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The Role of Dice in the Emergence of the Probability Calculus
International Statistical Review, EarlyView.Summary The early development of the probability calculus was clearly influenced by the roll of dice. However, while dice have been cast since time immemorial, documented calculations on the frequency of various dice throws date back only to the mid‐13th century.
David R. Bellhouse, Christian Genest
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, 2008 Remarques sur les réécritures médiévales de l'Art d'Aimer, des Héroïdes, et des Métamorphoses, particulièrement l'Ovide moralisé en vers du début du XIVe ...
Possamai-Perez, Marylene
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From Everyman to Hamlet: A Distant Reading
Renaissance Studies, EarlyView.Abstract The sixteenth century sees English drama move from Everyman to Hamlet: from religious to secular subject matter and from personified abstractions to characters bearing proper names. Most modern scholarship has explained this transformation in terms originating in the work of Jacob Burckhardt: concern with religion and a taste for ...
Vladimir Brljak
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The Tree of Chivalry and the Black Lady: Juana of Castile's 1496 Joyous Entry into Brussels☆
Renaissance Studies, EarlyView.Abstract Kupferstichkabinett MS 78D5 (Staatliche Museen Berlin) presents an iconographic account of the Joyous Entry of Juana of Castile into Brussels on 9 December 1496. In this article, we newly identify a rare visual record of a civic contribution to a tournament within the manuscript.
Nadia T. van Pelt +2 more
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Renaissance Studies, EarlyView.Abstract Due to their prolonged and multicultural nature, councils functioned historically as hubs for the exchange of ideas, discourse, diplomacy and rhetoric, reflecting broader cultural trends. In the Middle Ages, no international forums were comparable to ecumenical councils, where diverse and influential groups from various regions convened to ...
Federico Tavelli
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L'originalité de l'école de médecine de Montpellier [PDF]
, 2002 The Faculty of Medicine of Montpellier is for a long time object of many and sharp studies, and it gathered quite recently specialists from different horizons during an international colloquium. This paper tries simply to give a synthesis of the state of
Moulinier, Laurence
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Dire la beauté de Dieu : rhétorique et poétique dans le latin médiéval [PDF]
, 1992 La rhétorique peut-elle aider à exprimer l'ineffable? L'antiquité païenne apporte deux leçons opposées. Pour Platon (Phèdre) , la vérité ne peut être atteinte que par la dialectique et le mythe.
Michel, Alain
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Contextualizing the Cappella Cesi: Sangallo, Façades, and Renaissance Collaboration
Renaissance Studies, EarlyView.Abstract This article reframes Antonio da Sangallo the Younger's oft‐overlooked cappella Cesi nave façade in Santa Maria della Pace not as an isolated design deviation but as part of a broader architectural and artistic conversation among major players in early sixteenth‐century Rome.
Alexis Culotta
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Les noms de My et Sy (province de Liège, arrondissement de Huy): découverte par l'onomastique d'une structure publique carolingienne dans l'Ourthe moyenne [PDF]
, 2009 Peer ...
Alénus-Lecerf Jeannine +3 more
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Renaissance Studies, EarlyView.Abstract This essay demonstrates how a gender‐informed, more‐than‐human lens can provide new ways to analyse how the role of a queen in forestry management was conceptualised by sixteenth‐century professional men. It explores these ideas as they are presented in a work published by Guillaume Martin, Lieutenant General of the forests and waterways of ...
Susan Broomhall
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