The humanists of the Renaissance were concerned with a group of texts and monuments which they wanted to recover, preserve, and correctly interpret. It was their aim to master the languages of these texts and to expand their references because they admired the civilization of the ancient world ...
GIRES, the Global Institute for Research Education & Scholarship dedicated to interdisciplinarity commemorates the Centenary of the Harlem Renaissance and explore the diverse aspects of the movement, highlight its lasting impact, and examine its relevance in contemporary society. We wish to explore as m...
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Ideals for Women in the Works of Christine de Pizan. Medieval and Renaissance Monograph Series 1. Ann Arbor, MI: University Microfilms International, 1981. Google Scholar Boswell, J.E. Expositio and Oblatio: The Abandonment of Children and the Ancient and Medieval Family. The American ...
During the Renaissance, theriac became extremely popular and highly prized, taking center stage in the European pharmacopeias, while the ambition to produce a perfect concoction stimulated pharmacists through Europe. The Venetian Republic became the center for the production of the highest-quality theri...
From the Renaissance to the present day, the primary explanatory narrative for these changes has been invasion and conquest followed by resettlement from the continent18. On the basis of a small set of written sources, it was supposed that the local Romano-British population was largely replaced ...
The scene is shifted from Renaissance Verona to ancient Rome; Romeo is Marius, Juliet is Lavinia, the feud is between patricians and plebeians; Juliet/Lavinia wakes from her potion before Romeo/Marius dies. Otway's version was a hit, and was acted for the next seventy years.[112] His ...
2The dynamical renaissance A“renaissance” can be defined as “a situation when there is new interest in something and it becomes strong and active again” (Combley2011). This term is an appropriate description of what is happening in neuroscience because although the concepts and methods of dy...
(2012) clearly show the “plurality of algebra in the Renaissance”, whether from the point of view of the status of algebra, its goals, its applications, or its forms according to the geographical areas and the target audiences. 3 Another account of the Unguru/Weil controversy, as well as...
with its emphasis on virtue and citizenship within the city-state, offers a different notion of humanity. The Renaissance offers yet another notion of humanity based on the use of reason in daily life. In the contemporary period, humanity is generally understood in terms of the minimum of what...