Sentences with phrase «by thirteenth century»

By the thirteenth century, the forces of separation had successfully equated syneisactism with heresy.»

By the thirteenth century, Thomas Aquinas would give much greater weight to the senses and to the empirical; in effect he played Aristotle to Augustine's Plato.

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The new mendicant orders that had already begun to develop by the middle of the thirteenth century were challenged by many in the Church who argued that there was no scriptural warrant for creating these orders.

In the thirteenth century, a Dominican friar by the name of Etienne de Bourbon was preaching in the village of Sandrans, near Lyon, when he heard during confession that many of the local woman had....

I can feel implicated and ashamed by the thirteenth - century anti-Jewish rhetoric of that great English bishop - theologian, Robert Grosseteste, to whose diocese and university I belong.

By his own example, which was very «in your face,» he jarred the Church of the thirteenth century out of its institutional comfort zone.

The Dominicans, founded by St Dominic (1170 - 1221) in 1215, like the Franciscans, date from the early thirteenth century.

This tremendous intellectual energy which was released under the protection of religion was brought to a disastrous end by the Mongol invasion in the seventh century (thirteenth century AD.)

From the extermination of the Cathars in the thirteenth century, which brought wholesale slaughter to southern France, to the Thirty Years» War four centuries later, which devastated entire regions of Europe, Christian piety often existed side by side with nonstop brutality.

I want to suggest to you the classical definition of Christian prayer that is found first stated by a great theologian of the earlier days of the Church, St. John of Damascus, and taken over by St. Thomas Aquinas in the thirteenth century: «Prayer is the elevation of the soul to God.»

It includes an article by Ida Zilio - Grandi a scholarly author based in Geneva and Venice, surveying rational Arabic discussions between Muslims and Christians during the Andalusian Islamic empire, from the eighth to the thirteenth century.

The central Kabbalistic text is the Zohar, «The Book of Splendor,» written by Spanish Rabbi Moses de Leon in the late thirteenth century.

Given the challenges it faced over the centuries» most notably the rise, in the seventh century, of Islam, which deprived the empire of much of its wealthiest territory, and the brutal occupation of Constantinople by the Crusaders in the thirteenth century» its longevity as well as its brilliance is remarkable.

On the contrary, it reinforces the views of those who believe that Catholic teaching is inherently intolerant, by handing them evidence that the Catholic culture of the thirteenth century was narrow - minded, cold - blooded, and cruel.

The core of the festival - no doubt known by some other name - may well have been much older than the thirteenth century B.C., originating among pastoral people as a spring celebration of the birth of the lambs, with appropriate attendant rites for the consecration and protection of the flocks, and probably a communion meal shared by the shepherd group and its deity.

The thirteenth century was marked by the appearance of another kind of monastic movement, that of the mendicant orders, the friars.

There was active intervention in the affairs of the Sudan by the Mamluk Sultans of Egypt in the seventh century (thirteenth century AD.)

The first big wave of Mongol advance into western Asia was that led by Genghis Khan early in the seventh century (thirteenth century AD.)

From the thirteenth to the sixteenth centuries, it continued as a private practice amongst religious communities, but was gradually formulated into more precise spiritual exercises such as those recommended by St John of Avila and St Francis de Sales.

This was a laborious process that involved carving letters or pictures onto a block of wood, inking the finished product, and pressing it onto vellum (a surface made from calfskin) or paper (invented in China and introduced to Europe by Arab traders in the thirteenth century).

However it is possible, given the insights of modern science, that by slavishly binding oneself tothe letter of St. Thomas's thought - who did after all live in the thirteenth century - one might run the risk of betraying the spirit of openness to, and confidence in, the truth which inspired him.

Common Law primarily developed in the thirteenth century where the individual cases are supervised by the judges, courts, and tribunals.

The phenomena was originally discovered by an Italian mathematician by the name of Leonardo Fibonacci in the thirteenth century.

Fibonacci retracement levels were discovered by an Italian mathematician by the name of Leonardo Fibonacci in the thirteenth century.

Fibonacci retracement is a popular implement that is used by traders or investors and based on the key numbers established by Italian mathematician Leonardo Fibonacci in the thirteenth century.

The most important post − thirteenth - century Gothic styles in Spain are the Levantino, characterized by its structural achievements and the unification of space, and the Isabelline Gothic, under the Catholic Monarchs, that predicated a slow transition to Renaissance style architecture.

According to Tim Mackintosh - Smith, who followed in Battutah's steps in a 2001 travelogue, Battutah was likely influenced by a travel writing predecessor, a fellow by the name of Ibn Jubayr — a thirteenth century hero to the Arab travel writers of the fourteenth century.

A settlement beneath the Matterhorn has existed since at least the thirteenth - century, but it wasn't until the successful conquest of the mountain by British climbers in 1865 that Zermatt began to find international popularity as a tourist destination.

Inspired by the Sienese painters from the thirteenth to fifteenth century, Geers interweaves the razor mesh with traditional iconography and abstract forms.

The embracing couple come from a true thirteenth century story of forbidden love, which was immortalised in Dante's Inferno and by many artists since.

Compiled in close collaboration with Emin, the book will include an essay by Clearwater about Emin's development, work, artistic influences, and spiritual and poetic inspirations, especially the thirteenth - century Persian mystic poet Rumi; as well as an essay by the contemporary artist and writer Gary Indiana.

However, I've found a source who calculated life expectancy rates by looking at the birth and death records of English nobles in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries.