...arguments are somewhat circular, that this type of piece is very early in date - perhaps dating to the end of the fourteenth and the beginning of the fifteenth century. With our current knowledge this question is impossible to answer and their dating must remain open...

...that of Pedro de Alvarado. His reign was a long one, stretching over a pcriiid of forty or fifty years at the end of the fourteenth and the beginning of the fifteenth century.4" While still a youth he launched a military campaign modeled on the story of the hero twins...

...King Sejong).8' A great number of them are known to have produced inlaid celadon (sanggarn ch'ongja) at the end of the fourteenth and the beginning of the fifteenth century, for example (see map of kiln sites, p. xvi): in South Cholla province - Ch'unghyo-dong, Kwangju-si;...

...factors and strands of reasoning, from both outside and within naturalistic investigations. Between the end of the fourteenth and the beginning of the fifteenth century, the task of recovering scientific heritage of the classic antiquity, written in Greek, was on the shoulders...

...earliest attempts at establishing a humanistic theory of translation are registered in Italy, between the end of the fourteenth and the beginning of the fifteenth century, with a significant advantage over the rest of Europe, and, particularly, over a relatively benighted...

...charitable programme mirrored developments taking place in the nearest large centre, Milan, where, by the end of the fourteenth and the beginning of the fifteenth century, there was a notable expansion of almsgiving bodies governed by lay people.28 In the 1380s, the MIA...

...this hatred had been largely displaced toward new Christians or converts, mainly against Jews baptized at the end of the fourteenth and the beginning of the fifteenth century. Converts constituted a significant minority of some 250 to three hundred thousand men and women who...

...Nasir al-Din al-Tusi, the leading astronomer of the Maragha Observatory, was turned into Turkish twice, at the end of the fourteenth and the beginning of the fifteenth century. Known as Sifasl der marifet-i takvim (The Thirty Chapters of Calendar Making), it must have been frequently...

...depending on a variety of circumstances. The anti-Jewish trends that were evident throughout Spain at the end of the fourteenth and the beginning of the fifteenth centuries are quite clear in the case of the city of Tortosa. 94 In 1346 the local cemetery was profaned,...

...members rapidly recuperating the positions they had held in the past and, in the two decades spanning the end of the fourteenth and the beginning of the fifteenth century, rising to a role of absolute domination.18 The papacy, having suffered the negative consequences of...