Rigoletto-type fools of late-medieval and Renaissance. From Wordnik.com. [WISDOM OF THE FOOL] Reference
They are hardened professional soldiers, the best of the best, late-medieval Special Forces. From Wordnik.com. [Review of The Religion, by Tim Willocks] Reference
As Alp says, "Byzantine" is the late-medieval/early-modern way of calling that Chrsitian historical entity in Eastern Europe. From Wordnik.com. [Romans, Rums, Greeks, Turks and German Emperors] Reference
In his treatise he also cited knowledgeably the distinctive views on free will held by late-medieval theologians of the via moderna or nominalist tradition. From Wordnik.com. [Desiderius Erasmus] Reference
These virtues are accompanied by an increasingly technical jargon, which makes so much late-medieval philosophy intimidating and formidable to non-specialist readers. From Wordnik.com. [Medieval Philosophy] Reference
In Catholicism, certain late-medieval thinkers such as William of Ockham and Nicholas of Cusa were strong voluntarists, as have been not a few Protestant thinkers since. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2006-09-01] Reference
He is the author of Middle English Literature: An Historical Sourcebook Blackwell, 2003 & 2006, articles on Thomas Hoccleve and late-medieval drama, and a forthcoming book on the antipodes. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2009-02-01] Reference
This not surprisingly disrupted administrative continuity to the detriment of ducal authority, and was probably a result of the enormous demands for patronage placed on a late-medieval prince. From Wordnik.com. [The Maintenance of Ducal Authority in Gascony: The Career of Sir Guy Ferre the Younger 1298-1320] Reference
Note 63: This expansion can be viewed as a resumption of late-medieval growth, which had been interrupted in the mid-fourteenth century by the Black Death and by the ending of the Medieval Warm Period. From Wordnik.com. [How Taiwan Became Chinese] Reference
Indeed, Hindus in Gujarat negatively associate meat-eating with the late-medieval Mughals, the Muslim conquerors from Central Asia who were another critical factor shaping the Gujarati historical experience. From Wordnik.com. [India’s New Face] Reference
Here's a page at Oxford with photos of 15 original leaves of 'The Worcester Fragments' from manuscripts of polyphonic music, in Latin, recovered from late-medieval bindings of Worcester Cathedral Priory, now at the Bodleian. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2007-12-01] Reference
Especially valuable studies on more specific aspects of late-medieval, Renaissance, and humanist fools, some of which contain important general and theoretical discus - sions, are: Walter Gaedik, Der Weise Narr in der englischen. From Wordnik.com. [WISDOM OF THE FOOL] Reference
This book is therefore a work of resurrection, recovering the significance of the religious image for late-medieval English Christians, and reminding us of the ubiquity of those images in the late-medieval cultural and religious landscape. From Wordnik.com. [04/01/2004 - 05/01/2004] Reference
Except for a few sermons, all of Kilvington's known works stem from his lectures at Oxford, and none of these uses the typical late-medieval style in question commentaries, which followed the order of books in the respective works of Aristotle. From Wordnik.com. [Richard Kilvington] Reference
The Reformations of the sixteenth century, in this schema, can be viewed as so many attempted restora - tions of the initial, purely religious idea of authority which developed, under the pervasive late-medieval conditions of religio-secular interpenetration, into conflicting versions of institutional authority. From Wordnik.com. [AUTHORITY] Reference
Although Cologne became notorious for its hostility to humanistic influences, Agrippa studied with several humanist teachers, including two who stimulated his interest in the natural philosophy of Pliny the Elder and the writings of the late-medieval Catalan mystic and metaphysician Ramon Lull (ca. 1232-ca. 1315). From Wordnik.com. [Loss of Faith] Reference
Three chic suites flank the courtyard of a late-medieval property. From Wordnik.com. [Independent.ie - Frontpage RSS Feed] Reference
(link) There's also the well-attested trade in second-hand clothes, from late-medieval period onwards. From Wordnik.com. [kateelliott: Question for the Hive Mind] Reference
A symposium takes place the following day featuring renowned scholars in the field of late-medieval music. From Wordnik.com. Reference
Thomas Pettitt teaches English literary and cultural history in the late-medieval and early-modern periods. From Wordnik.com. [MIT World: Recent Updates] Reference
An old industrial loft building stood on the southeast corner, ten stories, blocklike, a late-medieval sweatshop and firetrap. From Wordnik.com. [Esquire.com Article Feed] Reference
St George's Chapel at Windsor Castle, one of the jewels of late-medieval English architecture, was completed during Henry VIII's reign. From Wordnik.com. [Art Knowledge News] Reference
When Luther said that, for his followers, "the devil is nearer to them than their skirt or their shirt, surrounding them more tightly than their own skin", was the essential Luther speaking, or was it part of his inevitable late-medieval view of the world?. From Wordnik.com. [Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph] Reference
Dude loves both puns and anachronisms, and to make matters worse the monkey squire there is found in the margin of a late-medieval extra-Biblical account of Mary Magdalene's journey to and subsequent life in Provence after Christ's death -- you know, the legend that inspired the whole. From Wordnik.com. [Got Medieval] Reference
A model of late-medieval, Netherlandish naturalism as well as Holbein. From Wordnik.com. [NATURALISM IN ART] Reference
From manuscripts of polyphonic music, in Latin, recovered from late-medieval bindings of Worcester Cathedral Priory, now at the Bodleian. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2008-05-25] Reference
Some late-medieval authors claimed that the theoretical basis for obligationes came from two passages in Aristotle (Prior Analytics I. 13.32a18 “ 20, Metaphysics. From Wordnik.com. [Medieval Theories of Obligationes] Reference
I enjoyed Ford’s vision of late-medieval England and how the Yorkists lived in a constant state of border warfare and political intrigue, knowing neither resolution nor victory was possible. From Wordnik.com. [The Dragon Waiting] Reference
Richard Marks’s rich and fascinating study of the role of devotional images in late-medieval England starts, as he himself points out, with a huge disadvantage: only a handful of such images have survived from the English Middle Ages. From Wordnik.com. [04/01/2004 - 05/01/2004] Reference
I took a cab at the Freiburg train station, dirty and hungover like death walking, to Tomas’ little hideaway flat in a building his father owned for years, in the old part of the city where the cobblestone and the cathedral and the late-medieval buildings had attracted tourists looking to walk through history. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2008-12-01] Reference
After the Black Death: labour legislation and attitudes towards labourin late-medieval western Europe - http://is. gd/228Tg mfieramosca Just like America was the "new" western Europe, so shall India be the new America http://bwbx. io/qfNi digimobjobs JOB OFFER - http://tinyurl. com/mx9guw DigiMobJobs. From Wordnik.com. [Gaea Times (by Simple Thoughts) Breaking News and incisive views 24/7] Reference
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