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Some examples taken from the paintings executed at Bologna from the end of the sixteenth century to the end of the seventeenth illustrate the different meanings that can be attributed to the bed in different narrative contexts. The bed can become a major
Michele Danieli
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Historical reflections on progress and tradition [PDF]
Reflecting on the tension between progressives and traditionalists in present-day Egypt, the author surveys comparable conflicts in the European past.
van Caenegem, Raoul
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The Abbaco Tradition (1300-1500): its role in the development of European algebra [PDF]
Abbaco algebra is a coherent tradition of algebraic problem solving mostly based in the merchant cities of fourteenth and fifteenth-century Italy. This period is roughly situated between two important works dealing with algebra: the Liber Abbaci by ...
Heeffer, Albrecht
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Mystery, Humility and Religious Practice in the Thought of St John of the Cross [PDF]
The ”dark night of the soul’ is a common motif in Christian spiritual writing; and the locus classicus for this motif is the work of John of the Cross, a Spanish Carmelite friar of the sixteenth century.
Wynn, Mark
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SIXTEENTH CENTURY SEXUALITIES, CONTEMPORARY LOOKS
One of the most interesting features of contemporary gay studies is the possibility they open for a new look upon literary works from the Middle Ages and the Renaissance.
Jose Carlos Barcellos
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La cour des Offices du château de Fontainebleau : genèse d’un espace et aperçu du quotidien
It was during the recent restoration works on the Quartier Henri IV at the Château de Fontainebleau that a preventative archaeology diagnosis of the courtyard was possible.
Sébastien Ronsseray
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Early Sixteenth Century Caddo Population Distributions [PDF]
Milner’s (2015:Figure 2.1) summary of the distribution of Native American population aggregates in eastern North America in the early sixteenth century depicts much of the southern Caddo area (of southwestern Arkansas, northwestern Louisiana ...
Perttula, Timothy K.
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Illustriousness in the farmhouse villa: reading virtue from a Flemish-Veronese merchant family's history [PDF]
The Italian nobility has a long history tied to landownership, a dynamic example of which lies in the history of Verona from the late sixteenth century.
Dewhirst, Catherine
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De l'honorable ennemi au compagnon de fortune
The 150 years of the close cohabitation with the Ottoman Empire has certainly left numerous traces in the Hungarian culture. With regard to literature, the relative poorness of available documents does not allow us to even to venture in the road of the ...
Györgyi Mate
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Comercio, conflicto militar y violencia legal
Through the policy of the Diputación in Aragon between 1514 and 1559 this article studies the ability of regional representative institutions at the beginning of the early modern age to protect the foreign trade in their territories.
José Antonio Mateos Royo
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