Sciascia, Manzoni and the narration of history by Giuliana Benvenuti

“…In his work with documentary sources and in his investigation into the ways in which the archive is constructed, Sciascia interweaves the discourse of the judge and the historian, but adds to them the discourse of the narrator: the main theme is justice and the abuse of power, that is, the unjust sentences that conceal human perversions behind the reason of State, in the context of an analysis of the eternal evils that afflict Italy. …”
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Pojmovna istorija - izvori, teorija i kritike - by Todor Kuljić

“…Special attention is paid to its founder, German historian, Reinhart Koselleck. The paper discusses his thesis that pluralist history should be written from the viewpoint which is also plural and his reϐlective historicism close to constructivism and relativism. …”
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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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Nočni bojevniki: Kmečke herezije in čarovništvo na Slovenskem in v Furlaniji<br>Night Warriors: Peasant Heresies and Witchcraft in Slovenia and in Friuli</br> by Zmago Šmitek

“…The author discusses records of the documents of two inquisition processes from the years 1583 and 1596 against a Friulian miller who was condemned as a member of the sect of banandanti, discovered by Italian historian Carlo Ginzburg and published in his famous book Cheese and Worms (1976). …”
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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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The Space of the City and Literary Imagination: the Legacy of Nikolai Antsiferov by Boris Stepanov

“…This paper discusses the legacy of Nikolai Antsiferov (1889–1958), a Russian historian who suggested a unique approach to urban studies in which literature played the key role. …”
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Écriture, tyrannies et pouvoir tyrannique. Emprunts et polémiques chez Hérodote by Pascal Payen

“…Starting from the traces left in The Histories by these polemics and adopting a dialogic perspective we are led back into the genealogy of the historical genre and usherd into the workshop of the historian. In order to trace back the progress of the historiographic operation, the analysis therefore rests both on the context of the development of prose writing and on the marks of reception of that new intellectual practice in Herodotus’ work.…”
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Fructuos(o) Gelabert. La micro-histoire à l’œuvre (simple/basique) by Jean-Claude Seguin

“…It’s the case especially of the beginning of his career that has been the subject of manipulation that has little to do with the work of the historian. Micro-history, as a real method of research, allows us to discard most of the approximations or inaccuracies that surround the existence and production of the Catalan cinematographer. …”
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O (Lp) Banquete dos Mendigos e a Censura Musical no Brasil (1973-2013) by Márcia Ramos de Oliveira

“…It also seeks to measure the importance of audiovisual and musical sources in the work of the historian, having as parameter this case study in particular.…”
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Lord Byron, Count Daru, and Anglophone Myths of Venice in the Nineteenth Century by Laven, David

“…In this essay, with particular emphasis on the decades before 1848, I explore the impact of the poet Lord Byron and the historian and apologist for Napoleon Count Daru in perpetuating myths about the city’s past and present. …”
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Contemporary discourses on general definitions of antisemitism by Jonah Jehoshua Jürgen Bogle

“…The article ends with a reflection on the definition offered by the historian Helen Fein, which is more action-based, and Amos Morris-Reich’s statement of the importance of reflecting on the role of language and the ability of language to create hate and to hurt. …”
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Perspectives On and Of Livy’s Tarpeia by Tara Welch

“…On the contrary: the historian emphasizes the indeterminacy of these episodes in two ways. …”
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O Ormianach w Jerozolimie (C. Mutafian, Jérusalem et les Arméniens: jusqu’à la conquête ottomane (1516), Les Belles Lettres, Paris 2022) by Andrzej Pisowicz

“… ON ARMENIANS IN JERUSALEM (CLAUDE MUTAFIAN, JÉRUSALEM ET LES ARMÉNIENS: JUSQU’À LA CONQUÊTE OTTOMANE (1516), LES BELLES LETTRES, PARIS 2022) The review concerns an album publication by Claude Mutafian, a French-Armenian historian, about the Armenian past of Jerusalem until the beginning of the 16th century. …”
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Application of Integrated Information Management System in Coal Production Group by LIU Li-jing

“…The system uses OPC method to collect real-time data and alarming information of automation system of each coal mine, builds real-time/history database through Historian, stores data results into SQL Server database through data mining analysis, and reads real-time/history data through OLE DB and ExcelAddin interface, so as to realize aggregation of production process information, safety and industrial video information. …”
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L’époque et l’événement : les temporalités du capitalisme selon William H. Sewell Jr. by Thomas Angeletti

“…It has been almost four decades since the work of the American historian William H. Sewell Jr. sought to create a dialogue between history and the other social sciences, most notably sociology and anthropology. …”
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Dimitrie Cantemir’s Economic Perspectives by Sorinel Cosma

“…Dimitrie Cantemir (1673-1723), one of the most erudite scholars of his times, was a historian, a philosopher, a geographer, a theologian and a musicologist. …”
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Hybrid variations on a documentary theme by Robert Stam

“…Although often assumed to be polar opposites, documentary and fiction are in fact theoretically and practically intermeshed, just as history and fiction, also conventually seen as opposites, are symbiotically connected. Historian Hayden White argued in Metahistory that the myth/history distinction was arbitrary and of recent invention. …”
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Das Abstrakte Kabinett in Hannover by Ines Katenhusen

“…Which tasks did the art historian and the artists respectively associate with this pioneering enterprise, which accents were they able to set, and where did their goals converge or diverge? …”
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Unknown Canadian Polonica – William John Rose and his archival legacy by Tomasz Pudłocki

“…The author discusses the archival legacy of William John Rose (1885–1968), a Canadian Slavist, historian and sociologist, showing its usefulness in researching the history of science and the relations between Polish scholars and scientists from Anglo-Saxon countries. …”
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Les vicissitudes de la fonction recherche dans une direction de synthèse by Vincent Viet

“…This article examines a number of problems met by social scientists who work for public bodies, from the example of Vincent Viet’s hybrid status, as both a historian and a research assistant at the DREES-MiRe, a research body within the French Department of Health. …”
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