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  More info about: Petrarch, Poet
  Petrarch, Poet
Petrarch (Francesco Petrarca), Italian scholar, poet, and humanist, a major force in the development of the Renaissance, famous for his poems addressed to Laura, an idea...
         
  More info about: Ibn Battutah, Muslim Traveler
  Ibn Battutah, Muslim Traveler
Ibn Battuta, Muslim traveler from Tangier. No other medieval traveler is known to have journeyed so extensively. In 30 years (from c.1325) he made a series of journeys re...
         
  More info about: Timeline for Scotland
  Timeline for Scotland
A look at some of the major events in Scottish History during the Stuart Dynasty....
         
  More info about: Laura de Noves, Petrarch's Muze
  Laura de Noves, Petrarch's Muze
Laura de Noves was the wife of Count Hugues de Sade (ancestor of the Marquis de Sade). She could be the Laura that the Renaissance poet Francesco Petrarch wrote about ext...
         
  More info about: Longchenpa, Longchen Rabjampa
  Longchenpa, Longchen Rabjampa
Longchenpa or Longchen Rabjampa, Tib., klong chen pa, (1308 - 1363 possibly 1369) was a major teacher in the Nyingma school of Tibetan Buddhism. Along with Sakya Pandita...
         
  More info about: Pope Urban V, Attempt return to Rome
  Pope Urban V, Attempt return to Rome
Urban V, pope (1362–70), a Provençal named Guillaume de Grimoard; successor of Innocent VI. He was a Benedictine renowned for his knowledge of canon law. The great event...
         
  More info about: King Edward III of England
  King Edward III of England
Edward III was 14 when he was crowned King and assumed government in his own right in 1330. In 1337, Edward created the Duchy of Cornwall to provide the heir to the thron...
         
  More info about: Giovanni Boccaccio
  Giovanni Boccaccio
Giovanni Boccaccio was a Italian author and poet, the greatest of Petrarch's disciples, an important Renaissance humanist in his own right and author of a number of notab...
         
  More info about: Charles IV, Holy Roman Emperor
  Charles IV, Holy Roman Emperor
Charles IV, born Wenceslaus, of the House of Luxembourg, was Holy Roman Emperor from 1355 until his death. He was the eldest son and heir of John the Blind, from whom he...
         
  More info about: John Wycliffe, Precursor of Reformation
  John Wycliffe, Precursor of Reformation
The first hand-written English language Bible manuscripts were produced in 1380's AD by John Wycliffe, an Oxford professor, scholar, and theologian. Wycliffe, (also spell...
         
  More info about: William of Wykeham
  William of Wykeham
William of Wykeham was Bishop of Winchester, Chancellor of England, founder of Winchester College and of New College, Oxford, and builder of a large part of Windsor Castl...
         
  More info about: The Divine Comedy, Dante
  The Divine Comedy, Dante
The Divine Comedy (Italian: Commedia, later christened "Divina" by Giovanni Boccaccio), written by Dante Alighieri between 1308 and his death in 1321, is widely considere...
         
  More info about: Hongwu, Founder Ming Dynasty
  Hongwu, Founder Ming Dynasty
The Hongwu Emperor, personal name Zhu Yuanzhang, was the founder and first emperor 1368-1398 of the Ming Dynasty of China. His era name, Hongwu, means "Immensely Martial....
         
  More info about: Edward the Black Prince
  Edward the Black Prince
In the whole range of English history there is no name so completely wrapped up in the idea of English chivalry as that of Edward the Black Prince. Born on the 15th of Ju...
         
  More info about: Pope Gregory XI, Return to Rome - 1376
  Pope Gregory XI, Return to Rome - 1376
Gregory XI, 1330–78, pope (1370–78), a Frenchman named Pierre Roger de Beaufort. He was the successor of Urban V, who had made an unsuccessful attempt to remove the papac...
         
         
 
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