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Andreas Vesalius
Andreas Vesalius (1514-1564) was the most celebrated anatomist in Europe during the 16th century and a key figure of the Scientific Revolution. Vesalius' great work was his On the Fabric of the Human Body, which contains over 250 remarkable...

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Andreas Karlstadt
Andreas Karlstadt (also given as Carlstadt, l. 1486-1541) was a reformer, theologian, and early supporter of Martin Luther (l. 1483-1546) in the movement that became known as the Protestant Reformation. Karlstadt was one of Luther's most...

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Courtly Love
Courtly Love (Amour Courtois) refers to an innovative literary genre of poetry of the High Middle Ages (1000-1300 CE) which elevated the position of women in society and established the motifs of the romance genre recognizable in the present...

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Andreas Bodenstein von Karlstadt
Cooper engraving presenting a reformer and theologian Andreas Bodenstein von Karlstadt (l. 1486-1541). Created around 1522.

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Andreas Karlstadt
Woodcut print of reformer and theologian Andreas Bodenstein von Karlstadt (l. 1486-1541) from c. 1541/1542.

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Andreas Vesalius by Poncet
A mid-17th century painting by Pierre Poncet of Andreas Vesalius (1514-1564), the celebrated anatomist who wrote Of the Fabric of the Human Body, published in 1543. (Musee des Beaux-Arts, Orleans, France)

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Andreas Vesalius
A lithographic print showing the famed anatomist Andreas Vesalius (1514-64) about to dissect a human body. Lithograph by E. Milster after E. J. C. Hamman, 1849. (Wellcome Images)

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Olympia Fulvia Morata
Olympia Fulvia Morata (l. 1526-1555, also given as Olimpia) was an Italian scholar, poet, and writer who sought to advance the Protestant Reformation in Italy. She was considered one of the greatest classical scholars of her time but was...

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The Sabbath Keeping Protestant Reformer | Andreas Karlstadt
When we think about the Protestant Reformation we usually think about Martin Luther. But, there was one important reformer that is often forgotten. Andreas Karlstadt. Karlstadt was a personal friend and co-worker with Martin Luther but strenuously...

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Grief & Consolation in Chaucer's Book of the Duchess
In Geoffrey Chaucer's first major work, The Book of the Duchess (c. 1370 CE), two genres of medieval literature are combined – the French poetic convention of courtly love and the high medieval dream vision – to create a poem of enduring...