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31 unresolved questions extracted from the limitations and future-work sections of 6,194 Historical Studies and Socio-cultural Analysis papers in our library. Each links back to the study that raised it.

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  • Does this entail that these human remains should be studied and displayed today in accordance with the subject's testamentary wishes?This paper explores the SAM's moral, scientific and political values regarding the dead body in the context of 19 th century French struggles against religion in general, and Catholicism in particular.

    Navigating Between the Ethics of Display and the Ethics of Use: The Société d’Autopsie Mutuelle · 2026 · DOI

  • Drawing on extensive research in untapped archives and understudied printed religious literature, Harrison explores with insight and sensitivity the inner lives and public positions of a group of ‘Romantic Catholics’ who sought to accommodate their faith to the modern world in the aftermath of the French Revolution.

    Romantic Catholics: France's Postrevolutionary Generation in Search of a Modern Faith · 2015 · DOI

  • Historical fiction has always been a slippery genre, not only for writers seeking to represent the past when “the historical record is sparse on details” (Desrochers 289), but also for book reviewers who weigh aesthetic against historiographical considerations.

    Bride of New France by Suzanne Desrochers (review) · 2014 · DOI

  • Although the general historical context of Christine de Pizan’s Livre du corps de policie (LCP), the Orleanist-Burgundian feud occasioned by the periodic insanity of King Charles VI, has long been recognised, the precise argument that the author wages through her unique configuration of the third part of the body politic has not been explored.

    The political significance of Christine de Pizan's third estate in the <i>Livre du corps de policie</i> · 2009 · DOI

  • This paper examines a little known map of France made around the middle of the fifteenth century, for a genealogical manuscript of the text known as A tous nobles, conserved today as Bibliothèque nationale de France [BnF] MS fr.

    <i>Ceste figure contient tout le royaulme de France</i>. Cartography and national identity in France at the end of the Hundred Years War · 2007 · DOI

  • TM Even in the early 1900s, it seems, the need for the individual scientist to create his own opportunities in the face of financial deprivation and an almost total absence of official encouragement was scarcely diminished.

    Scientific enterprise and the patronage of research in France 1800?70 · 1973 · DOI

  • Rolls of the privy seal were still being compiled in the reign of Edward II, since Richard of Newcastle-under-Lyme is said to have remained in the wardrobe from 12 April to 7 July 1312 ' p ro litteris, rotulis et aliis memorandis de privato sigillo scribendis ',* but whether our extant drafts should be identified with these rolls remains an open question.

    Privy Seal Drafts, Rolls and Registers (Edward I—Edward II) · 1958 · DOI

  • ouck Hurgronje, for it was due to them that the central problems of Islam (fiqh and mysticism, to which we must, with regard to Gold- ziher, add hadith) have been elaborated and Islam can now be con- sidered as a separate and distinct culture, which should be studied from religious starting points.

    IGNACE GOLDZIHER (1850‐1921)* · 1951 · DOI

  • It was scarcely daybreak when the Count ordered that horses should be harnessed; he took the caregiver and 2 other servants along with the miner boy out, who had to show him the way.

    Liller's manuscript forrm Moll's collection · 2026 · DOI

  • ” It was insufficient for Launebod to hold the title of duke; his deeds had to affirm his legitimacy within a Romanized framework.

    Roman in Zeal, Barbarian in Family: Structural Romanness in Sixth-Century Merovingian Gaul and Social Performance in the Poems of Venantius Fortunatus · 2026 · DOI

  • The vastly underexplored terrain of eighteenth-century religious art here tempers dominant narratives by tracing different experiences of religion through the lives of these often contested objects.

    Saint Geneviève’s miracles: art and religion in eighteenth-century Paris · 2016 · DOI

  • So confined, this interest did not account for customary tenure and systems of property relations among indigenous inhabitants; generally these were matters avoided by merchants, traders, missionaries, and early settlers until the expediencies of settlement on the ground required otherwise.

    Possession and Dispossession in Corporate New France, 1600–1663: Debunking a “Juridical History” and Revisiting<i>Terra Nullius</i> · 2014 · DOI

  • Abstract Much work remains to be done on the role of engineers in Europe in the eighteenth century and we do not, in this short introductory survey, claim to offer an exhaustive historical perspective.

    The rise of the engineering profession in eighteenth century Europe: an introductory overview · 2011 · DOI

  • This issue features an article entitled "Incunable Editions in the National Library of Hungary": works of Ratdolt, de Spira, Lucas Brandis, Sweynheym & Pannartz, all little known for having been held "behind the Iron Curtain.

    Revue francaise d'histoire du livre, 118-21, "Le berceau du livre: autour des incunables" (review) · 2006 · DOI

  • This essay explores an understudied aspect of that relationship: the long-term consequences of the colonial connection on the ethnology of metropolitan France.

    “Peoples Ethnographic”: Objects, Museums, and the Colonial Inheritance of French Ethnology · 2004 · DOI

  • During the last decade or so, research has moved away from the traditional limits placed on the Napoleonic era by diplomatic and military history, but progress has been slow and much remains to be done.

    New Avenues for Research in Napoleonic Europe · 2003 · DOI

  • Associating effort with work makes sense with respect to productivity, and it only remains to be demonstrated that productivity, life satisfaction and development are enhanced when relaxation is also integrated along the way.

    The Neglect of Relaxation · 2000 · DOI

  • But to demand these things would be to ask for a different book than the one that the author undertook to write; in her ambition to provide a point of departure for further studies of the history of French public health, she.

    Mission and Method: The Early Nineteenth-Century French Public Health Movement (review) · 1996 · DOI

  • Readers familiar with Blanchot will appreciate the extensive analysis of the little known novel Le Très-Haut and the extended reading of Blanchot’s L’Attente l’oubli.

    Maurice Blanchot and the Literature of Transgression (review) · 1994 · DOI

  • LITTLE is known of the author of Gauriel von Muntabel, a short verse romance of a little over fOUf thousand lines.

    Konrad von Stoffeln's<i>Gauriel von Muntabel</i>: a comment on Hartmann's<i>Iwein</i>? · 1988 · DOI

  • As these authors indicate, the question offidedites and clientage has not been studied very much in depthalthough recently there has been a flurry of work done on the subjectt-and both authors have made an important contribution here.

    Clientage, Elites, and Absolutism in Seventeenth-Century France · 1986 · DOI

  • However, surprisingly few studies have gone beyond sheer descriptions relating weather conditions to fluctuations in yields, food prices, and mortality.

    Climate and Economy in Eighteenth-Century Switzerland · 1978 · DOI

  • Nine- teenth-century French writers’ reinterpretation of the Middle Ages is so well-known an example that it is surprising it has not been examined in detail prior to Dr Dakyn’s very Downloaded from jes.

    Review Notices : The Evolution of the French Novel, 1641-1782. By English Showalter Jr., Princeton: Prince ton University Press. 1972. 372 pp · 1973 · DOI

  • Since the possibility of complete independence was scarcely conceivable at that time, even as a vision of things to come, he preferred to have his people link their fate with the camp which in his view stood for political democracy.

    Ivan Vahylevy Ch (1811-1866) And The Ukrainian National Identity · 1972 · DOI

  • The clarity of general politics in the Roule was reflected in the relative clarity of Corbin's career as a militant; this clarity was lacking in the Rdunion, whose political anatomy was complex, and Melchior-Humbert Peligot was obliged to manoeuvre adroitly.

    THE JUSTICES OF THE PEACE OF REVOLUTIONARY PARIS, SEPTEMBER 1792– NOVEMBER 1794 (FRIMAIRE YEAR III) · 1971 · DOI

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