De Pizan ’ s participation in a literary quarrel, in 1401 – 1402, allowed her to move beyond the courtly circles, and ultimately to establish her status as a writer concerned with the position of women in society.

De Pizan was greatly interested in history, from the Matter of Troy to the " founding of the royal house of France " ( for her the latter was a consequence of the former ).

De Pizan then argues that " skill in discourse should be a part of every woman ’ s moral repertoire ".

De Pizan specifically sought out other women to collaborate in the creation of her work.

De Pizan contributed to the rhetorical tradition by counteracting the contemporary discourse.

The Selected Writings of Christine De Pizan: New Translations, Criticism.

* De Pizan, Christine.

Another of his theological textbooks that strove to be more minute in its focus, is his De Fide Catholica, dated somewhere between 1185 to 1200, Alan sets out to refute heretical views, specifically that of the Waldensians and Cathars.

King Henry IV ( despite being John of Gaunt's son ) passed the De heretico comburendo in 1401, which did not specifically ban the Lollards, but prohibited translating or owning the Bible and authorised burning heretics at the stake.

De Icaza specifically criticized a generally developer-focused culture, lack of backward compatibility and fragmentation among the various Linux distributions.

" More specifically, he envisioned " Bob De Niro in the mirror as Travis Bickle.

Many of the scenes were shot in Golden Gate Park, specifically at the Music Concourse ( between the old De Young Museum and the old California Academy of Sciences ), the Japanese Tea Garden and The Huntington Library and Gardens.

A " De Facto Relationship " is not comparable to common-law marriage, which is a fully legal marriage that has merely been contracted in an irregular way ( specifically, by habit and repute ).

The Futurist art movement was important for the development of the noise aesthetic, as was the Dada art movement ( a prime example being the Antisymphony concert performed on April 30, 1919 in Berlin ), and later the Surrealist and Fluxus art movements, specifically the Fluxus artists Joe Jones, Yasunao Tone, George Brecht, Robert Watts, Wolf Vostell, Yoko Ono, Nam June Paik, Walter De Maria's Ocean Music, Milan Knížák's Broken Music Composition, early LaMonte Young and Takehisa Kosugi.

Levai notes that while Plutarch ’ s De Iside et Osiride mentions the deity's marriage, there is very little specifically linking Nephthys and Set in the original early Egyptian sources.

Augustine wrote four letters specifically on Pelagianism, " De peccatorum meritis et remissione libri III " ( Three Books on the Merits and Forgiveness of Sins ) in 412, " De spiritu et litera " ( On the Spirit and the Letter ) and " Definitiones Caelestii " ( Caelestius's Definitions ) in 414, and " De natura et gratia " ( On Nature and Grace ) in 415.

Thomas Aquinas specifically attacked the doctrine of monopsychism and panpsychism in his book De unitate intellectus contra Averroistas.

The 1989 debut album by hip-hop combo De La Soul featured an uncredited sample from the Turtles ( specifically, the intro to " You Showed Me "), in the song " Transmitting Live from Mars ".

* De Morgan's Laws, specifically the ability to generate the dual of any logical expression.

In the De Stijl movement specifically, the horizontal and the vertical were seen as constituting the universal.

It was only the loophole concerning vacuum that allowed amplifying triodes to be manufactured at all, since none of the original patents by De Forest specifically mentioned the use of a vacuum as part of the tube.

In his De praescriptione contra haereticos, Tertullian mentioned continence as one of the customs in Mithraism that he claimed were imitated from Christianity, but does not associate it specifically with the clergy.

It is most likely that the town was established by the De Clare family specifically for the exploitation of local supplies of iron ore and charcoal, to provide weapons, armour and iron work for their military advances in Wales, including the building of Caerphilly Castle.

The poem also bears a resemblance to the Lucretius's classical poem " De Rerum Natura " and, specifically, an English translation by John Mason Good.

However, the President appoints the Prime Minister and the ministers and is under no constitutional, mandatory obligation to make those appointments from the ranks of the parliamentary majority party ; this is a safe-guard specifically introduced by the founder of the Fifth Republic, Charles De Gaulle, to prevent the disarray and horse-trading caused by the Third and Fourth Republics parliamentary régimes ; in practice PM and ministers do come from the majority although President Sarkozy did appoint Socialist ministers or secretary of state-level junior ministers to his government.

De Grey defines aging as " the set of accumulated side effects from metabolism that eventually kills us ", and, more specifically, as follows: " a collection of cumulative changes to the molecular and cellular structure of an adult organism, which result in essential metabolic processes, but which also, once they progress far enough, increasingly disrupt metabolism, resulting in pathology and death.

In Luo Guanzhong's historical novel Romance of the Three Kingdoms, Pang De specifically instructed his wife to take good care of Pang Hui before he left for the Battle of Fancheng.

Augustus De Morgan has suggested that the translation was solely the work of Dee, but in his correspondence Dee states specifically that only the introduction and the supplementary material were his.

Spielberg suggested casting Ford as Jones, but Lucas objected, stating that he did not want Ford to become his " Bobby De Niro " or " that guy I put in all my movies ", a reference to Martin Scorsese, who often worked with Robert De Niro.

A Marxist until his death, Polonsky publicly objected when director Irwin Winkler rewrote his script for 1991's Guilty by Suspicion, a film about the Hollywood blacklist era, by revising the lead character ( Robert De Niro ) into a liberal, rather than a Communist.

Of the various particle accelerators, the Van De Graff machines, resonant transformers, and linear accelerators are the principal ones available for commercial use.

In about 701 Bede wrote his first works, the De Arte Metrica and De Schematibus et Tropis ; both were intended for use in the classroom.

Another educational work is De schematibus et tropis sacrae scripturae, which discusses the Bible's use of rhetoric.

The first documented battlefield use of fire lances took place in 1132 when Chen Gui used them to defend De ' an from attack by the Jurchen Jin.

The species name troglodytes, Greek for " cave-dweller ", was coined by Johann Friedrich Blumenbach in his book De generis humani varietate nativa liber (" on the natural varieties of the human genus ") published in 1776, This book was based on his dissertation presented one year before ( it had a date 16 Sep 1775 printed on its title page ) to the University of Göttingen for internal use only, thus the dissertation did not meet the conditions for published work in the sense of zoological nomenclature.

The first chronicled use of " fire spears " ( or " fire lances ") is at the siege of De ' an in 1132.

The first recorded use of incunabula as a printing term is in a Latin pamphlet by Bernhard von Mallinckrodt, De ortu et progressu artis typographicae (" Of the rise and progress of the typographic art ", Cologne, 1639 ), which includes the phrase prima typographicae incunabula, " the first infancy of printing ", a term to which he arbitrarily set an end, 1500, which still stands as a convention.

Mies found appeal in the use of simple rectilinear and planar forms, clean lines, pure use of color, and the extension of space around and beyond interior walls expounded by the Dutch De Stijl group.

His prose works on various subjects – Prometheus, dialogues like Symposium ( a banquet at which Virgil, Horace and Messalla were present ), De cultu suo ( on his manner of life ) and a poem In Octaviam (" Against Octavia ") of which the content is unclear-were ridiculed by Augustus, Seneca and Quintilian for their strange style, the use of rare words and awkward transpositions.

Dioscorides ' five-volume De Materia Medica, the precursor of pharmacopoeias, remained in use ( with some improvements in Arabic versions ) from the 1st to 16th centuries and described opium and the wide range of uses prevalent in the ancient world.

The first known use of the term pantheism was by English mathematician Joseph Raphson in his work De spatio reali, written in Latin and published in 1697.

This new use of rhetoric is explored in the Fourth Book of his De Doctrina Christiana, which laid the foundation of what would become homiletics, the rhetoric of the sermon.

The original use of the term was as a form of praxis rather than theory – a term used as a convention to refer to something that otherwise cannot be discussed in words – and early writings such as the Dao De Jing and the I Ching make pains to distinguish between conceptions of Dao ( sometimes referred to as " named Dao ") and the Dao itself ( the " unnamed Dao "), which cannot be expressed or understood in language.

In 1907, De Forest filed for a patent for such a three-electrode version of his original Audion tube for use as an electronic amplifier in radio communications.

* Dioscorides writes his De Materia Medica, a treatise on the methodical treatment of disease by use of medicine.

* Richard Eden publishes The Decades of the Newe Worlde or West India, a translation into English of parts of Pietro Martire d ' Anghiera's De orbe novo decades, Gonzalo Oviedo's Natural hystoria de las Indias and others including the first recorded use in English of the country name ' China '.

In 1574 he wrote his De jure magistratuum ( Right of Magistrates ), in which he emphatically protested against tyranny in religious matters, and affirmed that it is legitimate for a people to oppose an unworthy magistracy in a practical manner and if necessary to use weapons and depose them.

The modern petrological term basalt describing a particular composition of lava-derived rock originates from its use by Georgius Agricola in 1556 in his famous work of mining and minerology De re metallica, libri XII.

Serial music is represented by choral works by Arnold Schoenberg, including the anthem " Dreimal Tausend Jahre ," while the composer's signature use of sprechstimme is evident in his psalm " De Profundis.

A report published in Science ( Vol 313 ; Sept. 29, 2006 ) by Runyon, Mescher, and De Moraes, researchers at Penn State University, demonstrates that dodder use airborne volatile organic compound cues to locate their host plants.

* 70 – 50 AD – Pedanius Dioscorides writes De Materia Medica – a precursor of modern pharmacopoeias that was in use for almost 1600 years

Don Rosa's incarnation of Magica De Spell is, however, far more limited as she usually only uses magic through magical objects and in The Quest for Kalevala, Magica acknowledges that she can't use magic without a wand.