Polydore Vergil, in his Anglica Historia ( circa 1513 ), specifies that Tyrrell was the murderer, stating that he " rode sorrowfully to London " and committed the deed with reluctance, upon Richard III's orders, and that Richard himself spread the rumours of the princes ' death in the belief that it would discourage rebellion.

The belief that he was of Syrian origin is only an inference from the fact that his mother was a Syrian woman, and from an obscure passage in the Historia Augusta, from which it may be inferred that he could speak the Syriac language.

Because belief in souls returning from the dead was common in the 12th century, Newburghs Historia briefly recounts stories he heard about revenants, as does the work of Walter Map, his southern contemporary.

The belief that the Historia was the culmination of Bede's works, the aim of all his scholarship, a belief common among historians in the past, is no longer accepted by most scholars.

She was sure she would reach the pool by climbing, and she clung to that belief despite the increasing number of obstacles.

But by the time the papers were finally disposed of, the group had informed the world of its purpose, its recommendations, and its belief that Paul Bang-Jensen was not of sound mind.

A popular belief grew up after the war that the only time during the Civil War that Thomas ever put his horse to a gallop was when he went to hurry up Stanley for this assault.

But Michael Sept had unmasked him, revealing he had never been a bishop, but was an Anabaptist, afraid to state his faith, because he knew John Calvin had written a book against their belief that the soul slept after death.

And now Andrei sat on a train on the way to Lublin and wondered if he was not being punished for his lack of belief.

But just when was an unknown, and of course the longer it did not happen, the stronger her wish and belief that it might not.

It is our belief that this readiness to relinquish some control was evidenced by the Kohnstamm-positive subjects in some of the other experimental situations to be discussed below.

The potters, in particular, had virtually eschewed freehand drawing, elaborate motifs, and the curving lines of nature, while yet expressing a belief that there was order in the universe.

With the return of our soldiers, it soon became apparent that the belief was not shared by the great majority of citizens.

Mr. Kennedy was less troubled by that possibility than by the belief that a Geneva breakdown, or even continued stalemate, would mean an unchecked spread of nuclear weapons to other countries as well as a fatal blow to any hope for disarmament.

Disapproval of the meeting was based largely on the belief that the timing could hardly be worse.

The tragic irony of the play is that the very belief in and concern with a devil who could be met in the woods and combatted with formulae set out in books was the very thing that prevented them from detecting the real devil when he came among them.

The common belief was that there existed one moral order, which included everything.

this was not virtue as we understand the word today, and it did not mean an abandonment of the belief in magic manipulation.

The lieutenant was not entirely wrong in the belief.

It is a popular belief that alchemists made contributions to the " chemical " industries of the day — ore testing and refining, metalworking, production of gunpowder, ink, dyes, paints, cosmetics, leather tanning, ceramics, glass manufacture, preparation of extracts, liquors, and so on ( it seems that the preparation of aqua vitae, the " water of life ", was a fairly popular " experiment " among European alchemists ).

This embodies the belief that the image was somehow the god or man himself.

( Despite common belief, he did not take a day from February ; see the debunked theory on month lengths ) According to a Senatus consultum quoted by Macrobius, he chose this month because it was the time of several of his great triumphs, including the conquest of Egypt.

Doubleday's purported invention of baseball was such a widely accepted belief in the late 19th century, that the legend was recorded on a Civil War monument in Maryland in 1897.

Despite popular opinion, Limbo, which was elaborated upon by theologians beginning in the Middle Ages, never entered into the teaching of the Roman Catholic Church, yet, at times, the church incorporated the theory in its ordinary belief.

Ancient Egyptian civilization was based on religion ; their belief in the rebirth after death became their driving force behind their funeral practices.

Many deist freethinkers held that belief in an afterlife with reward and punishment was a necessity of reason and good morals.

In western Europe Arianism, which had been taught by Ulfilas, the Arian missionary to the Germanic tribes, was dominant among the Goths and Lombards ( and, significantly for the late Empire, the Vandals ); but it ceased to be the mainstream belief by the 8th century.

Ambrose was known to be Catholic in belief, but also acceptable to Arians due to the charity shown in theological matters in this regard.

' This is the culmination in all that belief.

This belief follows the theology of St. Paul: For it is by grace you have been saved, through faith — and this not from yourselves, it is the gift of God, not by works, so that no one can boast.

A wide range of Pseudo-Albertine works dealing with alchemy exist, though, showing the belief developed in the generations following Albert's death that he had mastered alchemy, one of the fundamental sciences of the Middle Ages.

In Montpellier, where he lived from 1303 to 1306, he was much distressed by the prevalence of Aristotelian rationalism, which in his opinion, through the medium of the works of Maimonides, threatened the authority of the Old Testament, obedience to the law, and the belief in miracles and revelation.

The standard works of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints ( LDS Church ) are the four books that currently constitute its open scriptural canon, due to the LDS belief in continuous revelation.

The outstretched arms which are prominent in both works betray David's deeply held belief that acts of republican virtue akin to those of the Romans were being played out in France.

that not only incorporates the evolutionary sciences on a full and equal basis, but that systematically works out all of the revisions in existing belief and research practice that such a synthesis requires.

The choice of stock analysis is determined by the investor's belief in the different paradigms for " how the stock market works ".

" A notable exception to this is the ' sola fide ' belief of many mainstream Protestant Christians, which teaches that one does not have to live a perfectly " good life ," but that one must accept ( believe and put faith in ) Jesus Christ as one's saviour, and then Jesus Christ will assume the guilt of one's sins ; believers are believed to be forgiven regardless of any good or bad " works " they have participated in.

Rousseau's break with the Encyclopedistes coincided with the composition of his three major works, in all of which he emphasized his fervent belief in a spiritual origin of man's soul and the universe, in contradistinction to the materialism of Diderot, La Mettrie, and d ' Holbach.

Libertarian Marxist currents often draw from Marx and Engels ' later works, specifically the Grundrisse and The Civil War in France ; emphasizing the Marxist belief in the ability of the working class to forge its own destiny without the need for a revolutionary party or state to mediate or aid its liberation.

Throughout his life, all of his works were infused with the belief that Judaism and Jewish history could not be understood properly without a firm grasp of Halakhah.

* Charlotte Brontë, as well as her sister Anne Brontë, display a belief in phrenology in their works.

Similar arguments appear later in the works of Auguste Comte, especially when it comes to Adam Smith's belief in the separation of powers or what Comte called the " separation of the spiritual and the temporal " during the Middle Ages and the end of slavery, and Smith's criticism of masters, past and present.

" Such views of the Second Vatican Council were condemned by the Church's hierarchy, and the works of theologians who were active in the Council or who closely adhered to the Council's aspect of reform ( such as Hans Küng ) have often been criticized by the Church for espousing a belief system that is radical and misguided.

The undead are featured in the belief systems of most cultures, and appear in many works of fantasy and horror fiction.

* Apologeticus major with the three Antirrhetici against Mamonas-Constantine Kopronymos, a complete dogmatics of the belief in images, with an exhaustive discussion and refutation of all objections made in opposing writings, as well as those drawn from the works of the Fathers ;

Earlier treatments may be found in history of religion and belief in magic power of spells, also later in monotheistic religions, such as in the works of some church fathers, following much cited New Testament ideas like ζάω γάρ ὁ λόγος ὁ θεός καί ἐνεργής ( Hebrews 4: 12 ) in turn based on much cited Old Testament ideas like כן יהיה דברי אשר יצא מפי לא ־ ישוב אלי ריקם כי אם ־ עשה את ־ אשר חפצתי והצליח אשר שלחתיו ׃ ( Isaiah 55: 11 ).

In this book he takes a dual approach in explaining each article of the faith: one, for Christians, where he uses quotes from the Bible and, occasionally, from works of other Fathers of the Church, and the second, directed both at non-Christians ( but who, nevertheless, hold some sort of religious belief ) and at atheists, for whom he employs Aristotelian logic and dialectics.

Gregory's hagiographies are also an invaluable source of anecdotes and stories which enrich our understanding of life and belief in Merovingian Gaul, whilst it is fascinating to study works such as these which must have excited their audience to such an extent.

The Roman historian Tacitus is often stated to have been born in Terni, but there is no evidence for the claim, which is circumstantially based on the probable birth there of the emperor of the same name, and on the attested fact that that emperor took care to have his namesake's works widely copied, in the apparent belief that they were related.

Contrary to popular belief, the stormtroopers are not in fact the army, but rather an elite corps that works as a ground force for the Navy -- similar to a marine corps.

Scholarly reference works on languages do not, however, acknowledge the existence of either a " reformed Egyptian " language or " reformed Egyptian " script as it has been described in Mormon belief.

These works were ordered to be burnt by the Patriarch of Constantinople, Leo Styppes, in May 1140, on the grounds that they incorporated elements of Bogomil belief and practices.