When Foxe began the Acts and Monuments project, his goal was to do more than chronicle the suffering of the true church and its martyrs. His principal purpose was to use history to prove the identity of the Roman Catholic Church as a false church, and it
de Bargeton; she waxed enthusiastic over the renaissance, due to the return of the Bourbon Lilies; she loved M. de Chateaubriand for calling Victor Hugo "a sublime child." It depressed her that she could only know genius from afar, she sighed for Paris, where great men live. For these ...
With regard to the medico-legal aspects, Kiernan ("Responsibility in Active Algophily," Medicine, April, 1903) sets forth the reasons in favor of the full and complete responsibility of sadists, and Harold Moyer comes to the same conclusion ("Is Sexual Perversion Insanity?" Alienist and Neuro...
"Two cities have been formed by two loves: the earthly by the lover of self, even to the contempt of God; the heavenly by the love of God, even to the contempt of self." St. Augustine, DE CIVITATE DEI, Book XIV, Chapter 28 ...
and three quarters of a century after Gutenberg’s invention of the printing press. The Renaissance, with its revival of classical antiquity and love of learning, was in full bloom. The Protestant Reformation was the religious fruit of this energetic cauldron, and its English iteration was reachin...
7.broke Many banks in post-Renaissance Europe issued small “borrower’s tiles(瓦片)” to their customers. Like credit cards, these tiles were imprinted with the owner’s name and credit limit, and the name of the bank. In order to borrow money, the customer had to present the tile to...
On the other hand, at least one of these reveals felt like it came a bit out of nowhere and didn’t have much to truly back it up. A person did a thing because of…reasons. Ultimately, as I was mostly invested in the mysteries surrounding the past and on the dynamics between the ...
In contrast with other artists, for whom the choice of support depended more on technical than aesthetic considerations, Haring changed his preferred support in 1982 for commercial reasons. The immediate cause was his first one-man exhibition in Tony Shafrazi’s New York gallery, ...
We are profoundly sad to announce that our dear co-founder, Steve Leimberg, died on December 1. Steve was a legend, a true renaissance man with a warm and generous heart who made a tremendous impact on so many of us with the amazing life that he led. In this article, we offer our ...
While Motor City's financial district may appear relatively unchanged from its 1920s art deco opulence, a 14-plus-acre development of connected skyscrapers known as the Renaissance Center (RenCen) transformed the city's skyline in the 1970s. The city planners behind the ambitious complex hoped ...