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- Christine de Pizan (6645 bytes)
2: ...a time when aristocratic ladies were routinely educated. She is viewed by many feminists as the origin...
4: ...Pizan became a court writer employed by various ducal and Royal households, in order to support her th...
5: ...]]'' and argued against restrictions on female education and inheritance of land. Her most notable wor...
9: ...ifteen Christine married ɴienne du Castel, who became Charles's notary and secretary. After the king'...
11: ...x'' and ''jeux a vendre''--though she took the precaution to assure her readers (''Cent balades'', No.... - Giovanni Boccaccio (10149 bytes)
1: ...vanni_Boccaccio.jpg|right|thumb|150px|Giovanni Boccaccio]]
2: ...' and his [[poetry|poems]] in the vernacular. Boccaccio's characters are notable for their era in tha...
5: ...lace of birth is more likely to have been in [[Tuscany]], perhaps in [[Certaldo]], the town of his fat...
7: ...] and benefitted from his influence as lover of [[Catherine of Valois]], later counsellor to Queen Joa...
9: ...gi da San Sepolcro. In the 1330s Boccaccio also became a father, two illegitimate children of his were... - Astrolabe (4446 bytes)
4: ...stars and the sun; determining local time given local longitude, and vice-versa; and surveying and tri...
8: ... rotates over the rete, and may be marked with a scale of [[declination | declinations]].
12: ...hen the astrolabe is held vertically, the alidade can be rotated and a star sighted along its length, ...
16: ... [[Al-Battani]] in his treatise ''Kitab az-Zij'' (ca. 920), which was translated into Latin by [[Plato...
18: The English author [[Geoffrey Chaucer]] (ca. 1343 - [[1400]]) compiled a [[Treatise on the As... - List of philosophers (79981 bytes)
1: ... the history of philosophy)'', '''listed alphabetically:'''
65: *[[Ammonius Saccas]], (3rd century){{fn|C}}
80: *[[Anselm of Canterbury|Anselm]], (1034-1109){{fn|C}}{{fn|O}}{{fn...
81: *[[Antiochus of Ascalon]], (c. 130-68 BC){{fn|C}}{{fn|O}}{{fn|R}}
165: *[[Cesare, Marquis of Beccaria]], (1738-1794){{fn|C}} - Knights Hospitaller (26158 bytes)
1: ...tate under the King of Sicily. The medi涡l Order can be said to have come to an end following its eje...
5: ...rno]] in [[Italy]] were given permission by the [[Caliph]] Haroun el Raschid of [[Egypt]] to rebuild t...
7: ...epulchre]] in Jerusalem. Initially the group just cared for those pilgrims who made it to Jerusalem bu...
9: ...e [[Krak des Chevaliers]], and [[Margat]], both located near [[Tripoli, Lebanon|Tripoli]]. The propert...
15: ...s well as the Anatolian ports of [[Bodrum]] and [[Castellorizon]]. - Assyria (13688 bytes)
3: ...Ashshur). Later, as a nation and Empire, it also came to include roughly the northern half of [[Mesop...
5: ...rduchian mountain range of [[Armenia]], sometimes called the "Mountains of Asshur".
10: ...hur, the other three royal Assyrian cities were [[Calah]] and [[Nineveh]], also near the Tigris, and [...
12: ...ria as an independent kingdom was perhaps founded ca. [[1900 BC]] by Bel-kap-kapu.
15: ...Assur and the Anatolian cities; but no archaeological or written records show this. The trade consiste...
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