Sentences with phrase «twelfth century»

The followers were distinguished for their tolerance which they inherited from their founder, who in the sixth century (twelfth century AD.)

Simpson knows well that the Reynard stories were «runaway best sellers since the late twelfth century,» but what he really wants to stress is the lesson we are to learn from them, which is the same as what we are to learn from the much - later Machiavelli, he of the sunken countenance and the jaundiced eyes.

A Story As Sturdy As The Pillars Of The Earth Twelfth century England was an unhappy time for most.

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.).

Dale himself counters the stereotype, by the way, being among other things an expert in the work of Richard of St. Victor and twelfth century theology in general.

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

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.

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

It has survived in a single manuscript written at Rochester in the early twelfth century.

This novel focuses on the woman behind the legendary Robin Hood: Maid Marian, born Matilda Fitzwalter in the late twelfth century.

Both responded to the growing perception that the institution of marriage as defined in the twelfth century was breaking down.

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.

Considered a major forerunner of the Protestant Reformation, Peter Waldo lived at the same time as Francis, in 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.

In the twelfth century the leadership in creative monastic life passed to the Cistercians, of whom perhaps the best - known was St Bernard of Clairvaux (1090 - 1153).

In a remarkable coincidence, three of the world's best - known works of romantic love which occupy pivotal positions in their respective cultures - Beroul's Tristan and Isolde in Europe, Nizami's Layla and Majnun in the Islamic world, and Jayadeva's Gitagovinda in India - were all produced at roughly the same time, in the twelfth century CE.

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.

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.

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.

In the twelfth century, when the lost works of Aristotle were finally uncovered in a library in Spain, and especially Nicomachean Ethics, it became evident that Aristotle, the pagan, had described a quite noble and brilliantly thought - out approach to human ethics.

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.

Icons of the confident Mary were replaced with human notes of tenderness and loss, as evidenced, most famously, by the twelfth century Virgin of Vladimir.

Naucheta, Turkistan, Genda, Tangut and others, whence it will be manifested that there were a vast multitude of Christians in the eleventh and twelfth centuries in those countries, which are now devoted to Mohammadanism or the worship of imaginary gods.

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

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.

From the apostles» assertion, «We must obey God rather than man» (Acts 5), through Augustine's construal of the City of God and City of Man, through the Investiture Controversy of the eleventh and twelfth centuries, Christianity had traditionally insisted upon that divided sovereignty which first found democratic political expression in seventeenth - century England.

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 Qur» an had been translated into Latin in the twelfth century, but most writers relied on a few polemical works and had no acquaintance with Muslim literature.