Sentences with phrase «accounts by monks»

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In the fourth and final seminar, participants will conclude their conversation by considering both the reigning concepts of freedom in our own age and George Weigel's account of their origins in his «Tale of Two Monks.»

To search for evidence of historical earthquakes in Bhutan, geophysicist György Hetényi of the University of Lausanne in Switzerland and his collaborators examined published accounts of Bhutanese history and original documents written by monks and temple builders.

As more Angles, Saxons, and Jutes arrived, violence broke out with the local Britons and ended in «rivers of blood,» according to accounts by medieval monks.

The first written description of these dogs shows up in a 1297 account written by a Portuguese monk according to the monk, a sailor was drowning off the coast of Portuguese when one of these water dogs dove into the ocean and retrieved him by his leg and saved his life.