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Renaissance Contacts Between Dubrovnik (Ragusa) and the Kingdom of Hungary

November 23, 2014 By Medievalists.net

During the rule of the Angevin dynasty (1308-82) in Hungary, towns and cities increasingly assumed greater political influence. The first treaty between the King of Hungary and Dubrovnik (in those days Ragusa) was signed in 1358, during the reign of Louis (Lajos) the Great.

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Printing with gold in the fifteenth century

January 17, 2014 By Medievalists.net

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Gold printing in the fifteenth century is very rare. There are only two printers who are known to have applied this technique. One of them was Erhard Ratdolt who first used gold for printing a gloriously spectacular full page of dedication in a number of copies of his editio princeps of Euclid.

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