In November 1962, Cardinal Augustin Bea distributed to the Fathers of the Second Vatican Council a pamphlet on the historicity of the Gospels, intervening—after two years of apparent silence—in the dispute between the Pontifical Biblical...
The history of ideas is essential for understanding how scientific knowledge is produced and sustained. This is particularly true for Western climate science, whose intellectual history spans a long period and has undergone several major transformati...
This article examines the changing social meanings of mining in Roșia Montană (Romania) from late state socialism to the period following the withdrawal of the Roșia Montană Gold Corporation (RMGC), which had proposed a large open...
This essay constitutes the first part of an investigation into the origin and consequences of the concept of “national sovereignty,” focusing specifically on the concept of “nation” as derived from the Latin natio and the lang...
The historical evolution of Catholic sacred space has traditionally been examined through architectural, liturgical, or theological perspectives considered largely in isolation. Comparatively little attention, however, has been paid to ecclesiastical...
This study examines the socio-economic structure of Rumnos, a village in the district of Devrek in the Ottoman province of Bolu (now in Devrek district, Zonguldak Province, Türkiye), on the basis of Temettuat Register no. 3378, dated 1844–...
This article re-examines the French military physician and physiologist Jules Héricourt’s (1850–1938) treatment of what he termed intoxications d’origine externe, intoxications of external origin, in his popularising 1904 boo...
This article reconstructs the brief history of the Academia para la Historia de la Iglesia Latina (APHILA), a short-lived but revealing experiment in Latinx Protestant historiography in the early 1990s. Drawing on archival sources from the Justo L. G...
This paper reframes the ancient Egyptian tomb as a borderscape, focusing on evidence from the 3rd millennium BCE—known as the Old Kingdom and the First Intermediate Period. While the identification of the tomb as a border between the worlds of...
Imperialism as a system of exploitation profoundly shaped the natural and human landscapes of colonized regions. This paper examines how the Second World War accelerated imperial transformations in East Africa, focusing on the Tanganyika Groundnut Sc...
This article examines the voyage of the Leviathan, a brigantine that sailed from Newport, Rhode Island, in 1773, in search of new sperm whale grounds in the South Atlantic but ended its journey off the coast of Brazil. There, its crew was arrested an...
In 19th-century Hungary, the German-language press provided an important intellectual platform for Jewish journalists, many of whom became significant actors in political communication and cultural transfer. This study examines the Pester Lloyd (foun...
This study examines Slovak compatriot associations in the United States at the turn of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries as institutional structures of mutual aid, community organization and immigrant adaptation. The analysis focuses on the Nati...
To date, many studies on the Nazi Special Courts have focused on the individuals involved in passing judgement or in the prosecution process in general, as well as on their political significance. For our study, we undertake a re-evaluation and compu...
This article reconstructs a largely forgotten episode in the history of Buddhist studies: the period in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries when the Buddha was widely considered to have been Sri Lankan (Ceylonese) in origin. Contrary t...
The figure of Cesare Borgia occupies a complex and revealing place in the political thought of Niccolò Machiavelli. This article argues that the historical Cesare complicates Machiavelli’s more schematic presentation of military autonomy...
This study proposes a new conceptual framework that moves beyond the widely used civic/ethnic dichotomy in nationalism theory by bringing Michael Billig’s concept of banal nationalism into dialogue with the literature on everyday boundary-makin...
This article examines the terminological contributions of Gaspard Bauhin in his seminal work, “Theatrum Anatomicum” (1605). It is part of a series of articles exploring the development of anatomical terminology following Vesalius. Through...
The rapid digitization of large source collections in the humanities over the last three decades has comprehensively transformed the discipline. The accessibility of primary sources has improved drastically, the pre-processing of research data has be...
This article examines two reports dated 4 October 1897 and 6 January 1898 written by the Ottoman military attaché in Madrid, Reşid bin Galib, Staff Senior Captain (Kolağası), to analyze how the late Ottoman Empire interpreted th...
From the period of the Anatolian Seljuks onward, Iranian culture and civilization exerted a strong influence over Anatolia. As a result of this interaction, Persian gradually became the region’s administrative and literary language; it was spok...
This paper reviews the significant steps of the atomic–molecular theory, after Avogadro’s intimation of the equal volume/equal number of particles hypothesis until the final assertion embodied in Cannizzaro’s Sunto. Berzelius’...
Nuclear energy has been a highly controversial issue in post-war (West) German politics. Previous research has identified discourse on nuclear energy as an important factor in the development of German political culture. However, little work has been...
Over the past two decades, research on issues of agency and liminality around borders has highlighted the mutual permeability, fluidity and overlapping of spheres such as religion and politics, providing arguments on the construction of identity and...
This study applies Pierre Bourdieu’s field theory as an analytical framework to examine the development of Peking opera along the Beijing Central Axis during the Qing Dynasty. It explores how the interaction between the court and folk fields co...
This article analyses the unique features of James Callaghan’s political career. He is the only politician to have served as Chancellor of the Exchequer, Home Secretary, Foreign Secretary, and Prime Minister in UK history. The analysis situates...
The history of ancient cities is often associated with devotional sculptures that accompanied the founding process of settlements. In southern Brazil, an old city founded in 1553 has its history linked to the image of Our Lady of Grace. However, the...
Granary systems formed a core institutional foundation of state governance, famine relief, and social stabilization in premodern China. Using the complete corpus of the Twenty-Six Dynastic Histories, this study employs digital humanities methods&mdas...
This article examines Max Nordau’s Entartung (Degeneration) (1892/93) at the intersection of fin-de-siècle cultural critique and contemporary psychopathology. It argues that Nordau did not simply denounce modern art, but transferred an e...
Since the emergence of scientific disciplines in the 19th century, geography and history have had an undefined relationship with each other. Conventions of subject-specific responsibility have developed, but in detail the separation is difficult, and...
Computational methods have become increasingly prominent within the historical sciences, generating significant enthusiasm among some scholars. Yet their practical demands, epistemic limits, and ethical implications are less often critically examined...
Non-alignment was officially born at a conference in Brijuni, Croatia (then Yugoslavia), in 1956 and then formalized in Belgrade in 1961. Yet its origins go back to the independence struggle of Indonesia in 1945–1949 and especially to diplomacy...
Greater Ethiopia in the late medieval period, a somewhat delicate federation in the Horn constituted by the Christian highland kingdom and bordering Muslim princedoms, was integrated by interregional links of great significance, in a balance of roles...
This study examines the chronic continuity and multi-layered structure of poisoning cases observed in the Ottoman Empire between the 1845 and 1912. The primary aim is to reveal how the central administration perceived these events, which seriously th...
This article focuses on the rediscovery of catacombs in the central Mediterranean and explores some of this historiographic heritage through different kinds of documents in order to present some interesting results regarding human and cultural connec...
This article analyzes two historical episodes in which seafaring leaders were interpreted as divinities by island cultures: the voyage of the Inca Túpac Yupanqui to Oceania in the 15th century and the arrival of Captain James Cook to Hawaii in...
Since the 19th century, the United States has continuously conducted plant introductions from around the world to expand high-quality germplasm resources for agriculture and horticulture. Beginning in 1898, China—shaped by millennia of agrarian...
This article analyses post-World War II UNRRA (United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration) activities that supported the restoration of livestock in Poland, with a focus on veterinary work associated with animal shipments. The study is b...
Central European children’s literature can be read as both archive—recording shifting norms, institutions, and visual regimes—and agent, a medium through which childhood, citizenship, and cultural memory are made legible. This conce...
This study evaluates whether a multimodal retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) pipeline originally developed for early modern woodcuts can be effectively transferred to the domain of medieval manuscript illumination. Using a dataset of Wenzelsbibel m...
The memoirs of Baron Wenceslas Wratislaw are among the most significant Western sources portraying the Ottoman Empire in the late 16th century. Sent on a diplomatic mission and later taken captive, Wratislaw offers a dual image of the Empire: as a po...
On 10 March 1933, an earthquake of roughly 6.4 on the Richter scale (retrospectively estimated) hit the City of Long Beach, California, and the counties surrounding it. Seismically, the quake was of moderate magnitude. However, to this day it remains...
This essay examines six depictions of the 1898 suicide of New Zealand businessman and politician William Larnach: four historical narratives and two dramatic/fictional depictions. Drawing on the insights of postmodern historiographers like Hayden Whi...
This study examines the social, economic and cultural impacts that Latin American women face due to climate-induced displacement, considering these impacts as arenas of conflict and negotiation. Using an intersectional framework, the study analyses h...
This paper addresses the knowledge gap on the beginning of the history of contact with extraterrestrial intelligent beings in international astronautics. In the mid-1950s, the world’s space law practitioner, Andrew G. Haley, proposed the concep...
This article serves as the editorial introduction to the Histories Special Issue titled “Naval Warfare and Diplomacy in Southwestern Europe in the Middle Ages [...]
This manuscript examines how distinct epistemic attitudes toward singularity and generality have been articulated in medical writing across different historical contexts, offering a conceptual and meta-historical analysis of two enduring genres in bi...
During the past decade, chatbots have been integrated into commercial platforms to facilitate second language acquisition (SLA) by providing opportunities for interactive conversations. However, SLA learner progress is limited by chatbots that lack t...
Medical history of psychopathology is, to some extent, the history of the overlapping traditions of Cartesian-Platonic dualism and physical reductionism looking for a taxonomic middle ground by means of diagnostic constructs. Building on such liminal...
A reading of the American Revolution and the post-Civil War Reconstruction period through the lens of W.E.B. Du Bois’s early writings provides new insights into his theory of racial monopoly capitalism. Many Americans saw the 1776 revolution as...
