Time after Time: Narratives of the Longue Durée in the Anthropocene by Stephen W. Sawyer

“…This article suggests that new potential areas of collaboration between historians and literary scholars have emerged around a nascent but galloping interest in two fields of scholarship, the Anthropocene and the longue durée. …”
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On Historiography of Fights for Independence and Creation of Lithuanian Army by Vytautas Lesčius

“…The greatest contribution in this field was made by some Lithuanian war historians living abroad. In current Lithuania, the interest of the public in the subject has borne fruit—some extensive works based on the material drawn from archive stocks and other sources have been published, scientific journals come out, etc. …”
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A Santidade Enfurecida by Leandro Duarte Rust

“…Although tensions between lay and clergy attracted, for more than a century, the largest share of the historians' attention - especially the so-called struggles between the priesthood and the empire -, the struggles between segments of the Church itself multiplied and intensified, achieving great documentary repercussion. …”
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TRANSFORMATION OF SECULAR LIFE IN THE DIVINE REALITY OF THE MIDDLE AGES by Justinas Karosas

“…It can be realised and is realised to the extent it has become the matter of everyday life and activity of the only historians, i. e. people. Since social differentiation of people is fairy evident in the society which is based on the class hierarchy, it becomes understandable that a feudal structure of people’s life may become universal in the eyes of all member of the society only when its economic nature is ignored. …”
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Relocalisation de sources anciennes, textuelles et matérielles du XXe siècle : les « aires culturelles » de la vigne en Bourgogne en question by Guillaume Grillon, Jean-Pierre Garcia

“…The archives are from the XXth century but they are similar to the ancient sources that the historians of the Middle Age or of the modern era deal with, taking in account that the data are not complete and that the wine growers witnesses of the practical experiences or users of those tools have died. …”
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Ackee and saltfish vs. amalá con quimbombó? A note on Sidney Mintz’ contribution to the historical anthropology of African American cultures by Stephan Palmié

“…Specifically, I argue that the opposition recently voiced by some Africanist historians against the so-called « rapid early synthesis » model developed by Sidney Mintz and Richard Price not just misinterprets the theoretical issues at hand, but foregrounds highly problematic, and ultimately ahistorical, notions of « Africanity ». …”
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The Death of a Child in a Noble Family: Prince Walter Prosper (1839–1841) and the Funeral Ritual of the House of Schwarzenberg in the Nineteenth Century by Jan Bouška

“…Our research is based on the study of the archival material in the Třeboň State Regional Archive, Department in Český Krumlov, where the archive of the House Schwarzenberg is stored, and on a comparison with the research conducted by other Czech historians, mainly Václav Grubhoffer. …”
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The Importance of Book Culture for Europe by Paul Raabe

“…The authority of the book is growing together with the modernization of the world. The task of the historians of a book is to investigate the book culture. …”
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Kulturní dějiny? Kulturní dějiny! by Milena Lenderová

“…In the research into the everyday life history, instead of structures and a "great" history, a new aspect of the history is pursued that works with different methods, concentrating on the experience and social practice of an individual. Historians of everyday life history describe and analyze the history "from the bottom" and "from inside", perceiving it in a certain social and geographical framework as a sample of human acting and behaviour and as an answer of given society to its environment, representing its life style. …”
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Was there really a siege of Kaffa by the Mongols in 1346 the first biological war? And what was the aftermath? by Christensen Carsten Sander

“…On the basis of the 14th century manuscript by the Genoese Gabriele de’ Mussi many historians widely believe that plague called the Black Death had to have reached European continent from the port city of Kaffa (modern-day Theodosia) on the Crimea peninsula as a result of a biological warfare by the Mongols. …”
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Géolocalisation des sources fiscales pré-révolutionnaires : la quadrature du cercle by Florent Hautefeuille

“…The second component is the result of collaboration between loboratories of archaeologists, historians and mathematicians. It aimed to provide a method for comparing the settlement’s dynamics from the modeling of tax sources in the form of adjacency graph. …”
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Codicology in Lithuania in 1918-1990: Between Book History and Palaeography by Rima Cicėnienė

“…However, we can only speak of codicological research and attention to the manuscript book as a research object since the 1980s. Historians and philologists (S. Lazutka, E. Gudavičius, V. …”
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Hermann Jakob Czernin von Chudenitz’ Diplomatic Mission in Warsaw in 1695. A Contribution towards the Travel Arrangements of Imperial Diplomats by Jiří Kubeš

“…Neither Polish nor Czech nor Austrian historians paid any attention to it. Based on this, however, it is possible to demonstrate perfectly how tense the relations between Emperor Leopold I and the Polish King John III Sobieski, who, at the end of their lives, were officially allies in the Holy League. …”
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The South African Families Database by Jeanne Cilliers

“…The primary reason for this lacuna is a shortage of adequate data. Historians and genealogists have, over the last century, worked to combine the rich administrative records that are available in the Cape Archives in Cape Town and beyond, into a single genealogical volume of all settlers living in the 18th, 19th and early 20th century. …”
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TEORINĖS KARTOGRAFIJOS PROBLEMOS: VILNIAUS ATVEJIS by Nerijus Milerius

“…It is argued that history of cartography not only confirms this controversial dictum but even radicalises it. Historians of cartography see a map not only as product of scientific modelizing but also as closely tied to various historical and cultural contexts that, in turn, actively participate in the process of mapping. …”
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White Women in the 1960s Freedom Movement, From Memory to History: The writing of “Shiloh Witness,” a chapter in Deep in Our Hearts (2000) by Joan Browning

“…In addition to this personal account, she probes into the scientific issues of writing the history of the Civil Rights Movement, i.e. the place of women in historiography, the relationship between historians and their living subjects, the question of privacy, the tension between objectivity and subjectivity, and the difficult negotiation between history and activism in the self-writing process.…”
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Two Chancellors: Metternich and Nesselrode by E. P. Kudryavtseva

“…According to estimates of historians, Nesselrode was just an obedient apprentice of the Austrian Chancellor who orchestrated the whole European policy. …”
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Erat simplicis ingenii: A deposição de Garcia da Galiza vista pelos cronistas dos séculos XII e XIII by Maria Joana Gomes

“…However, it is in the 13th century that historians elaborate more solid justifications to make sense, not only Garcia’s fate but also the anoumalous power transmission that took place. …”
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Arthur ainda vive? by Isadora Cristine Martins

“…Virginie Greene questions the pertinence of using the term “messianism” in the Middle Ages and argues that it cannot be used in the same sense as used by historians to refer to Modernity4.In this essay we try to withdraw the analysis from the courtly environments in which they were reproduced, through some selected chronicles, from a History from Below perspective, to understand who are the people waiting for Arthur’s return and whether this hope represents more than a speech constructed by the chroniclers.From a crossing between chronicles and archaeological studies, we try to map cults, traditions, and pilgrimages linked to Arthur that circulated through Great-Britain under the Norman rule. …”
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Yalta 1945: the Black Sea Straits and the War in the Far East by M. S. Monakov

“…Contemporary Russian historians are in line with the tradition, a feature of which was a lack of attention to the maritime policy of the Soviet Union, especially in the 1921 - 1955. …”
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