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contemporary and sources
The Press music division, SoundForth, produces Christian musical arrangements and recordings in more traditional styles than do most contemporary music sources.
He relied on his own experiences, contemporary writings about Napoleon, and on historical sources.
The history of Caligula's reign is extremely problematic as only two sources contemporary with Caligula have survived — the works of Philo and Seneca.
He is often known as Constantine I, in reference to his place in modern lists of kings of Scots, though contemporary sources described Causantín only as a Pictish king.
The project " involves extracting and analysing detailed information from primary sources, including contemporary chronicles, cartularies, necrologies and testaments.
The Historia Roderici calls her a daughter of a Count Diego of Oviedo, a person unknown to contemporary records, while later poetic sources name her father as an otherwise unknown Count Gomez de Gormaz.
Some ancient sources, such as Hippolytus, and some modern scholars consider that the epistle " from Laodicea " was never a lost epistle, but simply Paul recycling one of his other letters ( the most common candidate is the contemporary Letter to the Ephesians ), just as he asks for the copying and forwarding of the Letter to Colossians to Laodicea.
The use of siphons is amply attested in the contemporary sources.
According to the contemporary sources and later speculations, the first line was formed by light cavalry archers ( Battle of Oslava-1116, 1146, 1260, 1278 ).
The upshot is that scholars cannot assert with any confidence how much material Shakespeare took from the Ur-Hamlet ( if it even existed ), how much from Belleforest or Saxo, and how much from other contemporary sources ( such as Kyd's The Spanish Tragedy ).
The factual content of the work tends to be deemed more credible as it discusses more recent times, as the distance in time between the events described and the composition of the saga was shorter, allowing traditions to be retained in a largely accurate form, and because in the twelfth century the first contemporary written sources begin to emerge in Norway.
Much of Caesar's life is known from his own accounts of his military campaigns, and from other contemporary sources, mainly the letters and speeches of Cicero and the historical writings of Sallust.
As there are no historical sources contemporary to Hitomaro's time, these historicity of these documents are difficult to verify.
Guillermi's version is mostly copied from other works with small additions or excisions from the papal biographies of Pandulf, nephew of Hugo of Alatri, which in turn was copied almost verbatim from the original Liber Pontificalis ( with the notable exception of the biography of Pope Leo IX ), then from other sources until Pope Honorius II ( 1124 – 1130 ), and with contemporary information from Pope Paschal II ( 1099 – 1118 to Pope Urban II ( 1088 – 1099 ).
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 limited number of contemporary sources describe the history of the Merovingian Franks, but those that survive cover the entire period from Clovis ' succession to Childeric's deposition.
The role played by Mieszko I in the subsequent struggles is unclear because the contemporary sources are scarce and not in agreement.
His mother, who is not mentioned in contemporary sources, is sometimes supposed to have been Donada, a daughter of the Scottish king Malcolm II ( Máel Coluim mac Cináeda ).
The Prophecy of Berchan is apparently alone in near contemporary sources in reporting a violent death, calling it a kinslaying.
The contemporary and modern sources discussing his ascent mention strategic marriages along with banishment or murder of his rivals.
* A reconstructed portrait of Motecuhzoma Xocoyotzin, based on historical sources, in a contemporary style.
The extent to which contemporary Pagans use these sources differs ; many follow a spirituality which they accept is entirely modern, whilst others attempt to reconstruct or revive indigenous, ethnic religions as found in historical and folkloric sources as accurately as possible.
* The project " involves extracting and analysing detailed information from primary sources, including contemporary chronicles, cartularies, necrologies and testaments.

contemporary and Philo
Gaius Asinius Pollio ( sometimes wrongly called Pollius or Philo ) ( Teate Marrucinorum-currently Chieti in Abruzzi 75 BC – AD 4 ) was a Roman soldier, politician, orator, poet, playwright, literary critic and historian, whose lost contemporary history, provided much of the material for the historians Appian and Plutarch.
Philo would have been a contemporary to Jesus of Nazareth and his Apostles.
Philo is largely shaped by contemporary Greek philosophy.
* Philo Records ( folk ), founded in 1973, a contemporary folk branch of Rounder Records

contemporary and Alexandria
He was ordained a deacon by the contemporary patriarch, Alexander of Alexandria, in 319.
The first to report on the temptation was his contemporary Athanasius of Alexandria.
In his Ecclesiastical History, Eusebius writes of Dionysius of Alexandria as his contemporary.
According to the only contemporary source, Hypatia was murdered by a Christian mob after being accused of exacerbating a conflict between two prominent figures in Alexandria: the governor Orestes and the Bishop of Alexandria.
By comparing his own measurements with those of Timocharis of Alexandria ( a contemporary of Euclid who worked with Aristillus early in the 3rd century BC ), he found that Spica's longitude had decreased by about 2 ° in about 150 years.
In recent years Lao popular music has made inroads into Thailand through the success of contemporary Lao musicians Alexandria, L. O. G.
A detailed contemporary collection of constructions for the determination of lengths from a distance using this instrument is known, the Dioptra of Hero of Alexandria ( c. 10 – 70 AD ), which survived in Arabic translation ; but the knowledge became lost in Europe.
Likely born in Alexandria, he was a contemporary of Euclid.
The first corrector of א, probably the contemporary διορθωτής, was at pains to enclose in brackets and mark with dots for deletion two famous passages in Luke written by the original scribe which, being absent from B W 579 and the Egyptian versions, we infer were not accepted in the text at that time dominant in Alexandria, viz.
The satellite will also carry an astronomical clock that shows the current rotation rates of several pulsars ; photographs of people of all cultures ; and " the contemporary Library of Alexandria ", an encyclopaedic compendium of current human knowledge.
He criticized the world history of his contemporary monk Panodorus of Alexandria for relying too much on secular sources rather than biblical sources for his dates.
Anthony's temptation is first discussed by Athanasius of Alexandria, Anthony's contemporary, and from then became a popular theme in Western culture.
He had a contemporary reputation comparable to that of Dionysius of Alexandria or Cyprian, bishop of Carthage.
A contemporary of Athanasius, bishop of Alexandria, diedide that were Egyptians.
Pope Cyril VI of Alexandria testified as to the holiness and asceticism of this contemporary saint.
He is placed by some writers as early as the 4th century ; but it is plain from his own work that he did not write till the very end of the 5th or the beginning of the 6th, as he refers not only to Patriarch Cyril of Alexandria, who died 444, but also to Petrus archiater, who could be identified with the physician of Theodoric the Great, whom he defines a contemporary.

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