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- Christine de Pizan (6645 bytes)
5: ...of Orleans]] and attacked the ''[[Romance of the Rose]]'' written by [[Jean de Meung]].
9: ...y. After the king's death in [[1380]] her father lost his appointment, and died soon after; and when C...
11: ...mposed some fifteen important works, chiefly in prose, besides minor pieces.
13: ...0) being received by [[Philip of Burgundy]], at whose desire Christine wrote ''Le Lure des faitz ci bo...
15: ...ells her own history, by way of defence against those who objected to her pretensions as a moralist. [... - Joan of Arc (27453 bytes)
2: ...[[#Retrial|earlier appeal]] after her death. Her posthumous reception history is a lengthy one: she wa...
7: ...d [[Henry V of England|Henry V]]'s conquests in [[1415]] and the following years. In [[1420]], the [[Tre...
14: ...With her piety, confidence, and enthusiasm, she boosted the morale of the troops. The small force she...
18: ...sh army was cut to pieces near [[Patay]], with a loss of 2,200 English soldiers versus only a little o...
24: ...[Paris]], the Royal Court was mesmerized by the prospect of a negotiated peace offered by the Duke of ... - Renaissance (14795 bytes)
5: ...ion'' of European culture in general. Thus it is possible to speak of the Renaissance in two different...
19: ...nded. The starting place of the Renaissance is almost universally ascribed to Northern Italy, especial...
23: Another possible starting point is the [[fall of Constantinop...
32: ...y of the same people were involved; there was a close community of people involved in both movements. ...
36: ...icism was applied to literature and the arts. In most city-republics there was a small clique with a c... - Portugal (61755 bytes)
1: ...]] in southwestern [[Europe]], and is the westernmost country in continental Europe. Portugal is borde...
5: ...ral power. The [[Portuguese Empire]] stretched across the world. After the rise of other colonial powe...
23: ...ibes|Germanic]] [[Barbarians|barbarian]] tribes, most notably the [[Suevi]] and the [[Visigoth]]s, inv...
31: ...], finally defeated the Castilians in Portugal's most historic battle of Portugal, the [[Battle of Alj...
38: ...n the exploration of the world. On [[July 25]], [[1415]], the Portuguese Empire began when a Portuguese ... - Michigan (29427 bytes)
12: PostalAbbreviation = MI |
40: ...n became a major fur-trading and shipping post. Most of the rest of the region remained unsettled by ...
44: ..., and [[copper]], which would become the state's most sought-after natural resources.
57: ...ant [[Alphonse de Tonty]], established a trading post on the [[Detroit River]] which they name ''Fort ...
61: *[[1796]] Detroit and other posts in Michigan were turned over to the United Stat... - List of popes (77758 bytes)
6: ...upreme Pontiff]] of the [[One Holy Catholic and Apostolic Church|Universal Church]], [[Patriarch]] of...
27: | <small>''post''[[42]]/''ante''[[57]] to [[64]]/[[67]](?)</smal...
315: | '''[[Pope Zosimus]]'''<br><small>Saint Zosimus</small>
316: | Papa '''Zosimus''', <small>Episcopus Romanus</small>
405: | <small>[[Frosinone]], Southern Latium, Italy</small> - Donatello (10376 bytes)
7: ... introduction to his future friend and patron, [[Cosimo de' Medici]], is very doubtful, in view of the...
10: ...ica di Santa Croce di Firenze|Santa Croce]], the most striking instance of Donatello's realism in rend...
14: ...he same time the heads are not impersonal, but almost cruelly realistic character portraits of actual ...
18: ...e pope served as the model off which [[Bernardo Rossellino]], [[Desiderio da Settignano|Desiderio]], ...
20: ...t. For example, his statue of Saint Mark was supposedly at first rejected as horrid and monstrous by ... - Hundred Years' War (30012 bytes)
3: ...was primarily fought in France, and though in retrospect it has the feeling of a French [[civil war]] ...
5: ...new monarchies. It is often viewed as one of the most significant conflicts in [[medieval warfare]].
10: ...wever, in [[1216]], the Anglo-Normans lost their possessions to France. English nobles in the [[14th c...
17: ...y. Another effect of the war was to galvanize opposition to Edward II among the English lords of Aqui...
21: ... III, being the nephew of King Charles, was his closest living male relative and was the only survivin... - Henry the Navigator (6878 bytes)
3: ...la. The Portuguese conquered the city in August [[1415]], and while there Henry saw the fruits of the [[...
5: ...ore and more devoted to Christianity. For the purposes of his interest in exploration, however, the ap...
9: ...e the complicated return voyages, headed upwind, possible; without it, the brothers Ugolino and Guido ...
13:
15: ...stal explorations, [[Cape Bojador]] remained the most southerly point known to Europeans on the unprom... - List of philosophers (79981 bytes)
1: ... non-philosophers important in the history of philosophy)'', '''listed alphabetically:'''
17: *[[Uriel Acosta]], (1585-1640)
21: *[[Robert Adams (philosopher)|Robert Adams]], (born 1937){{fn|O}}
38: *[[Albert of Saxony (philosopher)|Albert of Saxony]] (c. 1316-1390){{fn|C}}{{...
41: *[[Albinus (philosopher)|Albinus]] (c. 130) - Britain in the Middle Ages (12239 bytes)
3: ...the [[Hundred Years' War]] and the [[Wars of the Roses]].
12: ...Each Saxon drew out his ''saxa'' (a long dagger whose name was associated with the tribe) and stabbed ...
14: ...s are well attested, some of the other tribes supposedly involved in the conquest are very difficult t...
36: ...mmander than his father, and suffered a decisive loss at the [[Battle of Bannockburn]] in [[1314]]. Ro...
40: ... and grew highly unpopular. In [[1399]] he was deposed by his cousin, Henry of Bolingbroke, who procla...
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