History of English Literature: Wyclif, Chaucer, earliest drama, renaissance, tr. by W. C. RobinsonG. Belland sons, 1901 - English literature |
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... called Coventry Mys- teries . Comparison of the Coventry and Chester Plays . Increasing Rôle of the " Devil . " Personification of Ab- stract Ideas Increases . Mary at the Foot of the Cross , 253-287 V. - Merit of the Northumbrian Play ...
... called Coventry Mys- teries . Comparison of the Coventry and Chester Plays . Increasing Rôle of the " Devil . " Personification of Ab- stract Ideas Increases . Mary at the Foot of the Cross , 253-287 V. - Merit of the Northumbrian Play ...
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... called " Provisors " or papal agents , who carried on the traffic in benefices . Under these circumstances England could no longer tolerate the claim of the Curia to a right to decide in the last instance in points of litigation . A new ...
... called " Provisors " or papal agents , who carried on the traffic in benefices . Under these circumstances England could no longer tolerate the claim of the Curia to a right to decide in the last instance in points of litigation . A new ...
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... called to account by the church con- vocation at St. Paul's , on February 19 , 1377 , the Duke of Lancaster and Lord Henry Percy , Grand Marshal of England , came to his support , and stood by him with an armed retinue . Other friends ...
... called to account by the church con- vocation at St. Paul's , on February 19 , 1377 , the Duke of Lancaster and Lord Henry Percy , Grand Marshal of England , came to his support , and stood by him with an armed retinue . Other friends ...
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... called , not only to influence theologians and statesmen by learned . dissertations , Latin memorials and pamphlets , but above all to make accessible to the masses of the people , in their mother tongue , a truer knowledge of the Word ...
... called , not only to influence theologians and statesmen by learned . dissertations , Latin memorials and pamphlets , but above all to make accessible to the masses of the people , in their mother tongue , a truer knowledge of the Word ...
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... called the indefatigable warrior before another , an im- partial , judge . Wyclif died from a stroke of apoplexy on St. Sylvester's Day , December 31 , 1384 . The world lost in him one of the most sturdy heroes that the fruitful soil of ...
... called the indefatigable warrior before another , an im- partial , judge . Wyclif died from a stroke of apoplexy on St. Sylvester's Day , December 31 , 1384 . The world lost in him one of the most sturdy heroes that the fruitful soil of ...
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