Sentences with phrase «fifth century a.d.»

restaurant's The Wine Cellar, a charming Roman mosaic dating from the fourth to the fifth century A.D. depicts two cavorting deer amidst flowers, amphorae, and fish.

restaurant's The Wine Cellar, a charming Roman mosaic dating from the fourth to fifth century A.D. depicts two cavorting deer amidst flowers, amphorae, and fish.

Around the fifth century A.D., after the Roman Empire had collapsed, people from other parts of Europe migrated to Britain.

The enigmatic statues, 125 and 180 feet tall, were hewn directly into the face of a sandstone cliff around the fifth century A.D., possibly by the Buddhist rulers of the Kushan empire.

Princess Dymphna was a lovely Irish lass who lived in about the fifth century A.D..

The Cross became popular as a Christian symbol in the Fifth Century A.D..

What So Proudly We Hail: The American Soul in Story, Speech, and Song edited by Amy A. Kass, Leon R. Kass, and Diana Schaub ISI, 790 pages, $ 35 Writing early in the fifth century a.d. to bolster the spirits of Christians in chaotic political times, St. Augustine asked: «As for this mortal....

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However the Companions do not call forth the same amount of devotion as do some of the saints, notably the highest saint, Abdu» l Qadir Jilani of Baghdad, who lived in the fifth century (eleventh century A.D.).

The fifth period was the third advance, from about A.D. 1500 to about the middle of the eighteenth century.

Reality is always a social construction — in the fifth century B.C., the first century A.D., or the 20th century.

But the history of our time is no less the stage upon which the drama of salvation is played out than was the history of the fifth century B.C. or the first century A.D. Accordingly, the Christian does not doubt that God is moving with power in the world today — the world of African nationalism, thermonuclear politics, metropolitan planning, and space exploration, The Christian's problem is rather to discover when, where, and how God is moving with such decisiveness as to create a crisis of decision for the church and to summon it and its resources into the struggle.

The vast movement of religious revival which took place in the fifth century of the Hijrah (eleventh century A.D.) and led to the establishment of the Almoravid dynasty in Morocco and Spain gave a strong impetus to the spread of Islam among the subjects of the great pagan African Ghana Empire, whose sway extended at one time over the gold mines of the Upper Senegal and over the majority of the Berber tribes of the Sahara.

Among the monastery's most important Syriac and Arabic manuscripts are a fifth century copy of the Gospels in Syriac, a literary language based on an eastern Aramaic dialect; a Syriac copy of the «Lives of Women Saints,» dated 779 A.D.; the Syriac version of the «Apology of Aristides,» of which the Greek original has been lost; and numerous Arabic manuscripts from the ninth and 10th centuries, when Middle Eastern Christians first began to use Arabic as a literary language.