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The Renaissance: Its Nature and Origins

Book by George Clarke Sellery; University of Wisconsin Press, 1950

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Renaissance

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of Renaissance study is that we can no longer speak...confidence of a separate and closed Renaissance period with a civilization and mentality...that the generally accepted view of the Renaissance, though, as I have readily admitted...
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Florence, Rome, and the Origins of the Renaissance

Book by George Holmes; Clarendon Press, 1986

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Arts, Renaissance--Italy, Florence (Italy)--History--To 1421, Italy--Church History--476-1400, Renaissance--Italy

Collections: History, Entire Library

PREFACE THE Italian Renaissance is sometimes thought to begin...Giovanni Pisano leaves out the origins of the prolonged outpouring...and thought which the word Renaissance evokes in our minds. The...ventured to apply the idea of the Renaissance to the lifetime of Dante...
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The Esoteric Origins of the American Renaissance

Book by Arthur Versluis; Oxford University Press, 2001

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American Literature--19th Century--History And Criticism, American Literature--European Influences, Occultism In Literature, Occultism--United States--History--19th Century, Transcendentalism (New England), United States--Intellectual Life--19th Century

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...significant influence in the American Renaissance. We might recall that the Italian Renaissance was inspired chiefly by two giant...Neoplatonism. As we shall see, the American Renaissance had related origins. Those origins, however, are for...
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Binding Passions: Tales of Magic, Marriage, and Power at the End of the Renaissance

Book by Guido Ruggiero; Oxford University Press, 1993

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Marriage--Italy--Venice--History, Renaissance--Italy--Venice, Sex Customs--Italy--Venice--History, Sexual Ethics--Italy--Venice--History

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The Origins of the Renaissance Courtesan: Social Imperatives, Social Arbiter The Renaissance origin of the courtesan is an issue that has...courtesan was just another aspect of the Renaissance of classical culture -- a modern form...
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Invitation to Renaissance Italy

Book by Rachel Annand Taylor, Gilbert Murrav; Harper & Brothers, 1930

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Renaissance--Italy

Collections: History, Entire Library

...her Italian secretary, and her Renaissance tolerance, but to a land already...therefore more devastating, had Renaissance origin on either side; and the spirit...love with antique learning. IV Renaissance England was part of the Continent...

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Petrarch and the Textual Origins of Interpretation

Journal article by William J. Kennedy; Renaissance Quarterly, Vol. 61, 2008

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Books--Book reviews, Petrarch and the Textual Origins of Interpretation (Essay collection)--Book reviews

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Petrarch and the Textual Origins of Interpretation. by William J. Kennedy Teodolinda Barolini and H. Wayne Storey, eds. Petrarch and the Textual Origins of Interpretation. Columbia Studies in the Classical Tradition 31. Leiden: Brill, 2007...
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Atoms and Alchemy: Chymistry and the Experimental Origins of the Scientific Revolution

Journal article by Nicholas H. Clulee; Renaissance Quarterly, Vol. 60, 2007

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Atoms and Alchemy: Chymistry and the Experimental Origins of the Scientific Revolution (Book)--Book reviews, Books--Book reviews

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...Alchemy: Chymistry and the Experimental Origins of the Scientific Revolution. by Nicholas...Alchemy: Chymistry and the Experimental Origins of the Scientific Revolution. Chicago...an important strand in Paracelsus and Renaissance alchemy, and was also vigorously attacked...substantial forms with the mechanical origin of qualities. Newmans recovery of this...
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"In the Footsteps of the Ancients." the Origins of Humanism from Lovato to Bruni

Journal article by William Mccuaig; Renaissance Quarterly, Vol. 54, 2001

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"In the Footsteps of the Ancients." The Origins of Humanism from Lovato to Bruni (Book)--Reviews, Books--Reviews

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...Footsteps of the Ancients." The Origins of Humanism from Lovato to...of ancient, medieval, and Renaissance literary history. It was...as a Stylistic Ideal" (in Renaissance Humanism, vol. 1, ed...in the Encyclopedia of the Renaissance (1999; vol. 3, s.v...
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Dante and the Origins of Italian Literary Culture

Journal article by Steven Botterill; Renaissance Quarterly, Vol. 60, 2007

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Books--Book reviews, Dante and the Origins of Italian Literary Culture (Book)--Book reviews

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Dante and the Origins of Italian Literary Culture. by Steven Botterill Teodolinda Barolini. Dante and the Origins of Italian Literary Culture. New York: Fordham University Press, 2006. viii + 416 pp. index. illus. $80 (cl), $28 (pbk...
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Divine Sovereignty: The Origins of Modern State Power.

Journal article by Markku Peltonen; Renaissance Quarterly, Vol. 56, 2003

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Book reviews, Books--Book reviews, Divine Sovereignty: The Origins of Modern State Power (Book)

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Divine Sovereignty: The Origins of Modern State Power. . by Markku Peltonen Daniel Engster. Divine Sovereignty: The Origins of Modern State Power. DeKalb, IL: Northern Illinois University Press, 2001. x + 257 pp. index. bibl. $42...

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Return to the Renaissance

Magazine article by Stephen Goode; Insight on the News, Vol. 14, May 11, 1998

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Harlem Renaissance--Exhibitions, Harlem, New York, New York--History

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...men and women of the Harlem Renaissance. Alain Locke, the first...a folk saying of anonymous origin that probably described Harlems...Black: Art of the Harlem Renaissance," to the Corcoran Gallery...One spiritual father of the Renaissance was the black scholar and...
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New Thoughts about the Renaissance in Venice

Magazine article by Karen Wilkin; New Criterion, Vol. 18, December 1999

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Art historians--Research, Art, Renaissance--History, Historical revisionism--Evaluation, Venice, Italy--Art

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...that can only be called Renaissance. Technically, it is...Venetians. Whatever their origins, the authors of these...in his up-to-date Renaissance study--preparatory...Tintorettos dizzying Origin of the Milky Way, c...this fall. (1) "Renaissance Venice and the North...
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Envisioning Origins

Magazine article by Joe Houston; Phi Kappa Phi Forum, Vol. 89, Spring 2009

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Art, Genetic engineering, Museums, Rapid prototyping, Renaissance period, Sculpture

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Envisioning Origins by Joe Houston Of the perennial...from. The riddle of our origins has inspired a number of...chapter to the story of human origins. Among the most provocative...to fame during the High Renaissance period, an era in which...
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A Northern Renaissance at the Metropolitan

Magazine article by Karen Wilkin; New Criterion, Vol. 17, November 1998

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Painting--Exhibitions

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...members in good standing of the Renaissance, were active participants...Northern Europe and Italy in the Renaissance has been usefully revised...in the early years of the Renaissance is easily proved: the distinctive...compositions announces the origin of the author. Only diligent...
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Software Problems in the African Renaissance Process

Magazine article by Femi Biko; New African, December 2000

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Ancestor worship--Influence, Capitalism--Beliefs, opinions and attitudes, Decolonization--Economic aspects, Postmodernism--Economic aspects, Social change--Planning, Social structure--Economic aspects

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...the African Diaspora in the Renaissance process. Let us recall that...outside of their point of origin. That is to say the African...antiquity to but a second ago. A renaissance is impractical when we abandon...response cannot be lost on the Renaissance project. In so doing, we...

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THE HEADS OF AFRICA; Figures Brought from the Lost Kingdom of Ife Are Reminiscent of Renaissance Portraiture -- If Only We Knew More of Their Origins; EXHIBITION OF THE WEEK

Newspaper article; The Evening Standard (London, England), March 11, 2010

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British Museum

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...Lost Kingdom of Ife Are Reminiscent of Renaissance Portraiture -- If Only We Knew More of Their Origins; EXHIBITION OF THE WEEK. Byline...Becket any less superstitious in their origin and purpose? We have the advantage...cultural influences, and forward to the Renaissance and all that stemmed from it, but...
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Kim HG Leading Renaissance of Oriental Medicine

Newspaper article; Korea Times (Seoul, Korea), January 12, 2001

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Kim HG Leading Renaissance of Oriental Medicine. Amid the growing interest about anything of Oriental origin or Orientalism, traditional Korean medicine is no exception to the social phenomenon. Whenever Kim Hong-ghyong, a guru of...
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Renaissance Goes on Apace

Newspaper article; The Birmingham Post (England), November 25, 1998

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Renaissance Goes on Apace. It is easy...authoritative work about the origin of building societies that...Birmingham, recalls that Urban Renaissance was high on the agenda at...in place for its retail renaissance. The same might be said...
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ON THE WIZARDS TRAIL; the Man Who Sparked the Renaissance or a Servant of the Devil? the Truth about a Scots Legend Can Finally Be Told

Newspaper article; The Daily Mail (London, England), August 7, 2004

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Scott, Walter

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...the Man Who Sparked the Renaissance or a Servant of the Devil...and even helped spark the Renaissance in Europe. Scott was born...that was to be called the Renaissance began - and Scott kick-started...This story, surely, is the origin of another modern childrens...
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Porch Renaissance; Family Space Stylish Again after Decades in Decline

Newspaper article; The Washington Times, April 9, 2003

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Porch renaissance; Family space stylish again after decades...architecture that is once again enjoying a renaissance. American presidents figure greatly...confirms Mr. Lavie, who studied the origin of the porch as part of his graduate...

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Este , Italian Noble Family

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...patrons of the arts during the Renaissance. Probably of Lombard origin, they took their name from...of the most lavish of all Renaissance princes. Her sister, Isabella...Ferrara: The Style of a Renaissance Despotism (1973...
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Drama, Western

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...dramatic tradition has its origins in ancient Greece. The precise...an important influence on Renaissance tragedy, but it is unlikely...has been suggested as the origin of the commedia dellarte of the Italian Renaissance, but this conjecture has...intended for entertainment. Renaissance Drama By the advent of the...
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Gilding

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...superseded by electroplating (see plating ). The art of gilding is of ancient origin. It was lavishly employed in Egypt, Greece, and Rome and during the Renaissance and has been used continuously in Asia...
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Italy

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

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...rise was partly political in origin the burghers were drawing...were of noble or bourgeois origin, were generally factional...cultural flowering of the Italian Renaissance, which permanently changed...Disintegration and Rebirth The Renaissance reached its peak in the late...
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Spanish Art and Architecture

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

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...Torrigiano, did much to popularize Renaissance motifs, which were combined...A more developed High Renaissance style appears in such works...severity and restraint of Renaissance forms manifested itself in...is distinctively Spanish in origin. In the 1950s there was an...

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