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Ancient Jewish Leaders

The major challenge in constructing histories of Israel and Judah is the fact that they were individuals but they also had cities ...

African International Relations

International relations in Africa have been heavily influenced by their colonial history, a history that still impacts on internat...

African International Relations

International relations in Africa have been heavily influenced by their colonial history, a history that still impacts on internat...

Renaissance to 1500 AD Classical Culture Influence and Spread

the individual" (Burns 395). Soon after the inception of the Renaissance, its progress was greatly accelerated by the influence ...

Medieval and Renaissance Artistic Depictions of Women

womanly figure that offered men a very subdued connection to women. The fact that this connection with women was incredibly subdue...

Renaissance Racism and William Shakespeare's Othello

to Todorov, the Spaniards could not conceive of the Native Americans as "equally human but culturally different" (Berry 315). The...

Women Renaissance Artists

power, and Petrarch headed a revolution in reason that damned Medieval society. The fed the new view of humanity and artistic ende...

Media Prophet and Renaissance Man Marshall McLuhan

In the introduction to McLuhans Understanding Media he writes: "Today, after more than a century of electric technology, we have e...

Ideas and Events of the Medieval and Renaissance Eras

Europe. He directly linked the power of government to religious reform, and brought the clergy under the jurisdiction of the crown...

The Dark Ages and the Renaissance

that it was so primitive. Yet, that is a time that came after the Renaissance when everything changed a great deal. The Renaissa...

Renaissance Humanism and “The School of Athens”

being a "practical" discipline. It provides outstanding mental exercise, but its difficult to see how debates about the nature of ...

Humanistic Renaissance Artist Giotto di Bondone

In five pages this research paper concentrates on the St. Francis frescoes of Giotto di Bondone, an important artist of the 14th c...

Renaissance Literature and Love

In five pages this paper examines how love is represented in Boccaccio's 'The First Day,' Peter Bembo's 'The Asolani,' John Milton...

The Italian Renaissance by Paul Robert Walker

In five pages this text is analyzed and critiqued with its lack of factual interpretation among the topics addressed. There are n...

American Renaissance

This is not to say that the influence of European authors was not discernible in the work of these authors. For example, Melvill...

Women Renaissance Writers: The Tragedy of Mariam by Carey

fair I might have provd me wise:/ But I did think because I knew me chaste,/ One virtue for a woman might suffice./ That mind for ...

Scientific Attitudes During the Renaissance and the Enlightenment Periods

is granted to him to seek after the truth. Science is the legitimate and beloved daughter of the Church. She must have confidence ...

Literature and the West's Medieval and Renaissance Cultures

Dantes (1999) Florentine origin, one first must ascertain the reasons why people are drawn to his work. Is it that poems are enjo...

Renaissance Period Embodiment of Mona Lisa by Leonardo da Vinci

of interests, which included mathematics, music, science, and artistic design (Craven 85). When his lawyer father showed his sons...

Subjugated Women from the Renaissance to French Revolution Periods

This paper discusses how women's status went from oppression to rebellion during this time period in eleven pages. There are abou...

Renaissance Neoplatonic Beauty and The Courtier by Castiglione

In six pages this paper considers the aesthetic objectives of Neoplatonic beauty in terms of the art of Leonardo da Vinci and Mich...

San Marco, Venice's Artistic and Musical Humanism During the Renaissance

of Venice and the notion of Renaissance humanism. The focus of this research study, then, is to consider the notion of humanism i...

Perspectives on Authority in Renaissance Drama

The writer examines several of Shakespeare's plays (King Lear and The Tempest), as well as Fuente Ovejuna by the Spanish playwrigh...

Ter Brugghen, Rubens, and the Italian High Renaissance Influence

In five pages this paper discusses each artist's religious paintings and the Italian influences each work reflects. Six sources a...

Historical Periods the Renaissance, the Reformation and the Scientific Revolution and Emergence of the Modern Era

required "nurture" to develop to its highest capacity (Le Van Baumer 106). "Believe me," said Erasmus, a leading theologian of t...

Islamic Militarism Since 600 A.D.

of Toledo. Bypassing Spanish Christian survivors that were huddled in the mountains of northwest Spain, Muslim armies pushed on an...

Math Through the Ages, A Gentle History

as, in this case, devising symbols for replacing long strings of tallies. In this section of the book, the authors present math ...

Sophocles, Gilman & Browning/Oppressed Women

finer points of interpretation. However, the general consensus, down through the ages, is that Sophocles main theme had to do with...

Views of World War I

Quiet was largely to dispel nationalistic fantasies about warfare and depict WWI in realistic fashion as perceived by the common G...

Geishas

Arthur Golden and then a major motion picture. In 1992, Golden traveled to Kyoto and interviewed Mineko Iwasaki, a legendary, reti...