English Writers: An Attempt Towards a History of English Literature, Volume 3Cassell, limited, 1888 |
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... born in the year 1071 , and but eighteen years old at the time of the death of the Italian Lanfranc . Although not an English writer , Lanfranc died in England in the year 1089 , an old man of eighty - four , who for nineteen years had ...
... born in the year 1071 , and but eighteen years old at the time of the death of the Italian Lanfranc . Although not an English writer , Lanfranc died in England in the year 1089 , an old man of eighty - four , who for nineteen years had ...
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... born , in 1005 , at Pavia , son of a keeper of the public archives . He studied at Bologna , where he practised as an advocate , removed to France , and was famous as a teacher at Avranches . On his way from Avranches to Rouen , in 1041 ...
... born , in 1005 , at Pavia , son of a keeper of the public archives . He studied at Bologna , where he practised as an advocate , removed to France , and was famous as a teacher at Avranches . On his way from Avranches to Rouen , in 1041 ...
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... born in 1034 , at Aosta , in Piedmont - his father a Lombard , his mother a Burgundian - Arch- bishop of Canterbury though he was , belongs no more than Lanfranc to English literary history . Anselm . Eadmer . But a true Kentish man was ...
... born in 1034 , at Aosta , in Piedmont - his father a Lombard , his mother a Burgundian - Arch- bishop of Canterbury though he was , belongs no more than Lanfranc to English literary history . Anselm . Eadmer . But a true Kentish man was ...
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... born when Gerland was writing , studied in the schools of Tours and Laon . At Laon he taught till he pressed onward in search of knowledge to Salerno ; thence , as he himself incidentally tells us , to Greece and Asia Minor , and ...
... born when Gerland was writing , studied in the schools of Tours and Laon . At Laon he taught till he pressed onward in search of knowledge to Salerno ; thence , as he himself incidentally tells us , to Greece and Asia Minor , and ...
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... Born near Caen , in Normandy , Philip de Thaun was not an English writer , but he is to be named as the earliest poet in the Langue d'Oyl , if he may be called a poet who rhymed science with less fancy than Athelard of Bath shows in his ...
... Born near Caen , in Normandy , Philip de Thaun was not an English writer , but he is to be named as the earliest poet in the Langue d'Oyl , if he may be called a poet who rhymed science with less fancy than Athelard of Bath shows in his ...
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