GROCYN, WILLIAM (ca. 1446-1519). English humanist. Educated at New College, Oxford, where he matriculated in 1481, he became reader in divinity at Magdalen College. In 1488 he went to Italy for further education, studying Greek at Florence and Rome under Angelo Poliziano and Demetrios Chalcondylas. Ordained as a priest after his return, he taught Greek […]
HABSBURG DYNASTY Multinational European ruling family, originally regional counts in the duchy of Swabia. Their importance increased greatly when they inherited the frontier mark of Austria in 1246, but their broader importance began with the election of Count Rudolf as Holy Roman Emperor in 1273 at the end of the Interregnum, a period of nearly […]