Jean Bodin, writing in the sixteenth century, may have been the seminal thinker, but it was the vastly influential John Austin who set out the main lines of the concept as now understood.

The second half of the sixteenth century in England was the setting for a violent and long controversy over the moral quality of renaissance literature, especially the drama.

This is certainly an irrational dogmatism, in which the modern mind attempts to understand the spirit of the sixteenth century on twentieth-century terms.

Secondly, to find a learned diversion and a pleasing joke in More's account of the stupid brutalities of early sixteenth century wars, of the anguish of the poor and dispossessed, of the insolence and cruelty of the rich and powerful requires a callousness toward suffering and sin that would be surprising in a moral imbecile and most surprising in More himself.

Similar literary exercises were the common doings of a Christian humanist of the first two decades of the sixteenth century.

Andrea Palladio, an Italian architect of the sixteenth century, modeled his designs on its Doric and Ionic columns.

The original impulses came to England late ( in the sixteenth century ) and continue strong long after everyone else had gone on to the baroque basso continuo, sonatas, operas and the like.

Late in the sixteenth century the " verse anthem ", in which passages for solo voices alternated with passages for full choir, developed.

* Baldo Angelo Abati ( sixteenth century ), Italian naturalist

The Schwarzwälder Freilichtmuseum Vogtsbauernhof is an open-air museum that shows the life of sixteenth or seventeenth century farmers in the region, featuring a number of reconstructed Black Forest farms.

The Bassas da India was first recorded by Portuguese explorers in the early sixteenth century as the " Baixo da Judia " (" Jewess Shoals ").

A large bronze cast medallion, some 9. 5 by 8. 7 centimetres in measurement, created by the celebrated medalist Valerio Belli in the sixteenth century.

Before the thirteenth century, beer was flavoured with plants such as yarrow, wild rosemary, and bog myrtle, and other ingredients such as juniper berries, aniseed and ginger, which would be combined into a mixture known as gruit and used as hops are now used ; between the thirteenth and the sixteenth century, during which hops took over as the dominant flavouring, beer flavoured with gruit was known as ale, while beer flavoured with hops was known as beer.

* According to culinary writer Giuliano Bugialli, the term comes from the Italian bagno maria, named after Maria de ' Cleofa, who developed the technique in Florence in the sixteenth century.

He estimated the early sixteenth century population to be 2500-3000.

Unlike other eastern Indonesian islands, such as Ambon, Solor, Ternate and Morotai, the Bandanese displayed no enthusiasm for Christianity or the Europeans who brought it in the sixteenth century, and no serious attempt was made to Christianise the Bandanese.

Trade and society in the Banda Islands in the sixteenth century.

The modern constellations in this region were defined during the Age of exploration, notably by Dutch navigators Pieter Dirkszoon Keyser and Frederick de Houtman at the end of sixteenth century.

However, the term classical music is used colloquially to describe a variety of Western musical styles from the ninth century to the present, and especially from the sixteenth or seventeenth to the nineteenth.

Archaeological studies of Grand Cayman have found no evidence that humans occupied the islands prior to the sixteenth century.

The northwest of the country, the Nicoya Peninsula, was the southernmost point of Nahuatl cultural influence when the Spanish conquerors ( conquistadores ) came in the sixteenth century.

Vittoria Colonna became famous in the sixteenth century as a poet and a figure in literate circles.

In Russian legal history, for instance, comparative method dates back to the sixteenth century.

Throughout his life Hume, who never married, spent time occasionally at his family home at Ninewells by Chirnside, Berwickshire, which had belonged to his family since the sixteenth century.

First attempts at finding the exact location of the town date back to early sixteenth century.

By 1523, according to a tax assessment, Totnes was the second richest town in Devon, and the sixteenth richest in England, ahead of Worcester, Gloucester and Lincoln.

The town is the location of several significant historic buildings, including Lewes Castle, the remains of Lewes Priory, Bull House ( the former home of Tom Paine ), Southover Grange and public gardens, and a sixteenth century timber-framed Wealden hall house known as Anne of Cleves House because it was given to her as part of her divorce settlement from Henry VIII, though she never lived there.

Near the end of the sixteenth century the town fell under Habsburg control, but Henry IV of France recaptured it.

About three kilometres distant in the eleventh century the Berber Zirids established the town of Beleb-el-Anab, which the Spaniards occupied for some years in the sixteenth century, as the French did later, in the reign of Louis XIV.

The town has two museums: Tankerness House Museum, which is contained within one of Scotland's best-preserved sixteenth century town-houses, contains items of local historical interest.

The city continued to decline, and by the middle of the sixteenth century, the town had become a small dependent village.

During the sixteenth century there arose a legend according to which the death of the Holy Child was similar to that of Jesus Christ, even emphasising similarities between the topography of the Toledan town where the events allegedly occurred ( La Guardia ) and of Jerusalem where Jesus died.

In that period, the end of the sixteenth century, namely in 1594 / 95, Hadum Suleiman Aga Hadum Efendia-built mosque, which also bears the name of the donor-sponsors of the facility in town.

From the end of the sixteenth century the town began to grow from a village settlement to a functionally diverse urban centre.

The abbey was separated from the town of Walden by Holywell Field, which was enclosed in the sixteenth century to form part of the park of Audley End, the house of Sir Thomas Audley, who converted the abbey cloisters to a dwelling c. 1538-44 The inner or Little Court of the seventeenth-century house corresponds to one of the cloisters.

Inside the old quarter ( casco vello / Barrio Xudeu ), one can visit the main square ( Praza Maior ) with interesting buildings like the sixteenth century town hall.

The last remains of it were demolished in 1928, to make way for an extension to Pearson's department store, though a panelled room with an elaborate plaster ceiling and a stone fireplace survives, relocated to a house in Gentleman's Row, a street of sixteenth to eighteenth century houses near the town centre.

The town's name means either " Skeggi's headland " or " beard-shaped headland ", depending on whether the first element represents the personal name Skeggi ( meaning ' bearded one '), one of the Vikings who established the original settlement to the east of the current town which was washed away by the sea in the early sixteenth century ; or the Old East Norse word skegg " beard ".

In the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries the Coquet Valley was a pillaging ground for bands of Reivers who attacked and burned the town with terrifying frequency.

The modern layout of the town, and many buildings in the centre, date from the sixteenth century, with the earliest dating from the fourteenth century.

Many buildings survive from this period, including a sixteenth century town hall.

The ' west town ' may have been on land that was said to exist to the west of Baleshare, washed away in the sixteenth century, over which it was possible to walk to the Monach Islands at low tide.

During the 12th and 13th centuries, extensive fortifications were raised around the town ; large portions of the wall are visible to this day, including the Porte du Val ( which includes both an inner gate dating to the 13th century and a sixteenth century outer gate ), and the 15th century Porte du Bourg with its statue of the Virgin.

Notable buildings in the town include the Market House, built in 1655 and the late-eighteenth century Gothic revival parish church of St Mary the Virgin and much of the rest of the town centre, dating from the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.

The town is first mentioned in 1204 from when it was the administrative centre for a lordship until the sixteenth century.

Bearing the de particle does not necessarily denote a noble family, especially in Castile and Alava, the de usually applied to the place-name ( town or village ) from which the person and his or her ancestors originated ; however, in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, the usage of de spread as a way of denoting the bearer ’ s noble heritage to avoid the misperception that he or she is either a Jew or a Moor.

On a narrow winding street that connects Ragusa Ibla ( the new name of R. Inferiore, taken by a legendary Greek town maybe risen here ) with Ragusa Superiore is the church of Santa Maria delle Scale (" Saint Mary of the Steps ", built between the fifteenth and the sixteenth centuries ).

During the sixteenth century the town experienced a period of expansion as the seat of the Viceroy of Calabria.