Caterina Cornaro

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Holly Hurlburt
Keyword(s):  
Royal Authority ◽  
San Salvador ◽  
Gentile Bellini ◽  
The Hill ◽  
Venetian Republic ◽  
The Church

Born into the Venetian patriciate class, Caterina Cornaro (also Corner, b. 1454–d. 1510), ruled the island of Cyprus as its last queen from 1473–1489. Her wealthy and ambitious father, Marco, and uncle Andrea possessed political and mercantile interests in the Cypriot kingdom ruled by the French Lusignan family that facilitated her marriage to King Jacques II in 1468, a union sanctioned and supported by the Venetian Republic. His death in 1473 prompted an attempted coup that Caterina and her infant son, Jacques III, evaded with Venetian assistance the following year. The coup provided justification for Venetian interference in Cypriot governance, which, despite Caterina’s resistance, gradually increased until Venice forced her abdication in 1489. After her return to the Venetian mainland, Caterina divided her time between the hill town of Asolo, which she governed on Venice’s behalf as recompense for her sacrifice of her kingdom; her hunting lodge (Barco) at Altivole; and Venice, where she continued to marshal her royal authority, arranging marriages for family and friends and regularly petitioning the Venetian government for offices and benefices for her former courtiers. Perhaps the most famous woman of the Venetian Renaissance, Caterina appeared in the paintings of Gentile Bellini as well as those of other artists. The image of her sacrifice of her kingdom for the sake of Venice appeared on her tomb in the church of San Salvador, Venice, other family tombs, and on the ceiling of the Great Council Hall in the Doge’s Palace. Venerated in humanist orations and poetry, Caterina and her court provided the setting for Pietro Bembo’s poetic musing on the nature of love, Gli Asolani (1505).

scholarly journals III.—Mediaeval Churches: The Churches of Western Mani

1909 ◽  
Vol 15 ◽  
pp. 177-213 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ramsay Traquair
Keyword(s):  
The West ◽  
Central Dome ◽  
The Hill ◽  
The Church

The villages of lower and upper Boularioi lie on the hill-side above the modern port of Gerolimena. Above the upper village stands the church of Hagios Strategos (Pls. XI, XII). It is in three parts, the church proper, the narthex, and a small domed porch. The church belongs to the two-columned type of the later Byzantine school, in which the central dome rests upon two columns to the west and upon the dividing walls of the eastern chapels to the east. Internally it is not very accurately or squarely built, but widens rather to the east: it measures about 16 ft. in breadth by 18 ft. long, with walls of about 2 ft. 9 in. in thickness, and terminates in the usual three eastern apses, semicircular both inside and out.

XXXIX

2008 ◽  
Author(s):  
Thomas Hardy
Keyword(s):  
The Hill ◽  
The Church

It was three weeks after the marriage that Clare found himself descending the hill which led to the well-known parsonage of his father. With his downward course the tower of the church rose into the evening sky in a manner of inquiry as to...

scholarly journals Glory Crowned in Marble: Self-promotion of Individuals and Families in Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century Monuments in Istria and Dalmatia

2019 ◽  
pp. 139-150
Author(s):  
Damir Tulić
Keyword(s):  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
Parish Church ◽  
Military Engineer ◽  
Common Purpose ◽  
The Military ◽  
Venetian Republic ◽  
The Town ◽  
The Church ◽  
Commemorative Monuments

Senior representatives of the Venetian Republic inspired distinguished noblemen and rich citizens in Venice, as well as in Terraferma and Stato da Mar, to perpetuate their memory through lavish commemorative monuments that were erected in churches and convents. Their endeavour for self-promotion and their wish to monopolise glory could be detected in the choice of material for the busts that adorned almost every monument: marble. The most elaborate monument of this kind belongs to the Brutti family, erected in 1695 in Koper Cathedral. In 1688 the Town of Labin ordered a marble bust of local hero Antonio Bollani and placed it on the facade of the parish church. Fine examples of family glorification could be found in the capital of Venetian Dalmatia – Zadar. In the Church of Saint Chrysogonus, there is a monument to the provveditore Marino Zorzi, adorned with a marble portrait bust. Rather similar is the monument to condottiere Simeone Fanfogna in Zadar’s Benedictine Church of Saint Mary and the monument to the military engineer Francesco Rossini in Saint Simeon. All these monuments embellished with portrait busts have a common purpose: to ensure the everlasting memory of important individuals. This paper analyses comparative examples, models, artists, as well as the desires of clients or authorities that were able to invest money in self or family promotion, thus creating the identity of success.

scholarly journals VI. An Account of various Roman Antiquities discovered on the site of the Church of St. Michael, Crooked Lane, and in Eastcheap, in forming the northern Approaches of the new London Bridge; communicated by Alfred John Kempe, Esq. F.S.A. in a Letter to Henry Ellis, Esq. F.R.S., Secretary

Archaeologia ◽  
1832 ◽  
Vol 24 ◽  
pp. 190-202
Author(s):  
Alfred John Kempe
Keyword(s):  
Transverse Section ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Present Communication ◽  
The Hill ◽  
The City ◽  
New London ◽  
The Church

In forming the northern or City entrance on the new London Bridge, it was thought expedient to construct a Sewer of very large dimensions under the line of approach; for this purpose, on the removal of the church of St. Michael, Crooked Lane (which stood on an immemorially ancient consecrated site), a transverse section was commenced of the eminence which rises from Thames Street towards the heart of the City. This excavation was made as deep as the low-water mark, about fifty feet below the present surface of the crest of the hill. In the course of the above operation, and of preparing for the construction of the northern land arches of the new bridge, three distinct ancient lines of embankment were discovered. These successive bulwarks, by which ground was gained by degrees from the Thames for the wharfs of the port of London, are not however the object of the present communication. Careful notes of these circumstances, as indeed of all other which relate in a constructive point of view to old London Bridge and the adjoining banks of the river, have been, I know, made by the Gentleman who has already contributed some of them to the Archæologia of the Society, and who will, I trust, be induced in the same way to follow up a subject for which he has acquired such good materials, and in connexion with which he has formed such a curious collection of articles of antiquity, particularly of the Roman era.

scholarly journals I. Observations on the Antiquity and Use of Beacons, more particularly here in England. By Mr. Professor Ward, of Gresham College

Archaeologia ◽  
1779 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 1-7
Author(s):  
Ward
Keyword(s):  
West Side ◽  
North West ◽  
The North ◽  
The Hill ◽  
The Church

In the year 1740, as I was viewing, with a friend, the church at Burton Dasset in Warwickshire, we happened to observe a painted board placed over the entrance into the chancel, but so covered with dust, that neither we, nor the sexton who attended us, knew what to make of it. But as it seemed to represent something uncommon, we desired we might inspect it somewhat more nearly: And when the sexton had taken it down, and washed it, we perceived it was the picture of a coat of arms, with a Beacon for the crest, (as represented in plate I.) and upon further enquiry we found that, by tradition, there had been formerly a Beacon upon the North-west side of the hill where the church stands, erected by one of the Belknap family, who was then lord of that manor. The board that contains this picture, is nineteen inches and a half in height, and fourteen in breadth. The draught here given of it is reduced to the size of one fourth of the original.

scholarly journals El desaparecido monumento sepulcral de los santos Adrián y Natalia y la reorganización del relicario legionense en el siglo XIII

Liño ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 23 (23) ◽  
pp. 9
Author(s):  
José Alberto Moráis Morán
Keyword(s):  
San Salvador ◽  
Santa Maria ◽  
The Church

RESUMEN:Se analiza el desaparecido monumento sepulcral erigido en honor de los santos Adrián y Natalia en el monasterio de San Salvador y Santa María de San Adrián de las Caldas, cerca de Boñar (León), a finales del siglo XIII.Primeramente se aborda el surgimiento del culto a estos santos, a partir del traslado de sus reliquias desde Bizancio a Roma y, ya en el siglo IX, su llegada a Asturias y León.En el antiguo reino legionense, sus restos ocuparon inicialmente un importante lugar en la iglesia consagrada en su honor en La Losilla y, sólo a partir del año 1268, sufrieron otra translatio hacia el citado monasterio de San Salvador, lugar donde se construyó un nuevo arcosolium. La reciente reaparición de su epitaphium sepulcrale, así como otros restos que configuraron esta estructura, permiten entender esta revitalización de la memoria santa en el marco de la reorganización de los relicarios que sufrió el reino de León en esas fechas.PALABRAS CLAVE:Santos Adrián y Natalia, epitaphium sepulcrale, León.ABSTRACT:The missing sepulchral monument is analysed, erected in honor of Saints Adrián and Natalia in the monastery of San Salvador and Santa María from San Adrián de las Caldas, near Boñar (León), at the end of the 13th century.Firstly, we deal with the emergence of the worship to these Saints, when their relics were moved from Byzantium to Rome and, in 9th century, its arrival to Asturias and León.In the old legionense kingdom, their remains were initially placed in an important part of the church consecrated in their honor in La Losilla, and only from 1268, they suffered another translatio to the mentioned monastery of San Salvador, place where a new arcosolium was built. The recent reappearance of their epitaphium sepulcrale, as well as other remains that formed this structure, help us to understand the increase of the saint memory in relation with the reorganization of the reliquaries that suffered the kingdom of León in that time.KEY WORDS:Saints Adrián and Natalia, epitaphium sepulcrale, León.

The Impact of Federalism on Mexican Church-State Relations, 1824-1835: The Case of the State of Mexico

1984 ◽  
Vol 40 (4) ◽  
pp. 505-529
Author(s):  
Charles W. Macune
Keyword(s):  
Decisive Role ◽  
The State ◽  
Economic Power ◽  
Economic Activities ◽  
Royal Authority ◽  
Independence Movement ◽  
Church State Relations ◽  
State Relations ◽  
The Impact ◽  
The Church

A number of first-rate scholarly studies in recent years have considerably enhanced our understanding of the troubled, sometimes tumultuous, relationship between the state and the Mexican Church in the century stretching from the reign of Charles III (1759-1788) to the era of Benito Juárez (1855-1876). Nancy Farriss, for example, has detailed the Bourbon drive to exert royal authority over the conduct and activities of the powerful and influential clergy and the latter's claim to exemption from that authority. Farriss, Karl Schmitt, and James Breedlove have demonstrated the connection between the state ecclesiastical reforms and the clergy's decisive role in the Mexican independence movement culminating in 1821. Ann Staples has ably ventured an overview of Church-state relations in the crucial but long-neglected early independence period of the first federal republic, 1824-1835. Michael Costeloe, Asunción Lavrin, Jan Bazant, Brian Hamnet, and Robert Knowlton have examined some of the Church's key economic activities and the impact of state reforms upon each. State policy toward the Church in the northern Mexican borderlands has received the attention of C. Alan Hutchinson, Manuel P. Servín, David J. Weber, John L. Kessell, Lawrence and Lucia Kinnaird, and others. Together with earlier works, these studies have documented a drama which began with the absolutistinspired reforms by the Crown, which regarded ecclesiastical privilege and power as incompatible with its own interests, and ended violently with the political and economic power of the Church and its clergy severely reduced and subordinated to the secular state.

The Ordenanza Del Patronazgo, 1574: An Interpretative Essay

1956 ◽  
Vol 12 (4) ◽  
pp. 333-354 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert Charles Padden
Keyword(s):  
Royal Authority ◽  
The Will ◽  
The Church

AT the accession of Isabella in 1474 the Church in Castile lay prostrate for the most part before the will of the papacy. Greater and lesser benefices were controlled from Rome, foreigners were commonly appointed to the highest dignities, and tribunals of justice were rendered impotent by interminable appeals to Rome. No less were the Castilian nobles accustomed to usurping royal authority in the civil and political branches of government. Castile was a patchwork of private jurisdictions and privileges of which Isabella was no more than a titular sovereign.

The crisis of obedience: God's word and Henry's reformation

1996 ◽  
Vol 39 (4) ◽  
pp. 863-894 ◽  
Author(s):  
Richard Rex
Keyword(s):  
Church Of England ◽  
Word Of God ◽  
Royal Authority ◽  
Good Works ◽  
The Bible ◽  
Lutheran Theology ◽  
God's Word ◽  
Significant Achievement ◽  
New Interpretation ◽  
The Church

ABSTRACTThe new political theology of obedience to the prince which was enthusiastically adopted by the Church of England in the 1530s was essentially founded upon Luther's new interpretation of the fourth commandment. It was mediated to an English audience by Tyndale, but his ideas were not officially adopted as early as some recent research has suggested. The founding of royal authority on the Decalogue, and thus on the ‘word of God’, was a particularly attractive feature of this doctrine, which became almost the defining feature of Henrician religion. Rival tendencies within the Church of England sought to exploit it in the pursuit of their particular agendas. Reformers strove to preserve its connections with the broader framework of Lutheran theology, with the emphasis on faith alone and the ‘word of God’, while conservatives strove to relocate it within an essentially monastic tradition of obedience, with an emphasis on good works, ceremonies, and charity. The most significant achievement was that of the Reformers, who established and played upon an equivocation between the royal supremacy and the ‘word of God’ in order to persuade the king to sanction the publication of the Bible in English as a formidable prop for his new-found dignity.

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