Cesty evropské historiografie k diplomacii raného novověku by Jiří Hrbek

“…This article tries to describe that demanding way and paradigm change when exploring the history of diplomacy in early modern period, both in (western) European space and the Czech historiography, which started to accept new impulses just after 1990. …”
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O Luto em Portugal: da Corte à Gente Comum (séculos XV-XVI) by Ana Mafalda Pereira Lopes

“…We will analyze the concepts and practices of mourning and their evolution throughout the Early Modern period, by reviewing the contents mainly of royal chronicles, inserting the narratives of mourning in their political contexts. …”
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Sázka na nejistou kartu. Armádní služba a sociální úpadek Raduitů de Souches na přelomu 17. a 18. století by Vítězslav Prchal

“…They were not only the inherent part of aristocratic warrior careers, but they also, in the situation of yet undeveloped fiscal mechanisms of a premodern state that was still searching for ways how to finance its permanent army, represented a risk factor which, to a considerable extent, decided about success or failure not only of the particular individuals, but as well their families and other generations of the dynasty, in the strictly socially stratified society of the early modern period. …”
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El aprovechamiento del cauce fluvial en una encomienda andaluza de la Orden de San Juan: las aceñas de Alcolea del Río en el siglo XV by Juan Carlos Arboleda Goldaracena

“…The development experienced by Alcolea during the 15th century was the cause of an important achievement at the beginning of the Early Modern period: its independence from Lora del Río in 1504.…”
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In the Shadow of the Volcano: the Etna Region in the modern Period by Emanuela Garofalo

“…The aim of this article is to analyze architectural works built in the area of Etna during the early modern period by weaving together data drawn from archival and iconographical sources and the direct observation of select architectural case studies. …”
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„Kdykoliv jsem měla volnou chvilku, něco jsem sepisovala.“ Dílo Justiny Siegemund v kontextu raně novověkých ženských přírodovědných spisů z německojazyčných oblastí... by Hana Jadrná Matějková

“…On the basis of comparison of their treatises the study tries to find out the potential existence of some patterns of “women’s writing” in the field of natural sciences in the Early Modern Period. The other question is to what degree did those patterns change over the period of hundred years which lays between the publication of the first and last of the analysed books. …”
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Kenelm Digby (and Margaret Cavendish) on Motion by Daniel Whiting

“…In developing and defending my reading, I consider to what extent the Digbean account of motion and the arguments for it accord with the ideals of the mechanical philosophy emerging in the early modern period.…”
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Testamenty urozených žen doby baroka. Několik poznámek k tématu by Kristina Swiderová

“…Particular attention is paid to the matter of servants, for the testament could have meant a complete change of their existence. In the early modern period, however, last will was the document standing on the very edge of one’s life, dealing with both the past and the future – the afterlife. …”
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Korutanský nastolovací obřad a přemyslovský mýtus by Michal Téra

“…Another aim is to point out the connection between Carinthian setting ritual and a legend (or myth) about the origin of princely power in Bohemia where a similar ritual, apparently inspired by this myth, was proved in the early modern period. In the end, the study, in accordance with the current research, attempts to suggest a possible interpretation of the individual elements that are a part of both the setting ceremony and the myth of the royal power. …”
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Zadání architektonického a uměleckého díla v raném novověku. Mezi hospodářskými dějinami a dějinami umění by Tomáš Knoz

“…Historians of social and economic history must take into account in their research that the commissioning of an architectural or artistic work (not only) in the early modern period is not merely one type of economic investment, but that it represents a distinctive type of human action characterized by its artistic and spiritual value. …”
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The NW German Heathland: A Threatened Landscape? by Norbert Fischer, Hansjörg Küster

“…The term heath generally means wasteland. In the early modern period, extensive areas of heathland were created in north-west Germany, mainly through deforestation and subsequent grazing. …”
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‘Voices’ in the Courtroom. The role of notaries in the ‘Inquisitorial autobiography’ by José Luis Loriente Torres

“… Little is known about the workings of Inquisitorial notaries during the early modern period, particularly regarding their documentation methods within the courtroom. …”
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National Rivalry among Hospitallers? by Karl Borchardt

“…But when the Habsburg rulers became kings of Bohemia and Hungary in 1526, they ceased to be interested in splitting up the Hospitaller priory of Bohemia. In the early modern period this proved to be more important for the future of the priory than “proto-national” identities.…”
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Debating Balkan commonalities: Is there a common Balkan culture? by Markovich Slobodan G.

“…Paschalis Kitromilides provided the most convincing arguments for a Balkan mentality but did not go beyond the early modern period and Balkan Orthodox Christians. In the paper the evolution of the term Balkanism has been analysed to retrace the change of focus in Balkan studies, which lost some its original drive from the 1930s for finding commonalities, instead growing more focused on political and cultural contexts. …”
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Ukončení poručenské správy nezletilých osob v raně novověkém městském prostředí by Pavla Slavíčková

“… According to municipal law of the Early Modern Period a tutelage of an orphanu- sually ended in two ways: when the orphan reached the full-age or died before. …”
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Connection and disconnection by Fruzsina Alexandra Németh

“… Rania Plain lies on the eastern side of Iraqi Kurdistan, at the foot of the seemingly impenetrable Zagros Mountains. During the Early Modern Period, this microregion was on the fringe of the two major powers of the Middle East, the Ottoman and Persian Empires, but it was also part of the Soran Emirate, one of the semi-autonomous vassal states that existed for hundreds of years. …”
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РERSONAL PHILOSOPHIZING MOTIVES: DESCARTES AND KIERKEGAARD by A. M. Malivskyi

“…The author believes that it is quite right to refer to the philosophy of the early modern period as a form of its demand fulfillment for human development. …”
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Crimean-Ottoman Factor in the Socio-Cultural System of Russia in Early Modern Times by T. V. Chernikova

“…Abstract: The article gives a description of the sociocultural organization of Russia and the peculiarities of its geopolitical position in the system of international relations of the early modern period. Questions were raised about the reasons for the rapid territorial expansion of the Russian state in the second half of the 15-17 centuries, as well as its high competitiveness in foreign policy both in relations with its western neighbors and in the eastern direction.For the states of Western Europe with the beginning of their modernization, modern age has come, however “Muscovy” in the 15-17 centuries remained a medieval country. …”
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Posthumous coins of the Legnica-Brzeg Piasts by Robert Pieńkovski

“… An interesting product of the Silesian mints in the early modern period are coins commemorating the death of successive members of the Legnica-Brzeg Piast dynasty. …”
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EVOLUTION OF THE PHENOMENON OF CITIZENSHIP IN THE CONTEXT OF HISTORICAL DEVELOPMENT OF THE WESTERN EUROPE by L. Y. Maximova

“…In the Middle Ages and Early Modern Period, for which characteristic subjection and vassalage was a type of relationship between the supreme power and the population, the phenomenon of citizenship existed only in cities. …”
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