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The 11th-century Saxon Church of England parish church of St Mary Magdalene contains a tombstone called the Slayer's Slab, which is supposed to be from the tomb of the dragonslayer.
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11th-century and Saxon
The Domesday Book mentioning a church and priest in Writtle suggests that Christian worship in the village pre-dated the Norman Conquest ; the early-13th-century nave and chancel seem to be extensions of an 11th-century construction, which itself replaced a Saxon church.
11th-century and Church
His grave and that of his wife Phyllis Brodie Sopwith can be found in the grounds of the 11th-century All Saints Church at Little Somborne near Winchester.
The early half of the 12th century saw the appearance of several new factors of secularism unknown to an earlier and more simply religious time: the increase of commerce and industry resultant from the Crusades, the growing independence of medieval cities, the secularization of Benedictine life, the development of pageantry and luxury in a hitherto rude feudal world, the reaction from the terrible conflict of State and Church in the latter half of the 11th-century.
Cluny spread the custom of veneration of the king as patron and support of the Church, and in turn the conduct of 11th-century kings, and their spiritual outlook, appeared to undergo a change.
11th-century and England
Surprisingly, these allegations were rare in sources from 11th-century England, even when the sudden deaths would justify the suspicion.
Some see Edgar ’ s death as the beginning of the end of Anglo-Saxon England, followed as it was by three successful 11th-century conquests — two Danish and one Norman.
His name ( Adelard ) is of Angle-Saxon origin, which would have placed him in the subordinate class, status wise, in 11th-century England.
Hereward the Wake ( c. 1035 – 1072 ), known in his own times as Hereward the Outlaw or Hereward the Exile, was an 11th-century leader of local resistance to the Norman conquest of England.
11th-century and parish
Its parish ( Evangelical ) church ( 1897 ) is built at the foot of an 11th-century castle which belonged to the margraves of Baden and was destroyed by the French during the wars of Louis XV.
The town developed around its 11th-century priory, a Benedictine monastery, the remains of which make up some of the early parts of Great Malvern Priory, now a large parish church.
The town developed around its 11th-century priory, a Benedictine monastery, the remains of which make up some of the early parts of Great Malvern Priory, now a large parish church.
It was established by at least the 11th century, as it is mentioned in Rhygyfarch's 11th-century Life of Saint David ; at this time it may have supported a clerical community, but in later centuries it became simply a parish church.
11th-century and church
* The 11th-century, three-naved Basilica of San Gavino, which was built using only precious hardstones like marble, porphyry and granite, is the largest Romanesque church in Sardinia.
Medieval vestiges remain in the stark church, which is open to the public, and in the ruins of the 11th-century monastery on the sea ’ s edge.
The altar is an example of one of Norway's finest Renaissance altarpieces and the church is adorned with staves ( planks ) on which one can see Viking graffiti, an 11th-century crucifix and other artifacts from the Viking period.
Medieval vestiges remain in the stark church, which is open to the public, and in the ruins of the 11th-century monastery on the sea ’ s edge.
The Musée Rude, Dijon, inaugurated in 1947, is devoted to plaster casts of his works that were acquired by the city of Dijon, between 1887 and 1910 ; it is housed in the transept of the 11th-century church of Saint-Etienne in rue Vaillant.
The large 11th-century church is up the hill ; the tower at its eastern end was destroyed by an earth tremor in 1739 and restored in 1750.
The principal church ( catholikon ), a fine monument of the 11th-century Byzantine art, is a cross-in-square church of the octagonal type surmounted by a broad and high dome.
More original woodwork, the stained walnut rafters, is present in the ceiling, possibly modeled after a similar design in San Miniato al Monte, an 11th-century church in Florence, Italy.
Important portable and colossal icons were also placed in front of the templon, as in the 11th-century church of Saint Panteleimon in Nerzei .< ref name =" myref-6 "> Kavan, Katrina.
Interesting sights include an 11th-century church and a 13th-century fort, known locally as Le Castellas, and which was restored by the French volunteer organization La Sabranenque.
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Our Lady of St. Theodore, a 1703 copy of the 11th-century icon, following the same Byzantine " Tender Mercy " type as the Vladimirskaya above.
An 11th-century history of St. Peter's Monastery in Gloucester names two other women, Eadburh and Eafe, as queens of Wulfhere, but neither claim is plausible.
The name derives from a former flight of steps in the chalk cliff, which led from the sands up to the 11th-century shrine of St Mary on the cliff's summit.
There are iconographic depictions of lute-like instruments in the 11th-century frescoes of St. Sophia Cathedral in Kiev, once the capital of a vast medieval kingdom of the Rus '.
Gaunilo ( or Gaunilon ) of Marmoutiers was an 11th-century Benedictine monk, best known for his criticism of St Anselm's ontological argument for the existence of God.
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