...disappearance of native English wood after 1500, Britain depended upon foreign timber to an increasing degree. From the end of the fifteenth century to the beginning of the nineteenth, Britain had imported timber for naval and domestic needs from countries surrounding the Baltic Sea....

...Ladurie writes of his purposes in that book, My book's protagonist is a great agrarian cycle, lasting from the end of the fifteenth century to the beginning of the eighteenth, studied in its entirety. I have been able to delineate and to characterize it thanks, naturally,...

...to set out a short chronology of those who taught anatomy in Rome, with or without a specific chair, from the end of the fifteenth century to the beginning of the sixteenth. Gabriele Zerbi of Verona, who taught medicine and philosophy in Bologna between 1475 and...

...mainly confined to the notes. In fact, the book reconstructs the material life of European families from the end of the fifteenth century to the beginning of the nineteenth by interweaving the results of recent research into the history of the family, women, consumption,...

...made of tanned ox hide and coated with black varnish is in excellent condition. Another pair, dated from the end of the fifteenth century to the beginning of the sixteenth, was found in 1948 during excavations in the ruins of the royal palace of Buda, partly destroyed...

...further economic advance. CHAPTER 35 IMPERIAL PROBLEMS IN THE TWENTIETH CENTURY V. THE MIDDLE EAST From the end of the fifteenth century to the beginning of the nineteenth century the large region which is vaguely known as 'the Middle East' had little interest for the nations...