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The twelfth century left its signature on higher education, on the scholastic philosophy, on European systems of law, on architecture and sculpture, on the liturgical drama, on Latin and vernacular poetry ... We shall confine ourselves to the Latin side of this renaissance, the revival of learning in the broadest sense — the Latin classics and their influence, the new jurisprudence and the more varied historiography, the new knowledge of the Greeks and Arabs and its effects upon western science and philosophy, he stated in his preface.
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His chief work is a Historia Francorum, or Libri v de Gestis Francorum, which deals with the history of the Franks from the earliest times to 653, and was continued by other writers until the middle of the twelfth century.
1143 ), English chronicler, was sacristan of the church of Beverley in the first half of the twelfth century.
The social system of " courtly love ", as gradually elaborated by the Provençal troubadours from the mid twelfth century, soon spread.
It deals with several specific themes that were the subject of poetical debate among late twelfth century troubadours and trobairitz.
Abu Salih the Armenian, writing in the last quarter of the twelfth century, makes one early reference to this belief that they possessed the Ark.
Extreme Unction was the usual name for the sacrament in the West from the late twelfth century until 1972, and was thus used at the Council of Trent and in the 1913 Catholic Encyclopedia.
Peter Lombard ( died 1160 ) is the first writer known to have used the term, which did not become the usual name in the West till towards the end of the twelfth century, and never became current in the East.
Up to the twelfth or thirteenth century, the duty of the Apostolic-or Roman Chancery was to prepare and expedite the pontifical letters and writs for collation of church dignities and other matters of grave importance which were discussed and decided in Consistory.
Such names have not yet been shown conclusively to predate the twelfth century, but there are indications that they may be considerably older.
Maimonides, a twelfth century rabbi, discusses Job in his work The Guide for the Perplexed.
The Lutician uprising of 983 practically annihilated it ; bishops continued to be named, but they were merely titular, until the downfall of the Wends in the twelfth century and the German eastward settlement in the diocesan region revived the bishopric.
The font of a type common in Cornwall is of the twelfth century: large and finely carved.
: " From the tenth to the twelfth century Byzantium was the main source of inspiration for the West.
Similarly those of the Palatine Chapel, the Martorana at Palermo, and the cathedral of Cefalù, together with the vast decoration of the cathedral at Monreale, demonstrate the influence of Byzantium on the Norman Court of Sicily in the twelfth century.
Such was the influence of Byzantine art in the twelfth century, that Russia, Venice, southern Italy and Sicily all virtually became provincial centres dedicated to its production.
In the twelfth century the practice of appointing ecclesiastics from outside Rome as cardinals began, with each of them being assigned a church in Rome as his titular church, or being linked with one of the suburbicarian dioceses, while still being incardinated in a diocese other than that of Rome.
" There is a wood named " Fethelée " mentioned in a twelfth century document that relates to Stoke Lyne, in Oxfordshire, and it now is thought that the battle of Fethan leag must have been fought in this area.
By the twelfth century great churches in Germany, like those elsewhere were finding it difficult to hold out against the accumulation of lay custom and lay objections to temporary inheritance.
They almost completely superseded hand bows in many European armies in the twelfth century for a number of reasons.
After the middle of the twelfth century, the Ma ' an family superseded the Tanukhs in Druze leadership.
According to later accounts, the Nile had, by around the twelfth century, just six branches.
However, because al-Rammah attributes his material to " his father and forefathers ", al-Hassan argues that gunpowder became prevalent in Syria and Egypt by " the end of the twelfth century or the beginning of the thirteenth ".
Additionally, scholars such as Margot Fassler and Marianna Richert Pfau describe Hildegard's music as highly melismatic, often with recurrent melodic units, and also note her close attention to the relationship between music and text, which was a rare occurrence in monastic chant of the twelfth century.
The exact sources of his work are disputed, but included earlier kings ' sagas, such as Morkinskinna, Fagrskinna and the twelfth century Norwegian synoptic histories and oral traditions, notably many skaldic poems.
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.
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The question of “ using ″ Article 146 to draw a new constitution, and hold a referendum, was left to the twelfth ( and first all-German ) Bundestag, who after considering the question decided against a new draft.
In one early morning in the twelfth month of the first year of Emperor Hui, the emperor went on a hunting trip ; this time Liu Ruyi was left alone because he could not wake up early.
In this year ( the twelfth year of King Asoka's reign ) the right branch of the Bodhi tree was brought by Sanghamittā to Anurādhapura and placed by Devānāmpiyatissa his left foot in the Mahāmeghavana.
His dominance, along with the boisterous and hostile nature of the crowd, left Ding in tears during the twelfth frame, trailing 8 – 3 in the best of 19 frames contest.
Her younger son, the twelfth Lord, commanded the left wing of the government army at the Battle of Culloden in 1746.
That is, the starting house is left empty ; if it contained 12 seeds, it is skipped, and the twelfth seed is placed in the next house.
On the left bank of the river, the hamlet of La Neuveville dates back further, having been established during the twelfth century with protection and support from Duke of Lorraine by the cannons of Étival Abbey who provided both the necessary land and the expertise.
This was Prost's twelfth points finish of the season, which meant that he now had to drop points as only the eleven best points finishes counted, but he still led by 24 points with three races left.
On the twelfth day of their stay in the garden, Bahá ' u ' lláh and his family left the garden and started on their travel to Constantinople.
Powter eventually appeared in the twelfth episode, " Dear Diary ," and it was left open for her character to have a heavy recurring role if the series had continued.
As a result, he was left out of the playing XI and made twelfth man for the first three Tests against the touring England team.
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Smaller containers may be made of glass, aluminum or plastic. Lone Star State Edition Budweiser On August 3, 2011, Budweiser announced its twelfth can design since 1936, one which emphasizes the bowtie.
Although Egypt did not have its former grasp on Canaan, there was a strong presence into the twelfth century, and Philistia took greater control of the southern coastal plain then also ( mentions the Philistines ).
As Arab contact with the West expanded, so too did the game and its various permutations, and by the twelfth century, chess was becoming an entertaining diversion among a growing population of Europeans, including some scholars, clergy, the aristocracy, and the merchant classes ; thus, by the thirteenth century, the iconography and symbolism associated with chess would have been accessible and familiar to Alfonso and his literate court culture, who may have had access to the private library, and manuscripts, of Alfonso, including the Libro de juegos.
It is defined as one twelfth of the rest mass of an unbound neutral atom of carbon-12 in its nuclear and electronic ground state, and has a value of.
It is suggested by E. Herzfeld that, prior to its annexation to the Persian Empire by Cyrus the Great in 6th century B. C., Bactria belonged to the Median empire and together with Margiana formed the twelfth satrapy of Persia.
A review article by Andrew R. George says that its builder may have " reigned in the fourteenth, twelfth, eleventh or ninth century " but argues that The reference to a ziqqurrat at Babylon in the Creation Epic ( Enûma Eliš · VI 63: George 1992: 301-2 ) is more solid evidence, however, for a Middle Assyrian piece of this poem survives to prove the long-held theory that it existed already in the second millennium BC.
In 1998, the Modern Library ranked The Way of All Flesh twelfth on its list of the 100 best English-language novels of the 20th century
A city wall dating to no later than the twelfth century BCE has been uncovered, and neither its existence nor the existence of a fortified city at that date is in dispute.
The game is the twelfth and last LucasArts game to use the SCUMM engine, which was extensively upgraded for its last outing before being replaced by the GrimE engine for the next game in the series, Escape from Monkey Island.
Of the twelfth mode, Maimonides focuses his attention on its " implicit superiority to the penultimate stage in the above series ", and therefore above all other prophetic and semi-prophetic modes.
) It had the twenty-seventh highest percentage of Colombian residents in the US, at 4. 43 % of the town's population, and the twelfth highest percentage of Cuban residents in the US, at 42. 28 % of the its population.
It had the twelfth highest percentage of Nicaraguan residents in the US, at 2. 89 % of the population, and the fifty-fourth highest percentage of Colombian residents in the US, at 2. 64 % of its population ( tied with Allegheny, Pennsylvania.
In addition to its public school system, Portland also is home to St. Patrick Catholic School which educates students from DK through twelfth grade.
The Woodbridge Township School District served over 13, 000 students in kindergarten through twelfth grade in its 24 schools, based on 2009-10 enrollment data from the National Center for Education Statistics.
It did not enter the weekend box office top 10 until its twelfth week in which the film reached # 7 after increasing its gross by 168 % from the previous week and more than tripling its theatre count ( this was the weekend before it was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture ).
Students in the ninth through twelfth grades are enrolled at Willoughby South High School, which opened its doors at its present location in 1959.
The school was originally a fully inclusive school for students in first through twelfth grades with its own sports program.
Lacey was the twelfth city to be designated an official " Green Power Community " by the U. S. Environmental Protection Agency for its use of renewable energy sources ; 5 % of its total energy use comes from green power sources.
The twelfth, thirteenth, and fourteenth books are largely based on the writings of Pliny and Solinus ; whilst the lost Prata of Suetonius, which can be partly pieced together from its quoted passages in Etymolgiae, seems to have inspired the general plan of the " Etymologiae ", as well as many of its details.
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