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...uncritically, prefiguring a lifelong love-hate relationship with the modern era in a speech describing it as "new in good [and] new in evil." After the council, he was elected to an important position in the Bishops' Synod and was later regarded as a protégé of Pope Paul VI. Yet after Paul died in 1978 and his successor John Paul I succumbed to a heart attack only 34 days into his papacy, Wojtyla was so oblivious to his impending fate that he spent the first day of the new papal conclave nonchalantly browsing through a quarterly review of Marxist...
...more elaborate synthesis of existing sources of geographic knowledge informs the spectacular Catalan Atlas, commissioned by the crown prince of Aragon as a present for the 13-year-old Charles VI of France in 1375. The work of Cresques Abraham, the "master of maps and compasses" of the Spanish court, the Atlas was the earliest map to incorporate the travels of Marco Polo a century earlier, and thus sketched a recognizable outline of Asia that would be refined over the next 500 years of exploration. It includes a Europeanate illustration of Beijing and a portrait of the Mongol ruler Kublai...
...DIED. PRINCESS ALICE, DUCHESS OF GLOUCESTER, 102, aunt of Queen Elizabeth II; in London. Born Lady Alice Christabel Montagu Douglas Scott, daughter of the seventh Duke of Buccleuch, she married Prince Henry, brother of the Queen?s father King George VI, in 1935. Though her husband died in 1974, she kept up a busy schedule of official royal duties and charitable work into...
...Harvard elementary Latin examination (4 points), the following Board examinations in Latin--(a) i grammar, ii elementary prose composition; (d) Virgil's "Aeneid," books I--VI, or (g) "Ovid," 2500 lines; (m) elementary sight translation of prose. (These must be offered the same year...
...Paris 1400, Art During the Reign of Charles VI covers the King's long reign from 1380 to 1422, when Paris emerged as an artistic and intellectual capital. Despite Charles' bouts of madness, he presided over a long lull in the Hundred Years War, and his flourishing city attracted artists and artisans from all across Europe, notably Italy, Flanders and Germany. Prefiguring Renaissance humanism, their themes were not only religious but also the ideals of chivalry and courtly love, and their handiwork included painting, sculpture, manuscript illuminations, enamels, tapestries, stained glass, embroidery and jewelry. Sometime in the late 18th century...