Rethinking the Role of the Hatata of Zera Yaecob and the Hatata of Welda Heywat in Ethiopian Philosophy by Fasil Merawi

“…A critical examination of the different attempts that were made so far to position the treatises as a foundation of Ethiopian philosophy shows that there are three interrelated schools that see the Hatata of Zera Yaecob and the Hatata of Welda Heywat as the cornerstone of Ethiopian philosophy. …”
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Ordinaires, dégradés ou patrimoniaux ? by Aziz Ballouche

“…This knowledge is then used to conduct a critical study of treatises on the anthropization of the savannah and their consequences in terms of heritagisation.…”
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Zagadnienie zła w polemice Tertuliana z Gnozą by Adam M. Filipowicz

“…The analysis refers to the following treatises of Tertullian: Adversus Hermogenem, Adversus Valentinianos, Against Marcion, De anima, Apologeticum. …”
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La fin de vers, laboratoire de l’œuvre poétique de l’artiste Josef Albers by Vincent Broqua

“…Through textual analyses, archival material, and a study of his learning of English, this paper explores the poeticity of his writings (poems, statements, treatises on color). In his extended poetry, Albers constructed a new type of line between verse and prose to allow for an experience of the physicality of the text. …”
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Isaac Jaquelot on the preeminence of physico-theology by Adam Drozdek

“… Isaac Jaquelot was a seventeenth-century ecclesiastic concerned about the rising tide of deism and atheism. In his theological treatises he wanted to prove, among others, the existence of God, the fact that God is a spiritual being, and that He created the world as described in the Tora. …”
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Was Copernicus an Astrologer? From the Perspective of a Historian of Astrology by Sylwia Konarska-Zimnicka

“…Evidence of this activity, though scarce, is preserved in the margins of one of the popular astrological treatises of the 15th and 16th centuries, which was owned by Nicolaus Copernicus. …”
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The Colour of Lustre: Limning by the Life by Anne-Valérie DULAC

“…The present article explores the polysemy of “lustre” in two treatises on limning by Nicholas Hilliard and Edward Norgate. …”
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Juan de Torquemada v polemice s husitským pojetím eucharistie by Ondřej Matys

“…Based on analysis of two polemical treatises of Torquemada, thesis focuses on strategy of argumentation and its instruments. …”
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Mor a lékařská literatura pozdního středověku by David Tomíček

“… This paper deals with the question of contagiousness an communicability of plague in the treatises of late medieval physicians and leads to conclusions that beside the generally accepted miasmatic theory (i.e. plague si communicated by aer) two other conceptions were important. …”
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Les représentations de l’Islam dans les imprimés en nahuatl au service de l’évangélisation du Mexique colonial (1575-1614) by Maxime Pluvinet

“…In the 16th and 17th centuries, missionaries in charge of converting the populations of colonial Mexico to Christianity included in their sermons and treatises recurring references to an age-old enemy of Christendom: Islam. …”
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La préhistoire de l’enseignement de l’occitan à travers quelques manuels et traités pédagogiques by Marie-Jeanne Verny

“…A certain number of works from the end of the 19th to the beginning of the 20th century, manuals or pedagogical treatises, by granting a certain pedagogical function to the "patois" reveal an attitude that is more complex than what is generally believed. …”
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Un parcours de collectionneur privé « chalinologue » by Pierre-Marie Desclos

“…He has accumulated a considerable collection, along with associated and digitized documentary files, largely based on old treatises. His collection therefore has a detailed inventory of the items it is comprised of. …”
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Le contexte alchimique des Noces Chymiques by Didier Kahn

“…The myth of Christian Rosencreutz developed at a time when the number of fictitious authors of alchemical treatises, self-styled disciples or precursors of Paracelsus, increased considerably. …”
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How to Become an Obstetric Authority? Demarcation Dispute between Midwives and Doctors in German Midwifery Manuals from the Early Modern Period by Hana Jadrná Matějková

“…At the same time, three German midwives (Justina Siegemund, Anna Elisabeth Horenburg and Barbara Wiedemann) published their treatises on childbirth. The aim of the study is to show the legitimation and self-presentation strategies used by the female and male authors of the midwifery manuals in order to integrate themselves into obstetric authorities. …”
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Medikalizace smrti na přelomu 18. a 19. století. Okamžik smrti, zdánlivá smrt a vzorce chování k mrtvým z hlediska dějin lékařství by Václav Grubhoffer

“…Having considered some research results of contemporary historiography and some period medical treatises it is structured into three parts. The first part introduces some of the author’s methodological and theoretical approaches to the topic. …”
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Vers une édition électronique de la glose d’Oxford by Emmanuelle Kuhry

“…The present paper describes a project aiming at editing University glosses of the thirteenth century copied around the Aristotelian treatises on nature. No reference edition of this corpus has been carried out. …”
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« Aver pensiero dell’abondanza » : les famines anciennes et modernes dans la tradition du Tacitisme florentin by Andrea Salvo Rossi

“…The “fragmented” form of these political treatises –which depends, in essence, on Machiavelli's Discorsi– makes them particularly suitable for reflections related to sudden social and political crises. …”
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Calvin and other religions by P. C. Potgieter

“…In this article his views on true and false religion, non-Christian faiths, the uniqueness of Christ as Mediator and Redeemer, and universalism is discussed from the perspective not only of his Institutes, but also of his Commentaries, Tracts and Treatises and Letters. His conviction is that careful observation of God’s Word leads to the principle of Christ as the only way to God. …”
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Human Diseases and Microbes

“…Many colossal disasters, caused by some unknown diseases occurred when thousands of the so called unbelievers perished, as mentioned in several ancient religious books, documents and treatises. Such events were either associated with devils, demons, evil spirits or as the curse of God. …”
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La perversion du suicide, entre la pathologie et la morale by Eva Yampolsky

“…Indeed, as many medical treatises reveal, this shift from a juridical or religious crime to the medical field depends on a certain confusion between morality [la morale], or social values, and le moral, or intellectual and psychological functions. …”
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