Sentences with phrase «thirteenth century»

According to Benoît Godin in Innovation Contested, the term «novation» first appeared in thirteenth century law texts, referring to newness in contracts.

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.

In his most recent work, Argue integrates words or phrases culled from literary classics such as Moby Dick to sonnets by thirteenth century poet Petrarch.

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

This survey show includes both new and existing work, spanning a floor space of over 600 square metres, exhibited in the context of the Abbaye's magnificent thirteenth century Cistercian architecture.

The atomized letters, «particulate matter» as Argue calls them, are culled from literary classics to thirteenth century poets such as Petrarch.

What is a miracle, Dean, is your myopic thirteenth century mindset that uses mysticism to explain every random event.

If the identification of Samara with Samudra is correct, then this must have been the first Muslim kingdom in Indonesia when Marco Polo visited it at the end of the seventh century (thirteenth century A.D.).

Then the house is transferred to Palazzo Spini Feroni in Florence with a majestic thirteenth century atmosphere.

Let's face it, most of us aren't experts in thirteenth century metalsmithing.

Northumberland's remarkable beauty is not merely contained inland; the county's long, golden - sanded coastline is equally lovely and a coastal path stretches 64 miles from the historic Berwick - upon - Tweed, England's northernmost town, to the picturesque medieval village of Warkworth with its magnificent thirteenth century castle.

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.

Among the exquisite objects that Gisèle Croës has selected for the exhibition are Longshan culture black pottery (3rd millennium BCE); a crown headdress with glass ornaments from the Tang dynasty (618 — 907 CE); a gilt bronze mask from the Liao dynasty (916-1125 CE); and a carved wooden Bodhisattva figure (twelfth or thirteenth century CE).

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

They were grown extensively in Indonesia, where it was seen by Marco Polo in the late thirteenth century, and for the last 500 years in Africa.

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....

It wasn't that Aquinas wanted to kill everyone who disagreed with him; on the contrary, he expressly forbade the killing of Jews, a common occurrence in the thirteenth century.

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 external expansion of Christianity in the period from the middle of the tenth century to the middle of the thirteenth century was matched by a period of vigorous growth in church life, followed by a period of stagnation or decline.

A new development in the thirteenth century was the coming of the Friars or mendicant orders, namely, the Franciscans, the Dominicans, the Carmelites and the Augustinians.

Beginning in the thirteenth century, the three monotheistic religions parted ways, with the Jewish and Christian world going in one direction and the Islamic world going in another.

After Innocent III, the papacy began to decline, although there were some capable popes in the thirteenth century.

Islam presented a challenge to Christianity in the thirteenth century, and it is an even more pressing challenge in the twenty - first century, one destined, it would seem, to grow ever more serious, and thus one which will increasingly demand a response from both the Church and the West.

The nucleus of this event is the actual escape of a group of slaves from Egypt in the thirteenth century B.C..

I am only saying that the form that Christianity took in Western Europe after the assimilation of Islamic philosophy in the thirteenth century was uniquely favorable.

Nammalvar's love poems alternated with other kinds of poems and a thirteenth century commentary explained these shifts: «In knowledge, his own words; in love a woman's words.»

The Song dynasty (960-1279) fell to the Mongols under Chengis Khan and his grandson Kublai Khan in the thirteenth century.

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.

How societies have evolved since, say, the thirteenth century is the central issue.

What is commonly referred to as «modern science», heralded by Bacon in the thirteenth century, came to birth in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries.

In the hands of St. Thomas Aquinas, Aristotle had been pressed into the service of Catholicism with great success in the thirteenth century, but the inadequacy of this static world picture, based on a pre-scientific understanding of the cosmos, to cope with new advances in the sciences over the last hundred years was, Holloway maintained, the principal cause of the chaos and rebellion in the decades following the Council.

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.

In the thirteenth century the total time required was similar to that for the physician: five years of liberal arts followed by three in the graduate program.

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

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.

«The whole imposing structure of Thomist ethics is in one of its aspects, no more than a religious sanctification of the relativities of the feudal social system as it flowered in the thirteenth century.»

Private confession to a priest at least once a year was made obligatory in the thirteenth century.

After all, if we had been living in the thirteenth century, we should have found the philosopher in his cell and the alchemist in his hideout talking the same language, using the same terms, «nature», «form» and «essence», with the same meaning.