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Example sentences for "twelfth century"

  • Miniature of classical design from a twelfth century Psalter in the Vatican library.

  • Labouring Colons (Twelfth Century), after a Miniature in a Manuscript of the Ste.

  • The perfected mediaeval Latin strophe was a final form of religious emotional expression, which was not attained until the twelfth century.

  • But this method of hardening was usual in the eleventh or twelfth century; for it is described by Theophilus Presbyter, lib.

  • A slight advance is shown in the vaults at Pontorson (Manche) (middle of twelfth century).

  • It has ruins of an ancient (twelfth century) castle associated with a legend that served Wordsworth as the subject of a poem.

  • Of still more recent date are the Runic inscriptions discovered in Greenland, which seem to place beyond a doubt the fact of Icelandic explorers having reached that country in the eleventh or twelfth century.

  • The importance of Louvain and Brussels dates from the twelfth century, when the Cologne-Bruges road brought commercial activity into the country and when the weaving industry began to spread in the duchy.

  • But they provide these heroes with the armorial bearings which came in during the eleventh to twelfth century A.

  • An example of an author-reciter, Jendeus de Brie (he was the maker of the first version of the Bataille Loquifer, twelfth century) is instructive.

  • Such a shield covers a mounted knight's body from mouth to stirrup in an ivory chessman of the eleventh to twelfth century A.

  • Its name in the Southern dialect means 'new castle,' but it dates from the eleventh or twelfth century.

  • The ruined cloisters of the monastery have all the severe charm of the simple Romanesque style of the early period, but there is no means of knowing whether they date from the tenth, eleventh, or twelfth century.

  • Still more interesting than this façade is that of the north portal (twelfth century).

  • There is a shell pattern in gold on a twelfth century fragment of a Bishop's garment at Worcester.

  • The pattern is twelfth century "metal work," embroidered in gold.

  • In the tale of the voyage of the three sons of Ua Corra (twelfth century ?

  • A find in the passage-graves of Mycenæ (fourteenth to twelfth century B.

  • Giraldus Cambrensis (twelfth century) says that on clear days an island appeared to the west of Ireland, but vanished when people approached it.

  • The Mabinogion (from the Red Book of Hergest, twelfth century).


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