Although he mentions the medieval continuators of St. Jerome, he does not mention St. Jerome himself.
Inasmuch as these continuators were brought together in Johannes Tritheim, De viris illustribus, which he cites,[42] he could have dispensed with them.
With respect to the three continuatorsof Chrestien it would seem that Gautier de Doulens' account of the Grail, as found in the Montpellier MS.
This version forms the basis of Robert de Borron, author of the Grand St. Graal and of the continuators of Chrestien.
The immediatecontinuators of Chrestien lift the legend to no higher level.
The work of Chrestien and his continuatorsmust be looked upon as the oldest we had of the Grail cycle.
It must be noted that whilst in their account of the Grail Chrestien's continuatorsare in substantial accord with the Queste versions, and yet do not contradict Chrestien himself, they add considerably to his account of the lance.
Passing from the early legendary hagiological chronicles of the Scots Gaels, we come to a period when the reader must be content to go again to Irish sources for his knowledge of the continuators of Gaelic literature.
These doctors of literature, so to call them, were already the continuators of a great tradition, especially in poetry.
To return to the puzzle about the careful and precise continuators of the Iliad, as contrasted with their heedless contemporaries, the authors of the Cyclic poems.
In that case--the Odyssey being later than the original kernel of the Iliad--the Odyssey ought to give us gods as undignified and unworthy as those exhibited by the later continuators of the Iliad.
Therefore the greater part, much the greater part of the Iliad, must necessarily, they say, be the work of continuators through several centuries.
He thinks that the origin of the poems dates from "the Mycenaean period," and that the later continuators of the poems retained the traditions of that remote age.
The mediaeval poets, of course, never dreamed of archaeological anxiety, as the supposed Ionian continuators are sometimes said to have done, any more than did the French and late Welsh handlers of the ancient Celtic Arthurian materials.
Why, then, do the supposed late continuators represent tools, not weapons, as of iron?
This corrective ought to be taken into consideration in any estimate of the Jeffersonian democracy, and one may wonder whether some continuators of Mr. Beard are sufficiently aware of this capital distinction.
And the continuators of Bollandus inform us that this was confirmed by the oaths of five witnesses.
The Conservators andContinuators of Patristic Culture.
Curiously enough we find the two names combined in Gautier de Doulens, one of the continuators of Li Conte del Graal, who introduces, as one of his dramatis personæ, Carduel of Nantes.
A similar account is given by Gerbert, one of the continuators of Chrêtien.
Stow and his continuators are my authorities for these particulars; see volume ii.
Florence of Worcester, Continuators of the Chronicle of.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "continuators" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
