The English chronicler Matthew Paris in his Chronica Majora described Alexander as red-haired:

Self portrait of Matthew Paris ( c 1200 – 59 ).

* Matthew Paris ( c 1200 – 59 )

Drawn from life by the historian Matthew Paris for his Chronica Majora, it can be seen in his bestiary at Parker Library of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, with an accompanying text revealing that at the time, Europeans believed that elephants did not have knees and so were unable to get up if they fell over.

When the brethren left Prouille, then, to begin their apostolic work, Dominic sent Matthew of Paris to establish a school near the University of Paris.

Scotland from the Matthew Paris map, c. 1250.

According to Matthew Paris, the 13th century chronicler of St Albans Abbey, Abbot Ulsinus ( Wulsin ) founded three churches in 948, reputedly to tend to the physical and spiritual needs of the growing number of pilgrims to Alban's shrine: St Peter's, St Stephen's and St Michael's.

King John presenting a church, painted c. 1250-59 by Matthew Paris in his Historia Anglorum

An early 13th-century drawing by Matthew Paris showing contemporary warfare, including the use of castle s, crossbow men and Knight | mounted knights

William Marshal, 1st Earl of Pembroke | William the Marshal ( l ), one of John's most senior military leaders, by Matthew Paris

Matthew Paris, one of the first historians of John's reign

Much of John's later, negative reputation was established by two chroniclers writing after the king's death, Roger of Wendover and Matthew Paris.

The use of recorded evidence was combined with an increased scepticism about two of the most colourful chroniclers of John's reign, Roger of Wendover and Matthew Paris.

Numerous leprosaria, or leper hospitals, sprang up in the Middle Ages ; Matthew Paris estimated that in the early 13th century there were 19, 000 across Europe.

Portrait of Oswald ( lower right ), Epitome of Chronicles, Matthew Paris, early 13th century

A 13th century depiction of the coronation of Stephen, by Matthew Paris

* 1257 – Matthew Paris, English historian, personally interviews King Henry III of England for a week straight while compiling his major work of English history, Chronica Majora.

* Matthew Paris, English Benedictine monk and chronicler ( approximate date ; d. 1259 )

His chronicle is continued by Matthew Paris.

In the 1230s King Henry III became attached to the cult of Saint Edward, and he commissioned a new life by Matthew Paris.

Attributed arms of King Edward the Confessor ( who lived before standardized coats of arms came into use ), by Matthew Paris.

* Matthew Paris, English historian, personally interviews King Henry III of England for an entire week while compiling his major work of English history, Chronica Majora.

* Matthew Paris, English chronicler

Avery writes on his web site that " The admiration and respect which I hold for Robert Peary, Matthew Henson and the four Inuit men who ventured North in 1909, has grown enormously since we set out from Cape Columbia.

Henry Wansbrough writes: " Mark is highly, even shockingly, critical of the disciples ' lack of faith and understanding ; Matthew and Luke both weaken this criticism, in a way that might be expected to have occurred at a time when reverence for the first leaders of Christianity was increasing.

Differences between the gospels suggest that Luke is referring to a different episode from Mark and Matthew, and Klyne Snodgrass writes that " While one cannot exclude that Luke has joined two originally separate narratives, evidence for this is not convincing.

Wilbur writes of Matthew Arnold, " And was upon the point of saying " Ah ," / When he perceived, not far from the great Aiguille, / A lobster led on a leash beside the sea.

In her book about Prestwick Airport, South Ayrshire councillor Ann Galbraith writes about this tough time in the airport's history, saying that " if it hadn ’ t been for Matthew Hudson the airport wouldn ’ t be here today ".

Matthew Gray writes that the term denies Israel the status of a " state ", and emphasizes Israel's Zionist philosophy.

St Jerome writes, ” The first face of a man signifies Matthew, who began his narrative as though about a man: ‘ The book of the generation of Jesus Chris the son of David, the son of Abraham ’”.

Robert Miles writes that “ Ann Radcliffe and Matthew Lewis were the two most significant Gothic novelists of the 1790s, an estimate of their importance shared by their contemporaries .”.

Papias, Bishop of Hierapolis in Asia Minor during the first half of the 2nd century, writes that Matthew composed the logia in the Hebrew tongue and each one interpreted them as he was able.

" Matthew Continetti writes: " Scheuer believes that Clarke ’ s risk aversion and politicking negatively impacted the hunt for bin Laden prior to September 11, 2001.

The Great Gospel of John also states that the gospels of John and Matthew were written at the time of the events they chronicle ; for instance, Lorber writes that Jesus specifically told Matthew to take notes during the Sermon on the Mount.

Matthew Collin writes in Altered State: The Story of Ecstasy Culture and Acid House: " From their first party in October 1988 onwards, Genesis developed a prodigious reputation for cracking open huge warehouses and holding illegal raves, week after week, from Aldgate to Hackney, Tottenham to Walthamstow ".

As Heylin writes, " Rather than having the mysterious lady in the topless bar quoting an Italian poet from the 14th century, she was quoting from the Bible, initially from the Gospel According to Matthew.

On Matthew Arnold, a major cultural critic of the Victorian era, Barzun writes

She writes detective fiction, and is noted for her series of mediaeval mysteries featuring Matthew Bartholomew, a teacher of medicine and investigator of murders in 14th-century Cambridge.

Philipp Vielhauer writes of the Greek / Latin fragments collected as the Gospel of the Nazarenes of the that " Its literary character shows the GN secondary as compared with the canonical Mt ; again, from the point of view of form-criticism and the history of tradition, as well as from that of language, it presents no proto-Matthew but a development of the Greek Gospel of Matthew ( against Waitz ).

Regarding the Catholic interpretation of Matthew 16: 18-19, Jaroslav Pelikan writes, " As Roman Catholic scholars now concede, the ancient Christian father Cyprian used it to prove the authority of the bishop — not merely of the Roman bishop, but of every bishop ," referring to Maurice Bevenot's work on St. Cyprian.

As Matthew Simon writes, “ Since it served as a fundamental concept, not only in physiology but also in pathology and therapy, complexion theory provided important support for the idea that medicine constituted a unified and rational body of knowledge .” By observation and judgment, medieval physicians determined the proper complexion of the individual when healthy.

Keener feels this difference reflects the separate audiences for the two gospels, Matthew writes for a Jewish audience while Mark writes for a Greco-Roman one.

As scholar Matthew Kapstein writes, the " much contested doctrine sometimes called the ' mahamudra of the sutra tradition ' ( mdo-lugs phyag-chen ).