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In the period between the mid-fifteenth century and about 1570, this land held at lease was increasingly accumulated by large tenant farmers.
There are almost no technological grounds to withhold wax tablets from the hands of composers of polyphony anytime from the eleventh to the fifteenth century.
Singers of the fifteenth century faced parallel problems, particularly in the performance of the most intellectually complex music of the day.
To be exact: 3 of the 7 fourteenth-century sources and 15 of the 31 fifteenth-century ones.
By 1600, the minimum age limits of marital eligibility may have been higher and generally more uniform than they had been in the fifteenth century.
The possibility that the fifteenth century brought a new and distinctive attitude to the elderly poor is not addressed.
In the depressed demographic circumstances of the fifteenth century, custom may barely have existed.
In the fifteenth century, when yield ratios were relatively low, the only practical way to generate more income was to accumulate additional acreage.
Table 2 contrasts male and female patterns of land acquisition, comparing the mid fifteenth century with the mid sixteenth.
One is the arrival of keyboard microcomputers, the twentieth-century equivalent of the fifteenth-century printing presses...
Between the twelfth and fifteenth centur ies a large number of such texts were written.
Numerous farms and entire villages were deserted in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, and not one single market town was founded between 1350 and 1400.
The articles cover the period from the fifteenth century to the beginning of the nineteenth century.
The formation of towns recommenced, however, in the first half of the fifteenth century, but to a much lesser extent than in the thirteenth century.
The examples discussed in this article show how fifteenth-century performers, scribes and composers contended with notated rhythm.
The customary h founding dates place the beginnings of more than half of them between the fifteenth and eighteenth centuries.
Even earlier, in the fifteenth century, stock meant 'a sum of money set aside to provide for certain expenses; a fund,' but this became obsolete.
In the fifteenth century landscape painting as an autonomous genre was born.
The directly assessed subsidy had the advantage over the fifteenth and tenth that it was flexible.
Alternative sources of employment hardly developed or did not develop at all here either in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries.
The habeas corpus writ was a prerogative writ at common law which from the fifteenth century had been used to test the legality of imprisonment.
The fifteenth century emerges as exciting and fascinating, and much of the excitement and fascination is captured in this large volume.
There will also be a paper and a performance of monastic polyphony from the fourteenth\\fifteenth centuries.
The adjectival form european or europe en had been first used around the fifteenth century.
The 0.679 war likelihood for the fifteenth dispute, however, falls well above this upper bound.
During the fifteenth and texts brought us intertextuality.
The origin of the fistula in our fifteenth patient was not defined on echocardiography.
In the fifteenth century almost 35 per cent of crops output was retained for consumption.
During the fifteenth century, even manslaughter was not necessarily regarded as a case which had to be taken to court.
The first, fourteenth and fifteenth rachis node did not have 28 branches.
Although escape was usually illegal and dangerous, thousands of conversos made their way to freer lands, from the fifteenth century through the eighteenth.
The themes in question are central to the study of fourteenth- and fifteenth-century music, particularly (though not exclusively) polyphony.
Both of these techniques are mid-fifteenth-century commonplaces, but worth highlighting in view of their recurrence in works discussed below.
The majority of the dates span the city's later, major occupation (thirteenth to fifteenth centuries).
The concept of a sympathetic universe, thoroughly alive, was prevalent throughout the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries.
His research concerns the development of the figure of the architect from the fifteenth century onwards.
The author comprehensively studies and presents a relatively neglected late fifteenth-century codex of sacred song.
Medium-sized family farms, which were still dominant there at the beginning of the fifteenth century, mostly disappeared from the scene.
Even stronger differences can be observed in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries.
In the fifteenth/sixteenth centuries, however, the term of ten years became predominant.
The debate continued well into the fifteenth century and was related to controversies over church reform and the identification of heresy.
The degree to which this myth encapsulated the meaning of marriage is demonstrated by its popularity in fifteenth-century iconography of marriage.
However, perhaps after some internal resettlement, emigration accelerated in the fifteenth century.
The city alternated between two types of tax, either the fixed-yield city fifteenth, or taxes based on subsidy assessments.
By the end of the war the anticipated yield of a city fifteenth was in the region of £525.
There had also been, in the fifteenth century, renewed dispute about whether the crown could descend through the female line.
By the later fifteenth century it was in fact rare to find a one-storey house this close to the centre.
The infant was weaned from inotropic support on the third postoperative day, and from the ventilator by the fifteenth postoperative day.
Printing, selling and using books in the fifteenth century.
On the other hand, we may see some significance in the bunching of this type of litigation in the later-fourteenth- and fifteenth-century urban context.
The fifteenth and tenth was a fixed yield tax, levied by quotas on communities and assessed at their discretion.
The fifteenth, on the other hand, was paid by nearly all householders, at least in the inner-city wards from which assessments survive.
First, it is by no means clear that the fifteenth maintained its yield in the years of heavy taxation after 1585.
Entering its fifteenth year in 2003, it has probably already achieved a legendary status.
Presenting here the beginnings and development of scientific mechanics since the end of the fifteenth century would lead us too far.
Since the fifteenth century, locks were installed in rivers, to enable the passage of ships through canals of varying levels.
Furthermore, water power caused the upheaval in the mining industry from the second half of the fifteenth century.
There was, however, some rehabilitation of the term "natural theology" in the fourteenth and early fifteenth centuries.
To provide some context for the maps that started to appear in the fifteenth century, brief mention must be made of their antecedents.
The foundation of gilds and fraternities was common in the early and mid-fifteenth century.
Almost all fifteenth-century monuments depicted bishops in their eucharistic vestments, including the distinctive mitre, ring and crozier.
Essays on biblical commentary and translation in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries.
As with the earlier period, when disputes recur the probability of war increases - with it being 0.189 at the first dispute, 0.274 at the sixth, and 0.414 at the fifteenth.
There is some good, though sporadic, evidence for the use of slates in the mathematical sciences in the period from the late fourteenth to the late fifteenth century.
The other nine essays in the book are specialised studies of particular communities or regions in the time period from the fifteenth to the twentieth centuries.
In the fourteenth/early fifteenth centuries, already three-quarters of the land was given out on short-term lease here, rising to some 85 per cent around 1500.
In the fifteenth century when land was relatively easy to acquire, widows took priority, largely because sons found it easy to obtain land from outside the family.
The low rate at which widows were appointed sole executrix in the fifteenth century may be a result of the higher proportion of wealthy will-makers in this period.
The fifteenth-century data suggest clear social stratification, with the highest ranks using full proportionally more than the rest, and the lowest literate ranks using it the least.
An original fifteenth-century foliation in ink for the main parchment corpus, except the first five leaves, is still visible on the upper right corner of almost every leaf.
By the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries it meant the equivalent of temporal or national ' sovereignty ', particularly when deployed by civil lawyers against the plentitudo potestatis of the papacy.
From the fifteenth century on, universities were transformed into professional schools of theology, medicine, and law, and women were excluded from these and other learned professions and from public office.
The invention of casting iron and the transition to blast furnaces and to the indirect production of crude iron came with the beginning of the fifteenth century.
The diffusion of the study since the fifteenth century has not yet been seen in the context of scholars' new way of life and their gradual implantation within family households.
In estimating the level of taxation in the 1590s it has therefore been assumed that the yield of the fifteenth fell at a constant rate through the war years to £525.
If, when she reached her fifteenth birthday and payments stopped, her foster family no longer wanted to keep her, she would be returned to the ospizio.
In the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, and in particular around the mid-sixteenth century, the accumulation of leased land by large tenant farmers led to a development towards capital-intensive, non-labourintensive agriculture.
The earliest series of its records begins in the fifteenth century and consists of registers of petitions for these favours heard and approved by officials of the penitentiary.
Second, intermarriage among the different segments of the elite, and in particular between the military and the administrative, became much more common in the latter half of the fifteenth century.
Beginning in the twelfth century and becoming more pronounced after the fifteenth century, the non-contractual use of arable lands came to require the payment of 'fair rent'.
The subsidy yielded £196,000 and the fifteenths and tenths joined to it another £29,000.
The collection of scarcely any of the city fifteenths of these years passes without reference to the collection of arrears.
Alongside these functional buildings, the fifteenth century saw a spectacular development in those which housed the libraries.
The 'naturalism' of fifteenth- and sixteenth-century landscape painting is itself often formulaic.
With the fifteenth century, era of systematic transoceanic exploration, landscape painting's affinity with cartography becomes clearer.
Surely the point here is that in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries monasteries had a political role which went beyond mere charisma.
By the fifteenth, the custom seems to have developed by which children (at any rate boys) said or rather led the grace.
Yorkshire for example may regain the vineyards it had during the warm spell of the fifteenth century.
In the fifteenth century, the freelance soldiers had an important part to play in the war.
During the population decline in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, farm size increased.
Already, by the late fifteenth century, various types of cloth were distinguished by their county or town of manufacture.
At the end of the fifteenth and the beginning of the sixteenth century the moral categories of deserving and undeserving poor were long established.
The perspective, invented in the fifteenth century, makes possible the representation of the world as a landscape.
The model suggests that forms produced by their similarity to other forms were most likely to be acceptable in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries.
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