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- Christine de Pizan (6645 bytes)
1: ...g eBook 12254.jpg|thumbnail|right|250px|Christine de Pizan, showing the interior of an apartment at th...
2: ...d female roles; although Pisan in fact was merely describing a standard feudal practice whereby the wi...
4: ...loyed by various ducal and Royal households, in order to support her three children.
5: ...the ''[[Romance of the Rose]]'' written by [[Jean de Meung]].
9: ...r, and with three children depending on her. This determined her to have recourse to [[literature | le... - Giovanni Boccaccio (10149 bytes)
2: ...tic, spirited and clever individuals who are grounded in reality (in contradiction to the characters o...
5: ...lso the place of his birth, this has been largely depreciated as a romanticism and his place of birth ...
7: ... which he had no affinity and he eventually persuaded his father to let him study law at the ''Studium...
9: ...s with fellow scholars. His early influences included Paolo da Perugia (a curator and author of a coll...
11: ...eoffrey Chaucer|Chaucer]]'s ''[[Troilus and Criseyde]]''), ''Teseida'' (ditto the ''Knight's Tale''), ... - Astrolabe (4446 bytes)
4: ...he sun; determining local time given local longitude, and vice-versa; and surveying and triangulation.
6: ... Lisbon, which improved on the accuracy of its wooden [[Arabian]] precursors.
8: ...and may be marked with a scale of [[declination | declinations]].
10: ...The astrolabe is therefore a predecessor of the modern [[planisphere]].
12: ...ighted along its length, so that the altitude (in degrees) of the star could be read ("taken") from th... - List of philosophers (79981 bytes)
23: *[[Adelard of Bath]], (12th century){{fn|C}}
26: *[[Aedesius]], (d. 355)
27: *[[Aenesidemus]], (1st century BC){{fn|R}}
37: *[[Alain de Lille]], (c. 1128-1202)
44: *[[Alcibiades]], (c. 450-404 BC) - Knights Hospitaller (26158 bytes)
1: ...alta by [[Napoleon]]. The '''Sovereign Military Order of Malta''' (see below) is the main successor to...
5: ...de horses on the condition that they ride with wooden saddles and unornamented girths. Ironically, El ...
7: ... who made it to Jerusalem but the order soon extended into providing an armed escort to pilgrims. The ...
9: ...iwick]]s, which in turn were divided into [[commanderies]].
13: === Knights of Rhodes === - Assyria (13688 bytes)
1: :''For the modern-day peoples in northern Iraq and neighboring ar...
3: ...ter, as a nation and Empire, it also came to include roughly the northern half of [[Mesopotamia]] (the...
8: ...as founded by Asshur the son of [[Shem]], who was deified by later generations as the city's patron go...
10: Besides Asshur, the other three royal Assyrian cities we...
12: ...Assyria as an independent kingdom was perhaps founded ca. [[1900 BC]] by Bel-kap-kapu.
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