Despite the rejection of the traditional accounts on many points of detail, as late as 1948 it was still possible to postulate a massive and comparatively sudden ( beginning in ca. 450 ) influx of Germans as the type of invasions.

According to the traditional accounts, Gautama, the future Buddha, was a prince who grew up in an environment of luxury and opulence.

In regards to the style, as Norman Perrin, who argues for pseudonymity, notes, ' The letter does employ a great deal of traditional material and it can be argued that this accounts for the non-Pauline language and style.

According to the Suda ( an 11th-century encyclopaedia of Byzantium which likely took its information from traditional accounts ), Herodotus learned the Ionian dialect as a boy living on the island of Samos, whither he had fled with his family from the oppressions of Lygdamis, tyrant of Halicarnassus and grandson of Artemisia I of Caria.

A Muslim, also spelled Moslem, is an adherent of Islam, a monotheistic Abrahamic religion based on the Qur ' an — which Muslims consider the verbatim word of God as revealed to prophet Muhammad — and, with lesser authority than the Qur ' an, the teachings and practices of Muhammad as recorded in traditional accounts, called hadith.

In return, in 756, Pepin and his Frankish army forced the last Lombard king to surrender his conquests, and Pepin officially conferred upon the pope the territories belonging to Ravenna, even cities such as Forlì with their hinterlands, laying the Donation of Pepin upon the tomb of Saint Peter, according to traditional later accounts.

The traditional leading areas for tourism in Piedmont are the Lake District – " Piedmont's riviera ", which accounts for 32. 84 % of total overnight stays, and the metropolitan area of Turin which accounts for 26. 51 %.

The traditional tales were often adapted for children, most notably in Howard Pyle's The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood, which influenced accounts of Robin Hood through the 20th century.

The traditional view is that this was leprosy, but this was not mentioned in contemporary accounts, and is now disputed with syphilis, psoriasis, motor neurone disease and a series of strokes all proposed as possible alternatives.

According to traditional accounts, the scientific revolution began in Europe towards the end of the Renaissance era and continued through the late 18th century, the later period known as The Enlightenment.

Further attempts at reconstruction of surviving accounts of historical celebrations are often made, a hallmark being variations of the traditional.

One traditional story describes the pilot as the famous Arab navigator Ibn Majid, but other contemporaneous accounts place Majid elsewhere, and he could not have been near the vicinity at the time.

According to traditional accounts, Bhuvaneswari Devi had a dream in which Shiva said that he would be born as her son.

* 2012: Staff of The Tuscaloosa News, " For its enterprising coverage of a deadly tornado, using social media as well as traditional reporting to provide real-time updates, help locate missing people and produce in-depth print accounts even after power disruption forced the paper to publish at another plant 50 miles away.

" Despite its atypical nature, " Contendings " includes many of the oldest episodes in the divine conflict, and many events appear in the same order as in much later accounts, suggesting that a traditional sequence of events was forming at the time that the story was written.

The most common application of the concept in economics is in the behavioral theory of the firm, which, unlike traditional accounts, postulates that producers treat profit not as a goal to be maximized, but as a constraint.

Nevertheless, the presence of Elisa ( as well as that of Cainan son of Arpachshad, below ) in the Greek Bible accounts for the traditional enumeration among early Christian sources of 72 families and languages, from the 72 names in this chapter, as opposed to the 70 names, families and languages usually found in Jewish sources.

His fame owes much to traditional accounts of his colourful life, as one of the wisest of men, as a greedy miser, as an inventor of a system of mnemonics and also of some letters of the Greek alphabet ().

The Ghorbat and the Shadibaz claim to have originally come from Iran and Multan, respectively, and Tahtacı traditional accounts mention either Baghdad or Khorāsān as their original home.

In 1835 Daguerre discovered — after accidentally breaking a mercury thermometer, according to traditional accounts — a method of developing the faint or invisible images on plates that had been exposed for only 20 to 30 minutes.

They believe that these conclusions overlook traditional accounts of farming that occurred before European contact.

He identifies the vices as what he calls the evil emotions " The fourth group consisting of hate, greed, vanity, envy and cruelty is evil " These vices differ from more traditional accounts of vice because they are not character traits expressed by action but emotions that are felt.

Andrew Lloyd Webber's Jesus Christ Superstar ( book and lyrics by Tim Rice ), and Stephen Schwartz's Godspell both contain elements of the traditional passion accounts.

Translated to English by John Bester, the book was a biography of one of the last traditional Yakuza bosses in Japan.

" Do changes in science mean the traditional great-man science biography is going the way of the dodo?

Merlin's traditional biography casts him as a cambion: born of a mortal woman, sired by an incubus, the non-human wellspring from whom he inherits his supernatural powers and abilities.

Moreover, the biography progresses backwards in time, as a reminder that it is less history than fiction, and as an example of Pindar's unique literary methodshe often demonstrated particular themes by narrating episodes from traditional myths, sometimes in reverse chronological order: an aspect of his risk-taking approach.

The biography, done " to satisfy myself and without regard to traditional standards, to the needs of publishers or to the tastes of the reading public ", triumphed Galton's life, work, and personal heredity.

The sīrat rasūl allāh ( Life of the Messenger of God ; ) or al-sīra al-nabawiyya ( Prophetic biography ; ) or just al-sīra, is the Arabic term used for the various traditional Muslim biographies of Muhammad from which, in addition to the Qur ' an and Hadith, most historical information about his life and the early period of Islam is derived.

While Thai classical music was somewhat discouraged as being unmodern and backward looking during Thailand's aggressively nationalistic modernization policies of mid-20th century, the classical arts have benefited recently from increased governmental sponsorship and funding as well as popular interest as expressed in such films as Homrong: The Overture ( 2003 ), a popular fictionalized biography of a famous traditional xylophone ( ranat ek ) performer.

In the biography, The Grimké Sisters from South Carolina, historian Gerda Lerner writes that “ It never occurred to that she should abide by the superior judgment of her male relatives or that anyone might consider her inferior, simply for being a girl .” More so than her elder sister ( and later, fellow abolitionist ), Sarah, Angelina seemed to be naturally inquisitive and outspoken, a trait which often offended her rather traditional family and friends.

Citing the Boeotian orthography of her surviving fragments, David Campbell, who edited a modern version of her fragments, argues that she lived about 200 BC, and that her traditional biography, replete with contradictory accounts of her character, emerged as legend at a much later date.

At a time when Korea was suffering under the yoke of Japanese Imperialism, a fuller assessment of Eulji commenced with the Korean historian Shin Chaeho ( 신채호, 申采浩, 1880 – 1936 ), who published a biography of Eulji in 1908 and held him out as an example of Korea's traditional nationalist spirit.

A fair amount of the work he was noted for was written while he was in Morocco, including his biography of Muhammad Abd al-Karim al-Maghili, a scholar and jurist responsible for much of the traditional religious law of the area.

According to the traditional biography of Aśvaghoṣa, which was translated into Chinese by Kumārajīva, and preserved in that language, he was originally a wandering ascetic who was able to defeat all-comers in debate.

According to the traditional version of his biography, he was found at about age five on the docks at City Point, Virginia, in 1765.

Recently published research further challenges the traditional biography of the artist.

* Fan Changjiang's biography ( in traditional Chinese )

Therefore, the biography that follows is garnered largely from traditional biographies of Sengcan, mainly the Transmission of the Lamp.

William Stokes's contemporary biography includes detailed accounts of Petrie's working methods in his collecting of traditional music: ' The song having been given, O ' Curry wrote the Irish words, when Petrie's work began.

Duras ' work is often cited as part of the Nouveau Roman movement which tried to redefine traditional ideas about set categories of books, fiction, non-fiction, biography, autobiography etc.

The following biography is the traditional Chan biography as handed down throughout the centuries, including the Denkoroku by Zen Master Keizan Jokin ( 1268 – 1325 ).