Mediaeval England, Volumen1Clarendon Press, 1924 - 632 páginas |
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Página 429 - ... from them rivers of knowledge to water the hearts of their hearers; and, together with the books of holy writ, they also taught them the arts of ecclesiastical poetry, astronomy, and arithmetic. A testimony of which is, that there are still living at this day some of their scholars, who are as well versed in the Greek and Latin tongues as in their own, in which they were born.
Página 559 - English verse, overcome gradually in different parts of the country and for different subjects at varying dates from the middle of the twelfth century to the middle of the fourteenth, until the foreign and native elements were amalgamated.
Página 469 - Mansion, in 1475, the Recuyell of the Historyes of Troye, the first book printed in the English language.
Página 256 - ... 184 ff.), the material of which was transmitted via England and translated in Iceland in the thirteenth century (Leach, Angevin Britain, p. 263). The story appears in the series of religious dialogues known as Der Seelen Trost (Wackernagel-Stadler, pp. 181-87), written in German prose at the end of the fourteenth or beginning of the fifteenth century, a book of which there were soon versions in High German, Dutch, Swedish, and Danish ; in a German poem of about the same date by Andreas Kurzman,...
Página 476 - Act, or any part thereof, in nowise extend or be prejudicial of any let, hurt, or impediment to any artificer or merchant stranger, of what nation or country he be or shall be of, for bringing into this realm, or selling by retail or otherwise, of any manner of books written or imprinted.
Página 553 - Et praecipio ut barones mei similiter se contineant erga filios et filias vel uxores hominum suorum. 5. Monetagium commune, quod capiebatur per civitates et comitatus, quod non fuit tempore regis Eadwardi, hoc ne amodo sit * omnino defendo.
Página 1 - And now it is all gone— like an unsubstantial pageant, faded ; and between us and the old English there lies a gulf of mystery which the prose of the historian will never adequately bridge. They cannot come to us, and our imagination can but feebly penetrate to them.
Página 446 - The Master Fellows and Scholars of the College of the Holy and Undivided Trinity within the Town and University of Cambridge of King Henry the Eighth's foundation. THIS noble and magnificent College, the Mastership of which is in the appointment of the Crown, was formed by the consolidation and extension of the earlier foundations of (1) Michaelhouse, founded in 1324 by...
Página 554 - ... mutilated in accordance with the king's instructions, ' and that was all with great justice ' , says the chronicler, ' because they had foredone all the land with their great quantity of false money ' ; the Winton Annals say that all the moneyers of England except three of Winchester were mutilated, and the Margam Annals give the number mutilated as ninety-four. A more curious monetary difficulty is noted in the summary of Henry's character by William of Malmesbury ; curious, too, is the homoeopathic...
Página 188 - The military equipment of the last years of the fifteenth century and the first of the sixteenth had not quite the refinement of its immediate forerunner, yet it would be difficult to criticize adversely the magnificent fluted suits of the time. The...