A History of English Literature: The Middle Ages and the Renascence (650-1660)Macmillan, 1964 - 1469 pages |
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... Latin works are extant . As abbot of Malmesbury , and afterwards as bishop of Sherborne , he was at once a saintly prelate and a humanist . He was as conversant with the Latin poets of the classical and of later periods as with the ...
... Latin works are extant . As abbot of Malmesbury , and afterwards as bishop of Sherborne , he was at once a saintly prelate and a humanist . He was as conversant with the Latin poets of the classical and of later periods as with the ...
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... Latin , nor did they con- fine its use to religious treatises . It was employed in this age in works of every kind , serious and frivolous , learned and popular , many of which greatly surpassed the writings in the English of the ...
... Latin , nor did they con- fine its use to religious treatises . It was employed in this age in works of every kind , serious and frivolous , learned and popular , many of which greatly surpassed the writings in the English of the ...
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... Latin as their medium . Thus the learned and intelligent Higden wrote his Polychronicon in Latin before 1363 , and Walsingham of St. Albans , towards the end of the century , compiled in Latin chronicles which match the pages of ...
... Latin as their medium . Thus the learned and intelligent Higden wrote his Polychronicon in Latin before 1363 , and Walsingham of St. Albans , towards the end of the century , compiled in Latin chronicles which match the pages of ...
Contents
ANGLOSAXON LITERATURE 6501066 | 55 |
THE PREROMANTIC PERIOD 177098 | 98 |
BOOK III | 199 |
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