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Jacopo della Quercia
Jacopo della Quercia , c.1374-1438, Italian sculptor. His work shows the transition from medieval to Renaissance art. He is especially noted for his imposing allegorical figures for the Gaia Fountain in Siena. About 1425 he began to decorate the main portal of San Petronio, Bologna, with scenes from... Read more
Melozzo da Forlì
Melozzo da Forlì , 1438-94, Umbrian painter. His extant works, though few, reveal him as a painter of power and individuality. He is especially notable for his bold foreshortening, in the use of which, particularly in vaultings, he was a pioneer. His known works include the great fresco of th... Read more
Jacques Paul Migne
Jacques Paul Migne , 1800-1875, French publisher of theological works, a Roman Catholic priest (ordained 1824). He set up a printing press in Paris and printed many religious and theological works. His principal publication was called Patrologia, an ambitious project the aim of which was to publis... Read more
Habsburg
Habsburg (Hapsburg) Austrian royal dynasty, a leading ruling house in Europe from the 13th to 19th century. It became a major force when Rudolf I was elected king of the Germans (1273). He established the core of the Habsburg dominions in Austria. The Habsburgs ruled the Holy Roman Empire from 1438... Read more
Margery Kempe
Margery Kempe , d. 1438 or afterward, English religious writer, b. King's Lynn. She was the wife of a prominent citizen and the mother of 14 children. Her autobiography, The Book of Margery Kempe (complete ed. 1940; ed. with modern spelling 1944), was known only in small excerpts until 1934, when ... Read more
Council of Ferrara-Florence
Council of Ferrara-Florence 1438-45, second part of the 17th ecumenical council of the Roman Catholic Church; the first part was the Council of Basel, canonically convened but after 1437 schismatic (see Basel, Council of ). The chief goal at Ferrara was to end the schism of East and West; it was v... Read more
Alfonso V
Alfonso V 1432-81, king of Portugal (1438-81), son of Duarte and Queen Leonor. During his minority there was a struggle for the regency between the queen mother and Alfonso's uncle, Dom Pedro, duke of Coimbra. The duke was triumphant (1440) and retained power after Alfonso was declared of age (1446... Read more
Charles VII
Charles VII (Charles the Well Served), 1403-61, king of France (1422-61), son and successor of Charles VI. His reign saw the end of the Hundred Years War . Although excluded from the throne by the Treaty of Troyes , Charles took the royal title after his father's death (1422) and ruled S of the L... Read more
electors
electors in the history of the Holy Roman Empire , the princes who had the right to elect the German kings or, more exactly, the kings of the Romans (Holy Roman emperors). Until the reign (1493-1519) of Maximilian I , however, an elected king was traditionally crowned by the pope before he was ca... Read more
Gallicanism
Gallicanism , in French Roman Catholicism, tradition of resistance to papal authority. It was in opposition to ultramontanism , the view that accorded the papacy complete authority over the universal church. Two aspects of Gallicanism are sometimes distinguished: royal Gallicanism, which defended t... Read more

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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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Michelozzo
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography ...1425-1427) in the Baptistery of Florence and Cardinal Brancacci (1427-1428) in Naples and for the outdoor pulpit (1433-1438) of the Cathedral at Prato. With his commission to rebuild the monastic church of St. Francesco in Mugello, called Bosco...
René
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition ...Joanna II of Naples (d. 1435), who adopted him as heir. Released from his imprisonment in 1437, René arrived (1438) in Italy to take possession of his kingdom. Alfonso V, who had taken over the kingdom when Joanna died, defeated (1442...
Jacques Paul Migne
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition ...gradually with better editions. There were three series: Latin Fathers to Innocent III (217 vol. and an index in 4 vol.); Greek Fathers (to 1438) in Latin translation (81 vol.); and Greek Fathers in Greek and Latin (166 vol.).
Margery Kempe
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition Margery Kempe , d. 1438 or afterward, English religious writer, b. King's Lynn. She was the wife of a prominent citizen and the mother of 14 children...
Gallicanism
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition ...general councils over the pope. The Council of Basel (see Basel, Council of ) further extended the conciliar ideas and in 1438 the French king, Charles VII, legalized these antipapal measures in the Pragmatic Sanction of Bourges (see under pragmatic...

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Angelico, Fra
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Art and Artists ...He and his assistants painted about fifty frescos there ( c. 1438–45)—works that are at once the expression...in the S. Marco museum, including a Madonna and Saints ( c. 1438–40) commissioned by Piero de' Medici for the high...
Ely, Reginald
Book article from: A Dictionary of Architecture and Landscape Architecture Ely, Reginald or Ely, Reynold of ( fl. 1438–d.1471). English master-mason. As one of the...His name is first associated with Peterhouse, Cambridge, in 1438, where he built the stair to the library at the west side of...
Florence, Council of
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church Florence, Council of (1438–45). This was a continuation of the Council at Basle , which Eugenius IV transferred to Ferrara (1438–9), Florence (1439–43) and then Rome (1443–5). Its chief...
Inca
Book article from: A Dictionary of World History ...by Manco Capac, but real expansion did not take place until 1438, forming an empire stretching from northern Ecuador, across...the development of the imperial administration: Pachacuti (1438–71), Topa Inca (1471–93), and Huayna...
Janyns, Robert
Book article from: A Dictionary of Architecture and Landscape Architecture Janyns, Robert ( fl. 1438–64). English mason. He was Warden of the Masons during the building of All Souls College, Oxford (1438–43). He became master-mason during the building of the bell-tower at Merton College...
Heinzelmann, Konrad
Book article from: A Dictionary of Architecture and Landscape Architecture ...hall-church of St Georg, Nördlingen, Bavaria, from 1427 to 1438. He was in Rothen-burg-ob-der-Tauber, overseeing works at the Church of St Jakob, in 1438, and from 1439 until his death was building the choir of St Lorenz...
John of Saxony
Dictionary entry from: Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography ...attested to by the number of extant manuscripts and by their inclusion in the first printed edition of the Alfonsine tables (1438); the canons of John of Lign è res, like those of John of Murs, were never printed. Produced through the efforts...
Eugenius IV
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church ...though when it refused to dissolve he recognized it as canonical in 1433. Relations with the Council remained tense and in 1438, against the wishes of the majority, he transferred it to Ferrara and in 1439 to Florence . The continuing Council at Basle...
Bernardino of Siena, St
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church ...Bernardino of Siena, St (1380–1444), Franciscan reformer. He became a Franciscan friar at the age of 22 and in 1438 was elected Vicar General of the Friars of the Strict Observance in Italy. He was an eloquent preacher and at the time of his...
Germany, Federal Republic of
Book article from: A Dictionary of World History ...part of the HOLY ROMAN EMPIRE in 962, and almost 200 years later was invaded by the Mongols. A period of unrest followed until 1438 when the long rule of the HABSBURGS began. The kingdom, now made up of hundreds of states, was torn apart during the THIRTY...

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