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Henry’s reign sparked what’s been called the twelfth-century Renaissance.
The English Is Coming! Leslie Dunton-Downer 2010
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Henry’s reign sparked what’s been called the twelfth-century Renaissance.
The English Is Coming! Leslie Dunton-Downer 2010
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Long before they arrived in America, the Irish were known as “a filthy people, wallowing in vice,” as a twelfth-century English writer put it.
A Renegade History of the United States Thaddeus Russell 2010
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Peter Riga, a twelfth-century versifier of the Bible, wrote:
Bloodlust Russell Jacoby 2011
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Guibert of Nogent, a French twelfth-century Benedictine historian who wrote a history of the First Crusade 1095–99, recounted in his memoirs how the notion to attack Jews surfaced, and indicated its consequences.
Bloodlust Russell Jacoby 2011
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Nearly a year later, on June 21, 1980, they wed at the twelfth-century Church of St. James the Less in Buckinghamshire.
William and Kate Christopher Andersen 2011
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Nearly a year later, on June 21, 1980, they wed at the twelfth-century Church of St. James the Less in Buckinghamshire.
William and Kate Christopher Andersen 2011
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Guibert of Nogent, a French twelfth-century Benedictine historian who wrote a history of the First Crusade 1095–99, recounted in his memoirs how the notion to attack Jews surfaced, and indicated its consequences.
Bloodlust Russell Jacoby 2011
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Bertran de Born, the twelfth-century Provençal poet, carrying his severed head by the hair as it sways back and forth like a lantern — surely one of the most grotesque images in that book-length catalogue of hallucinations and torments.
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Peter Riga, a twelfth-century versifier of the Bible, wrote:
Bloodlust Russell Jacoby 2011
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