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Showing 1 to 20 of 54 for “"15th century"”.
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Socio-economic conditions in 14th and 15th century Thessalonike: a new approach
… in the city of Thessalonikê in the 14th and 15th centuries. One of the main aims is to address certain methodological issues linked to the period of transition from the Byzantine to the Ottoman Empire. In this effort, we have employed as an analytical tool the economic theory of New …
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A Reconsideration of the influence of John Wycliffe, Wycliffism, Lollardy and Hussitism, upon 15th Century Scotland
… that<br/>occurred throughout the fifteenth century and considers the broader attacks<br/>instigated by the Crown, the State and the Church in controlling such heretical<br/>influences. An examination of these control measures would appear to suggest that<br/>there was not only a fear of …
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Libro de las claras e virtuosas mugeres: A Critical Edition and Study of Alvaro de Luna's 15th Century Castilian Manuscripts
… produce a critical edition of Álvaro de Luna's 15th century manuscript, Libro de las claras e virtuosas mugeres. This Castilian text is a compilation of biographies of good and virtuous women similar to that of the widely studied De claris mulieribus by Giovanni Boccaccio. Scholars however, have …
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Seeing Prehistory through New Lenses: Using Geophysical and Statistical Analysis to Identify Fresh Perspectives of a 15th Century Mandan Occupation
… research has evolved over the course of a century, with many sites like Huff Village (32MO11) in North Dakota recently coming back to the forefront of discussion through new technological applications. Through a majority of its studies and excavations, Huff Village appeared to endure as the …
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Visual theology in 14th and 15th century Florentine frescoes : a theological approach to historical images, sacred spaces, and the modern viewer
… from Florentine fresco cycles of the 14th and 15th centuries, enriching the experience of the modern viewer. In particular it addresses the materiality of images and the relationship between the space within images, the spaces of their locations, and their interaction with the spatially located …
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Characterizing organic colorants in mock-ups of a 15th-century Iranian Timurid Qur'an by direct analysis in real time time-of-flight mass spectrometry
… Institute of Art (DIA) has in its possession a 15th century Iranian Timurid Qur’an (accession number 30.323) as the centerpiece of the Islamic Art Collection. The Qur’an manuscript pages are folio size, highly polished, and brightly colored. The pages are composed of 10 distinct colors within …
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The Garden of Earthly Delights
… Delights is a historical novel set in late 15th century Spain.
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Major histocompatibility complex diversity in an urban Chacma baboon (Papio ursinus) population: Implications for conservation
Since the 15th century, human activity has altered and degraded nearly half of the available land of the Cape Peninsula, South Africa; this has resulted in significant restriction and fragmentation of the historic geographic range of the peninsula's Chacma baboon (Papio ursinus) population.
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What remains is the book: The idea of the book in and around electronic space
… some 500 years, beginning half way through the 15th century in Western Europe.
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A lexical and morphological analysis of the vernacularization of medical vocabulary in Augsburg from 1470–1500: the creation and application of the German Medical Incunabula Corpus
… first European prints created with Gutenberg’s 15th-century movable type printing press. Prior to these developments, the digital recognition of these first prints or incunabula is challenging due to the difficulty in training models using inconsistent and complex typesets. This research …
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A decolonial study of indigenous teaching and learning methods of knowledge transfer in Gabon’s rural communities
… systems that can be traced back to the 15th century. Europeans, with their colonising mission, wrongly presumed that African indigenous people were ignorant and uneducated. Thus, Gabon remains one of the sub-Saharan countries where access to education and forms of knowledge is …
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St. Joseph Iconography In Fifteenth Century Florentine Painting
… traveler's items to Florentine nativities in the 15th century is understated at best, if not ignored all together. These items appear during the rise of the Medici family, as an indication of the shift in culture towards the patriarchal society endorsed by this prominent family. The use of the …
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Pigs from six medieval sites in Flanders: A multiple methodological approach to the study of their husbandry development
… for the primary research comprised Raversijde (15th century AD), Koekelare (15th century AD), Ename (14th century AD), Londerzeel (13th-14th centuries AD), Veurne (10th-11th centuries AD) and Oudenberg (4th century AD), all sites from Western Flanders and predominantly dating to the medieval …
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Angelo Poliziano and the Renaissance invention of Greek-to-Latin verse translation, 1430-1589.
… which appears only fitfully and tardily in the 15th century, some decades after prose translation becomes a staple of humanist practice. By the end of the 16th century, however, almost the entire corpus of Ancient Greek poetry had been translated into Latin verse, often several times. This …
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Do indigenous peoples have the right to self-determination? If so what does the right contain?
… it is formulated, it is an old problem. In the 15th century, during an era of intense exploitation, European explorers undertook many voyages to distant unknown lands; The Portuguese were the first European to make contact with West Africa in 1440. By 1498, Portuguese voyagers had traveled …
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Woven pleasure: continuity and change in Persian carpet making during the Ṣafavīd period
… carpet design took place towards the end of the 15th century, evident by a move from the geometric cross, star, and rosette designs, to medallions and scrolls. Some scholars consider this change as a “revolution” in carpet design; others contest this proposition. Much debate remains, however, on …
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A Teaching Toy: Free Forms in an Abstract Landscape
… psychology and the toys of child's play, in 15th-century Islamic art and 20th-century Abstraction, and in naturally occurring events such as ivy twisting up a knotty tree trunk and soft ripples in a pond. The assimilation of these elements, together with the ideas that they generate, evolve …
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