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(Encyclopedia) Robert of Courtenay kôrtˈnē, ko͝ortənāˈ [key], d. 1228, Latin emperor of Constantinople (1218–28). His father, Peter of Courtenay, was elected by the Latin nobles to succeed Henry of Flanders...

(Encyclopedia) Naumburg än dər zäˈlə [key], city (1994 pop. 29,846), Saxony-Anhalt, E central Germany, on the Saale River. Manufactures of this industrial city include machine tools, processed food, textiles, a...

(Encyclopedia) Meiss, Millard mēs [key], 1904–75, American art historian, b. Cincinnati. Meiss taught art history at Columbia from 1934 to 1953 and thereafter was professor at Harvard until 1958, when he joined t...

(Encyclopedia) Enns ĕns [key], town, Upper Austria prov., N central Austria, on the Enns River near its con...

(Encyclopedia) Middelburg mĭdˈəlbûrghˌ [key], city (1994 pop. 40,118), capital of Zeeland prov., SW Netherlands, on the former island of Walcheren. It is a manufacturing and tourist center. Chartered in 1217, M...

(Encyclopedia) Bad Langensalza bät längˌənzälˈtsä [key], town, Thuringia, S central Germany, ...

(Encyclopedia) Schmalkalden shmälˈkälˌdən [key], town (1994 pop. 16,096), Thuringia, central Germany. It has been a metalworking center since the Middle Ages, and its manufactures include tools, kitchen utensil...

(Encyclopedia) Passion cycle, in art, the depiction of the last events in the life of Jesus. The Passion was a favorite subject of medieval and Renaissance artists and was considered the most ambitious of projects. ...

(Encyclopedia) Fujiwara Teika fo͞oˈjēˈwäˈrä tāˈkä [key], 1162–1241, Japanese poet and literary theorist of the early medieval period. Son of the poet Shunzei, Teika ranks among the greatest of Japanese p...

(Encyclopedia) Legnica lĕgnēˈtsä [key], Ger. Liegnitz, city (1992 est. pop. 106,300), Dolnośląskie prov., SW Poland, on the Kaczawa River. A center of a vegetable-growing region, it also has manufactures of me...