Sentences with phrase «early thirteenth centuries»

The late tenth to early thirteenth centuries (about AD 950-1250) appear to have been exceptionally warm in western Europe, Iceland and Greenland (Alexandre 1987, Lamb, 1988) This period is known as the Medieval Climatic Optimum China was, however, cold at this time (mainly in winter) but South Japan was warm (Yoshino, 1978) This period of widespread warmth is...

The most important of these is the middle section dealing directly with St Francis's encounter with Islam and Sultan al - Malik al Kamil, the ruler of Egypt, Palestine and Syria, during the Fifth Crusade in the early thirteenth century.

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

His monumental achievement, in such epic works as the Summa Contra Gentiles and the Summa Theologiae, was to marry the wisdom of a millennium of Christian philosophy and theology to the «new philosophy» of Aristotle that had been rediscovered in Europe (largely through the mediation of Arabic philosophers) in the early thirteenth century.

If it is correct, as verse 11 declares, that the Israelite slaves built Pithom and Ra - amses - and there are no good grounds to doubt it - the Exodus could not have occurred before 1300 B.C. Pithom is probably to be identified with the modern Tell er - Retabeh; excavations there confirm the fact of ambitious building in the early thirteenth century.

According to the food historian, Clifford Wright, Professor Santi Correnti, chairman of the history department of the University of Catania and a preeminent historian of Sicily, wrote that during the reign of the Sicilian King Frederick II, in the early thirteenth century, the king and his hunting party came across the hut of a dairy farmer making ricotta and, being ravenous, asked for some.

Perhaps I should start in Nurnberg in the early thirteenth century, where a woman with the most unfortunate name of Adelheit Rotter retreated from a life that she thought was sinful to become a Beguine — women who, though not officially associated with the Church, were inspired to live an impoverished life in imitation of Christ.

Not exact matches

The Old Testament, in its Hebrew and Greek versions, wasn't included, nor were the later chapter and verse divisions (those came in the thirteenth and sixteenth centuries respectively), which makes these earliest codices similar, in some ways, to what Green's Bibliotheca project is attempting.

It fits in so deeply with the Faith of the Church, takes in the beautiful teaching of the Fathers from early Christianity, and also tries to makes sense of modern science, in much the same way as St Thomas Aquinas attempted to do in the thirteenth century.

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.»

The Kingdom of Scotland came into being in the tenth century with the Scottish Parliament existing from the early thirteenth.

Early in the thirteenth century Francis created a monastic order founded on the principle of conformity to the life of Jesus «in all things.»

As early as the thirteenth century we hear of the Angelus, at first only in the evening, with its ringing of a bell in recognition of the incarnation and with a petition to the Virgin.

Concurrently with the decline in the vigor in the Christianity of Western Europe which began to be marked after the high tide of the late thirteenth and the early fourteenth century, schoolmen questioned the formulations arrived at in the creative years.

The last earlier Pope to be so recognized was Gregory X, of the thirteenth century, and the only one of his successors to be granted the title of saint was Pius X, of the fore part of the twentieth century.

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

In the thirteenth century, it grew out of the earlier view centering on contemplation under the impact of newly recovered writings of Aristotle.

Some of these include the tenth - century Book of Deer, which is probably the oldest surviving Scottish manuscript and contains the earliest known examples of written Gaelic; the thirteenth - century Life of Edward the Confessor, which contains masterpieces of illumination; the Cairo Genizah collections, which are glimpses into the everyday live of a Jewish community in Egypt over a period of 1,000 years; digital versions of its Islamic and Sanskrit collections of both secular and religious texts, including some of the earliest surviving Qur» ans; the Nash Papyrus, which contains one of the oldest texts from the Hebrew Bible, the Codex Bezzae, one of the most important New Testament manuscripts; and others.

The photographs depict the artist Cy Twombly (1928 — 2011) descending the steps of the Basilica di Santa Maria in Aracoeli, a thirteenth - century church on Rome's Campidoglio, or Capitoline Hill, one of the most historic sites in the city (fig. 2).1 The images in Cy + Roman Steps (I — V) were most likely taken within the first few days of Rauschenberg and Twombly's arrival in Rome in early September 1952.

Low maximum sea ice extent also occurred over periods of some decades (e.g., mid-seventeenth and mid-eighteenth centuries, early fifteenth and late thirteenth centuries), with absolute values in some cases as low as the twentieth century ones, but these periods were in no case as persistent as in the twentieth century. . .

This common law crime can trace its roots back to the thirteenth century and even earlier into Anglo - Saxon law - the King didn't make it illegal, it just was, and the courts decided what the punishment should be (death usually).