Mack provides a comprehensive examination of the content and circulation of rhetorical manuals published during the European Renaissance.

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Jacqueline Murray's Marriage in Premodern Europe collects a wide-ranging series of essays on marriage covering nearly four hundred years and almost the entire European Continent.

Laurence Bernard-Pradelle’s Leonardo Bruni Aretino: Histoire, e´loquence et poe´sie a` Florence au de´but du Quattrocento seeks to broaden Bruni’s appeal among readers of French. Toward this end, the book offers an extensive introduction to the life and works of Leonardo Bruni. It also includes new Latin editions of several of Bruni’s shorter works with facing-page French translations. The book concludes with a lengthy bibliography. The volume’s primary interest for readers of English will be Bernard-Pradelle’s detailed and learned analysis of Bruni’s sources for the texts published in the volume

This fascinating new book, Venice, Cita Excelentissima, contains a series of translated excerpts from the diaries of the Venetian patrician Marin Sanudo (1466-1536). Sanudo wrote his vast diaries between 1496 and 1533. As early as Sanudo's own lifetime, historians used the richness and variety of these diaries as an unparalleled evidentiary source for early modern Venice. The depth of the diaries derives from Sanudo's personal access to govern ment records and, perhaps even more, his attention to detail and the wide range of topics that he deemed worthy of record. The importance of the diaries prompted a group of Italian editors to publish them in their entirety between 1879 and 1903, a project that eventually spanned fifty-eight volumes. E

Biondo Flavio was an erudite and prolific humanist writer who began his literary career in the 1430's and continued producing latin works until his death in 1463. Scholars have attributed Biondo with primary roles in the development of archaeology, topography, historical research, historical criticism, and historical periodization. His writings themselves influenced the content and approach of scholars across Europe for centuries.

This thesis will have four main objectives. (1) A descriptive and logical summary of the events leading up to the Hungarian uprising, and of the uprising itself, will be given. (2) The aftermath of the revolution will be examined. (3) Relations between Hungary and the Western world will be explored, and the question will be raised as to whether the West could have done more to help Hungary to gain her freedom. (4) An attempt will be made to answer the question of why Russia intervened in Hungary, while not intervening in Poland.

Purpose of the survey. This is the psychological moment in Moorish history in which to examine the marriage customs of the country. With the advent of Moroccan Independence in 1956, Moroccan manners and customs entered a state of flux--combining the old traditions with new and modern ways of living. As a result, weddings may become simpler, and the marriage outlook may become more vest- ernized; but, the background for both institutions will remain rooted in the age-old traditions and beliefs. It is these we will discuss in this thesis. They may possibly disappear within our own lifetimes, and it is, therefore, of fundamental importance that these cultural traditions concerning marriage be preserved. To my knowledge there has been no other study of this subject made in America. Many tourists and students have published comprehensive works on Moorish life, and, of course, have discussed marriage within the framework of a total study. Only westermarck's Marriage Ceremonies in Morocco has dealt with the subject of itself.

A few words with regard to certain aspects of the terms religious art and secular art seem appropriate to a proper statement of the problem to be investigated in this thesis. In recent years Western students of art have real177ized that many instances exist which may not be classified easily in either category. Peter Fingesten, a student of the arts, has suggested that the term sacred art might beat be reserved for icons, paintings, reliquaries, and all implements of ritual and worship. Art objects in this category are produced according to hieratic code and symbolism. On the other hand, there is an impressive array of materials with a religious orientation, though not intended for shrine or altar. To this class of more freely creative art, Hr. Pingesten would affix the expression religious art. What then remains untainted by religious significance would be called secular art.

This degree project is a study investigating how the historiography of king Henry VIII of England has changed between 1887-1995. The aim of the study was to gain insight into how the historiography of Henry VIII and the most important aspects of his reign were viewed at different periods of the 19th and 20th centuries and how it has changed over that period. To achieve this aim, Karlsson’s and Zander’s theory about the uses of history was used along with a qualitative method of analysis. The results show that a change did occur in the historiography around Henry VIII at the beginning of the 20th century when the traditional Whig-school of writing history was surpassed by the modernist school of writing. Henry VIII went from being represented as a great ruler with his peoples’ best at heart to a flawed individual whose decisions were often motivated by selfish reasons. Overall, the historiography of Henry VIII has changed from glorifying the king’s personality to showing a more factual picture of the king and the advisors at his court.