| Rose-Marie Hagen, Rainer Hagen - 2003 - 514 pages
...large debt of thanks. Under the seal of the fishermen Konrad Witz' Miraculous Draught of Fishes came at the end of the Middle Ages and the beginning of the Renaissance, and as such documents a period of transition. The painters of this era were fascinated by humankind,... | |
| Alasdair A. MacDonald, Michael W. Twomey - 2004 - 292 pages
...customers. If this argument is accepted, this sheds new light on the use of encyclopedic material at the end of the Middle Ages and the beginning of the Renaissance. 28 The Dutch text is very similar: So heb ic in dit nauolgende boeck bescreuen veel diuersche natueren... | |
| Jean-René Jannot - 2005 - 260 pages
...satanic beings that torture souls in a mediaevallike hell (figs. 4.8, 4.9). Several Italian painters at the end of the Middle Ages and the beginning of the Renaissance copied30 or reused certain disquieting figures from Etruscan iconography. This led some excellent scholars,... | |
| Peter Blundell Jones, Doina Petrescu, Jeremy Till - 2005 - 314 pages
...more a head-bricklayer or more a god. If not exactly head-bricklayer, he was certainly head builder at the end of the Middle Ages and the beginning of the Renaissance. If not exactly Cod, then he was high priest and custodian of state secrets in ancient Egypt from the... | |
| Bernard J. Bamberger - 2010 - 308 pages
...the fear of witchcraft, and the dread of the Jew as a demonic being all reached their climax toward the end of the Middle Ages and the beginning of the Renaissance. These violent emotional disturbances were at their height precisely during the period when European... | |
| Richard Tarnas - 2006 - 604 pages
...next with the beginning of the High Middle Ages (tenth century), and the conjunction after that with the end of the Middle Ages and the beginning of the Renaissance (turn of the fifteenth century). At the midpoint of the five-hundred-year modern period, the opposition... | |
| Institute of Medicine, Board on Global Health, Forum on Microbial Threats - 2006 - 246 pages
...after centuries of conflict between the Christian West and the Muslim East, an event that signified the end of the Middle Ages and the beginning of the Renaissance; the other stemming from an event that occurred nearly 500 years later, when the British scientific... | |
| Jerry Willis - 2007 - 785 pages
...34 •* FOUNDATIONS OF QUALITATIVE RESEARCH The Renaissance (1450-1600): The Beginning of Empiricism The end of the Middle Ages and the beginning of the Renaissance was marked by a change in the roles of three sources of knowledge. Greek and Roman scholarship and... | |
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