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Showing 1 to 20 of 131 for “"16th Century"”.
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The visual and spatial structure in Mughal urban design: the 16th century city of Fatehpur Sikri, India
Fatehpur Sikri is a world heritage monument. It was commissioned by the Mughal Emperor Akbar and was constructed in less than fifteen years (1569-1574). Fatehpur Sikri served as the capital of the Mughal empire for a very short time, from 1569 to 1585. At present, most of its buildings remain in …
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The 21st Century Cancer Care Wellness Facility: A Study, Interpretation, and Application of 16th Century Japanese Tea-house Themes
… techniques and approaches learned from the 16th century Japanese tea-house. A health care building which benefits from the same kind of reflective and contemplative spaces inherent in the tea-house includes counseling facilities, and therefore an outpatient cancer care center was chosen to …
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"Another Way": The Pneumatology of Deleuzean Minoritarian Communal Interpretation in Scripture, the 16th Century Radical Reformation, and Alternative 21st Century Anabaptist Community
… Hebrew Bible and Christian New Testament; 2) the 16th century Radical Reformation; and 3) "Another Way," a 21st century alternative Anabaptist group focused around the spiritual discussion of art and popular media. Chapter One outlines the three theories. Chapter Two examines the Holy Spirit in …
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Plague mortality and medieval demography: an osteological analysis of Black Death mass graves and attritional cemeteries from 7-16th century England and Wales
… outbreaks occurred repeatedly until the mid-17th century. Most osteological studies concerning medieval plague epidemiology focus on skeletons within mass graves, however many people killed by plague were buried within attritional cemeteries. The extent to which the inclusion of plague victims …
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Pierre de Manchicourt (c.1510-1564): His life in context of the 16th-century Hapsburg Empire, his contributions to choral literature, and his compositional style as reflected in representative works
… document explores his life in context of the 16th-century Hapsburg Empire as well as his masterful contributions to several genres, especially those of his motets. This study also provides representative works of Manchicourt’s three stylistic periods, which will acknowledge influences of his …
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Siblings Overseas. Foundational landscape, law, land distribution, and urban form in 16th-century Spanish colonial cities. Three cases of new towns in Jaen (Spain), Nueva Granada (Colombia) and Cuyo (Argentina).
… in the American coastline were created, the 16th century brought diverse transformations to Spanish colonial new towns both in the Iberian Peninsula, the Mediterranean, and the American frontier. Urban laws and foundational acts gained relevance, shifting the main urban efforts in America …
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Renaissance Receptions of Ovid's <i>Tristia</i>
… of the reception of Ovid’s <i>Tristia</i> in the 16th century: its commentary tradition and its adaptation by Latin poets. It lays the groundwork for a more comprehensive study of the Renaissance reception of the <i>Tristia</i> by providing a scholarly platform where there was none before …
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Architectural practice and the planning of minor palaces in Renaissance Italy, 1510-1570
… understanding of architectural practice in early 16th century Italy. The particular nature of the small urban palace as a reduced and less expensive version of larger palaces and its recurrent nature in the practice of architects malke this type of building very important in illustrating the …
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The Development of a Violinistic Idiom in Early Violin Music: Violin Music and its Composers in the Early 17th Century in Italy
… violin music in Italy from the end of the 16th century to the mid-17th century. The aim of this study is to render a concise and integrated narrative of how the Italian violinist composers in early and middle 17th century created, developed, and used violinistic idioms within violin music. …
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Luminescence Dating of Medieval and Early Modern Brickwork
… buildings that spanned the 11th through to the 16th century were selected for inclusion in this thesis. The buildings were studied from an archaeological perspective, deriving likely dates for their erection and development, before samples of the brickwork were taken. These were subsequently …
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What New Learning is This?: Examining William Turner and his Comparison Betweene the Olde Learnynge and the Newe
… religious debate occurring in England in the 16th century. It also explores Turner's connection to the German reformer Urbanus Rhegius. I argue the connection between these two men and their writings function as a microcosm of the Reformation.
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Maize Streak Virus: diversity and virulence
… to Africa in Ghana by Portuguese traders in the 16th century. The steady spread of maize cultivation since then has made it the most important cereal crop in Africa today. Whereas improved maize genotypes and agricultural techniques enable yearly yields above 10 tons hectare-1 in the developed …
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Valdžia ir erdvė: Lietuvos Didžiosios Kunigaikštystės teritorializacijos procesas XIV–XVI a /
… Duchy of Lithuania (GDL further) in the 14th–16th centuries. For sake the completeness of the research, thecontent of concepts concerning territorial units formed from the 13th to the 16th century in the GDL and the concepts of sovereign’s domain, relationship between the political centre and …
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The history of the viola and an analysis of its literature
… on the musical horizon about the middle of the 16th century in Italy. And they know also that they did not spring into existence - to use a familiar phrase, like rabbits out of a magician’s hat. Their gradual development from inferior forms of bow instruments is proved beyond doubt, and has been …
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"""Angst Der Hoellen Und Friede Der Seelen"": A Comparative Analysis of Sixteen Settings of Psalm 116"
… attention paid to evidence of Renaissance (16th Century) versus Baroque (17th Century) elements of style. Included are a broad look at each of the individual motets; a deeper comparison of the elements of style contained in the collection as a whole; and an in-depth analysis and comparison …
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The Morisco House in Granada : domestic space in cultural transition
… forcibly converted to Christianity in 15th and 16th century Spain following the Reconquest. The Morisco houses of Granada from 1500-1570 reveal architectural forms resulting from acculturation as well as desires to protect identities and traditions in the midst of threat of cultural extinction. …
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A mastofauna do estado do Rio de Janeiro, com especial referência à ordem Polyprotodontia (Marsupiais)
… of mammal collecting and studies since the 16th century. A provisional species list for the state is also given. To exemplify the treatment to be given to the rest of the mammal fauna, the thirteen local species of Polyprotodontia are examined and described, with the aid of multivariate …
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Heretics and Martyrs: Picturing Early Anabaptism in Visual Culture of the Dutch Republic
… theology and culture from the sixteenth century through the Enlightenment, this study brings a new, interdisciplinary application of these findings to the analysis of visual representations that interpreted 16th-century Dutch Anabaptism for 17th- and 18th-century viewers. Polemical …
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Study of Figura in Gradual, MS Perkins 4 at Denison Library, Scripps College
<p>MS Perkins 4 is a 16th-century gradual housed in Special Collections at Denison Library at Scripps College, in Claremont, California. MS. Perkins 4 was most likely created in northern France in the early 16th century by the artist, Master of Morgan 85. MS Perkins 4 contains the music and text …
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