Sentences with phrase «late fifteenth century»

I am a huge fancier of historical novels, so when I began Passion Blue, set in late fifteenth century Italy, I expected to like it.

From the late fifteenth century the theologians of the Church began to reflect upon the «new things» in the social order of their times, in this case the emergence of the modern business economy — trade, commerce, credit, banking and industry.

The late fifteenth century had seen the effective union of the Christian kingdoms of Aragon and Castile, through the marriage of Ferdinand and Isabella, and the culmination of the reconquista, with the capture of the Islamic kingdom of Granada (1492).

Professor Mark Williams from WMG was tasked with scanning the artefact — an astrolabe from the late fifteenth century, used by mariners to measure the altitude of the sun during voyages — which was excavated in 2014 by Blue Water Recovery.

Bananas were introduced to the Americas by Portuguese explorers during the late fifteenth century.

In this dark, sophisticated novel set in the late fifteenth century, Mortain, the god of death, has sired 17 - year - old Ismae to be his handmaiden.

Joseph Hamon was one of the Sephardic Jews who landed upon the shores of Turkey in the late fifteenth century.

The history of Trinidad and Tobago dates since its discovery in the late fifteenth century by the Italian explorer Christopher Columbus.

After escaping, he then relives the memories of another ancestor named Ezio who lived in Italy during the late fifteenth century.

First inspired by the printed book in the late fifteenth century, early printed series frequently depicted narrative subjects drawn from literary sources.