable of addressing past generations of sovereigns as well as modern ones. …”
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Les Najāḥides by Sobhi Bouderbala

“…The similarity observed between the Najāḥid and Dahlak sovereigns strongly supports the hypothesis of power wielded by former Ethiopian slaves in the archipelago, based, here too, on the central function of the qā’id.…”
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Les lits des princes franconiens à la fin du Moyen Âge by Uta Piereth

“…Where the castle’s bedrooms are concerned, two inventories of 1471, in particular, provide information about the beds of the German princes and sovereigns. They give us a clearer picture of how many beds there were and how they were built and upholstered. …”
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Regionalisation of the Republic of Slovenia by Stane Vlaj

“…The CE, preparing a document (recommendation/convention) on regional self-government, respects the sovereignity and freedom of member states to determine their own internal organisation in conformity with the fundamental standards and principles of democracy. …”
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The Epoch and Personality of Peter the Great in Nikolay Charykov’s Research by O. A. Chernov

“…For example, the author points to Ivan III's marriage to Zoe Palaiologina (Sophia Palaiologina); the employment of captive Livonians by Ivan IV; sending Russian youth to study at Western European universities; Boris Godunov's plans to form a European league of Christian sovereigns. Nikolay Charykov focuses in his studies on the reign of Tsar Alexei Mikhailovich, pointing to his plans to increase the involvement of Westerners in various spheres of life in Russia. …”
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De fil palatial en aiguille patrimoniale. La soierie du cabinet de repos du petit appartement de Napoléon Ier à Versailles. by Laureen Gressé-Denois

“…From monarchical to republican regimes, from the sovereigns and silk manufacturers of yesteryear to the curators and restorers of today, they reveal a social, economic, political and cultural history in which they played an active part. …”
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Conflicts-law constitutionalism in the EMU: how much unity can European diversity sustain? by Anna Peychev

“…The first we may refer to as ‘optimal function EMU’ where sovereigns are equal, democracies may pick their own socio-economic policy and make equally valid claims to be managed by the conflicts law approach of cooperation within the preventive arm of the European Semester based on Article 121 TFEU, and where we may pretend the economic-monetary divide erected by law is a real, tangible phenomenon. …”
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The “State Interest” and Humanitarian Diplomacy of Oliver Cromwell by L. I. Ivonina

“…The 16th–first half of the 17th century was a vital period for the emergence of international law, sovereignty, and the modern international system. European sovereigns also started considering at that time what today would be termed humanitarian issues in foreign policy. …”
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