Sentence examples for 1500 from inspiring English sources

In Florence, between 1500 and 1800, almost half of the female elite lived in convents; in Milan, three-quarters of the daughters of the aristocracy could be found with rosaries and wimples, piously enclosed.In this section Veiled ambitions The incredible bouncing boss Wheels within wheels Germany's African epic A Byzantine journey Calling Mr Caro ReprintsBut they lived in style.

Between 1500 and 1800 England shifted people out of farming faster than any other big European country.

True, Sebastian Coe has moved seamlessly from being the greatest 800 and 1500 metre runner of perhaps any age to being an effective politician and now the supremo of the London Olympics but, unlike Ali, Coe's face is not (and will never be) recognised everywhere from Detroit to Dhaka or Vancouver to Vientiane.

"For most of the period," he says, "there really was no Chinese withdrawal from trade .In a new paper†, Mr Flynn and Mr Giraldez chart the enormous flows of Latin American silver to China between 1500 and 1800, for use as currency.

But a look at very early pornographic works, those that were produced in France and England between 1500 and 1800, shows how misleading that conception is.

Part of this is the result of age: the average age at time of election between 1500 and 2005 was 64.

The Pursuit of Oblivion: A Global History of Narcotics, 1500-2000.By Richard Davenport-Hines.Weidenfeld & Nicolson; 480 pages; £20 ABSOLUTE sobriety is not a natural or primary human state," asserts Richard Davenport-Hines at the beginning of this voluminous and comprehensive history of drug-taking.

In "Adoration of the Child" (c.1490-1500), Piero seems as transfixed by the flowery meadow and wriggling tadpoles (symbolic of new life, and thus the Resurrection to come) as he is by the sacred figures.

Africa's botched state-building can partly be explained by the fact that it is the most lightly populated continent in the world: it was only in 1975 that its population density reached the level that Europe enjoyed in 1500.The second is his despair about the current state of American politics.

By Kevin Phillips.Basic Books; 707 pages; $32.50IN 1500 Henry VII of England had barely 2m subjects.

The Vedic scriptural texts (1500 500 bce) consist of the four ancient collections, i.e., the Ṛgveda, the Sāmaveda, the Yajurveda, and the Atharvaveda.