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- Christine de Pizan (6645 bytes)
1: [[Image:Christine de Pisan - Project Gutenberg eBook 12254.jpg|thumbnail|right|250...
2: ...nterpreted as a feminist push for expanded female roles; although Pisan in fact was merely describing ...
4: ...came a court writer employed by various ducal and Royal households, in order to support her three chil...
5: ... of Orleans]] and attacked the ''[[Romance of the Rose]]'' written by [[Jean de Meung]].
9: ...and died in [[1389]] she found herself without a protector, and with three children depending on her. ... - Giovanni Boccaccio (10149 bytes)
2: ...alistic, spirited and clever individuals who are grounded in reality (in contradiction to the characte...
5: ...his birth, this has been largely depreciated as a romanticism and his place of birth is more likely to...
7: ...Florentine [[Niccolo Acciaiuoli]] and benefitted from his influence as lover of [[Catherine of Valois]...
9: ... Barrili, and the theologian Dionigi da San Sepolcro. In the 1330s Boccaccio also became a father, two...
11: ...'Filocolo'' a prose version of an existing French romance, and ''La caccia di Diana'' a poem in octave... - Astrolabe (4446 bytes)
2: ...[Image:astrolab.JPG|thumb|right|A 16th century astrolabe.]]
4: The '''astrolabe''' is a historical astronomical instrument and analog computer. Its many ...
6: ...veloped by [[Abraham Zacuto]] in Lisbon, which improved on the accuracy of its wooden [[Arabian]] prec...
8: ...te. Some astrolabes have a narrow ''rule'' which rotates over the rete, and may be marked with a scal...
10: ...tation represents the passage of one day. The astrolabe is therefore a predecessor of the modern [[pl... - List of philosophers (79981 bytes)
5: *[[Pietro d'Abano]], (1250?-1316)
11: *[[John Abercrombie]], (1780-1844)
16: *[[Alessandro Achillini]], (1463-1512)
21: *[[Robert Adams (philosopher)|Robert Adams]], (born 1937){{fn|O}}
22: *[[Robert Adamson]], (1852-1902) - Knights Hospitaller (26158 bytes)
1: ...id to have come to an end following its ejection from Malta by [[Napoleon]]. The '''Sovereign Military...
5: ...e of [[Jesus]]. It was served by [[Benedictine]] Brothers.
7: ...it to Jerusalem but the order soon extended into providing an armed escort to pilgrims. The escort soo...
9: ...h located near [[Tripoli, Lebanon|Tripoli]]. The property of the Order was divided into [[priories]], ...
15: ... surrendered to the knights. They also gained control a number of neighboring islands, as well as the ... - Assyria (13688 bytes)
3: ..., as a nation and Empire, it also came to include roughly the northern half of [[Mesopotamia]] (the so...
5: Assyria proper was located in a mountainous region, extending...
8: ...was deified by later generations as the city's patron god.
10: Besides Asshur, the other three royal Assyrian cities were [[Calah]] and [[Nineveh]]...
12: ... being part of Sargon and Naram-Sin's empire. Destroyed by barbarians in the [[Gutian period]], it was...
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