...the beginning of the sixteenth centuries.64 In short, Engels interpreted the heresies that emerged at the end of the Middle Ages and the beginning of the Renaissance as anticipations of modernity that had to be freed of their theological or mystical shell, a shell...

...Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1981). EIGHT The Woman of the Renaissance Margaret L. King T the end of the Middle Ages and the beginning of the Renaissance, in stone and paint and glass, the mother of God smiled at her baby for the first time: the mother nurturing;...

...be discussed, his ideas give us a good indication of the tendencies in the creationist tradition at the end of the Middle Ages and the beginning of the Renaissance. 2.2 God as First Mover and Clockmaker The feature of the new science that had the greatest influence...

...Eucharist one has to be aware of the milieu of eucharistic theology in which these painters worked at the end of the Middle Ages and the beginning of the Renaissance and Reformation periods.3 3 My brief summary here of the status of eucharistic theology antecedent...

...age, or their respective prophecies. In fact, the extraordinary fortune of the sibylline oracles at the end of the Middle Ages and the beginning of the Renaissance developed in disorder and a confusion of sources but, nevertheless, without much damage with respect...

...Allowing for slight variations according to chronology and location, in the period falling between the end of the Middle Ages and the beginning of the Renaissance, the architectural forms being built throughout Europe changed in a sudden and radical way—but without...

...wider entity than the modern family, defining themselves in terms of blood, clan and lineage. Towards the end of the Middle Ages and the beginning of the Renaissance, the Roman Catholic Church invigorated the figure of the Mother, by way of its emphasis on the figure...

...and techniques become available to large numbers of people; printing is credited with bringing about the end of the Middle Ages and the beginning of the Renaissance. 1592-1670 Johann Amos Comenius 1657 Orbis Pictus, by Comenius, is the first children's book with pictures....

...there's a welcome bit of wisdom, I'd say. Desiderius Erasmus, a Dutch scholar and philosopher, lived at the end of the Middle Ages and the beginning of the Renaissance, and he seems to have achieved a balance that takes some good from both. Note the meaning of his words:...

...which he is simply copying from Peele.36 The fall of Constantinople was formerly seen by historians as the end of the Middle Ages and the beginning of the Renaissance. Lisa Jardine's material history of the Renaissance restores it to that position, showing the importance...