...wondering at this strange world. The key-note of the whole poem of the Mbelunge, as it was written down at the end of the twelfth or the beginning of the thirteenth century, is sorrow after joy. This is the fatal spell against which all the heroes are fighting, and fighting...

...Arthurian Romance, and the classical story wrought into the likeness of one or the other of these. Towards the end of the twelfth or the beginning of the thirteenth century a new class of narrative poems arose, deriving from each and all of these kinds, but marked by important...

...century, but from the character of the chancel windows, that part of the church is probably as old as the end of the twelfth or the beginning of the thirteenth century, and must therefore be the original church erected by the first Norman settlers (M. 99). There is also a...

...at the same time he asserts, relying on the use of the word in the Oxford MS., which was written at the end of the twelfth or the beginning of the thirteenth century, that this neuter value was often to be met with in the Song of Roland of the eleventh century. The...

...mural paintings in the Chapter-house of St. Trophime in Arles (Fig. 265), which are to be ascribed to the end of the twelfth or the beginning of the thirteenth century. These show great beauty of design and expression, and some attempt at modelling in the draperies, approaching,...

...portion of the estate of Kincraig which had been gifted to them, as we have seen, by Merleswain in the end of the twelfth or the beginning of the thirteenth century. In 1560 the nuns of North Berwick, requiring money to repair the dilapidations of their property in...

...standard of the old language is kept up and bears marks of Renaissance ; — and this brings us to the end of the twelfth or the beginning of the thirteenth century. After passing two Latin Groups, when we next touch the mother tongue, it has gone far in degeneracyGroup...

...primo alins austerioris animi vir, qui cum aliquandiu genti Anglornm praedicans nihil It was not until the end of the twelfth or the beginning of the thirteenth century that the practice became common, for reasons which we shall soon see.* The duty of public preaching,...

...the name ' Universitas ' about 1140," 4 and which in any case comprised a great number of students at the end of the twelfth or the beginning of the thirteenth century, since in 1209, says a contemporary chronicler, when an emigration to Cambridge occurred, recesserunt...

...the name ' Universitas ' about 1140," 4 and which in any case comprised a great number of students at the end of the twelfth or the beginning of the thirteenth century, since in 1209, says a contemporary chronicler, when an emigration to Cambridge occurred, recesserunt...