English Writers: An Attempt Towards a History of English Literature, Volume 3Cassell, limited, 1888 |
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... king's licence to connect monks instead of canons with his cathedral . The monks of Jarrow and Wearmouth were brought therefore to Durham , and those twin monasteries connected with the memory of Bede became cells to the larger house at ...
... king's licence to connect monks instead of canons with his cathedral . The monks of Jarrow and Wearmouth were brought therefore to Durham , and those twin monasteries connected with the memory of Bede became cells to the larger house at ...
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... Kings- " De Gestis Regum " -is in five books , of which the first contains Anglo - Saxon History from the year 449 ... King Stephen . After 1142 there was a balance of power , and in 1147 Earl Robert died . Although William of Malmesbury ...
... Kings- " De Gestis Regum " -is in five books , of which the first contains Anglo - Saxon History from the year 449 ... King Stephen . After 1142 there was a balance of power , and in 1147 Earl Robert died . Although William of Malmesbury ...
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... king . With the closeness of a tale having Stephen for its hero , this chronicle follows the king's fortunes from his accession to the year of the death of Earl Robert , where the MS . from which the work was first printed with the ...
... king . With the closeness of a tale having Stephen for its hero , this chronicle follows the king's fortunes from his accession to the year of the death of Earl Robert , where the MS . from which the work was first printed with the ...
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... King Stephen who received the dedication of William of Malmes- bury's History of the Kings of England , Geoffrey Geoffrey of Monmouth . of Monmouth also dedicated his History of the Britons , a work more really on the border - land ...
... King Stephen who received the dedication of William of Malmes- bury's History of the Kings of England , Geoffrey Geoffrey of Monmouth . of Monmouth also dedicated his History of the Britons , a work more really on the border - land ...
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... Kings of Britain , translated from Welsh MSS . * ( which may be all later than Geoffrey's time ) ; a Chronicle of the Kings of Britain , almost identical with Geoffrey of Monmouth's . Geoffrey himself , in his dedication of the work to ...
... Kings of Britain , translated from Welsh MSS . * ( which may be all later than Geoffrey's time ) ; a Chronicle of the Kings of Britain , almost identical with Geoffrey of Monmouth's . Geoffrey himself , in his dedication of the work to ...
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