Sentences with phrase «of fifteenth century»

max are you referring to the hohe tauern mine established in the middle of the fifteenth century and overwhelmed by 20 metres of ice in 1570.

appears to be the worst since at least the middle of the fifteenth century.

It is effective, emotional and unlike any of the Early Netherlandish paintings of the fifteenth century.

Not long after viewing an exhibition of fifteenth century woodcuts at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Frankenthaler found herself in front of Tyler's tree.

Derived from the acclaimed Phaidon Archive of Graphic Design, this fascinating compendium celebrates the long, rich history of graphic design, from the first sample of movable type and the Nuremberg Chronicle of the fifteenth century to the cutting - edge magazines, posters, and ephemera of today.

Since the Gelgel dynasty of the fifteenth century it has been regarded as a central, holy temple for the entire island.

Many of the original glazed tiles have been replaced over time, and the Great Mosque in Herat was given its present form during the closing years of the fifteenth century.

The earliest parliamentary documents kept in the tower date from the very end of the fifteenth century.

Representatives The Council of Experts, consisting of the representatives of the people,... The constitution, which consists of twelve chapters, and 175 articles, is completed in accordance with the aforementioned motives and objectives, at the dawn of the fifteenth century, after the migration of the Noble Prophet (Peace and blessing be upon him and his family) the founder of the liberating ideology of Islam.

Chris Skidmore, a Cabinet Office Minister, is a well - respected historian of the fifteenth century and has now brought together the archival and archaeological research into Richard III Brother, Protector, King (Weidenfeld & Nicolson).

During the course of the fifteenth century, there developed, among the people, opposition to this method of succession.

Among a number of interrelated causes, we mention four which had immediate bearings on the decline of Christianity in Asia by the end of the fifteenth century; — the political situation under which the churches in Asia found themselves; the foreigness of the church; the decline in spiritual life in the church; and the Latinizing activities of the Roman Catholic missionaries.

About this Magrizi, a Muslim historian of the fifteenth century wrote,

By the end of the fifteenth century, in the Mediterranean world, Islam was dominant in all the ancient centres of civilization except Italy, Spain and Southern France.

In the last years of the fifteenth century he began talks with the Augustinians about founding a university there.

One lasted roughly from about the closing decades of the fifteenth century to the middle of the eighteenth century.

By the middle of the fifteenth century the Basel gathering was clearly moribund.

The Ursulines, a new type of congregation of women, began in the last decade of the fifteenth century and had teaching as their primary function.

The present chapter is an attempt to cover the first period — from the closing decades of the fifteenth century to the mid-eighteenth century.

But beginning in the last decades of the fifteenth century a vast expansion began, partly through attempts of minorities to bring «Christendom» to a nearer approximation to the standards seen in Christ and partly by explorations, conquests, and migrations which within the brief course of four centuries brought all the earth's surface under the control of «Christian» peoples.

In the closing decades of the fifteenth century the Papacy sank to a nadir from which it did not recover until the next century.

Münzer's views derived from Reformation ideas, but he was also affected by the spirit of revolt that stirred in the German peasants during most of the fifteenth century.

The Neoplatonic renaissance in organic thinking in the latter part of the fifteenth century was under the patronage of the Medici family in Italy.

By the end of the fifteenth century, Spanish and Portuguese explorers had taken their faith to the New World.

However, in the course of the fifteenth century movements broke out, chiefly in Western Europe, which were to bring unprecedented reinvigoration to Christianity and were to make it, by A.D. 1750, the most widely influential of the faiths of mankind.

Even here, in the second half of the fifteenth century, Christianity faced a future which seemed none too promising.

In the course of the fifteenth century movements broke out, chiefly in Western Europe, which were to bring unprecedented reinvigoration to Christianity and were to make it, by A.D. 1750, the most widely influential of the faiths of mankind.

In part they were due to the decline of the two nations, Spain and Portugal, whose imperial expansion and zealous support had been so largely responsible for the spread of the faith beginning with the close of the fifteenth century.

He was a contemporary of Kabir, living toward the latter part of the fifteenth century AD.

Before the end of the fifteenth century those geographic discoveries were in progress which in the following centuries were to carry Christianity around the world and plant it in areas which heretofore had not known it.

Church structures and teachings of the fifteenth century were not workable or sustainable in the early sixteenth century.

The Nuzi (or Nuzu) texts, discovered in an Assyrian town of that name, are largely concerned with business matters of the fifteenth century, and contain some significant parallels to episodes recorded in Genesis.

A series of Popes sat on the throne of Peter the scandal of whose lives was not offset, as was that of some of the most infamous of the Pontiffs of the fifteenth century, by the outward splendor of their court.

Indeed, by the beginning of the fifteenth century, «the only safe place in Europe to be a Jew was in the lands of the pope».

Many religious and political writers of the fifteenth century had been aware of the weaknesses of the medieval church and the society in which it was embedded.

Not exact matches

They originally differed also in language, since the first spoke Spanish or Ladino (a fifteenth - century Spanish), the second German, and the third Yiddish (an alloy of Hebrew and German).

A skillful and conscientious historian, he looks back on the late fourteenth and early fifteenth centuries in order to document a failure of theological method.

Another problem: Scientists have demonstrated that honey bees were first brought to the New World by Spanish explorers in the fifteenth century, but the Book of Mormon, in Ether 2:3, claims they were introduced around 2000 B.C.

If this appears a rather rash statement, it is perhaps worth recalling just how problematic some of these sources can be when questions about the dating, provenance or dissemination are asked: the Similitudes of Enoch (1 Enoch 37 — 71) which contains so many crucial references to Christological titles otherwise thin on the ground elsewhere outside the New Testament (most notably the enigmatic «Son of Man»), is first attested only in a fifteenth - century Ethiopic manuscript.

There has undoubtedly been a break in the twentieth century with the tradition of romantic love which arose in the later phase of medieval culture, flourished in the «courts of love» in the fifteenth century, gave birth to the literature of the romantic movement, reached conventional respectability and domestication in the nineteenth century, and now seems out of date.

It is also important to note that, during the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, Western Europe was not the world center of education, of culture or of wealth.

The colonial expansion of Europe beginning in the fifteenth century changed that.

And it was in Italian that Orlando ultimately achieved his apotheosis as the supreme hero of chivalric fiction, in the three greatest Italian romances of the late fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries: the Morgante of Luigi Pulci, the Orlando Innamorato of Matteo Boiardo, and the Orlando Furioso of Ludovico Ariosto.

More particularly, and with pointed significance for the tale of Joseph, we know that Egypt, which earlier in this period controlled the affairs of Palestine, was itself under the rule of foreign dynasties (the fifteenth to the seventeenth dynasties) from a point in the eighteenth century to about the middle of the sixteenth century B.C..

In all of this, Christianity was and is central as Le Goff acknowledged, even pointing out that it was Pope Pius II in the fifteenth century who first possessed a clear idea of Europe as a single entity.

A number of witnesses in the fifteenth century mention that they were a strong and well organized community, commanding respect among the Hindus and enjoying certain privileges in the society like that of higher castes among the Hindus.

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).

His attack on the unsavory and unproductive practice of usury held force virtually until the fifteenth century, when John Calvin's writings started greatly to influence the study of economics.

The renewed study of the Bible initiated in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries led to the discovery that many elements of the traditional Christian eschatology were not clearly to be found there.

When, in the fifteenth century, Turkish con ~ quests and other factors had limited Christianity chiefly to Europe, the transition from the Europe of the Middle Ages to that of the Renaissance and modern times brought another major threat.