Essays Tagged: "Southern France"

Christian Religious Dissent before Luther

arly Thirteenth Century, the Albigensian heresy or Catharism became especially prominent in central southern France (where the town of Albi was located). Albigensian belief was dualistic: that is, the ...

(4 pages) 49 0 3.0 Feb/2004

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Religion & Faith

The lives and works of the troubadours, trobaritz, and trouvers

, it will describe how they lived during the Middle Ages.Troubadours were noble poet-musicians from Southern France (Provence) who flourished from the end of the 11th century through to the 13th centu ... ined the rank of troubadours (Troubadour 2003).This tradition of poet-composer-performers delighted Southern France and neighboring European courts with their songs (some 2,500 which survive) in which ...

(5 pages) 35 0 4.7 Dec/2004

Subjects: Art Essays > Music History & Studies

Culture

colleagues after successful connecting cooperative partners. However, his colleagues who came from Southern France don't understand what he means and delay the time negotiations. Originally, in South ...

(4 pages) 108 0 3.5 Apr/2006

Subjects: Businesss Research Papers

The DaVinci Code: To believe or not? That is the question

f lead to a brutal 13th century crusade "for Christ" which murdered a 100.000 peaceful Christian in southern France known as the Cathars. The Cathars were an agnostic religious group that believes in ... ocuments which were supposedly found in the late 1800s, hidden inside a pillar of a small church in southern France.Continuing with other detail, The Poor Fellow-Soldiers of Christ and of the Temple o ...

(5 pages) 38 0 0.0 Nov/2006

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American

Caesar

Caesar assumes his proconsul ship, or governorship, of the province of Narbonese Gaul, what is now southern France; he attacks and defeats the Helvetii tribe in central Gaul.55-54 BC - Caesar leads t ... -54 BC - Caesar leads two brief and largely indecisive expeditions across the English Channel in to southern England.50 BC - The Roman Senate calls for Caesar to surrender command of his army.48 BC - ...

(1 pages) 1053 0 0.0 Apr/2001

Subjects: History Term Papers > European History

Jaqueline Morganstern

ook the beauty shop so they had to move to Marseilles. (See map A.3) Marseilles was a small city in Southern France. Jacqueline`s parents carried forged papers that identified themselves as non-Jews. ...

(1 pages) 1578 0 0.0 Sep/2001

Subjects: Literature Research Papers

The Hundred Years War

53, causing great anguish and great losses for both parties in this war.The English king controlled southern France, which didn't please the French king very well. Henry II got control of these with m ...

(4 pages) 18 0 3.0 Aug/2001

Subjects: History Term Papers > European History

Area Study: Milan

nd international trade. It's location in northern Italy near a pass in the Alps that connects it to southern France, Germany and Switzerland made it a center of trade early in history and is mainly th ... ure and the river provides prime harbor sites for major marinas. The shallow foothills of the giant Southern Alps Mountains also flank Milan. It's location is quite exquisite because Milan lies in the ...

(4 pages) 32 0 5.0 Feb/2008

Subjects: Area & Country Studies Essays

Communities of Violence: Persecution of Minorities in the Middle Ages by David Nirenberg

ecution in the middle Ages in the perspective of two specific geographical areas in Western Europe, Southern France and the kingdom of Aragon. In order to provide further insight into the subject, Nir ... ect, Nirenberg off In 312 pages, Nirenberg’s provides the reader with a couple maps of Aragon, Southern France, Northern Iberia and surroundings. Princeton Press book comprises an introductory pr ...

(7 pages) 37 0 3.0 Feb/2008

Subjects: History Term Papers > European History

Tattoos and Body Piercing

t evidence of tattoos so far which has been found in France. In a cave in the Pyrenees Mountains of Southern France, tools were found that are believed to be tattoo instruments. They are very similar ...

(7 pages) 18 0 5.0 Apr/2009

Subjects: Humanities Essays

Troubadours and Trouveres

9-19-11 Troubadours, Trouvères, and MinnesingersTroubadours were poet songwriters in southern France. The word troubadour simply means to find, invent, or to create. The primary languag ... and trouvères began one of the biggest foundations of all Western poetry. The troubadours of southern France tradition soon spread to the trouvère northern France tradition by the late t ...

(2 pages) 1 0 0.0 Nov/2011

Subjects: Art Essays > Music History & Studies