| Tobias Smollett - 1779 - 510 pages
...on record^ as has been mentioned above, was, a prince ; viz. William, count of Poitou ; who lived at the end of the eleventh, and the beginning of the twelfth century. The hiftorian informs us, that he united figure, fenfe, and courage, to the advantages of birth, and... | |
| 1837 - 742 pages
...of Europe. SiGEBERTjJ a monk of Gemblours, (Sigebertus Gemblacensis,) who was highly celebrated at the end of the eleventh and the beginning of the twelfth...defence of the rights of the civil power against the claims of the papacy, was the author of a chronicle, and of several pieces of ecclesiastical biography... | |
| P. Austin Nuttall - 1840 - 722 pages
...this bombazine or cotton-paper was invented in the ninth century, or in the beginning of the tenth. Towards the end of the eleventh, and the beginning of the twelfth, its use was common throughout the empire of the East, and even in Sicily. Roger, king of Sicily, says,... | |
| 1864 - 742 pages
...From the death of Cadwallader, 689, to the year 1080, few poems of any great merit were produced ; but towards the end of the eleventh and the beginning of the twelfth century a host of bards made their appearance ; the compositions were of a superior character, and princes... | |
| John Henry Parker - 1876 - 294 pages
...those on the sides have not), which are very much of the character of some of the Catacomb pictures. At the end of the eleventh and the beginning of the twelfth century a great revival took place in art. Of this period we have the remarkable frescoes of Beno de Rapiza,... | |
| John Henry Parker - 1876 - 346 pages
...those on the sides have not), which are very much of the character of some of the Catacomb pictures. At the end of the eleventh and the beginning of the twelfth century a great revival took place in art. Of this period we have the remarkable frescoes of Beno de Rapiza,... | |
| John Henry Parker - 1876 - 334 pages
...those on the sides have not), which are very much of the character of some of the Catacomb pictures. At the end of the eleventh and the beginning of the twelfth century a great revival took place in art. Of this period we have the remarkable frescoes of Beno de Rapiza,... | |
| Thomas Erskine May - 1878 - 510 pages
...knowledge of the arts and sciences, and a 1 Omar Khayyam, the astronomer-poet of Persia, who flourished at the end of the eleventh and the beginning of the twelfth century, must be separated from the race of Oriental poets. He has been compared with Lucretius, and in speculative... | |
| 1927 - 686 pages
...of our present day universities we have a direct indebtedness to the twelfth century. Because it was towards the end of the Eleventh and the beginning of the Twelfth centuries that Universities took their formal existence. Even the term "University" is a product of... | |
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