Renaissance Literature and Culture

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Happy Violence:Bentley, Lucretius, and the Prehistory of Freethinking Jonathan C. Williams In recent years, Lucretius has become increasingly important to a scholarly understanding of science and philosophy in the early modern period and eighteenth century, and scholarly interest in Lucretius shows no signs of abating…

• JONATHAN COLEMAN WILLIAMS

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In this article we explore the validity of the argument that the timar system, starting with the last quarter of the sixteenth century, was crumbling financially and therefore was unable to perform its military obligations. Based on the energy requirements of an “average” timar contingent together with their horses we…

• OLCAY PULLUKCUOĞLU YAPUCU

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Let $P\geq 3$ be an integer. Let $(V_{n})$ denote generalized Lucas sequence defined by $V_{0}=2$, $V_{1}=P$, and $V_{n+1}=PV_{n}-V_{n-1}$ for $n\geq 1$. In this study, when $P$ is odd, we solve the equation $V_{n}=wx^{2}$ for some values of $w$. Moreover, when $P$ is odd, we solve the equation $V_{n}=wkx^{2}$ with $k…

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There is an old tradition which holds that deep acquaintance with the humanities is a major resource for the achievement of wisdom. Cicero counseled the reading and pondering of Epicurus and Plato. Machiavelli thought that Livy contained most of the political lessons which a literate Florentine ought to have learned.…

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Supplementarity and the Sonnet A Reading of Ronsard’s Les Amours Diverses 45 Matthew Gumpert [these imitations are mere nonsense] Lysistrata l.1591 Introduction: Examples and Supplements Les Amours Diverses 45 is almost certainly Ronsard's most obscene poem. Critics in the past have not been kind to it. And while it a…

The late Elizabethan Period was marked by socio-economic discontent. Amid this, Shakespeare's Julius Caesar (1599) featured a prominent debate: whether or not tyrannicide could solve problems. Around 1599, Essex formulated a like-minded political revolution only to dismiss it until 1601. Yet, as providentialist and re…

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