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- Christine de Pizan (6645 bytes)
2: ...Pisan in fact was merely describing a standard feudal practice whereby the wife of a nobleman was expe...
15: ...], was presented to the same patron on New Year's Day, [[1404]]. It possesses an introduction of great...
19: ...des trois vertus'', or ''Le Tr鳯r de la cite des dames''. She was devoted to her adopted country. Dur...
21: ...obably took place about this time. Her ''Cite des dames'' contains many interesting contemporary portr...
25: ...ar, based chiefly on [[Vegetius]]. Her ''Cite des dames'' was translated by Brian Anslay (London, 1521... - Giovanni Boccaccio (10149 bytes)
2: '''Giovanni Boccaccio''' ([[June 16]], [[1313]] – [[December 21]], [[1375]]) was a [[Italy|Itali...
7: ...ly introduction to the works of [[Dante Alighieri|Dante]]. Around 1327 Boccaccio moved to [[Naples]] w...
9: ... and Giovanni Barrili, and the theologian Dionigi da San Sepolcro. In the 1330s Boccaccio also became ...
11: ...Chaucer]]'s ''[[Troilus and Criseyde]]''), ''Teseida'' (ditto the ''Knight's Tale''), ''Filocolo'' a p...
13: ...probably the pastoral piece ''Ninfale fiesolano'' dates from this time. In 1343 time Boccaccio's fathe... - Astrolabe (4446 bytes)
10: ...A complete rotation represents the passage of one day. The astrolabe is therefore a predecessor of th...
12: ...e. When the astrolabe is held vertically, the alidade can be rotated and a star sighted along its len...
20: ...ther popular scientific [[gadget|gadgets]] of the day.
22: ...16th century, [[Johannes St?er]] published ''Elucidatio fabricae ususque astrolabii'', a manual of the... - List of philosophers (79981 bytes)
14: *[[Isaac Abrabanel|Isaac ben Judah Abravanel]], (1437-1508){{fn|C}}{{fn|R}}
15: *[[Judah Leon Abravanel|Judah ben Isaac Abravanel]], (1460?-1535?){{fn|C}}{{fn...
19: *[[Adam Parvipontanus]], (d. 1181)
20: *[[Marilyn McCord Adams]], (born 1943){{fn|O}}
21: *[[Robert Adams (philosopher)|Robert Adams]], (born 1937){{fn|O}} - Knights Hospitaller (26158 bytes)
3: == Foundation and early history ==
25: ...], which they had to give annually on [[All Souls Day]] to the Viceroy of Sicily, who acted as the Kin...
29: ...d, outmanuvered and outrun, and by the end of the day almost the entirety of their fleet was destroyed...
50: ...Spital zu Jerusalem]] the order continues until today, gaining increasing independence from its Roman ...
57: ...er, also known as the Knights of [[Malta]], and today operates as a largely charitable and ceremonial ... - Assyria (13688 bytes)
1: :''For the modern-day peoples in northern Iraq and neighboring areas, ...
15: ...[[1920 BC]] – [[1840 BC]] and [[1798 BC]] – [[1740 BC]]. These colonies, called '''''karum...
17: ...ade to continue. Only after the death of Shamshi-Adad and the fall of his sons, did [[Hammurabi]] of [...
19: ...power. Hanilgalbat was finally conquered under [[Adad-nirari I]], who described himself as a "Great-Ki...
21: ...His son and successor, Tukulti-Ninurta, deposed Kadashman-Buriash of Babylon and ruled there himself a...
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