Search results for "Louis X of France" - New World Encyclopedia
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- supported by a fairly significant faction of cardinals, and in several cases ... There have been several antipopes throughout the history of the Roman ...20 KB (3,042 words) - 06:35, 31 July 2023
- a Dutch painter who specialized in scenes of ordinary people going about ... lifetime he was relatively unknown outside of his hometown of Delft where ...27 KB (4,136 words) - 07:23, 5 April 2024
- The Battle of Culloden (April 16, 1746) was the last military clash ... as cultural vandalism, with the destruction of a way of life that many had ...24 KB (3,671 words) - 11:38, 20 September 2023
- Heloise (1101 - 1162), the famous lover of Peter Abelard (Abélard ... Heloise was the ward of an uncle, a canon A clergyman serving in a ...20 KB (3,412 words) - 17:12, 6 February 2022
- The dechristianization of France during the French Revolution describes ... During the course of the revolution, the church was nationalized with ...27 KB (3,836 words) - 09:01, 28 January 2024
- generally known as Henri Poincaré, was one of France's greatest mathematicians ... family in the Cité Ducale neighborhood of Nancy, France. His father, ...40 KB (5,908 words) - 07:01, 22 January 2024
- inventive. He is widely considered to be one of the greatest painters of all time. including the Vitruvian Man. He conceived of ideas vastly ahead of his time ...29 KB (4,455 words) - 08:02, 6 March 2023
- light, elegant, and airy style and the list of his buildings includes some ... Adam was born in Kirkcaldy, Fife, Scotland, the second son of William ...10 KB (1,385 words) - 03:09, 15 December 2022
- poet, and playwright. He was a key figure of the Renaissance, best known ... leading armies, the wealthy city-states of Italy falling one after another ...29 KB (4,511 words) - 23:28, 14 November 2022
- the Noble or Él de las Navas, was the King of Castile from 1158 to his death ... a treaty with the Muslims after the battle of Alarcos. Representations of ...13 KB (2,041 words) - 06:52, 20 July 2023
- Josquin des Prez (French rendering of Dutch "Josken Van De Velde ... As a master of Renaissance music, des Prez became known internationally ...26 KB (3,991 words) - 05:29, 7 May 2024
- painter, the leading artist in the court of King Philip IV. He was an individualistic ... From the first quarter of the seventeenth century, Velázquez's ...37 KB (5,925 words) - 14:27, 29 January 2024
- Carpets are made of natural and synthetic fibers, such as wool, nylon ... == Types of carpets == [[Image:Swatches of berber carpet.jpg|thumb ...28 KB (4,327 words) - 00:39, 29 November 2023
- John (December 24, 1166 – October 18, 1216) reigned as King of England ... his unpopularity with the popularity of his brother, Richard I, for ...28 KB (4,489 words) - 17:02, 4 May 2024
- Isabella of France (c. 1295 – August 22, 1358), later referred to ... With Mortimer, Isabella plotted an invasion of England to depose Edward ...25 KB (3,939 words) - 02:58, 8 March 2024
- and theologian who represented the revival of Scholasticism during the fifteenth ... Cajetan was Master General of the Dominican order, a Cardinal, and ...15 KB (2,393 words) - 19:13, 26 November 2023
- painted, cataloged, and described the birds of North America, as well as its ... In March, 2000, Audubon's complete, double-elephant folio copy ...18 KB (2,835 words) - 06:04, 3 August 2022
- Comte de Lautréamont was the pen name of Isidore Lucien Ducasse ... a life outside or against society. Abuse of drugs and alcohol, insanity ...21 KB (3,307 words) - 02:36, 8 January 2024
- Revolution, he was a vigorous defender of the sans-culottes, a radical ... After the fall of the Girondins, in which Marat played an important ...49 KB (7,367 words) - 18:14, 1 December 2022
- publishing the first official observations of the transit of Mercury in 1631. Like many intellectuals during the first half of the sixteenth century ...19 KB (2,823 words) - 05:22, 24 November 2022
