Articles with keyword "sixteenth century"
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The Everlasting Bible
New translations of the Bible have sought to make it accessible to everyone.
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Impertinent Questions with Deborah Harkness
On animated pies and other curiosities of sixteenth-century life.
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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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Four Acrobats
Four Acrobats, the mid nineteenth-century Indian miniature, was once part of an ordered series of paintings, each of which corresponded to one of the melodic modes—or rāga—of classical Indian music.
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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