...that life of which it is but a moment. For the philological historian, the Renaissance begins between the end of the fourteenth and the beginning of the fifteenth century; but the historian tout court knows that the fundamental impulses and motives by which we empirically...

...in some sort the cause of her sojourn here below ; but the foregoing sketch of the history of Europe at the end of the fourteenth and the beginning of the fifteenth centuries explains the multitude of tortures which was unique in the annals of the Saints. They surpassed...

...disappear from the lower strata of the working population, as is proven by pamphlets appearing even at the end of the Fourteenth and the beginning of the Fifteenth Century: "The Ploughman's Prayer" and "The Lanthorne of Light." The Lollards spread among the people a knowledge...

...Gerson-lez-Barby near Rethel, Jean Gerson became one of the most prominent figures in French ecclesiastical life at the end of the fourteenth and the beginning of the fifteenth century. He studied at Paris from 1377 to 1392, succeeding Pierre d'Ailly in 1395 as chancellor of the university....

...in cases of rape the rhetoric of the Avogadori seems to follow a bell curve, peaking in complexity at the end of the fourteenth and the beginning of the fifteenth centuries. In the early cases to 1340 the rapist's intentions were seldom evaluated. When, toward the...

...claim. It is more likely that the founder of the Varkari lineage was Namdev, who probably lived around the end of the fourteenth and the beginning of the fifteenth century. A number of modern Maharashtrian scholars accept the traditional view that Namdev and his group were...

...result of Prussia's rapid economic and demographic growth in this period and is particularly evident at the end of the fourteenth and the beginning of the fifteenth centuries, thanks to the Order's accounts which have been preserved, and to the sources relating to...

...1977), demonstrates how vital they were for Chinese communities overseas. Japanese pirates and smugglers at the end of the fourteenth and the beginning of the fifteenth century worsened relations to the point that it was increasingly difficult for Chinese traders to travel safely...

...(Figure 26), and Saint John Chrysostom (Figure 27). The appearance and development of the iconostasis at the end of the fourteenth and the beginning of the fifteenth centuries can be related to the fortunes of Moscow. The initial appearance of an iconostasis as a solid...

...into two camps depending on the two contradictory beliefs about the nature and function of final schwa at the end of the fourteenth and the beginning of the fifteenth century. These two views can be summarized as follows: 7.4.1. "Poetic" loss or preservation meteré like all...