http://www.cicsworld.org/blogs/renaissance/ en-us jaygillette@bsu.edu 2007-07-16T22:09:56-05:00 hourly 1 2000-01-01T12:00+00:00 http://www.cicsworld.org/blogs/renaissance/archives/002339.html I've been reading John Man's book Gutenberg: How One Man Remade the World with Words New York: MJF Books, 2002. John Man says "29 May 1453 . . . was the birthday of the Renaissance" (Man, 2002, p. 231). Here's... 2339@http://www.cicsworld.org/blogs/renaissance/ 2007-07-16T22:09:56-05:00 http://www.cicsworld.org/blogs/renaissance/archives/002310.html So at the end of a hard academic term, my mind turns to someone I want to learn more about, and to learn from--Henri Poincaré. Here's a good introductory essay on him from the Wikipedia entry for Henri Poincaré where... 2310@http://www.cicsworld.org/blogs/renaissance/ 2007-05-04T17:32:19-05:00 http://www.cicsworld.org/blogs/renaissance/archives/002296.html There's a good book by Michael J. Gelb called How to Think Like Leonardo da Vinci. I've linked to the author's home page above and here for your convenience. Yet before I linked to Gelb's page, I wrote my headline... 2296@http://www.cicsworld.org/blogs/renaissance/ 2007-04-10T21:22:39-05:00 http://www.cicsworld.org/blogs/renaissance/archives/001869.html Even in busy periods, there is time to punctuate the skating equilibrium of time with a quick blog entry. Here's a reference to Wikipedia's entry on Renaissance Music as a point of departure for understanding the European renaissance "directly," through... 1869@http://www.cicsworld.org/blogs/renaissance/ 2006-12-02T19:53:23-05:00 http://www.cicsworld.org/blogs/renaissance/archives/001633.html I have been working on the design of a course I'm calling "Leadership for the Information Renaissance." This course will be essentially comparative cultural studies with a leadership and management emphasis, noting the impact of information and communication technologies as... 1633@http://www.cicsworld.org/blogs/renaissance/ 2006-11-02T19:02:25-05:00 http://www.cicsworld.org/blogs/renaissance/archives/001589.html New York Times reports today that "One of Florence’s Renaissance Prizes to Go on U.S. Tour." This is a once-in-a-lifetime chance to see several panels of Lorenzo Ghiberti's famous doors from the Baptistery church in the main plaza in Florence.... 1589@http://www.cicsworld.org/blogs/renaissance/ 2006-10-16T11:06:47-05:00 http://www.cicsworld.org/blogs/renaissance/archives/001453.html Here is a thoughtful and informative discussion of the terms "Renaissance" and "Reformation" from an excellent set of essays, Handbook of European History, 1400-1600, edited by Thomas A. Brady Jr., et al. (Grand Rapids, Michigan: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Co.,... 1453@http://www.cicsworld.org/blogs/renaissance/ 2006-05-10T11:21:50-05:00 http://www.cicsworld.org/blogs/renaissance/archives/001307.html This entry is to continue my ideas regarding the “Working Mother” and the “Renaissance Woman.” In the early Renaissance period women were to fit a mold, be a loyal wife and mother. Later in the Renaissance period women began to... 1307@http://www.cicsworld.org/blogs/renaissance/ 2005-12-15T10:55:37-05:00 http://www.cicsworld.org/blogs/renaissance/archives/001284.html The Taj rises on a high red sandstone base topped by a huge white marble terrace on which rests the famous dome flanked by four tapering minarets. Within the dome lies the jewel-inlaid cenotaph of the queen. So exquisite is... 1284@http://www.cicsworld.org/blogs/renaissance/ 2005-12-14T21:04:16-05:00 http://www.cicsworld.org/blogs/renaissance/archives/001283.html Agra, once the capital of the Mughal Empire during the 16th and early 18th centuries, is one and a half hours by express train from New Delhi. Tourists from all over the world visit Agra not to see the ruins... 1283@http://www.cicsworld.org/blogs/renaissance/ 2005-12-14T21:01:49-05:00 http://www.cicsworld.org/blogs/renaissance/archives/001192.html "Festina Lente" ("Hurry Slowly")--is the wonderful paradoxical motto of the European renaissance publisher Aldus Manutius. Aldus Manutius, from the Wikipedia entry on him, lived from 1449/1450 till 1515 Common Era (CE). He is credited with inventing or at least popularizing... 1192@http://www.cicsworld.org/blogs/renaissance/ 2005-12-08T17:24:40-05:00 http://www.cicsworld.org/blogs/renaissance/archives/001120.html 1120@http://www.cicsworld.org/blogs/renaissance/ 2005-11-27T20:11:20-05:00 http://www.cicsworld.org/blogs/renaissance/archives/001113.html This copies a weblog post to the Jay Gillette professional and personal weblog I made today. I use it as an example of "information networking"--the movement and use of information. Information networking is the heart of the information economy. Social... 1113@http://www.cicsworld.org/blogs/renaissance/ Information Renaissance Theory, Practice, Praxis 2005-11-27T16:19:43-05:00 http://www.cicsworld.org/blogs/renaissance/archives/001029.html English men and women of the sixteenth century experienced an unprecedented increase in knowledge of the world beyond their island. Religious persecution at home compelled a substantial number of both Catholics and Protestants to live abroad; wealthy gentlemen (and, in... 1029@http://www.cicsworld.org/blogs/renaissance/ Information Renaissance Theory, Practice, Praxis 2005-11-14T03:05:25-05:00 http://www.cicsworld.org/blogs/renaissance/archives/001028.html http://www.temple.edu/photo/photographers/parks2/biol.html Photographer, writer, movie director, and composer, Gordon Parks is a giant among the men of any era. The youngest of fifteen children, Gordon Roger Alexander Buchanan Parks was born on November 30th 1912 to Sarah Ross Parks and Andrew... 1028@http://www.cicsworld.org/blogs/renaissance/ Information Renaissance Theory, Practice, Praxis 2005-11-13T22:25:41-05:00