Reflections on Teaching and Studying the Scientific Laws by L. V. Shipovalova

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Ludisme et allusion dans l’étymologie poétique latine by Cécile Margelidon

“…Whereas sound echoes and paronyms are the basis of certain ancient etymological connections, it is important to have a poetic approach to the process based on the allusive capacity of the origin of words, and to insist on the playful part of the process.In what way is the origin of words one of the means available to Latin poets to play with the literary, philological and antiquarian knowledge of their readers? How can it enter into a process of connivance with the reader? …”
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Ancient Art in the Collection of the National Museum in Gdańsk by Grzegorz First

“…The only definite aspect is the acquisition of some items: Coptic fabrics from the collection of Robert Forrer—a Swiss collector, antiquarian, archaeologist, and art historian. The remaining artifacts stored in Gdańsk have not been thoroughly studied; they do not form a homogeneous collection, and it cannot be ruled out that they may also be remnants of former bourgeois collections dating back to the 16th century or German collections acquired in Gdańsk after World War II. …”
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Les manuscrits de l’abbé de Castries dans la collection Gaignières : une donation exceptionnelle ? by Sarah Héquette

“…On 21 October 1709, Armand-Pierre de La Croix de Castries gave a hundred or so manuscripts to the famous antiquarian François-Roger de Gaignières. Thanks to an inventory written in the latter’s hand, we now have knowledge of this gift, as exceptional as it is eclectic. …”
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Recreating Place: Charles Fothergill and the Limits of Travel Writing by Pam Perkins

“…His surviving manuscripts, which range from a rough working journal covering one part of his journey to some comments on botany that seem ready to go to press, suggest some of the difficulties that he might have found both in constructing a coherent narrative of his travels and in recreating a version of Pennant’s antiquarian and scientific travels at a time when tastes in travel writing were shifting to focus more on the pleasures of landscape and aesthetics.…”
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Les mystérieuses antiquités de Prosper Biardot (1805–1873) by Angélique Allaire

“…Somewhere between an antiquarian keen on Neapolitan archaeology and an impostor, Prosper Biardot cut a paradoxical figure in many ways: his collection comprised particularly interesting terracottas from Magna Graecia and, for some of them, one of the first hypogea excavated in Canosa, Puglia, known as Lagrasta I. …”
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Polish Faience from Ćmielów Factory in the Collections of the Diocesan Museum in Sandomierz by Wojciech W. Kowalski

“…They are very rare in museum collections and practically non-existent on the antiquarian market. The author analyses these objects in detail, focusing primarily on Polish views, giving their graphic prototypes, the time of production and provenance. …”
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L’antiquaire Georges Joseph Demotte, le Louvre et les musées américains. S’approprier le discours sur le patrimoine médiéval de la France au sortir de la Première Guerre mondiale... by Christine Vivet-Peclet

“…The activity of the antiquarian Georges-Joseph Demotte (1877–1923) during the periods before and after the First World War was one of the crucial moments in his career. …”
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Spatial Characteristics of Art Trade in Hungary by Ibolya Várnai

“…During the field work in Budapest, semi-structured interviews were conducted with art gallery owners, auctioners, and antiquarians. The penetration index (PEX) which was applied in the case of researches in the countryside shows the rate in which the different types of art trade are present in settlements of different sizes. …”
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