Sentences with phrase «early twelfth century»

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Furthermore, a Sumerian text from Nippur from the same early period gives clear evidence of domestication of the camel by then, by its allusions to camel's milk... For the early and middle second millennium BC, only limited use is presupposed by either the biblical or external evidence until the twelfth century BC.

If bridal mysticism is responsible for scaring men away from the Church, then it should have done so much earlier than the twelfth century, and in the Eastern churches as well.»

There is some evidence of their earlier more or less temporary residence in the Aegean Islands and Asia Minor; and they, or related «maritime people,» actually threatened twelfth - century Egypt, as we know from records of Ramses III (C. I 175 - 1144).

The Waldenses were in the tradition of earlier twelfth - century leaders, such as Peter of Bruys and Arnold of Brescia, who led a life of poverty, denounced the clergy for unworthy luxury and grasping for political power, and condemned many of the current customs of the Church.

They first spoke of a «renaissance of the twelfth century» (C. H. Haskins), then discovered an earlier one in the ninth century.

The twelfth century saw the emergence of the first universities, several of them developments from earlier schools.

Most experts believe that it stems from the extreme care that was taken to keep this breed pure, going back to the twelfth century and even earlier.

Whilst a burial site dating from the seventh century has been discovered in the area, Wilderswil itself is first mentioned in early twelfth - century writings and may have grown up around Unspunnen Castle, the ruins of which may still be visited today.