Sentences with phrase «twelfth centuries»

The Romanesque art of Europe of the eleventh and twelfth centuries can be characterised by a certain solidity, as well as by the self - conscious inclusion of classical elements.

We must not take the space even to mention other monastic orders which were founded in the eleventh and twelfth centuries.

In the eleventh and twelfth centuries the Nestorian missionaries were very active in Central Asia.

There were far more extensive educational developments during the cultural awakening of the eleventh and twelfth centuries, including the organization of universities, such as the University of Paris, which formally came into being between 1150 and 1170.

The Fatimids held the power in Egypt in the fifth and sixth centuries of the Hijrah (eleventh and twelfth centuries AD.)

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.

Thus, in the twelfth century, spiritual growth strove toward likeness to a chosen model, e.g., Franciscan poverty.

That is what the great canonist Gratian of Bologna thought in the twelfth century.

They were spawned several years after Waldo and his Poor People of Lyons began to impact French society as the «Jesus People» of the twelfth century.

The most important is the ongoing question of the reformation of the twelfth century and its establishment of the office of the papacy as a universally juridical office.

On the basis of certain passages attributed to Paul, a theological proposition of the doctrine was elaborated by Anselm, Archbishop of Canterbury in the twelfth century.

The impact of Islam on Hinduism made itself felt in the reform movements it inspired among the Hindus in the third to the sixth century (ninth to twelfth century A.D.).

A long line of bards and balladeers, most of them indebted to the twelfth century Sanskrit poet, Jayadeva, who decisively shaped the legend's outlines, have often described the setting of this legend of love.

Deacons are ordained to the «ministry» as distinct from the «priesthood» (CCC § 1569), but their office, exercised without interruption since apostolic times, has been recognized as belonging to «major orders» since the twelfth century.

could not be right for the Greeks of the first century CE., nor could that of the twelfth century Italians be right for the sixteenth century Germans — even though the same tradition of scripture speaks to all of these groups.

A systematic just war theory came only some time later, beginning with Gratian's Decretum in the middle of the twelfth century, maturing through the work of two generations of successors, the Decretists and the Decretalists, and taking theological form in the work of Thomas Aquinas and others in the latter part of the thirteenth century.

The Wesleyan idea of spreading holiness finds precedents in the twelfth century with Cistercian writers like William of St. Thierry.

Prominent in the twelfth century (in ibn - Rushd, for example), this doctrine was rejected by later thinkers, notably, Aquinas, who insisted that faith and reason can not contradict one another.

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.»

In the twelfth century, William of Malmesbury told an advisory horror story: «Othbert, a sinner» refused to stop dancing to his outrageous carols, so was cursed to keep dancing for a full year — till he danced into a pit.

As for the sweet contents, those spices were brought back from the Crusades in the twelfth century, and many liked to think they represented the exotic Magi from the East.

According to McNamara, it was in the twelfth century that the ideal of syneisactism came under serious attack: «By mid-century, clerical observers had already begun to attack the syneisactism that joined religious men and women in a common enterprise and that defied the carefully nurtured fear of women at the base of clerical reform.

was not actually framed in that way until the twelfth century.

In the twelfth century, the Carthusian monk Guigo II formalised the approach into four steps: read, meditate, pray and contemplate.

In the twelfth century John of Sacrobosco, flirting with Deism, referred to the universe as machina mundi, the «world - machine,» and this phrase became a commonplace in the writings of Abelard, Hugh of St. Victor, Robert Grosseteste, and others.

As Maimonides pointed out in the twelfth century, Jews and Christians do not differ over what constitutes scriptural revelation per se but rather in our often differing interpretations of that same revelation.

David Novak considers the twelfth century and Moses Maimonides.

Located just across from Christ Church, St. Aldate's has a history going back to the twelfth century and St. Frideswide, which spoke to me given that I was writing on the canons....

Located just across from Christ Church, St. Aldate's has a history going back to the twelfth century and St. Frideswide, which spoke to me given that I was writing on the canons regular to which the Oxford saint belonged.

Its unity and catholicity were sorely tested, but Christendom was able to contain these threats, absorb new ideas and knowledge (such as Aristotelianism in the twelfth century) and cater for the whole range of human emotions and intellectual levels.

Though Westerners were first scandalized by their omnipresence in society, «their sweet chanting,» as one Western observer put it on a visit to Constantinople in the twelfth century, «the mingling of the voices, the heavier [male] with the light [eunuchs»], softened the hearts of the Franks.

The inquisition was the result primarily of the increasingly pious twelfth century masses taking heretics «into their own hands.»

Cross and Freedman argue that the long poem is in its entirety the «Song of Miriam» and in its original form dates from a time no later than the twelfth century B.C.

By the twelfth century the houses embraced in the movement numbered more than three hundred.

Notable among the latter was the daring Averroes (or Averrhoes) of the twelfth century.

The twelfth century witnessed as its most widespread new monastic endeavor the founding of the Cistercians, from Citeaux (Latin Cistercium), the mother house, in what is now North - eastern France.

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

Only in the twelfth century was the adherence of the Wends to Christianity completed, partly through the efforts of earnest missionaries, partly by German political supremacy, and partly by compulsory transfer of Wends into German and therefore officially Christian areas and the settlement of Germans in the former Wend territories.

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

In England, where they were introduced in the twelfth century, their communities were known as charterhouses.

The major trends in the intellectual life of Islam from the sixth century of the Hijrah (twelfth century AD.)

After the biblical degree came another, two - year course leading to the crown of the Theology programme; by this final degree a man was designated Sententiarius, qualified to lecture on the Sentences of Peter Lombard, the key theology text in all theology schools, a great compilation of texts made in the twelfth century, and very widely commentated since then.

The ruling house in Eastern Sudan from the tenth through the twelfth century (sixteenth - eighteenth century AD.)

The Waldensians, a reforming group dating from the twelfth century in France who survived persecution as heretics by retreating to the mountains of northern Italy, established close relationships with Geneva and were drawn into the family.

As Thierry of Chartres, another theologian of the twelfth century, put it:

19 and 20, e.g., appear to be duplicates) but its impact on the reader is unified and powerful and its disclosure of the life of Canaan in the twelfth century bold, true, and uninhibited.

Such was the case of Peter Waldo, a product of the rising mercantile class in southern France in the twelfth century.

Is it really correct in this day and age that bag - carriers bear a similar relationship to their employer as a twelfth century serf did to the lord of the manor with roughly the same number of rights?

For instance, during both the relatively warm twelfth century, and the relatively cold fifteenth century, drought was observed to be most widespread in the Northern Hemisphere.

There's no meat involved in modern mincemeat — it started being phased out in the seventeenth century (meaty mince pies had been around since the twelfth century and associated with Christmas since the sixteenth).