English Writers: An Attempt Towards a History of English Literature, Volume 3Cassell, limited, 1888 |
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... sent to York to transcribe books for the enrichment of the empire of Charlemagne was not to be compared to the host of Saracen translators and scribes . Bassora and Cufa were almost as rich in treatises and poems as Bagdad . Libraries ...
... sent to York to transcribe books for the enrichment of the empire of Charlemagne was not to be compared to the host of Saracen translators and scribes . Bassora and Cufa were almost as rich in treatises and poems as Bagdad . Libraries ...
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... sent by King William to compel tribute from Durham , beat the said Ralph with his pastoral staff , in punishment for his audacity , so that Johannes Prior Scriptores X. Simeon Monachus Dunelmensis . Hagulstadensis . Ricardus Prior ...
... sent by King William to compel tribute from Durham , beat the said Ralph with his pastoral staff , in punishment for his audacity , so that Johannes Prior Scriptores X. Simeon Monachus Dunelmensis . Hagulstadensis . Ricardus Prior ...
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... sent to school at Shrewsbury , where he learnt during the next five years of his life reading , grammar , and chant- ing , under a priest of royal blood named Siward . Odelire , who was of Earl Montgomery's council , and received ...
... sent to school at Shrewsbury , where he learnt during the next five years of his life reading , grammar , and chant- ing , under a priest of royal blood named Siward . Odelire , who was of Earl Montgomery's council , and received ...
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... sent to Normandy under the care of a monk named Raynold , and given , with thirty silver marks , to the Benedictine abbey of Ouche . That was an abbey founded by Evroult , for whom , as a saint of his own town , Odelire , still somewhat ...
... sent to Normandy under the care of a monk named Raynold , and given , with thirty silver marks , to the Benedictine abbey of Ouche . That was an abbey founded by Evroult , for whom , as a saint of his own town , Odelire , still somewhat ...
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... sent me into exile as if I had been a hateful stepson . " Orderic entered the Norman monastery in 1085. On the 22nd of September in the following year , on the Feast of St. Maurice , a boy in his twelfth year , he received the tonsure ...
... sent me into exile as if I had been a hateful stepson . " Orderic entered the Norman monastery in 1085. On the 22nd of September in the following year , on the Feast of St. Maurice , a boy in his twelfth year , he received the tonsure ...
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