...to have been too soft for advantageous use, and we consequently find that it was superseded either at the end of the twelfth or the beginning of the thirteenth century by paper made from linen. A very much earlier period than that jnst named has been ascribed by some...

...been entirely destroyed during the civil wars in the tenth and eleventh centuries, and again rebuilt at the end of the twelfth or the beginning of the thirteenth. The level of the ground has been so much raised in all this part of Rome by the number of ancient buildings...

...work about the doorway of St. Andrea at Pistoja is like that of Gruamonte, but inferior to it. Towards the end of the twelfth, or the beginning of the thirteenth century, a taste for extravagant or capricious ornament in architectural sculpture showed itself in the facade...

...work about the doorway of St. Andrea at Pistoja is like that of Gruamonte, but inferior to it. Towards the end of the twelfth, or the beginning of the thirteenth century, a taste for extravagant or capricious ornament in architectural sculpture showed itself in the facade...

...opinion as to the country to which this poetry more efpecially belongs. Giraldus Cambrenfis, writing at the end of the twelfth or the beginning of the thirteenth century, evidently thought that Golias was an Englifhman ; and at a later date the goliardic poetry was almoft...

...ground-plan. '' From the character of the chancel windows, thai part of the Church is probably as old as the end of the twelfth or the beginning of the thirteenth century, and must therefore be the original Church erected by the first Norman settlers. o2 ADARE. About seventy...

...and the purj-.-*— to which it was destined. Most probably this <-a>tlo had l»een commenced towards the end of the twelfth, or the beginning of the thirteenth, century. In 1*281 it wag greatly enlarged, by the addition of that part which was afterwards known :i~ ilie...

...great men, in a region of peace and melancholy repose. His works had been translated into Latin about the end of the twelfth or the beginning of the thirteenth Century, and had found so many advocates in the University of Paris as to provoke a host of opponents, and to...

...which they are regarded. For one man who was acquainted with them in the tenth century there were ten at the end of the twelfth, or the beginning of the thirteenth, and the fruit of the intimacy was quickly made manifest. Admiration always leads to imitation. There...

...commencement of history in Britain. There it lingered on, struggling for life with the red-deer until, towards the end of the twelfth or the beginning of the thirteenth century it became extinct. In Germany, also, it seems to have retreated, and taken refuge in Pomerania and...