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Jacopo della Quercia
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
...della Quercia Jacopo della Quercia (1374-1438), an Italian sculptor and architect...Before the portal was completed, in 1438, the master received and executed in 1430...ill, and he died in Siena on Oct. 20, 1438. In the 10 well-preserved marble relief...
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Council of Ferrara-Florence
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Council of Ferrara-Florence 1438-45, second part of the 17th ecumenical council of the Roman Catholic...of the East arrived soon after the council's beginning (Jan., 1438); they included the emperor, the patriarch of Constantinople...
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Sergius, St.
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Russian History
...Wise" in 1418 and revisions of it by Pakhomy "the Serb" from 1438 to 1459. Baptized Varfolomei, he was the second of three sons...s intercession is Pakhomy's revision of Sergius's Life in 1438, the episode became widely accepted, and Sergius was recognized...
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Callahuaya
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Cultures
...purveyors of medicines throughout the Tiahuanaco cultures (a.d. 400-1145), the Mollo culture (1145-1438), the Inca Empire (1438-1532), the Spanish Conquest (1532-1825), and the Bolivian Republic (1825-). As early as the Tiahuanaco...
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Holy Roman Empire
Book article from: World Encyclopedia
...However, the Empire never encompassed all of western Christendom, and relations with the papacy were often difficult. From 1438, the title was virtually hereditary in the Habsburg dynasty. After 1648, the Empire became little more than a loose confederation...
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libraries
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to British History
...of Worcester, built a small library at Oxford c. 1320; Archbishop Chichele gave 49 books to his new college of All Souls in 1438, and Duke Humphrey of Gloucester , a great patron of learning, made handsome bequests to the university in the same period...
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Somerset, Edmund Beaufort, 1st duke of
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to British History
...Somerset, Edmund Beaufort, 1st duke of ( c. 1406–55). Entitled count of Mortain from 1427, and earl of Dorset from 1438, Beaufort was frequently employed in the defence of Lancastrian France, with the backing of his uncle, Cardinal Beaufort...
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Chichele, Henry
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to British History
...councils for most of his life. He founded a collegiate church at his birthplace, Higham Ferrers (Northants), in 1422, and in 1438 the college of All Souls, Oxford, for 40 fellows praying for the souls of Henry V and other English casualties in the French...
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Habsburg
Book article from: World Encyclopedia
...Germans (1273). He established the core of the Habsburg dominions in Austria . The Habsburgs ruled the Holy Roman Empire from 1438 to 1806. Under Charles V , their dominions included the Low Countries, Spain and its empire, and parts of Italy. From 1556...
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Nicholas, Pope, V
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
...with Pope Eugenius IV, who had ordered it dissolved. In 1435 the Council passed a decree abolishing annates. On January 24, 1438, the Council deposed Eugenius IV and voided his acts. They replaced him with the former duke of Savoy, Amadeus VIII, who...
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