Articles with keyword "fifteenth century"
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Brass Hip Ornament
Within the culture of the Benin Empire, which thrived from the fifteenth through the nineteenth century in what is now southern Nigeria, only the oba, or sacred monarch, had the authority to
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Sailor of Fortune
Michael of Rhodes was not your typical fifteenth-century Venetian, and he left his manuscript as proof.
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City Desk
Renaissance diarist Marin Sanudo’s political ambitions nearly truncated his accomplishment as a daily recorder of events in what was arguably the world’s most powerful and dynamic city of the day, Ven