The Abbey was built over some sixty years using local red sandstone, but gives the impression of a single coherent, mainly ' Early English ' architectural design, though the round-arched processional doorway in the western front looks back to late Norman or transitional work.

Early photographs show Englishmen adding a net to the traditional English game of battledore and shuttlecock.

It is written in English, very similar to the Early Modern English linguistic style of the King James Version of the Bible, and has since been fully or partially translated into 108 languages.

Early collections of English ballads were made by Samuel Pepys ( 1633 – 1703 ) and in the Roxburghe Ballads collected by Robert Harley, 1st Earl of Oxford and Mortimer ( 1661 – 1724 ).

Translations into the vernacular were done by famous notables, including King Alfred ( Old English ), Jean de Meun ( Old French ), Geoffrey Chaucer ( Middle English ), Queen Elizabeth I ( Early Modern English ), and Notker Labeo ( Old High German ).

( Early modern philosophers like Locke used the corresponding English terms ' nominal essence ' and ' real essence ').

Early critics, such as Robert Louis Stevenson admired it saying that the footprint scene in Crusoe was one of the four greatest in English literature and most unforgettable ; more prosaically, Dr. Wesley Vernon has seen the origins of forensic podiatry in this episode.

** Brut by Layamon ( Early Middle English )

For example the term " Flemish Primitives ", now outdated in English but used in French, Flemish and other languages, is a synonym for " Early Netherlandish painting ", and it is not uncommon to see Mosan art categorized as Flemish art.

The term is derived from the verb to handfast, used in Middle to Early Modern English for the making of a contract of marriage.

Following a change in vowel pronunciation that marks the transition of English from the medieval to the Renaissance period, the language of the Chancery and Caxton became Early Modern English ( the language of Shakespeare's day ) and with relatively moderate changes eventually developed into the English language of today.

* Bolton, J. K. ( 2007 ) " English Economy in the Early Thirteenth Century ," in Church ( ed ) 2007.

( eds ) ( 2002 ) The Cambridge History of Early Modern English Literature.

( 1976 ) English Society in the Early Middle Ages ( 1066 – 1307 ).

* The Early English Trade Unions: Documents from Home Office Papers in the Public Record Office by A. Aspinall

Magick is an Early Modern English spelling for magic, used in works such as the 1651 translation of Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa's De Occulta Philosophia, Three Books of Occult Philosophy, or Of Magick.

* Merlin: or the early History of King Arthur: a prose romance ( Early English Text Society.

Early in the year, the Welsh forces suffered a series of defeats — which was a bad sign as to date, the rebellion had seen many easy defeats of the English forces.

As a result, Furnival founded the Early English Text Society in 1864 and the Chaucer Society in 1868 to publish old manuscripts.

Enlightenment and Romance in James Macpherson's the Poems of Ossian: Myth, Genre and Cultural Change ( Studies in Early Modern English Literature ) ( 2003 )

Early anthropology was divided between proponents of unilinealism, who argued that all societies passed through a single evolutionary process, from the most primitive to the most advanced, and various forms of non-lineal theorists, who tended to subscribe to ideas such as diffusionism.

Early forms of industry developed at this time ; however, unlike in other cities, no guilds were formed in Aarau.

Early fossils are mainly of erect forms, but encrusting forms gradually became dominant.

The poem retains a complicated mix of the following dialectical forms: Mercian, Northumbrian, Early West Saxon, Kentish and Late West Saxon.

Early forms of cartography of India included the locations of the Pole star and other constellations of use.

Early and late onset forms occur with ' on and off ' painful spasmodic muscular contractions that can be disabling when the disease activates.

Early forms of distillation were batch processes using one vaporization and one condensation.

The " Abecedarian Early Intervention Project ", an all-day program that provided various forms of environmental enrichment to children from infancy onward, showed IQ gains that did not diminish over time.

Early forms of the Inuit language were spoken by the Thule people, who overran the Dorset people, who had previously occupied Arctic America, at the beginning of the second millennium.

Early forms of logic in Islamic philosophy were introduced in Islamic jurisprudence from the 7th century with the process of Qiyas.

Early forms of rock had languished in poor areas of the South.

Early Islamic pottery followed the forms of the regions which the Muslims conquered.

Early species had long, fully toothed jaws and long tails, while later forms had a highly reduced tail, and some lacked teeth.

Early forms are very similar in many ways to certain forms of voulge, while 16th century and later forms are similar to the pollaxe.

Sharing Erasmus ' translation ideals, Tyndale took the ill-regarded, unpopular and awkward Middle-English " vulgar " tongue, improved upon it using Greek and Hebrew syntaxes and idioms, and formed an Early Modern English basis Shakespeare and others would later follow and build on as Tyndale-inspired vernacular forms took over.

In the Early Minoan age these were formed of soft stone and ivory and show particular characteristic forms.

Early forms of market socialism consisted of proposals for cooperative enterprises operating in a free-market economy, so that exploitation would be eliminated and individuals would receive the full product of their labor.

But most of the other case endings disappeared in the Early Modern English period, including most of the roughly one dozen forms of the definite article (" the ").

Chancery Standard was not the only influence on later forms of English — its level of influence is disputed and a variety of spoken dialects continued to exist — but it provided a core around which Early Modern English could crystallise.

Early forms were constructed of bars atop a gourd.

Early forms of art in China are found in the Neolithic Yangshao culture (), which dates back to the 6th millennium BCE.