The rationalist philosophers, however, with a new emphasis on Reason as a tool of the intellect, brought the classical and medieval traditions under new scrutiny, exercising a new concept of doubt, with varying outcomes.

Bede dedicated this work to Cuthbert, apparently a student, for he is named " beloved son " in the dedication, and Bede says " I have laboured to educate you in divine letters and ecclesiastical statutes " Another textbook of Bede's is the De orthographia, a work on orthography, designed to help a medieval reader of Latin with unfamiliar abbreviations and words from classical Latin works.

The traditional, classical or popular ( meaning of the people ) ballad has been seen as originating with the wandering minstrels of late medieval Europe.

A look at the classical, Byzantine, and otherwise medieval literature mentioning the site reveals a name change for part or all of Colossae to Cona or Chonae.

Originally denoting a consonant / h /, its sound value in the classical Attic dialect of Ancient Greek was a long vowel, raised to in medieval Greek, a process known as iotacism.

In the late renaissance various writers began to question the medieval and classical understanding of knowledge acquisition in a more fundamental way.

The northern continent of Genertela has a feudal society of roughly medieval type to the west, an autocratic Oriental society to the east and a classical style Bronze Age culture in the center.

This is known as the classical period of Indian history, during which time India has sometimes been estimated to have had the largest economy of the ancient and medieval world, with its huge population generating between one fourth and one third of the world's income up to the 18th century.

* Intelligence or Nous, in late classical and medieval philosophy, theology and cosmology

In the late medieval period, new methods of warfare began to render classical knights in armour obsolete, but the titles remained in many nations.

This class is often translated as " knight "; the medieval knight, however, was called miles in Latin, ( which in classical Latin meant " soldier ", normally infantry ).

The virtuous pagans of classical history and mythology inhabit a brightly lit and beautiful — but somber — castle which is seemingly a medieval version of Elysium.

Babylonian astronomy served as the basis for much of Greek, classical Indian, Sassanian, Byzantine, Syrian, medieval Islamic, Central Asian, and Western European astronomy.

The word is a medieval and later one, derived from the classical Latin post murum, behind the wall.

Pocock, in the so-called " Cambridge School " of interpretation have been able to show that some of the republican themes in Machiavelli's political works, particularly the Discourses on Livy, can be found in medieval Italian literature which was influenced by classical authors such as Sallust.

His historical sources include easily identifiable passages from Livy, Suetonius, Plutarch and other classical historians, as well as from medieval chroniclers such as Geoffrey of Villehardouin and Jean Froissart.

Ottoman science and technology had been highly regarded in medieval times, as a result of Ottoman scholars ' synthesis of classical learning with Islamic philosophy and mathematics, and knowledge of such Chinese advances in technology as gunpowder and the magnetic compass.

Theologically, he represents the shift from the classical to the medieval outlook ; his popular writings are full of dramatic miracles, potent relics, demons, angels, ghosts, and the approaching end of the world.

He stands near the end of the classical development of philosophy, and was very influential on Western medieval philosophy ( Greek and Latin ) as well as Islamic thought.

One early concern of the medieval Christian church was its attitude to classical rhetoric itself.

Walter J. Ong's encyclopedia article " Humanism " in the 1967 New Catholic Encyclopedia provides a well-informed survey of Renaissance humanism, which defined itself broadly as disfavoring medieval scholastic logic and dialectic and as favoring instead the study of classical Latin style and grammar and philology and rhetoric.

There is a debate about whether the classical, medieval, and modern republics form a historical continuum.

The great use of characterisation and plotting also influenced fiction writing, including the classical short stories of the middle and late medieval period ( Tang-Ming ) as well as the vernacular novel of the late imperial period.

Morris also translated large numbers of medieval and classical works, including Homer's Odyssey in 1887.

-- On the basis of a differentiability assumption in function space, it is possible to prove that, for materials having the property that the stress is given by a functional of the history of the deformation gradients, the classical theory of infinitesimal viscoelasticity is valid when the deformation has been infinitesimal for all times in the past.

In classical times, his strong function in popular religion was to keep away evil, and was therefore called " apotropaios " ( αποτρέπω: to divert ) and " alexikakos " ( αλέξω-κακό: defend, throw away the evil ).

In classical times, these inquiries were systematized in six schools of philosophy.

In many parts of the world, acropoleis became the nuclei of large cities of classical antiquity, such as ancient Rome, which in more recent times grew up on the surrounding lower ground, such as modern Rome.

The subject has been popular in art since classical times ; it is one of several Greek myths of a Greek hero's rescue of the intended victim of an archaic sacred marriage, giving rise to the " princess and dragon " motif.

In classical times, the northern slopes of the Caucasus mountains were inhabited by the Circassians on the west and the Avars on the east.

In classical times, they were included by Ptolemy within the constellation Ursa Major in his star catalogue.

" Only by classical times is it certain that celery was cultivated.

The canal was mooted in classical times and an abortive effort was made to build it in the 1st century AD.

though it was not likely used to measure gold in classical times.

The usage is said to date back to classical times

From the ancient times until the 1800s, one goal was to reduce the expense of a classical education.

During the classical period in Greece ( 6th, 5th and 4th centuries BCE ) and in Hellenistic times, natural philosophy slowly developed into an exciting and contentious field of study.

Hindustani music is an Indian classical music tradition that goes back to Vedic times around 1000 BC.

However, this " nativist " position has been challenged by " revisionist " scholars who believe that much of it was created in Christian times in deliberate imitation of the epics of classical literature that came with Latin learning.

Today's conservatories incorporate many Muslim elements, although modern art forms have shifted from the classical art forms that were used in earlier times.

He rejected the eclectic and cluttered classical styles so common at the turn of the twentieth century as irrelevant to the modern times.

Varāhamihira's classical work Brihatsamhita, written about 500 AD, provides clear evidence that a deep knowledge of atmospheric processes existed even in those times.

The three-lithics are subdivisions of the Stone Age in the three-age system developed since classical times and given a modern archaeological meaning by Christian Jürgensen Thomsen, a Danish archaeologist, in the early 19th century.

The five classical planets, being visible to the naked eye, have been known since ancient times, and have had a significant impact on mythology, religious cosmology, and ancient astronomy.

Allegorical stories are central to the poetic diction of many cultures, and were prominent in the West during classical times, the late Middle Ages and the Renaissance.

Since classical times, it has been noted that peace has sometimes been achieved by the victor over the vanquished by the imposition of ruthless measures.

The above definition follows a classical approach to biochemistry, established at times when the distinction between a protein and a functional, proteinaceous unit was difficult to elucidate.