Scott also shunned the late 16th-century depiction of Robin as a dispossessed nobleman ( the Earl of Huntingdon ).

From the correspondence between Landa's description of the New Year rituals and the depiction of these rituals in the Dresden Codex, it can be inferred that in 16th-century Yucatán, god K was called Bolon Dzacab ' Innumerable ( bolon ' nine, innumerable ') maternal generations ', perhaps a metaphor for fertility.

The Fall of Man by Lucas Cranach the Elder | Lucas Cranach, a 16th-century German depiction of Eden, with the tree of life ( left ) and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil

Sinter Claes depiction at a 16th-century house near the Dam ( Amsterdam ) | Dam in Amsterdam.

A depiction of Muhammad advancing on Mecca from Siyer-i Nebi, a 16th-century Ottoman manuscript.

Historically, Kabbalah emerged, after earlier forms of Jewish mysticism, in 12th-to 13th-century Southern France and Spain, becoming reinterpreted in the Jewish mystical renaissance of 16th-century Ottoman Palestine.

Rhetorical education became more restrained as style and substance separated in 16th-century France with Peter Ramus, and attention turned to the scientific method.

In 1896 Shadwell edited and published Pater's unfinished novel, Gaston de Latour, set in 16th-century France, the product of the author's growing interest in his later years in French history, philosophy, literature, and architecture.

The basilica was built on the foundations of a 16th-century fort constructed by Francis I of France to resist the 1536 siege of the city by the Emperor Charles V. The basilica is made up of two parts: a lower church, or crypt, dug out of the rock and in the Romanesque style, and an upper church of Neo-Byzantine style decorated with mosaics.

This late 16th-century transformation produced many of the smaller Renaissance châteaux of France and the numerous country mansions of the Elizabethan and Jacobean styles in England.

He soon becomes embroiled in the intrigue, danger, politics, and madcap antics of the 16th-century French Court and quickly realizes that something in the fertile flower of France is rotten.

Davis ’ s interest in story-telling continued with her book, Fiction in the Archives: Pardon Tales and their Tellers in 16th-century France ( 1987 ), a study of the stories people of all classes told to the king to get pardoned for homicide in the days before manslaughter was a possible plea.

The earliest known owner of the Beowulf manuscript is the 16th-century scholar Laurence Nowell, after whom the manuscript is named, though its official designation is British Library, Cotton Vitellius A. XV because it was one of Robert Bruce Cotton's holdings in the Cotton Library in the middle of the 17th century.

Le Ton beau de Marot: In Praise of the Music of Language is a long book devoted to language and translation, especially poetry translation, and one of its leitmotifs is a set of some 88 translations of " Ma Mignonne ", a highly constrained poem by 16th-century French poet Clément Marot.

Some 16th-century anti-Trinitarian divines sought to reconcile Christianity, Islam and Judaism ; on the basis of very similar arguments to those presented in the Gospel of Barnabas, arguing that if salvation remains unresolved until the end times, then any one of the three religions could be a valid path to heaven for their own believers.

The 16th-century Italian historian Onofrio Panvinio, commenting on one of Bartolomeo Platina's works that refer to Pope Joan, theorized that the story of Pope Joan may have originated from tales of Pope John XII ; John reportedly had many mistresses, including one called Joan, who was very influential in Rome during his pontificate.

It is now one of Spain's major tourist attractions, exhibiting the country's most significant and well known Berber Islamic architecture, together with 16th-century and later Christian building and garden interventions.

The specific name melongena is derived from a 16th-century Arabic term for one variety.

The house is one of the principal examples of 16th-century Elizabethan architecture.

German organist Arnold Schlick's 16th-century Spiegel der Orgelmacher und Organisten also mentions one.

* Reichsgulden ( disambiguation ), one of two 16th-century coins of the Holy Roman Empire

* 1577-80-Taqi al-Din invents a mechanical astronomical clock that measures time in seconds, one of the most important innovations in 16th-century practical astronomy, as previous clocks were not accurate enough to be used for astronomical purposes.

On one side of the coin is the customary portrait of Queen Elizabeth ; on the other, 16th-century British explorer Martin Frobisher and a compass rose from his era, along with images of the ship he sailed in search of the fabled Northwest Passage and an Inuit man paddling his kayak in ice-choked waters.

Dionysius of Byzantium mentions a Roman shrine to Apollo on one of the Cyanean Rocks, and the 16th-century French traveller Petrus Gyllius thought the altar was a remnant of that shrine.

The main source on the 16th-century Yucatec Maya, Bishop de Landa, combines the four Chaacs with the four Bacabs and Pauahtuns into one concept.

A free-standing 16th-century bell tower is one of the features of the Winschoten skyline.

Pro-Royalist publications ultimately produced parodies of these, including one which listed Rupert's dog as being a " Lapland Lady " transformed into a white dog ; Boye was able, apparently, to find hidden treasure, possessed invulnerability to attack, could catch bullets fired at Rupert in his mouth, and could prophesy as well as the 16th-century soothsayer, Mother Shipton.

Montaigne's brief essay " On sumptuary laws " criticized 16th-century French laws, beginning, " The way by which our laws attempt to regulate idle and vain expenses in meat and clothes, seems to be quite contrary to the end designed ... For to enact that none but princes shall eat turbot, shall wear velvet or gold lace, and interdict these things to the people, what is it but to bring them into a greater esteem, and to set every one more agog to eat and wear them?

The rules are inspired by Realgestech ( also Plankengestech ), one of the forms of stechen practiced in 16th-century Germany, where reinforcing pieces were added to the jousting armour to serve as designated target areas.

In one case, the 16th-century leader Toyotomi Hideyoshi wrote a letter to the kami Inari:

Modern calculations show that the dimensions and fourteen-sided layout were dictated by the use of the standard 16th-century measure of one rod as a base and the carpenter's " rule of thumb " method of dividing a circle into seven equal parts, subdivided.

Among the sights in the vicinity of Pskov are Izborsk, a seat of Rurik's brother in the 9th century and one of the most formidable fortresses of medieval Russia ; the Pskov Monastery of the Caves, the oldest continually functioning monastery in Russia and a magnet for pilgrims from all over the country ; the 16th-century Krypetsky Monastery ; Elizarovo Monastery, which used to be a great cultural and literary center of medieval Russia ; and Mikhaylovskoye, a family home of Alexander Pushkin where he wrote some of the best known lines in the Russian language.

On Ifield Road itself, a now-derelict house at No. 10 is a mid-17th century timber-framed house with exterior tile-hanging and 19th-century brickwork ; and No. 60 and 62 were a pair of cottages created in the 19th century from a 16th-century timber-framed farmhouse, which is now used as one building again.

Apart from the keep the main structures surviving in the castle consist of the following: an early 14th century three towered fore work defending the keep entrance and including stables within it and which was accessed by a stone causeway crossing the partly in filled ditch of the earlier ringwork ; a huge late 13th-century three aisled great hall with an under croft beneath its east end opening via a water gate to the river ; a stout defensive tower turned into a solar in the late 13th century at the northern angle of the castle ; a smaller aisled hall added to the east end of the great hall in the 14th or 15th century ; a building ( possibly the mint ) added to the east end of the latter hall ; two 15th-or 16th-century stone buildings added inside the town gatehouse, 17th-century buildings added to the end of the hall range and to the north side of the keep and a series of lime kilns, one dating from the late 12th century the remainder from the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.

A 16th-century note written by the scribe Gruffudd Hiraethog ( died 1564 ) identifies Brân as the son of one Emellyr, which appears to refer to the Brân son of Ymellyrn who is depicted in the Llywarch Hen cycle of poems as an opponent of the kings of Rheged.

Viols most commonly had six strings, although many 16th-century instruments had five or even four strings.

On the hillside above the river are situated the stone-built 16th-century hunting lodge at Lincoln Hill, many 17th-and 18th-century workers cottages, some imposing Georgian houses built by ironmasters and mine and canal barge owners, and many early Victorian villas built from the various coloured bricks and tiles of the locality.

When many monastery libraries were secularized in the course of the 16th-century Protestant Reformation, long-forgotten manuscripts of Tironian notes were rediscovered.

Although plot details and many of the characters in Aguirre come directly from Herzog ’ s own imagination, historians have pointed out that the film fairly accurately incorporates some 16th-century events and historical personages into a fictional narrative.

There are many 15th and 16th-century timber-frame houses, and parts of the walls and gateways of the town.

Following the end of hostilities and the reinstatement of Chequers as a home ( now furnished with many 16th-century antiques and tapestries and the Cromwellian antiquities ), the childless Lees formed a plan.

For verse he used Petrarch in preference to Petrarch's 16th-century imitators ; many of his madrigals set Petrarch's sonnets.

At the beginning the two buildings were isolated: according to the 16th-century French traveller Pierre Gilles between them and the Mosque of Beyazid lay ruins of churches and a large cistern ; but soon many sellers opened their shops between and around them, so that a whole quarter was born, devoted exclusively to commerce.

According to the Encyclopaedia Britannica, " heavy bombing during World War II devastated many of its fine historical sites and destroyed 75 percent of the city ; St. Mary ’ s Church ( 13th – 15th century ) and the 16th-century town hall have been rebuilt ".

French parterres originated in 15th-century Gardens of the French Renaissance, such as the Chateau of Versailles, and were elaborated out of 16th-century Baroque Garden à la française knot gardens, and reached a climax at Versailles and its many European imitators, such as Kensington Palace ( illustration, right ).

Reduced plate armour, typically consisting of a breastplate, a burgonet, morion or cabasset and gauntlets, however, also became popular among 16th-century mercenaries and there are many references to so-called munition armour being ordered for infantrymen at a fraction of the cost of full plate armour.

For many centuries, the Historia was accepted at face value, and much of its material was incorporated into Holinshed's 16th-century Chronicles.

# The Game of Kings ( 1961 )-Living by his wits and his sword-arm in 16th-century Scotland, Francis Crawford of Lymond is many things: polyglot scholar, soldier, poet, musician, nobleman — and accused outlaw.

Canto LXXV is mainly a facsimile of the German pianist Gerhart Münch's violin setting of the 16th-century Italian Francesco Da Milano's transcription for lute of French composer Clément Janequin's choral work Le Chant des oiseaux, an ancient song recalled to Pound's mind by the singing of birds on the fence of the DTC, and a symbol for him of an indestructible form preserved and transmitted through many versions, times, nations and artists.

16th-century reformers such as Martin Luther opposed the use of relics since many had no proof of historic authenticity, and they objected to the cult of saints.

The interior of the church is notable for a large number of 16th-century and other colonial-era santos ( statues of the saints ), many of them done in well-preserved polychrome.

Instead of clothing his figures in the draping, shapeless fabrics many Renaissance artists equated with Classical Roman fashion, Bassano chose to feature figures in 16th-century clothing.

The Kazan Kremlin includes many old buildings, the oldest of which is the Annunciation Cathedral ( 1554-62 ), the only 16th-century Russian church to have six piers and five apses.

Other examples are the Palacio Nacional, the beautifully restored 18th-century Palacio de Iturbide, the 16th-century Casa de los Azulejos-clad with 18th-century blue-and-white talavera tiles, and many more churches, cathedrals, museums, and palaces of the elite.