| English literature - 1827 - 530 pages
...Charles Butler. Svo. London. 1817. pp. 1*7. f\N the revival of the study of the Roman, or Civil Law, at the end of the twelfth, and the beginning of the thirteenth century, when Portius Azzo taught at Bologna, the number of his students was often so great, that he... | |
| Asia - 1834 - 604 pages
...justly concludes, demonstrate that the use of the magnetic needle was generally known in Europe towards the end of the twelfth and the beginning of the thirteenth centuries ; but none of them state that it was invented in Europe? they rather afford a presumption that this... | |
| Richard Chenevix - Civilization - 1832 - 600 pages
...an older poem put into less antiquated language. The most brilliant period of the Minne-singers was the end of the twelfth and the beginning of the thirteenth centuries. Frederick I., though he could scarcely read or write, was their protector. Frederick II., though much... | |
| 1863 - 622 pages
...origin were so closely connected with the great burst of devotion to the Virgin Mary which characterised the end of the twelfth and the beginning of the thirteenth centuries. It is to thw period that most of the English ' Lady chapels' belong* and from this time the lily appears... | |
| George Payne Rainsford James - Albigense - 1850 - 432 pages
...Pyrenean Mountains, on those mountains themselves, and in the valleys which intersect them, arose, at the end of the twelfth and the beginning of the thirteenth century, a sect, called Albigenses, from the name of a small town in higher Languedoc, where some of... | |
| Richard Garnett - English philology - 1859 - 372 pages
...composition of such great length must assist us in forming a better notion of the state of our language at the end of the twelfth and the beginning of the thirteenth centuries, than could be obtained from the short and scattered specimens already in print; and that, by the aid... | |
| Anonymous - History - 1863 - 602 pages
...origin were so closely connected with the great burst of devotion to the Virgin Mary which characterised the end of the twelfth and the beginning of the thirteenth centuries. It is to this period that most of the English ' Lady chapels ' belong, and from this time the lily... | |
| Charles Callahan Perkins - Sculptors - 1864 - 432 pages
...impulse given by architecture to sculpture had indeed caused some slight improvement in the latter art at the end of the twelfth and the beginning of the thirteenth century ; but for its further progress a man of genius was needed, who could take the lead and introduce... | |
| Charles Callahan Perkins - Sculptors - 1864 - 414 pages
...impulse given by architecture to sculpture had indeed caused some slight improvement in the latter art at the end of the twelfth and the beginning of the thirteenth century; but for its further progress a man of genius was needed, who could take the lead and introduce... | |
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