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This pre-Renaissance tradition was that of the disputatio, or disputation, by which university lecturers and other public pundits were expected to allow periods of time for counterarguments regarding their ideas, theories and general assertions.

From Washington Post • Feb. 6, 2023

Mr. Soulages studied at the school of fine arts in Montpellier, where he met a fellow student named Colette Llaurens who shared his interest in pre-Renaissance art.

From Washington Post • Oct. 27, 2022

The assumptions of the pre-Renaissance world are irremediably alien to most of us.

From The New Yorker • Sep. 26, 2016

It’s all his own music here: lines and counterpoint written for himself and Mr. Cohen that sound succinct and final, clear and articulate in an almost pre-Renaissance way.

From New York Times • Sep. 15, 2014

The sculptors working in Rome, colourless men as they were, drew their inspiration from Gothic and pre-Renaissance ideals.

From Donatello, by Lord Balcarres by Crawford, David Lindsay, Earl of