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Hace 4 días · Old French gave way to Middle French in the mid-14th century, paving the way for early French Renaissance literature of the 15th century. The earliest extant French literary texts date from the ninth century, but very few texts before the 11th century have survived.
- Evolved into Middle French by the 14th century
Hace 5 días · The beginning of the early modern period is not clear-cut, but is generally accepted as in the late 15th century or early 16th century. Significant dates in this transitional phase from medieval to early modern Europe can be noted: 1415 – Conquest of Ceuta by the Portuguese; 1444 – Johannes Gutenberg's Movable type
Hace 3 días · At its greatest extent, in the 15th century, it was the largest state in Europe. It was a multi-ethnic and multiconfessional state, with great diversity in languages, religion, and cultural heritage. The consolidation of the Lithuanian lands began in the late 13th century.
Hace 4 días · Angkor, archaeological site in what is now northwestern Cambodia, lying 4 miles (6 km) north of the modern town of Siĕmréab. It was the capital of the Khmer (Cambodian) empire from the 9th to the 15th century, a period that is considered the classical era of Cambodian history.
- Frank E. Reynolds
Hace 2 días · Elisabeth Leedham-Green. Oak galls. Materials: Inks, Pens, and Surfaces. The documents/samples of hands displayed here were written between 1500 and 1690, most or all of them with a goose-quill pen and an iron gall or carbon-based ink. Iron gall ink was made up from galls (usually oak-galls), copperas [copper sulphate] or green vitriol [ferrous ...
Hace 5 días · Early Modern Things: Objects and their Histories, 1500–1800 is a collection of 17 essays edited by Findlen, which explores what we can learn about the early modern world by studying its things and their meanings and how these change over time, from culture to culture and across geographic locations.
Hace 4 días · Although archival study into wills and inventories has shed some light on the commissioning and ownership of artworks in early modern England, Susan Foister’s 1981 Burlington Magazine article on paintings in 16th-century inventories being a pioneering example of this research, the question of the individual sitter or patron’s wants and needs remains a largely unknown quantity.
