...himself and at first hand. The educational traditions of the University at Louvain were the very best. At the end of the fifteenth and the beginning of the sixteenth centuries the University had probably more students than any other university in Europe, except that of Paris,...

...3,000 sq. miles, and they have a population of 360,000 inhabitants. After the voyages of exploration at the end of the fifteenth and the beginning of the sixteenth centuries, these islands were colonized, and from that time dates the introduction of the sugar industry, which...

...anything to the dishonour of the king. Equally illustrative of the ways and methods of the seamen at the end of the fifteenth and the beginning of the sixteenth centuries are Columbus's letters dealing with his subsequent voyages. One of these letters he concludes thus...

...WAGHEMAKERE — THE BUILDING, DECORATING AND FURNISHING OF CHURCHES AND OTHER BUILDINGS IN LATE POINTED STYLE THE end of the fifteenth and the beginning of the sixteenth centuries saw much building at Antwerp, although the belt of town- walls was not enlarged until 1543. The arrival...

...exist. As a dogma it was received only by the strict papalists, but these were not very numerous at the end of the fifteenth and the beginning of the sixteenth centuries. The theologians who regarded the council as the highest tribunal in matters of faith were decidedly...

...was not until the beginning of what modern historians have come to call the commercial revolution, at the end of the fifteenth and the beginning of the sixteenth centuries, that the peoples of Western civilization, at least, began to move on a scale unprecedented in history....

...1404 congregations or settlements of Jews are known to have existed in Holland; but it was not until the end of the fifteenth and the beginning of the sixteenth centuries that these settlements assumed importance.1 This period coincides with the rise of Amsterdam to the...

...domum that, in the last analysis, opened the way to union of the flesh. In the domestic ricordi of the end of the fifteenth and the beginning of the sixteenth centuries, explicit notation of the moment of the consummation becomes more frequent. Out of some fifty precise...

...control of the voivodes and the starostas. All this contributed to the final ruin of the cities. At the end of the fifteenth and the beginning of the sixteenth centuries, the number of burghers in the cities had diminished considerably. Although during the sixteenth century...

...predecessors; while Buridan's and Oresme's works are unedited, Albert's works were printed many times during the end of the fifteenth and the beginning of the sixteenth centuries. It is through Albert that the Renaissance understood the Parisian teachings about lunar light and the...