It was especially important for preserving in its libraries manuscripts of Greek and Latin authors throughout a period when instability and disorder caused their mass-destruction in western Europe and north Africa: On the city's fall, thousands of these were brought by refugees to Italy, and played a key part in stimulating the Renaissance, and the transition to the modern world.

This transition from the guild hall to the bourgeois family homes in the Protestant parts of Germany ultimately gives rise to the modern tradition as it developed in the 18th and 19th centuries.

The full title is indicative of the tale's object, as ingenioso ( Spanish ) means " quick with inventiveness "< ref >, Real Academia Española </ ref > marking the transition of modern literature from Dramatic to thematic unity.

Furthermore it is believed that the Eritrean section of the Danakil Depression was a major player in terms of human evolution and may " document the entire evolution of Homo erectus up to the transition to anatomically modern humans.

The transition to behavioral modernity has been characterized as a " Great Leap Forward ", or as the " Upper Palaeolithic Revolution ", because of the sudden appearance of distinctive signs of modern behavior in the archaeological record.

( Rossy 1998: 92 ) However modern guitarists have introduced chord substitution, transition chords, and even modulation.

In this sense, the evidence with regard to the evolution of straight hair texture seems to support Jablonski's suggestions that the need for vitamin D triggered the transition from dark to pale, translucent skin among modern humans.

As with previous projects, abundant green spaces were central to Pei's vision, which also added traditional townhouses to aid the transition from classical to modern design.

Intuitionistic logic substitutes constructability for abstract truth and is associated with a transition from the proof to model theory of abstract truth in modern mathematics.

Also, Smalley argued that nearly all of modern chemistry involves reactions that take place in a solvent ( usually water ), because the small molecules of a solvent contribute many things, such as lowering binding energies for transition states.

The Oligocene is often considered an important time of transition, a link between the archaic world of the tropical Eocene and the more modern ecosystems of the Miocene.

However, the transition from Modernism to Postmodernism is often said to have happened at 3: 32pm on the 15th of July in 1972, when Pruitt Igoe ; a housing development for low-income people in St. Louis, which had been a prize winning version of le Corbusier's ' machine for modern living ' was deemed uninhabitable and was torn down ( Irving 1993, 480 ).

The transition from the Stone Age to the Bronze Age was a period during which modern people could smelt copper, but did not yet manufacture bronze, a time known as the Copper Age, or more technically the Chalcolithic, " copper-stone " age.

The 19th and early 20th century innovators of the modern three-age system recognized the problem of the initial transition, the " gap " between the Paleolithic and the Neolithic.

The transition of the office to its modern stature occurred primarily as a result of Franklin Roosevelt's 1940 nomination, when he captured the ability to nominate his running mate instead of leaving the nomination to the convention.

He expressed his doubt about modernity, seeing the modern times as " a period of transition and moral mediocrity ".

The Mafia played a huge role in this process, which was an important element in the Mafia's transition from a mostly rural phenomenon into a modern criminal organisation.

Additionally X. 25 is still under heavy use in the aeronautical business ( especially in the Asian region ) even though a transition to modern protocols like X. 400 is without option as X. 25 hardware becomes increasingly rare and costly.

Three main developments permitted the transition to modern surgical approaches-control of bleeding, control of infection and control of pain ( anaesthesia ).

During George's reign, the powers of the monarchy diminished and Britain began a transition to the modern system of cabinet government led by a prime minister.

The Historia Francorum is of salient historical interest since it describes a period of transition from Roman to Medieval, and the establishment of the Frankish state, the area of which, despite numerous fluctuations, was to remain large in terms of population and territory, and fortunate in terms of resources and wealth, throughout the Medieval period, despite divisions that formed as the modern map of Europe evolved.

For the transition to modern algebra, Bartel van der Waerden devotes thirty pages to hypercomplex numbers in his History of Algebra ( 1985 ).

Also depicted in the coin are Martin Luther ( symbolising the transition from the Middle Ages to the modern period ); Antonio Vivaldi ( exemplifying the importance of European cultural life ); and James Watt ( representing the industrialization of Europe, inventor of the first steam engine in the 18th century ).

Most of the authorities quoted in the Mishnah lived after the destruction of the Temple in 70 CE ; it thus marks the beginning of the transition from Pharisaic to Rabbinic ( i. e. modern normative ) Judaism.

The Byzantine Emperors completed the transition from the idea of the Emperor as a semi-republican official to the Emperor as an absolute monarch.

A key idea in chemical kinetics is that for reactants to react and form products, most chemical species must go through transition states which are higher in energy than either the reactants or the products and serve as a barrier to reaction.

The problem was that the Te Deum is in C major, while the Ninth Symphony is in D minor, and, although Bruckner began sketching a transition from the Adagio key of E major to the triumphant key of C major, he did not pursue the idea.

When Kyrgyzstan became independent following the Soviet Union's collapse in 1991, there was a popular idea among some Kyrgyz people to make transition to the Latin alphabet ( taking in mind a version closer to the Turkish alphabet, not the original alphabet of 1928 – 1940 ), but the plan was never implemented.

This definition matches the intuitive idea that for an automaton to be deterministic, one and only one transition must be possible for a given node.

Two years after the end of the first Space War the transition into the Human ways becomes difficult to some Zentradi who can't stand the idea of a pacified life.

More recently another possible idea has been put forward called the theory of alternative stable states which suggests that there is not one end point but many which transition between each other over ecological time.

Around 1919, Janco had come to describe Constructivism as a needed transition from " negative " Dada, an idea also pioneered by his colleagues Kurt Schwitters and Theo van Doesburg, and finding an early expression in Janco's plaster relief Soleil jardin clair ( 1918 ).

On January 16, 2009 the idea to appoint a secretary of peace in a Department of Peace was one of 10 ideas delivered to President Obama's transition team.

With pressure to increase the speed of the transition from steam to diesel, volume orders for the class 22 and class 42 followed in 1957, a mere two years after the original orders and well before any idea of performance or reliability could be gained.

However the later writings of Tolkien indicate that he didn't fully abandon the idea of a framework akin to the Ælfwine-tradition, far into the latter years of his life ; there is some evidence that, even after the " Red Book " concept was introduced, Ælfwine continued to have some role in the transition of The Silmarillion and other writings from Bilbo's translations into Modern English.

The idea of the Earth Charter originated in 1987, when the United Nations World Commission on Environment and Development called for a new charter to guide the transition to sustainable development.

It expresses the idea that different microscopic physics can give rise to the same scaling behaviour at a phase transition.

The latter adopted Cieszkowski's idea of that the dualism between consciousness and action would collapse in the latter part of the history of humanity, though he believed the synthesis had occurred on various occasions throughout history and located the transition to the ' third age ' at the Reformation instead of the philosophy of Hegel.

This idea is supported by sediment cores from Lynch ’ s Crater in Queensland, which indicate that fire increased in the local ecosystem about a century after the disappearance of megafaunal browsers, leading to a subsequent transition to fire-tolerant sclerophyll vegetation

He helped transition opera from the mid-baroque idea of it, to the late-baroque idea of it.

This idea ( Barker, 1992 ) is now widely ( if not universally ) accepted and is a source of concern for societies undergoing a transition from sparse to better nutrition ( Robinson, 2001 ).

From their first meeting in 1992 in Geneva, Gehry and Milunić began to elaborate Milunić's original idea of a building consisting of two parts, static and dynamic (" yin and yang "), which were to symbolize the transition of Czechoslovakia ( Czechia ) from a communist regime to a parliamentary democracy.