 | 1843 - 678 pàgines
...effect of which is seen in the sudden growth of the monarchical or royal authority, which took place at the close of the fifteenth century, and the beginning of the sixteenth. The influence of this heathen literature, breaking the authority of the Church, and the... | |
 | Adolph Ludvig Køppen - 1854 - 274 pàgines
...power, which secured a certain tranquillity and independence to all. The Pope himself was, about AD 1 450, at the head of such an Italian Alliance, and...was the era of Genius — of Dante, Petrarch, and Bocoaoe ; the fifteenth tli.it nf classical learning 200 201 and research. This general burst of mental... | |
 | Eugène-Emmanuel Viollet-le-Duc - 1860 - 306 pàgines
...hold any communication beyond. In conformity with the method hitherto in use, the assailants still, at the close of the fifteenth century and the beginning of the sixteenth, directed all their efforts against the gates; the ancient barbicans, whether of stone or... | |
 | Orestes Augustus Brownson - 1883 - 614 pàgines
...effect of which is seen in the sudden growth of the monarchical or royal authority, which took place at the close of the fifteenth century, and the beginning of the sixteenth. The influence of this heathen literature, breaking the authority of the church, and the... | |
 | Pierre de Bourdeille Brantôme (seigneur de) - 1899 - 360 pàgines
...predilection and his king. In studying the history of France he thought he discovered, he says, that at the close of the fifteenth century and the beginning of the sixteenth what has since been called the " French Eevolution " was already consummated ; that liberty... | |
 | Esther Singleton - 1902 - 484 pàgines
...halfway in his task, he only arrives at profanation. This is the case with a great number of painters at the close of the Fifteenth Century and the beginning of the Sixteenth. For having presumed upon their strength, they have fallen into impiety, and often their... | |
 | Hans Ferdinand Helmolt - 1907 - 756 pàgines
...that would hardly have been possible. Threatening clouds gathered in the east and west of Poland just at the close of the fifteenth century and the beginning of the sixteenth. On the one hand Moscow was arming for an attack on Poland-Lithuania, on the other side the... | |
 | Pierre de Bourdeille Brantôme (seigneur de) - 1912 - 362 pàgines
...predilection and his king. In studying the history of France he thought he discovered, he says, that at the close of the fifteenth century and the beginning of the sixteenth what has since been called the " French Revolution " was already consummated ; that liberty... | |
 | Edmund Aloysius Walsh - 1922 - 328 pàgines
...middle ages, was eagerly seized upon by those monarchs of western Europe who were zealously undertaking, at the close of the fifteenth century and the beginning of the sixteenth, to consolidate and aggrandize their national states — Louis XI of France, Henry VII of... | |
 | Henry Heller - 1986 - 308 pàgines
...artisans. The outbreak of social conflict in 1537 had not been an isolated event. We have seen that at the close of the fifteenth century and the beginning of the sixteenth century the notables and wealthy merchants of the town had imposed a narrow oligarchy on... | |
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... classics, tended" by their character to destroy the power of the church of the middle ages, to introduce an order of thought favorable to the supremacy of the civil over the ecclesiastical order, the effect of which is seen in the sudden growth of... 
