Conversely, Michel de Montaigne's essay " Of cannibals " introduced a new multicultural note in European civilization.

Lévi-Strauss often referred to Montaigne's essay on cannibalism as an early example of ethnology.

Montaigne's essay " Des Canibales ", and was destined to have wide literary currency in European literature two centuries later.

Montaigne's essay " On the Education of Children " is dedicated to Diana of Foix.

She wrote verses about her cat Léonore ( also the name of Montaigne's daughter ) and Joan of Arc, adapted Ronsard, wrote on the instruction of princes, and criticized the Précieuses.

The remarkable modernity of thought apparent in Montaigne's essays, coupled with their sustained popularity, made them arguably the most prominent work in French philosophy until the Enlightenment.

Other possible sources are the anonymous play King Leir ( published in 1605 ); A Mirror for Magistrates ( 1574 ), by John Higgins ; The Malcontent ( 1604 ), by John Marston ; The London Prodigal ( 1605 ); Arcadia ( 1580 – 1590 ), by Sir Philip Sidney, from which Shakespeare took the main outline of the Gloucester subplot ; Montaigne's Essays, which were translated into English by John Florio in 1603 ; An Historical Description of Iland of Britaine, by William Harrison ; Remaines Concerning Britaine, by William Camden ( 1606 ); Albion's England, by William Warner, ( 1589 ); and A Declaration of egregious Popish Impostures, by Samuel Harsnett ( 1603 ), which provided some of the language used by Edgar while he feigns madness.

The early half of the century also saw the continued popularity of the comic short story and collections of humorous discussions, typified by the Histoires comiques of François du Souhait ; the playful, chaotic, sometimes-obscene and almost-unreadable Moyen de parvenir by Béroalde de Verville ( a parody of " table talk " books, of Rabelais and of Michel de Montaigne's The Essays ); the anonymous Caquets de l ' accouchée ( 1622 ); and Molière d ' Essertine's Semaine amoureuse ( a collection of short stories ).

A library such as Montaigne's was a rare occurrence for people other than lawyers and members of parliament who had had an elite education in the universities ; for the public, the broadsheet or penny press ( with woodcut illustrations ) sold door to door by colporters would have been their only access to the written word.

In a series of meditations that owe something to Montaigne's Essays, and have the discursive rhythm of an age of leisured reading and a confident pursuit of educated pleasures, Brillat-Savarin discourses on the pleasures of the table, which he considers a science.

This edition gives modern editors a text dramatically indicative of Montaigne's final intentions ( as opposed to the multitude of Renaissance works for which no autograph exists ).

The character may be seen as a satire on " Noble cannibal " from Montaigne's Essays ( A. 30, " Of Cannibals ").

Hamlet's " What a piece of work is a man " echoes many of Montaigne's ideas, but scholars disagree whether Shakespeare drew directly from Montaigne or whether both men were simply reacting similarly to the spirit of the times.

After Montaigne's death, Gournay edited the third edition of the Essays in 1595 and it is for this that she is best known.

The first literary reference to Marie as Montaigne's " fille d ' alliance " is in the Essays:

Her translation of the Essays, is remarkable for fidelity in translating Latin sentences and Montaigne's highly specific references to classical and sometimes obscure texts.

Montaigne's stated goal in his book is to describe man, and especially himself, with utter frankness.

* John Florio – translation into English of Michel de Montaigne's Essais

" together with Florio's English translation of Montaigne's adaptation of Virgil's line: " Whence so dyre desire of Light on wretches grow?

In brief, the Pirenne Thesis, an early essay in economic history diverging from the narrative history of the 19th century, notes that in the ninth century long-distance trading was at a low ebb ; the only settlements that were not purely agricultural were the ecclesiastical, military and administrative centres that served the feudal ruling classes as fortresses, episcopal seats, abbeys and occasional royal residences of the peripatetic palatium.

The back of the album cover contains an essay of biographical information of Stevens from his youth in his hometown of Clarkdale, Georgia to the time of this album's release and gives brief descriptions of all the songs on the album.

' In her essay in this issue, Smaro Kamboureli writes ' ' Surviving the Paraphrase ,' originally presented in 1974 at the founding meeting of the association of Canadian and Quebec Literatures, and subsequently published in Canadian Literature in 1976, inaugurates a pivotal moment ... in the development of Canadian criticism, for it presents one of the earliest, albeit brief, critiques of thematic criticism in Canada.

* A brief history of the house-painting trade in London ca. 1660-1850 can be found in this essay by the English historian of paint and colour, Patrick Baty

The case raised questions about England's status as an " enlightened " nation — Voltaire used the case in his brief essay Singularités de la nature to describe how the Protestant English were still influenced by an ignorant Church.

In September 1959, he went on to Mexico, where he remained for a year at the Institute of Political Science at the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México and wrote Diferencias y semejanzas entre los países de América Latina ( Differences and resemblances among the Latin American countries ), a long essay even broader than its title might suggest, in that it also drew parallels to Asia and Africa, and generally cast his lot with the emerging Third World-ist view, condemning imperialism and colonialism and expressing his admiration for the revolution then in progress in Cuba, which proved to be his next destination ( although with some brief trips back to Argentina ).

* John C. McDowell, Girton College, Cambridge: " Rudolf Bultmann ( 1884-1976 )": brief introductory essay

* A brief essay on The Execution of Pierre Laporte

* A brief critical essay on Ludovico Einaudi

In 1859, at the time of the Orsini case, Shaw Kennedy wrote an essay on The Defence of Great Britain and Ireland and in 1860 he wrote a brief autobiography.

A brief essay on Anglo-Norse carvings.

* A brief essay on the series, and an episode guide

The second part, on Musica Pratica, is the section of this treatise where the author presents his instruction on counterpoint, fugue, double counterpoint, a brief essay on musical taste, and his ideas on composing sacred music, writing in the a cappella and in the recitativo style.

Adler penned all 102 introductions himself, giving a brief essay on the idea and its connection with the western canon.

The author Jonathan Franzen authored an essay in The New Yorker about his brief stay on the island while mourning the suicide of his friend and fellow author David Foster Wallace.

Jane Ace sought no further acting work after the show ended at last, mostly retiring to a quiet life, except for a brief spell as what her husband described ( in a 1952 essay ) as " a comedienne now making her come-down as a disc jockey.

De Providentia (" On Providence ") is a short essay in the form of a dialogue in six brief sections, written by the Latin philosopher Lucius Annaeus Seneca, " Seneca the Younger " ( died AD 65 ) in the last years of his life.

Frederic H. Balfour's ( 1880: 380-381 ) brief essay about the Xinyin jing (" The Imprint of the Heart ") contains the earliest known Western reference to the Three Treasures: " There are three degrees of Supreme Elixir – the Spirit, the Breath, and the Essential Vigour ".

A brief essay on the publishing history of Arzach concludes the book.

( He confessed in the essay to having seen only brief clips of one version.

" In the Montreal Gazette, Bryan Demchinsky called Wright eloquent and the book " a brief, trenchant essay.

On the brief were Solicitor General Rankin, Assistant Attorney General Wilkey, Beatrice Rosenberg and J. F. Bishop.

On the contrary, the old plays are continually being reinterpreted, and each new production of a classic has only a brief history at the Comedie.

On the Nature of Animals, (" On the Characteristics of Animals " is an alternative title ; usually cited, though, by its Latin title ), is a curious collection, in 17 books, of brief stories of natural history, sometimes selected with an eye to conveying allegorical moral lessons, sometimes because they are just so astonishing:

* Carl Rogers ' On Becoming A Person, a brief introduction.

On March 28, the LCR filed a brief asking that the court deny the administration's request.

On 28th February 1985, Chernenko appeared once more on television to receive parliamentary credentials and read out a brief statement on his electoral victory: the election campaign is over and now it is time to carry out the tasks set for us by the voters and the Communists who have spoken out.

" To make clear my exposition in writing this brief commentary on painting ," Alberti began his treatise, Della Pittura ( On Painting ), " I will take first from the mathematicians those things with which my subject is concerned.

On Christmas of 1838, he left Paris for Marseilles and, after a brief stay, travelled to Nice where his condition worsened.

On 12 March 1178 Alexander III returned to Rome, which he had been compelled to leave twice: the first time between 1162 and 23 November 1165, when he was sent into exile in Campania by Oddone Frangipane following his brief arrest and detainment, and again in 1167.

" On the BTTB U. S. tour, he opened the show performing a brief avant-garde DJ set under the stage name DJ Lovegroove.

On July 10, Jonathan Sánchez, spot starting in place of an injured Randy Johnson and on his first start upon returning to the starting rotation after a brief demotion to the bullpen, threw a no-hitter against the San Diego Padres.

Tertullian, " On Monogamy " ch. vi quotes a brief phrase —" follow the better things "— from 3 John 1. 11 " Beloved, imitate not that which is evil, but that which is good ", a phrase that might also have been adapted from the Septuagint Psalm xxxvi.

On 30 July 1980, amidst the brief Coconut War, the Republic of Vanuatu was created.

His best efforts in this line include The Gentleman in the Parlour, dealing with a journey through Burma, Siam, Cambodia and Vietnam, and On a Chinese Screen, a series of very brief vignettes which might almost be notes for short stories that were never written.

On 11 November, a French Army Honor Guard held a brief ceremony for Arafat, with his coffin draped in a Palestinian flag.

On October 28, 1999, Judge June Green issued a brief opinion rejecting all three of the petitioners ' arguments.

On this day Vivekananda gave his first brief address.

On 17 February 1919, there was a three-day coup, the so-called Speckputsch, a brief interlude of excitement in the otherwise rather staid town.

On 12 November 1947, after a brief but highly publicized trial, he was convicted of falsification and fraud charges, and was sentenced to a modest punishment of one year in prison.

On the right, the Legitimists and Ultra-royalists held counter-revolutionary views, while the Orléanists hoped to create a constitutional monarchy under their preferred branch of the royal family, a brief reality after the 1830 July Revolution.

On a recent visit to Dundee we had an interesting conversation with the author upon more advanced truths, and a brief inspection of his great and still incomplete work-a Dictionary of 53 Languages, upon which he has labored closely since 1828.

* Robert Burns published a brief irreverent poem, On A Celebrated Ruling Elder, as an elegy for a Scottish Presbyterian.

On September 26, 2007, Bill Wirtz, the longtime owner of the Blackhawks, died after a brief battle with cancer.

On 17 July 1402, after a brief visit to his father's tomb, Zhu Di was crowned Emperor Yongle at the age of 42.