In Gregory ’ s day, history was not recognized as an independent field of study ; it was a branch of grammar or rhetoric, and historia ( defined as ‘ story ’) summed up the approach of the learned when they wrote what was, at that time, considered ‘ history .’ Gregory ’ s Dialogues Book Two, then, an authentic medieval hagiography cast as a conversation between the Pope and his deacon Peter, is designed to teach spiritual lessons.

However, this overlooks those parts of scripture which provide for the doctrine of the " Two Swords " and for the medieval Roman Catholic concept of the powers of kings to protect the Christian Constitution of states, to defend and extend the boundaries of Christendom by lawful means only, to protect and defend the innocent, the weak, the poor and the vulnerable, and to protect the church and the papacy with the king's own life, if necessary.

Two medieval instruments that were called " guitars " were in use by 1200: the ( Moorish guitar ) and the ( Latin guitar ).

Two characters called Lugaid, a popular medieval Irish name thought to derive from Lugh, have three fathers: Lugaid Riab nDerg ( Lugaid of the Red Stripes ) was the son of the three Findemna or fair triplets, and Lugaid mac Con Roí was also known as mac Trí Con, " son of three hounds ".

" Two centuries later, Europeans perceived Saracens as poor, uneducated idolaters belonging to a group wholly separate from the Arabs who brought Aristotle to the Latin West and the Moors and Berbers fighting Christians in Spain ; someone who got all of his or her information on Islam from medieval sources would not conclude the three groups represented one continuous culture.

Two of the medieval India's most noted singers, Tansen and Baiju Bawra, were born near Gwalior in present-day Madhya Pradesh.

Two miles east, Rochford Tower is another medieval tower house.

In his analysis of medieval political theology, The King ’ s Two Bodies, Ernst Kantorowicz describes medieval Kings as containing two bodies: a body natural, and a body politic.

Two divergent schools of thought emerged during this period which spans from 200 A. D. to the medieval period.

* Two castles remain from the feudal era: the beautifully restored, water surrounded, 15th-century Castle of Cortewalle, and the Castle Hof Ter Saksen ( 18th century ), which evolved from a medieval inn on the road between Ghent and Antwerp.

* Two meanings in medieval music theory

Two teams, the Mélans and the Avresses, dress in medieval clothes while standing on stilts and do battle in one of the town's principal squares.

Two medieval Bulgarian royal charters, the Virgino Charter and the Oryahov Charter, have been found in Hilandar's library.

Two cooking pots ( Grapen ) from medieval Hamburg circa 1200-1400 AD

Two early medieval stone grave vaults, both of which were used for multiple burials, were found in the church of Altishofen.

Hall had only recently been appointed as Artistic Director of the RSC, and, somewhat unexpectedly, he chose Two Gentlemen as his inaugural production, relocating the play to a late medieval milieu.

Two columns were swallowed up in the medieval buildings that abutted the Pantheon on the east and were lost.

Two medieval wall paintings, one of two angels with feathered wings, and one of a now faded saint, can still be seen inside the church.

Two of his Stanford students, United States President Herbert Hoover and his wife Lou Henry Hoover, dedicated their English translation of the medieval mining classic De re metallica to Branner.

Two simple cross-incised slabs, likely grave-markers, were also found in the graveyard, and are probably Pictish or early medieval in date ( displayed on site ).

Two hundred and fifteen medieval manuscripts of the Historia survive, dozens of them copied before the end of the twelfth century.

Two units of spearmen from a Phocis_ % 28ancient_region % 29 | Phokian Greek army under DBA rules. De Bellis Antiquitatis or DBA ( English: Of the Wars of Antiquity ) is a fast play set of rules for the hobby of historical miniature wargaming, particularly ancient and medieval wargaming in the period 3000 BC to 1485 AD.

Two inscriptions at Kalladaikurichi suggest that in medieval times the Nadars served as administrators and accountants in both the Chera and Pandya countries.

Two miles further north are the fragmentary remains of Binbury Castle, a medieval fortified manor house beside a medieval motte.

Two suspension bridges cross the Bosphorus.

** WWII – Operation Varsity: Two airborne divisions capture bridges across the Rhine River to aid the Allied advance.

Two bridges connect the building with the shore, four hundred visitors at a time can enter the building and be within the fog mass.

Two of these bridges at Paris saved the city during its siege of 885 – 886.

Two bridges span the Hudson in Westchester ; the Bear Mountain Bridge crosses at Cortlandt and the Tappan Zee Bridge at Tarrytown.

Two bridges crossing the Yalu ( Amnokgang ) at Sinŭiju and Dandong

Two years after this, in 749, at the synod of Gumley, Æthelbald issued a charter that freed ecclesiastical lands from all obligations except the requirement to build forts and bridges — obligations which lay upon everyone, as part of the trinoda necessitas.

Two swing bridges carry the Lowestoft to Ipswich railway line and the A12 road over the cut to the east of the lock.

Two bridges crossing the Mississippi River have been named for Long: Huey P. Long Bridge ( Baton Rouge ) and Huey P. Long Bridge ( Jefferson Parish ).

Two bridges span the river to the town of Enfield: the Amtrak / Springfield Terminal Railroad Bridge and the Enfield-Suffield Veterans Bridge.

Two bridges ( the Rügendamm and since October 2007 the new Rügen bridge ) and several ferry services connect Stralsund with the ports of Rügen.

Two conventional bridges connect each of the islands to the nearest mainland, Fish Island to New Bedford and Pope's Island to Fairhaven.

Two bridges connect the main island to the mainland of Michigan.

Two covered bridges span the Warner River: the Dalton Bridge and the Waterloo Bridge.

Two historic steel truss bridges, both still used today, were finished in the early twentieth century.

Two covered bridges, which no longer exist, crossed Northkill Creek, connecting Bernville with Jefferson Township.

Two covered bridges were built, and park lands were developed.

Two bridges span the firth, the Tay Road Bridge and the Tay Rail Bridge.

Two bridges connect the former municipality, and the rest of Falster, to Zealand.

Two of the seven original bridges did not survive the bombing of Königsberg in World War II.

Two bridges have been rebuilt, a bus line connects the German and Polish parts of the town, and there is a common urban management, with annual joint sessions of both town councils.

Two bridges cross the belt, the Old Lille Belt bridge and the New Little Belt bridge ; also the two Little Belt overhead powerline crossings.

Two long papers published in 1840 — one on attractions and Clairaut's theorem, and the other on the variation of gravity at the surface of the earth — also demand notice, as do his mathematical memoirs on the critical values of sums of periodic series ( 1847 ) and on the numerical calculation of a class of definite integrals and infinite series ( 1850 ) and his discussion of a differential equation relating to the breaking of railway bridges ( 1849 ), research related to his evidence given to the Royal Commission on the Use of Iron in Railway structures after the Dee bridge disaster of 1847.

Two road bridges cross the river.

Two spectacular bridges have also been built along the shore.