It contains examples of the earliest Chinese prose.

The symbolism of Camelot so impressed Alfred, Lord Tennyson that he wrote up a prose sketch on the castle as one of his earliest attempts to treat the Arthurian legend.

His work is the earliest Greek prose to have survived intact.

600, the earliest document which survives in sustained Old English prose ; however, the witan was certainly in existence long before this time.

" Most notable early medieval Polish works in Latin and the Old Polish language include the oldest extant manuscript of fine prose in the Polish language entitled the Holy Cross Sermons, as well as the earliest Polish-language Bible of Queen Zofia and the Chronicle of Janko of Czarnków from the 14th century, not to mention the Puławy Psalter.

The oldest preserved Norwegian prose works are from the mid-12th century, the earliest are Latin hagiographical and historical texts such as Passio Olavi, Acta sanctorum in Selio, Historia Norwegie and Historia de Antiquitate Regum Norwagiensium.

The legend of Elffin's association with Taliesin is given at its fullest in the late medieval prose text Ystorya Taliesin, the earliest redaction of the tale known as Hanes Taliesin.

While no manuscripts exists from the 15th century prose version, this version served as the base text for 16th century printed editions ( eleven exist ), the earliest extant being the edition printed by Michel le Noir in 1513.

Although Kivi was among the very earliest authors of prose and lyrics in Finnish language, he is still considered one of the greatest of them all.

First published on 28 February 1749, Tom Jones is among the earliest English prose works describable as a novel.

Especially his early works are influenced by his studies in London ; his novel Kairo-kō was the earliest and only major prose treatment of the Arthurian legend in Japanese.

In 1612 Daniel published a prose History of England, from the earliest times down to the end of the reign of Edward III.

600, the earliest document which survives in sustained Old English prose ; however, the witan was certainly in existence long before this time.

It was about 1864 that he turned his attention to writing original prose and verse, and some of his earliest work was his best.

His most noted works include A Discourse of the Adventures of Master FJ ( 1573 ), an account of courtly sexual intrigue and one of the earliest English prose fictions ; The Supposes, ( performed in 1566, printed in 1573 ), an early translation of Ariosto and the first comedy written in English prose, which was used by Shakespeare as a source for The Taming of the Shrew ; the frequently anthologised short poem " Gascoignes wodmanship " ( 1573 ); and " Certayne Notes of Instruction concerning the making of verse or

Caecus is also the earliest known Roman writer of prose and verse.

The Conquest is the earliest French historical prose narrative that has survived to modern times.

It was in French rather than Latin, making it one of the earliest works of French prose.

It is perhaps the earliest extant Arthurian tale and one of Wales ' earliest extant prose texts.

Stylistically, because of its emphasis on the psychological insights of characters over plot, and plain-spoken prose, Winesburg, Ohio is known as one of the earliest works of Modernist literature.

* Early Middle Oriya ( 1200 – 1400 ): The earliest use of prose can be found in the Madala Panji or the Palm-leaf Chronicles of the Jagannatha temple at Puri, which date back to the 12th century.

Some of these texts are in Old Irish and are the earliest surviving continuous prose narratives in that language.

And so deadheads on the payroll can be eased out at the earliest possible age.

Thus, while it remains possible that the Babylonians and/or the Pythagoreans may perhaps have had the magic square of three before the Chinese did, more definite evidence will have to turn up from the Middle East or the Classical World before China can lose her claim to the earliest known magic square by more than a thousand years.

The earliest evidence for fist fighting with any kind of gloves can be found on Minoan Crete ( c. 1500 – 900 BC ), and on Sardinia, if we consider the boxing statues of Prama mountains ( c. 2000 – 1000 BC ).

Mesopotamia can claim the earliest cities, particularly Eridu, Uruk, and Ur.

CVD oxide invariably has lower quality than thermal oxide, but thermal oxidation can only be used in the earliest stages of IC manufacturing.

All but the very earliest 1541s can use either the Alps or Newtronics mechanism.

In the Protestant traditions some of the earliest writings opposing unorthodox groups like Swedenborg's teachings, can be traced back to John Wesley, Alexander Campbell and Princeton theologians like Charles Hodge and Benjamin Breckinridge Warfield.

Early conceptions of ecology, such as a balance and regulation in nature can be traced to Herodotus ( died c. 425 BC ), who described one of the earliest accounts of mutualism in his observation of " natural dentistry ".

Due to schisms, only the two earliest councils can be considered to have included bishops of the entire Christian Church, as it existed before those schisms.

Further, the earliest use of feuum ( as a replacement for beneficium ) can be dated to 899, the same year a Muslim base at Fraxinetum ( La Garde-Freinet ) in Provence was established.

One of the earliest examples of the technique can be found in the 16th century chivalric romance, Amadis of Gaul ( 1508 ), written by Garci Rodríguez de Montalvo.

The earliest recorded beginnings of geometry can be traced to early peoples, who discovered obtuse triangles in the ancient Indus Valley ( see Harappan Mathematics ), and ancient Babylonia ( see Babylonian mathematics ) from around 3000 BC.

Alice Miller claims that " many people suffer all their lives from this oppressive feeling of guilt, the sense of not having lived up to their parents ' expectations .... no argument can overcome these guilt feelings, for they have their beginnings in life's earliest period, and from that they derive their intensity.

TeamGym ( also known as " Gymnastics for All ") has it origins in earliest times. These days, although teams can compete the sport itself was developed to enhance fitness and health in the participants and is accessible to anyone of any age.

" Explicit connections of the earliest Stoics to Heraclitus showing how they arrived at their interpretation are missing but they can be inferred from the Stoic fragments.

Dating of remains to the biblical history is made difficult by the Bible's lack of datable events and its unreliable internal chronology ; the interpretation of remains has been influenced by religious and nationalistic arguments, as evidenced by arguments over burials from the highland settlement phase ; and no material remains have been found which can reliably separate Israelite from non-Israelite ( Canaanite ) sites in the earliest period.

Israel Finkelstein proposed that the oval or circular layout that distinguishes some of the earliest highland sites, and the notable absence of pig bones from hill sites, could be taken as a marker of ethnicity, but others have cautioned that these can be a " common-sense " adaptation to highland life and not necessarily revelatory of origins.

Purcell is said to have been composing at nine years old, but the earliest work that can be certainly identified as his is an ode for the King's birthday, written in 1670.

Henry Purcell's earliest anthem Lord, who can tell was composed in 1678.

The earliest mention of the city of Babylon can be found in a tablet from the reign of Sargon of Akkad, dating back to the 24th century BC.

In fact the earliest surviving texts that can definitely be called Italian ( or more accurately, vernacular, as distinct from its predecessor Vulgar Latin ) are legal formulae from the Province of Benevento that date from 960 – 963.

" Incunable " is the anglicised singular form of " incunabula ", Latin for " swaddling clothes " or " cradle " which can refer to " the earliest stages or first traces in the development of anything.

The earliest written mention of immunity can be traced back to the plague of Athens in 430 BCE.

Parshvanatha, the twenty-third Tirthankar, is the earliest Jain leader who can be reliably dated.