Elements of anti-world in the game universe <i>The Witcher</i> by V. M. Ovchinnikov, P. J. Paulus

“…The cultural landscape created in the game includes elements of the medieval laughter culture integrated into the unique system of dynamic images and meanings, constantly evolving and functioning in a way analogous with the established cultural and symbolic reality. …”
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Extending Democracy to Corporate Governance and Beyond: a Theory of Popular Economic Sovereignty by E. L. Rubin

“…This can be called the principle of popular economic sovereignty.Scientific novelty: for the first time, the work makes a conclusion that the modern understanding of both the state and the corporation developed from medieval corporativist thinking. This same mode of thought generated the idea of representation that enabled individuals who were not leaders of a structured hierarchy to participate in state decisions, certainly one of the great insights of Western political thought. …”
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TÜRK KÜLTÜRÜNDE HAŞHAŞ (AFYON BİTKİSİ) KULLANIMI (11-14. YÜZYIL ANADOLU’SUNDA) by SELİM KAYA

“…It is also hoped that it will contribute scientifically to studies on Anatolian medical history regarding the dysfunction of the mind and blinding of the mind due to drug use and research on Medieval Turkish history. After conquering Anatolia, the Turks continued the thousands-year-old poppy culture and used poppy mostly as food and medicine. …”
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"Hodie Legimus in Libro Experientiae". A Apropriação Heideggeriana da Fórmula de Bernardo de Claraval by Bento Silva Santos

“…III)" (HEIDEGGER, 1995, p. 334-337),que faz parte de outras notas e esboços de uma Vorlesung não proferida, intitulada "Os fundamentos filosóficos da mística medieval (1918-1919)" (HEIDEGGER,1995). Ao longo de minha análise, destaco três aspectos com base na fórmula inicial: "Hoje lemos no livro da experiência" -, que é parafraseada por Heidegger da seguinte maneira: "Hoje queremos mover-nos no campo da experiência pessoal de maneira compreensiva. …”
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Compilation of different data sets of the Late Neolithic wetland site of Pestenacker and of the adjacent valley depositions by Anne Köhler, Anneli Wanger O'Neill, Johannes Rabiger-Völlmer, Franz Herzig, Birgit Schneider, Steven Nebel, Ulrike Werban, Marco Pohle, Manuel Kreck, Peter Dietrich, Lukas Werther, Detlef Gronenborn, Stefanie Berg, Christoph Zielhofer

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O fragmentaryzacji srebra wczesnośredniowiecznego: na ile wiarygodne są dane metrologiczne? Przypadek skarbu z Mózgowa na Warmii (t.p.q. 1009) by Mateusz Bogucki

“…Before, they were rarely registered in early medieval treasures (fragments weighing more than 1 gram represent only 6.66%, pieces weighing less than 1 g represent 93.33%, fragments of up to 0.5 g represent 87.61%, while pieces weighing less than 0.1 g represent a whopping 55% of the entire collection).The differences in the weight of silver fragments in the specific parts of the treasure trove from Mózgowo shed new light on both the methodology of examining treasure troves and how representative the data used so far in statistical and metrological analyses are. …”
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Sanok i Brugia – peryferyjne miasta Mariana Pankowskiego by Krystyna Latawiec

“…His home town, Sanok, being the town of his youth, is shown in his experimental novel Matuga idzie (Here comes Matuga) dating to 1956-57, while the medieval Brugge is presented in Putto, written in 1994. …”
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Aislamiento y reintegración en poesía cristiana española del siglo XIII. Peculiaridades de Cristo y María by Ana Elvira Vilchis Barrera

“… En la literatura medieval es posible encontrar una actitud ambivalente ante los personajes marginales, que fluctúa entre el rechazo, por temor, y la acogida, al ser los marginados los sujetos a quienes puede dirigirse la práctica de muchas virtudes cristianas. …”
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Textbook Review Cultural History of Russia. Praha: Univerzita Karlova, Pedagogická fakulta, 2020. 286 s by J. Konečný, L. V. Kamedina

“…They entangle the history and culture of medieval, modern and 21th century Russia with European history and the global cultural space. …”
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A Military Unit of the Celtae (the Celts) and Some Peculiarities of Late Roman Military Titles in the 4th C. AD by Evgeniy A. Mekhamadiev

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How I Became a Tree. Sumana Roy. Aleph Book Company, India, Hardcover, Rs. 599 by Anirban Bhattacharjee

“…In Aristotle’s ‘ladder of nature’, the so-called scala naturae, or in the hierarchical universe as posited by the Greek Neoplatonists, that remained highly influential throughout the medieval and early modern periods, the inanimate beings as well as the plants, though having rudimentary neural nets and the capacity for primary perceptions, occupied the lowest level of the scale. …”
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The Golden Horde through the eyes of Contemporaries and Eyewitnesses by Ivanov V.A.

“…Research materials: The main source on the history of the Golden Horde/Ulus of Jochi are the narrative works of medieval European and Arab-Persian authors. Most eastern narrativist writers had never visited the territory of this state. …”
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Catholic Church Interiors in Fin-de-Siècle Literature by Claire Masurel-Murray

“…The works of such late-Victorian writers as Lionel Johnson, Ernest Dowson, Theodore Wratislaw, John Oliver Hobbes and Oscar Wilde represent Catholic churches as retreats set apart from the ugliness and mediocrity of Victorian England—religious versions of Des Esseintes’s Fontenay-aux-Roses house in À rebours—filled with incense, organ music, and coloured light filtering through medieval stained-glass windows. In Dowson’s correspondence or in his poem ‘Benedictio Domini’, in Johnson’s ‘Our Lady of France’, in Wratislaw’s ‘Palm Sunday’ and ‘Songs to Elizabeth’, in some of Wilde’s stories, the opposition between inside and outside expresses figuratively the fundamental incompatibility between an ideal of beauty, embodied in the aesthetic experience of the church, and the coarseness of the outside world. …”
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Golden Horde Burials with Silk Items: Problems of Interpretation by Maria A. Ochir-Goryaeva, Evgeny G. Burataev

“…According to numerous data of the written sources, silk was equaled to gold in the medieval time. The fact that the Volga-Manych nomads had clothes made of silk was not only the evidence of their high social status and wealth but also a mark that they were the subjects of the Mongolian Empire. …”
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Spoken Latin in the Late Middle Ages and Renaissance by Jerome Moran

“…Did educated people in the late Middle Ages and Renaissance use Latin routinely (Medieval Latin and Neo-Latin), rather than a regional vernacular, to conduct real-life conversations about ordinary, everyday matters? …”
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ST. PAUL’SSCHOOL IN LONDON: RENAISSANCE MODEL OF SCHOOL ORGANIZATION by L. V. Sofronova, A. V. Khazina

“…Methods: hermeneutic analysis, historical-genetic method, paradigm-pedagogical method.Results of the study: School running and everyday life in England at that time would stick to the traditional medieval forms within the clerical and city municipal corporal framework. …”
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On the Patriarchal Lineages of Vinaya Transmission Starting with Upāli: Narratives and Interpretations in the Vinaya School 律宗 in China and Japan by Weilin Wu

“…After their introduction into China and Japan, the first type of lineages experienced transformation in later Vinaya school works composed by medieval Chinese and Japanese Buddhist monks. A comparative philological study on the <i>Samantapāsādikā</i> and <i>Shanjianlü piposha</i> shows a “mistranslated” Tanwude 曇無德 (Skt. …”
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Rotary Millstones of the 9th–11th Centuries from the Excavations of the Mangup Princely Palace by Valentin K. Gantsev

“…The study is based on a comparative analysis of medieval rotary millstones of the 9th–11th centuries, which were found on the territory of the Palace of Principality of Theodoro and synchronous monuments of the Crimea and the Khazar Kaganate. …”
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THE SMALL MAMMALS (INSECTIVORES, BATS AND RODENTS) FROM THE HOLOCENE ARCHAEOLOGICAL SITE OF VALLONE INFERNO (SCILLATO, LOWER IMERA VALLEY, NORTHWESTERN SICILY) by JUAN MANUEL LÓPEZ-GARCÍA, HUGUES-ALEXANDRE BLAIN, ENRICO PAGANO, ANDREU OLLÉ, JOSEP MARIA VERGÈS, VINCENZA FORGIA

“…Thearchaeological excavations conducted since 2008 have provided a long prehistoric and historic sequence from the Neolithic to the medieval period. From the four sedimentary complexes identified, only levels 3.4 to 3.1 from complex 3 and 4.2 from complex 4 have yielded small-mammal material. …”
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Theodore Metochites’ Logos 10 on Education and Some Aspects of the Notion of Contemplation in the Late Works of Henri Bergson: on Reminiscences by Dmitriy I. Makarov

“…The methodological basis of the work is the medieval and modern (Hegel’s) notion of the unity of the philosophical process in the world. …”
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