Saint Godric's life was recorded by a contemporary of his: a monk named Reginald of Durham.

Muir's contemporary reviewers of Life uniformly praised him for his knowledge of Arabic ; the only competing work in Britain at the time was a book by Harrow schoolmaster Reginald Bosworth Smith, who had no Arabic language skills.

Reginald or Reynold ( as he signed his name in accordance with contemporary practice ) was born about 1538.

Scott Hull is prominent in the contemporary grindcore scene, through his participation in Pig Destroyer and Agoraphobic Nosebleed.

In a 2009 Gamasutra article, Scott Miller, head of Apogee Software, mentioned that Rise of the Triad will be getting a contemporary reboot.

This technology includes such fictional machines as those found in the works of H. G. Wells and Jules Verne, or the contemporary authors Philip Pullman, Scott Westerfeld, and China Mieville.

Scott was the first English-language author to have a truly international career in his lifetime, with many contemporary readers in Europe, Australia, and North America.

In contrast, the novels of Scott's contemporary Jane Austen, once appreciated only by the discerning few ( including, as it happened, Sir Walter Scott himself ) rose steadily in critical esteem, though Austen, as a female writer, was still faulted for her narrow (" feminine ") choice of subject matter, which, unlike Scott, avoided the grand historical themes traditionally viewed as masculine.

In 1984 the Riverside Shakespeare Company of New York City produced a modern dress Julius Caesar set in contemporary Washington, called simply CAESAR !, starring Harold Scott as Brutus, Herman Petras as Caesar, Marya Lowry as Portia, Robert Walsh as Antony, and Michael Cook as Cassius, directed by W. Stuart McDowell at The Shakespeare Center.

György Lukács, in his The Historical Novel, argues that Scott is the first fiction writer who saw history not just as a convenient frame in which to stage a contemporary narrative, but rather as a distinct social and cultural setting.

Working with renowned designers such as Tibor Kalman, Stefan Sagmeister, Scott Stowell and Stephen Doyle, the projects are based in a visual language familiar and exciting to the contemporary eye, instead of settling on staid ideas of the non-American music released.

Cultural theorist Scott Bukatman has proposed that science fiction film allows contemporary culture to witness an expression of the sublime, be it through exaggerated scale, apocalypse or transcendence.

Other contemporary British film directors include Guy Ritchie, Alan Parker, Tony Scott, Terry Gilliam, Richard Attenborough, Kenneth Brannagh, Paul W. S. Anderson, Tom Hooper, Edgar Wright, Matthew Vaughn and Sam Mendes.

Scott Goddard published a contemporary commentary that discussed the changes to the story that Fokine made to prepare a workable ballet scenario.

Scott sees this portrayal as being a contemporary look at the history.

While the book pokes fun at contemporary society, the main thrust is a satire of romanticized ideas of chivalry, and of the idealization of the Middle Ages common in the novels of Sir Walter Scott and other 19th century literature.

Manohla Dargis of The New York Times wrote that Scott was " one of the most influential film directors of the past 25 years, if also one of the most consistently and egregiously underloved by critics " and called him " ne of the pop futurists of the contemporary blockbuster ".

Amongst the contemporary paintings she purchased was Robert Scott Lauder's Christ Walking on the Sea.

Additionally, due to the cast recording featuring Scott and Butz, the show has gained popularity among contemporary musical theater aficionados and is an oft-performed piece in regional and community theatres.

A contemporary of Qawi, James Scott, was a title contender of the same era who fought many times inside the prison itself, including a fight against Qawi in 1981.

Including Scott Webb, Jim Levi, Dave Potorti, Jay Newell, Will McRobb, and Tom Hill, the group was guided towards created a series of internal campaigns to emphasize the seeming paradox of a contemporary network setting that programmed reruns from the 1960s.

Musical director Scott Bradley created complex scores that combined elements of jazz, classical, and pop music ; Bradley often reprised contemporary pop songs, as well as songs from MGM films, including The Wizard of Oz and Meet Me In St. Louis.

Also complicating Louise's life are her relationship with her ex-husband Peter ( Gabriel Byrne ), who confesses he is learning to cope with a sex addiction that, unbeknownst to her, plagued their marriage ; her ne ' er-do-well brother Sammy ( Paul Rudd ), who is favored by their mother Ellie ( Lois Smith ) despite his shortcomings ; and her best friend Missy ( Marcia Gay Harden ), who stole the original Scott from Louise before his death and seems intent on doing the same with the contemporary version.

Daugherty ’ s composition class at Yale included student composers who would later become unique and important voices in contemporary music: Bang on a Can composers Michael Gordon, David Lang, and Julia Wolfe ; along with Robert Beaser, Aaron Jay Kernis, Scott Lindroth, and Betty Olivero.

Captain Robert Falcon Scott, leader of the British National Antarctic Expedition ( BrNAE ) ( 1901-1904 ), discovered Drygalski Ice Tongue in January 1902 and named it for Prof. Erich von Drygalski, a contemporary German explorer then in Antarctica.

Influential contemporary artists include Larry D. Alexander, Laylah Ali, Amalia Amaki, Emma Amos, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Dawoud Bey, Camille Billops, Mark Bradford, Edward Clark, Willie Cole, Robert Colescott, Louis Delsarte, David C. Driskell, Leonardo Drew, Mel Edwards, Ricardo Francis, Charles Gaines, Ellen Gallagher, Herbert Gentry, Sam Gilliam, David Hammons, Jerry Harris, Richard Hunt, Martha Jackson-Jarvis, Katie S. Mallory, M. Scott Johnson, Rashid Johnson, Joe Lewis, Glenn Ligon, James Little, Al Loving, Kerry James Marshall, Eugene J. Martin, Richard Mayhew, Sam Middleton, Howard McCalebb, Charles McGill, Thaddeus Mosley, Sana Musasama, Senga Nengudi, Joe Overstreet, Martin Puryear, Adrian Piper, Howardena Pindell, Faith Ringgold, Gale Fulton Ross, Alison Saar, Betye Saar, Raymond Saunders, John T. Scott, Joyce Scott, Gary Simmons, Lorna Simpson, Renee Stout, Kara Walker, Carrie Mae Weems, Stanley Whitney, William T. Williams, John Wilson, Fred Wilson, Richard Yarde, and Purvis Young, Kehinde Wiley, Mickalene Thomas, Barkley Hendricks, Jeff Sonhouse, William Walker, Ellsworth Ausby, Che Baraka, Emmett Wigglesworth, Otto Neals, Dinga McCannon, Terry Dixon ( artist ), and many others.

He was a younger contemporary of Phidias and noted for the delicacy and finish of his works, among which a Hephaestus and an Aphrodite " of the Gardens " were conspicuous.

Dead Kennedys were noted for the harshness of their lyrics, which generally combined biting social satire while expressing a staunchly left-wing view of contemporary America.

Adrienne Mayor, in introducing a bibliography on the topic, noted that most modern folklorists are largely unaware of classical parallels and precedents, in materials that are only partly represented by the familiar designation Aesopica: " Ancient Greek and Roman literature contains rich troves of folklore and popular beliefs, many of which have counterparts in modern contemporary legends " ( Such as Mayor, 2000 ).

A contemporary report of this noted defence says, " Encouraged by the Prince of Hesse, the garrison did more than could humanly be expected, and the English Marines gained an immortal glory ".

This correlation between the French revolutionary Terror and the " terrorist school " of writing represented by Radcliffe and Lewis was noted by contemporary critics of the genre Sade considered The Monk to be superior to the work of Ann Radcliffe.

John's lack of religious conviction has been noted by contemporary chroniclers and later historians, with some suspecting that John was at best impious, or even atheistic, a very serious issue at the time.

The contemporary sources mainly noted that the battle took place and that both Prince Lazar and the Sultan lost their lives in the battle.

A contemporary news article in the journal Nature noted this materials " strikingly high conductivity ".

" Some contemporary Finns nicknamed him Suuri vaikenija ( The Great Silent One ), and Ron Clarke noted that Nurmi's persona remained a mystery even to Finnish runners and journalists: " Even to them, he was never quite real.

Chicago Tribune critic Chris Jones, noted in his review of the Broadway musical, " Bloody, Bloody, Andrew Jackson " that the hybrid had become the most viable of the contemporary formats.

The witan was noted by contemporary sources as having the singular power to ceosan to cyninge, ' to choose the king ' from amongst the ( extended ) royal family.

His contemporary Alfred Russel Wallace also noted these variations and the geographical separations between different forms leading to the study of biogeography.

Sotheby's noted that contemporary Chinese art has rapidly changed the contemporary Asian art world into one of the most dynamic sectors on the international art market.

It should be noted that classical writers such as Thucydides, Machiavelli, Hobbes and Theodore Roosevelt, are often cited as " founding fathers " of realism by contemporary self-described realists.

A contemporary chronicler noted that it was built because " had no resting place between Bourgueil and Amboise along the Loire river ".

In placing the synod in its proper historical context, Anglo-Saxon historians have also noted the position of the synod in the context of contemporary political tensions.

This name was not noted as controversial in contemporary news reports, but it was dropped less than a year later.

While classical, gospel, and contemporary popular music comprise the majority of the choir ’ s repertoire, the choir is noted for its emphasis on preserving the heritage of the spiritual, especially in the historic practices of performance.

Some design similarities are noted with the contemporary castle at Boulogne-sur-Mer, France that was also constructed without a central donjon.

Released without any promotional single, it reached the top 30 in Australia, the United Kingdom and the U. S., where the collection was appreciated by contemporary critics who noted the creativity of Norwood's back-catalogue.

As a performer, he is noted for championing contemporary pieces.

He was noted for his series of collaborations with David Hare on the state of contemporary Britain.

The production was noted for its pessimism as regards contemporary British politics, with some critics feeling the political resonances were too heavy handed.