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...The object of this book is to bring together stories of the most important movements in the history of Europe during the Middle Ages, and to make familiar the names of the most important figures in those scenes. I have endeavoured to weave a tapestry in which, with due colour, may be traced the history of the rise and fall of the various nation...

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...Intended for a youthful audience, The Story of the Middle Ages , published in 1906, tells the history of the Middle Ages in simple and entertaining fashion, and helps to explain the influence of the Middle Ages on modern times. Topics covered include the rise of the Christian...

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These are biographical sketches of the men and one woman, Joan of Arc, who were famous during the Middle Ages.

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...This book is in no degree an attempt to relate the involved and intricate history of the Middle Ages. Its plan is, rather, to present pictures of the manner of life and habits of thought of the people who lived between the eighth and fifteenth centuries. Our writings and our everyday conversation are full of thei...

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...eck, as it were, of a gigantic vessel. We dream of Paris from the days of the Romans to those of the Franks, from the Normans to the Burgundians, the Middle-Ages, the Valois, Henri IV., Louis XIV., Napoleon, and Louis-Philippe. Vestiges are before us of all those sovereignties, in monuments that recall their memory....

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...he Romans to those of the Franks, from the Normans to the Burgundians, the Middle-Ages, the Valois, Henri IV., Louis XIV., Napo- leon, and Louis-Phili... ...ns to those of the Franks, from the Normans to the Burgundians, the Middle-Ages, the Valois, Henri IV., Louis XIV., Napo- leon, and Louis-Philippe. Ve... ...” Attracted by a certain kindliness concealed beneath these words, and the middle-class air which exhaled from them, Godefroid had, on the afternoon w... ...mation (for he belonged to those characters who spring at a bound into the middle of a situation, instead of advancing, as others do, step by step), h... ...an be described in a word: he was the small bourgeois of Paris, the worthy middle-class being with a kindly face, relieved by pure white hair, but mad... ...t with your spirit. It is, in short, the Gospel translated, adapted to all ages, the summit and crest of all human situations. It is ex- traordinary t... ...e minds texts into the hidden meaning of which they love to burrow. In the middle of the night, aided by the silence, by the darkness, by the terrible... ...f the greatest social forces, and that which made the Europe of the middle-ages, rests on principles which, since 1792, no longer exist in France, whe... ...of collective bodies. The corporations and the Hanse leagues of the middle-ages, /to which we shall some day return/, are still impossible. Consequent...

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...ghieri between 1308 and his death in 1321, is widely considered the central epic poem of Italian literature, the last great work of literature of the Middle Ages and the first great work of the Renaissance. A culmination of the medieval world-view of the afterlife, it establishes the Tuscan dialect in which it is written as the Italian standard, and is seen as one of the g...

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...suspect. The lines Antigone and Ismene's entrance to the end may have been added later, either after Sophocles' Theban plays became popular or in the Middle Ages. (Summary by Libby Gohn)...

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...e Metamorphoses and the Ars Amatoria, the Heroides were one of the most influential works of Ovid, not only in the Antiquity, but also throughout the Middle Ages and up to Modern times. (Summary by Leni)...

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...The Cloud of Unknowing (Middle English: The Cloude of Unknowyng) is an anonymous work of Christian mysticism written in Middle English in the latter half of the 14th century. The text is a spiritual guide on contemplative prayer in the late Middle A...

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...ment of the American legal system. They were in fact the first methodical treatise on the common law suitable for a lay readership since at least the Middle Ages. The common law of England has relied on precedent more than statute and codifications and has been far less amenable than the civil law, developed from the Roman law, to the needs of a treatise. The Commentaries ...

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...ry as a battle between civilization and barbarism. So it has always been, and that remains true even today. But it is especially in the matter of the Middle Ages that the popular histories trample upon the popular traditions. In this respect there is an almost comic contrast between the general information provided about England in the last two or three centuries, in which...

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...ics “Onlar” – Güncel Siyasetin Sorunu Lyutvi Mestan 219 Doğu Batı Ortaçağ ve Modernlik Arasında Çokkültürlülük Multiculturalism between East West Middle Ages and Modernity Mehmet Paçacı .237 The Age of Tolerance Hoşgörü Çağı Ferid Muhic 261 Türkiye ve Balkanlar: Varoluşun ve İnşanın Karşılıklı İzdüşümleri Turkey and the Balkans: Mutual Projection of Existence and...

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...ices. In poems such as What is Our Life and The Lie, Raleigh expresses a contemptus mundi (contempt of the world) attitude more characteristic of the Middle Ages than of the dawning era of humanistic optimism. But, his lesser-known long poem The Ocean to Cynthia combines this vein with the more elaborate conceits associated with his contemporaries Edmund Spenser and John D...

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...uflection to Providence, the poem has a secularity which would have been anathema to a writer like Dante, ensconced in the theocratic fastness of the Middle Ages. The tone of the Prelude is gentle and reflective. Almost completely absent are the crashing cadences of narrative poems like the Aeneid and Paradise Lost, and there is nothing to match the terrible and multifario...

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...oon came to the realization that there, in front of me, was 2000 years of scientific history, just waiting to show me the knowledge and wisdom of the ages past! The result was, spending four years to write a 5000-page manuscript about the 2000-year history of ASTRONOMY, MATHEMATICS, PHYSICS, CHEMISTRY, BIOLOGY and MICROBIOLOGY/MEDICINE. Each science represents, in itself...

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...m with the Earth and not the Sun at its center. ABSTRACT ON THE GENESIS OF AN ORDERLY AND SYSTEMATIC UNIVERSE 25 THE ALCHEMY OF ANTIQUITY AND THE MIDDLE AGES 32 THE METAL INDUSTRY OF ANTIQUITY 33 Mercury, Copper, Bronze, Iron and Steel. GEBER (721-815) Arabian Alchemist 38 One of the first scholars and alchemists of the Islamic world. OMAR KHAYYAM (12th Century...

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...ve been viewed as a harmless and irrelevant advocate of the ancient morality, which was a known public stance of the citizens of Patavium. During the Middle Ages interest in Livy fell off. Due to the length of the work the literate class were already reading summaries rather than the work itself, which was tedious to copy, expensive, and required a lot of storage space. It...

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...city, that spreads from the edge of the Java Sea, and has grown through the ages to become one of Asia’s great mega cities. European adventurers ... ...ntly, I went out into the hallway to check it out. Outside was a typical middle aged Chinese/Indonesian mother, with two eager police officers. H...

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... Leon, the Zohar was concealed again for hundreds of years, until the late Middle Ages, the time of the Holy Ari. THE ARI (1534–1572) In each generati... ...the Zohar was concealed again for hundreds of years, until the late Middle Ages, the time of the Holy Ari. THE ARI (1534–1572) In each generation, the... ...d correct the entire human race. In the sixteenth century, the time of the Middle Ages and barbarism, a child was born in Jerusalem. Later in his life... ...ct the entire human race. In the sixteenth century, the time of the Middle Ages and barbarism, a child was born in Jerusalem. Later in his life he rec... ...tion of the souls ended with the Ari—a phase of unconscious evolution, the Middle Ages, a time of barbarism and savagery. The appearance of the Ari br... ... the souls ended with the Ari—a phase of unconscious evolution, the Middle Ages, a time of barbarism and savagery. The appearance of the Ari brought w... ...d clothe themselves in the bodies of our world. This caused the end of the Middle Ages and the beginning of the Renaissance. It was a time of evolutio... ...e themselves in the bodies of our world. This caused the end of the Middle Ages and the beginning of the Renaissance. It was a time of evolution, lead...

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...W YORK: M. YOUNG, PUBLISHER, 173 GREENWICH STREET. ACT IV. A Cavern. In the Middle, a Boiling Cauldron. Thunder. Enter the three Witches. First... ...ccurately to define what such terms might import. The Ephesians, as some in all ages have done, probably laid claim to the intercourse with invisible... ...n of communion with evil spirits scouted as a fable of what are called the dark ages, we own that we have difficulty in believing that all which has... ...ed to have departed this life after the procrastinating fashion peculiar to the middle ages, by being walled up alive in a vault in the palace at Ber... ...ave departed this life after the procrastinating fashion peculiar to the middle ages, by being walled up alive in a vault in the palace at Berlin. T... ... old one being out of repair. And whatever fiction the marvelous taste of those ages may have mixed up with the tale, certain it is that there is sh... ...t the bread, placed it regularly on the plate, and divided the slices in the middle. In fine, she went through the whole operation of preparing b... ...as. It is by such and similar methods the magicians, prophets, and seers of the Middle Ages and biblical times, and many of the magi and wise men of ... ...is by such and similar methods the magicians, prophets, and seers of the Middle Ages and biblical times, and many of the magi and wise men of ancient...