COUNTERFACTUALS IN HISTORIOGRAPHY by Zenonas Norkus

“…The conviction of some historians that the counterfactuals are essentially forbidden in the scientific historiography is critised on the ground that counterfactuals are implied by the causal statements and statements of the relative causal importance. …”
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Giovanni de Matociis and the Codex Oratorianus of the De uiris illustribus urbis Romae by Stover, J, Woudhuysen, G

“…We demonstrate that the manuscript has nothing to do with Matoci, but is closely linked to Giacomo Filippo Foresti, a late-fifteenth-century historian. Its chief feature of interest is that it shares some readings with another branch of the tradition of the DVI, the Corpus Aurelianum, thus providing new evidence for the circulation of that text.…”

Eunapius of Sardis by Buck, D, David F. Buck

“…<p>Eunapius of Sardis was a pagan Greek sophist and historian who lived from A.D. 345/6 until at least A.D. 414. …”

Imagination Controlled: Representation and Factuality in Historical Knowledge by Pier Luigi Lecis, Vinicio Busacchi

“…This paper aims to show how Ricœur’s inquiry on memory, trace, and testimony contributes to rebalance a framework that, at the level of the dialectic between imagination and representation, would essentially present Historian’s work as a hermeneutical work. In Ricœur’s later writings, we find a differently balanced perspective by focusing the (neurobiological and psychological) substrate of representation behind trace and memory. …”
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Review of book: López Jiménez, C.A. (2018). El terreno común de la escritura: una historia de la producción filosófica en Colombia. Editorial Javeriana by Jorge Uribe Vergara

“…This review analyzes the book of the young historian and philosopher Carlos Arturo López Jiménez, El terreno común de la escritura highlighting his method to understand the practice of writing philosophy in Colombia between 1892 and 1910. …”
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Éloge to Robert Fox by Efthymios Nicolaidis

“…The 20th Alexandre Koyré Medal awarded since 1968 to prominent historians of science was awarded to Robert Fox, leading historian of European science of the period from the 18th to the beginnings of the 20th century. …”
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Sana Haroon, The Mosques of Colonial South Asia A Social and Legal History of Muslim Worship (London: I.B. Tauris, 2021), 238. by Muhammad Reza Kazimi

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Tussen kolonialisme en postkolonialisme: Thomas Arboussets Excursion missionnaire dans les Montagnes bleues by Bert Zurings

“…Because Arbousset was not just a missionary, but also an explorer, natural historian and ethnographer, his relations to the “O/other” are strikingly diversified. …”
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Chrysostomos Papadopoulos and the Russian theological academic landscape of 19^th century by Dimitrios Baltas

“…Concerning Church History, about which Chrisostomos Papadopoulos is mostly interested in, it will followingly be supported that it particularly flourishes in the Theological Academies of Russia as well, especially in Saint Petersburg, with the presence and the work of the significant historian, B. Bolotov.…”
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L’Espagne recherchée et ressentie de Bartolomé Bennassar by François Zumbiehl

“…For these, he applied at a rather significant level all the traditional instruments and qualities which are expected in any prominent historian. He also used other skills thanks to his great intellectual curiosity and the acuity of his perceptions and emotions. …”
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The operationalization of general hypotheses versus the discovery of empirical laws in Psychology by Stéphane Vautier

“…This approach allows the knowledge historian to carefully scrutinise descriptive and nomothetic advances in contemporary empirical Psychology.…”
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'Teraz' u Parminidesa: B 8.5 ('NOW' ACCORDING TO PARMENIDES: B 8.5) by Jerzy Pawliszcze

“…The author begins with comparison between Parmenides and the concept of eternity in Plato's Timaeus. Some historian agree, that concept of eternity was alien for Parmenides and argue from fragm. 8, 5-6, where Parmenides uses the term 'now' - nyn in non-eternal sense. …”
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BOOK REVIEW: SORIN MITU (ED.), "ENCICLOPEDIA IMAGINARIILOR DIN ROMÂNIA III. IMAGINAR ISTORIC". GENERAL EDITOR: CORIN BRAGA. IAȘI, POLIROM, 2020, 407 P. by Paul Mihai PARASCHIV

“…The course of history that epitomizes a nation’s cultural anatomy can be conscientiously revised and reiterated through the perceptive lens of the historian. In their task to impart timeless knowledge, historians perform careful surgeries on the body of history, investigating the abundant forms that gain shape in its configuration. …”
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L’Ange de l’Histoire by Marc Berdet

“…The Angel affects first the historian, but it also strikes any social scientist listening to the defeated of history, the refuse of the big city or the scraps from the scientist storytelling. …”
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Modernism, Postmodernism and the Nature of the Times: A Conversation with Randall Stevenson by NEAGU ADRIANA

“…It invites reflection and rethinking of epistemic change from a major literary historian and theorist whose work in the Anglo-American context has become synonymous with the examination of temporality, historicity, and poeticality in twentieth century experimentation with form. …”
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De la condamnation à l’acceptation des infractions d’Alexandre by Mélissa Leuzy

“…This paper tends to explain how and why Arrian condemns some of Alexander’s transgressions before approving them in the final description of the conqueror. At first, the historian depicts a traditional concept of transgression, which links the crossing of geographical boundaries to the adoption of barbarian habits and hubris. …”
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THE USE AND ABUSE OF HISTORY: CLIO BEHIND ICTY BARS by Miloš Ković, Draga Mastilović

“… The task of this article is to examine the academic value and factual reliability of the reports Background, Politics, and Strategy of the Sarajevo Siege, 1991-1995 and Highlights of Deliberations in the Assembly of Republika Srpska Relevant to the Indictment of Ratko MLADIC, 1991- 96, produced by historian Robert J. Donia, for the purposes of the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia. …”
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Biafra, Humanitarian Intervention and History by Marie-Luce Desgrandchamps, Lasse Heerten, Arua Oko Omaka, Kevin O'Sullivan, Bertrand Taithe

The Origin of the Literary Legend on Jūratė and Kastytis: Scientific Evaluations and the Question of Sources by Domininkas Burba

“…According to most scholars, the legend “Queen of the Baltic Sea” was created by Liudvikas Adomas Jucevičius (Ludwik Adam Jucewicz, 1813–1846), a Lithuanian writer, ethnographer, folklorist, historian and translator. The article examines the first reviews of the story and explains how the academic world came to the conclusion that this source is not authentic. …”
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En-quête d’histoire : le roman policier populaire de la Caraïbe by Françoise Naudillon

“…They allow the novelist (Glissant, Schwarz-Bart, Confiant, Condé…) to claim (s)he is an historian. Thus they establish fiction and history as rivais, and manifest the authors’ will to fight against acculturation and the loss of cultural identity, and in favour of a representation of reality and a testimony that might at last be free of any trace of neo-colonialism. …”
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