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What have been the conditions of production for a political theatre to appear in post-1990s Romania? How and why contemporary theatre in Romania ended up ignoring or dismissing the leftwing, engaged or militant theatrical movements active before 1945? Why local theatre history and theory entirely obliterated, also, the politically-engaged theatre forms active during communism itself? What kind of tradition forms the contemporary political theatre, what is the politics that informs their working practices and collaborations, how do the artists engage with the groups they choose to give voice and with the audience? Using a broad and on-purpose multi-faceted definition of political theatre, the article focuses on theatre artists, practices and performances that question capitalism as a social and power structure, sometimes from an intersectional perspective, but always framing this criticism in a class approach. Largely a practice-based analysis, the text gives a comprehensive on-going history of a strong performative movement and its challenges, from the representational strategies and the financial and positioning issues to the scarcity of critical covering and reviewing and the extending of an (opposite) political engagement in the mainstream theatre in Romania.

Observing that the division between theory and empiricism remains inextricably linked to imperial modernity, manifest at the most basic level in the binary between 'the West' and 'Asia', the authors of this volume re-examine art and aesthetics to challenge these oppositions in order to reconceptualize politics and knowledge production in East Asia.

Introduction -- Chapter 1 Rome's Regal Armies -- Chapter 2 The Power of the Clans -- Chapter 3 The Army in the Fifth Century -- Chapter 4 The Gallic Sack and Rome's Rebirth -- Chapter 5 Rome and the Latins -- Chapter 6 Rome and the Mediterranean World -- Conclusions -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index

The article on the example of a military biography of Lieutenant F. I. Bytchekhvost demonstrated the possibilities of biographical reconstruction using different types of sources, methods and principles of historical research.

In the years 1565-1566, the Low Countries were shaken by a vast politico-religious revolt directed against Philip II. In response to the uprising and misbehaviour of parts of the population, the king established the so-called Council of Troubles, a special court active from 1567 to 1576. This institution was led in its early years by Fernando Àlvarez de Toledo, Duke of Alba and Governor General of the Low Countries. The Council of Troubles had a very close look at the production, the distribution as well as at the possession of books. At the request of the Duke of Alba, inquisitors were sent during the spring and summer of 1569 in various provinces of the Low Countries still under Spanish rule to examine bookshops and find out heretical books. These archives offer a sort of radioscopy of the book market of the Low-Countries on the eve of the Counter-Reformation. We will focus here on the situation of the city of Mons, in the county of Hainaut. The book lists written by the Duke of Alba's emissaries describe more than 1600 books. The descriptions of the books found there are extremely high: names of authors, title, place and date of printing. The care and rigour shown by the notary in the performance of his task make this source a valuable document to study the book market in Hainaut in the second third of the 16th century and, more specifically, to study the medical book market. We will be able to discover which authors and which genres are preferred, the importance of the scientific literature compared with the popular literature, and the origin of these books. ; Peer reviewed