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  • authors of the Victorian era in English literature. to his particular fascination with medieval literature. In his poetry, Rossetti ...
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  • position in the history of Arthurian literature is a unique one; he did ... work among those interested in medieval literature, both for its comprehensive ...
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  • of the most commented works in Christian literature. All the major medieval ... the standard textbook of theology at the medieval universities from the 1220s ...
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  • Rabbinic literature, in the broadest sense, can mean the entire spectrum ... This article discusses rabbinic literature in both senses. It begins ...
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  • the performance of late French Medieval music for the enjoyment ... * Hoppin, Richard H. Medieval Music. New York: W.W. Norton & Co ...
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  • of the villanelle originated with the medieval troubadours, but in fact ... Category:Art, music, literature, sports and leisure Category: literature ...
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  • Norwegian literature is literature composed in Norway or by Norwegian ... a dark age in the nation's literature, though Norwegian-born ...
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  • Barbara Tuchman from her studies of medieval literature. However, not all ... Its History and Meaning in Medieval Literature" in Journal of ...
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  • In medieval Europe, art played a very important role in educating ... one's death was well known in Medieval literature through death-bed ...
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  • of the genre of encyclopedic speculum literature, in this case concentrating ... Wilson and Joyce Lancaster Wilson, A Medieval Mirror, Speculum Humanae ...
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  • poets of fifteenth-century European literature. Villon freely integrated ... Des Loges and other names, though in literature Villon is the sole term ...
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  • philosophy, language, customs, arts, literature, myths, superstitions, ... history which fused images and concepts, literature and history, and religion ...
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  • It was not merely polyphony that offended the medieval ears, but the ... * van der Werf, Hendrick. Early Western polyphony, Companion to Medieval ...
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  • Egypt, in which almost 200,000 Jewish medieval manuscripts were discovered ... and analyzing the treasure trove of medieval documents that lay there ...
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  • considered one of the great classics of medieval Japanese literature and ... stories, which harkens back to earlier Heian literature. ...
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  • Jewish community world-wide in the early medieval era. The Geonim played a ... visit the Jewish academies in Babylon. A literature of questions and answers ...
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  • in the Septuagint. However, these medieval versions come more from ... incorporated with the widely-read medieval Gospel of Nicodemus—texts ...
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  • the New Trends in Contemporary Russian Literature (1892). Both writers promoted ... became a major movement in Russian literature. In order to represent ...
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  • from this era than from the preceding Medieval era, and probably a rich ... had been the case since the Ars Nova (see Medieval music), there could be either ...
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  • writers of any genre to have emerged out of medieval England. With respect to literature, Bede is known primarily for two reasons ...
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  • him a place of distinction in the Latin literature of the Middle Ages. ... a place of distinction in the Latin literature of the Middle Ages; one ...
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  • taught by the academics (or schoolmen) of medieval universities circa 1100 ... which continued until the end of the medieval period. A philosopher or ...
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  • Medieval natural philosophy in Europe can be divided into two periods ... subject in the arts faculties of the medieval universities, distinct from ...
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  • morality plays were common throughout medieval Europe as didactic plays ... started to deal with secular topics, as medieval theater started to make ...
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  • who were generally emblematic of Medieval virtues like chivalry, piety ... The poem is considered a point of departure in medieval literature; ...
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  • what would be a revolution in English literature. Spenser, like Shakespeare ... by Spenser as a rejuvenation of the medieval code of chivalry and morality ...
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  • The allegory is one of the most popular narrative forms in literature ... and so the use of allegories in Medieval literature and Medieval art was ...
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  • Unlike many other medieval chronicles written by European monks, the ... category:literature Category:Art, music, literature, sports and leisure ...
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  • of the most important movements in all of medieval poetry, the Dolce Stil Novo ... turning points in the breakdown of Medieval culture and the rise of ...
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  • was mainly preserved in the realm of literature in works by as Novalis ... [[Image:Ptolemaicsystem-small.png|thumb|240px|The Ancient and Medieval ...
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  • power to do anything God willed. To the medieval concept of "essence ... to one of the most famous thinkers of the medieval era. ...
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  • the earliest formally developed plays in medieval Europe. Medieval mystery ... (ed.), [http://www.theatrehistory.com/medieval/mysteries001.html Medieval ...
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  • K. Ayyappapanicker and S. Akademi, 1997, Medieval Indian Literature, an Anthology ... until this day. No other Marathi poet, medieval or modern, has been so universally ...
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  • they were particularly fascinated by Medieval culture, believing it to ... together with essays on art and literature by associates of the Brotherhood ...
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  • and Spain); romanticism of an ancient Medieval past; melodrama; and parody ... a disparaging term applied to a style of medieval architecture (Gothic architecture ...
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  • of the most important poets in Icelandic literature. He is known today as the ... much of the traditions of Icelandic culture and literature. ...
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  • Introduction, Isagoge, became a standard medieval textbook and a foundation ... as Isagoge, and became a standard medieval textbook of philosophy that ...
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  • name, in the style of much late-medieval literature. Although the evidence ... of the false confession tradition in medieval literature (represented elsewhere ...
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  • The phoenix became a symbol of Christianity in early literature, either ... However, the image is still used in literature, perhaps because of all ...
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  • proponent of naturalism in Japanese literature. He was lauded by literary ... Shūkotsu), Tōson became interested in literature. He joined a literary group ...
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  • commentaries introduced Aristotle to the medieval Christian scholastics, and ... Aristotelian aesthetics hold that poetry and literature are an imitation ...
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  • for his translations of Jewish rabbinic literature from Arabic to Hebrew, ... an education in Hebrew, Jewish rabbinic literature, medicine, Arabic and the ...
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  • == Forms of midrashic literature == Both halakhic and aggadic midrashim ... halakhic discourse in classical rabbinic literature. Aggadic exegesis involves ...
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  • Russian literature refers to the literature of Russia or its émigrés ... From around the 1830s, Russian literature underwent an astounding ...
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  • Kipchak were also applied to this state in medieval documents. ... became one of the largest cities of the medieval world, with a population ...
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  • part, lazuli, is the genitive form of the medieval Latin lazulum, which came ... Many of the blues used in painting, from medieval illuminated manuscripts ...
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  • veritable movement in the history of medieval literature, in addition to being ... rich tapestry that is the history of medieval literature. ...
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  • Homa also had a special place in Persian literature as guardians of light. ... divine and human qualities. In English literature, the griffin became seen ...
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  • the history of mankind according to medieval Christian doctrine. ... the history of mankind according to medieval Christian doctrine. ...
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  • scribes of Late Antiquity, the entire literature of Greece and Rome would ... fragments survive on papyrus. Most medieval manuscripts, illuminated ...
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  • supernatural being, based on the fae of medieval Western European (Old French ... Fairies appeared in medieval romances as one of the beings that a ...
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  • character of Vulgar Latin (Late Latin) literature. Later historians expanded ... developments of Classical ideals, literature, and art. Petrarch wrote ...
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  • necessity. Rinzai also emphasizes koan literature and intellectual knowledge ... Because the medieval aristocracy was also a warrior class, it became ...
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  • Cædmon is one of twelve Anglo-Saxon poets identified in medieval ... on Old English and some other medieval literature" Anglo-Saxon ...
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  • Literature in Sanskrit, the classical language of India, represents ... * Early Medieval literature * List of Sanskrit poets ==Notes== ...
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  • semiotics in fiction, biblical analysis, medieval studies and literary theory ... University of Turin in order to take up medieval philosophy and literature ...
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  • [[Image:Harpyie.JPG|thumb|right|400px|A medieval depiction of a Harpy ... in art works than in mythological literature, and while they may occasionally ...
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  • not only the father of English literature, but also, often of the ... in 1373, Chaucer came into contact with medieval Italian poetry, the forms ...
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  • a substantial impact on Western art and literature since it first appeared ... also had a great influence on later medieval literature, and inspired parts ...
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  • lay or simply a lay, is a form of medieval French and English romance ... – hallmarks of the emerging literature of the times. Five different ...
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  • Apocalyptic literature is a genre of prophetical writing that developed ... The apocalyptic literature of Judaism and Christianity embraces a ...
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  • as a prelude to the main melee event at medieval tournaments. The first recorded ... Famed in medieval romances, the sport maintained its status as a popular ...
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  • calypso descends from the music of the medieval French troubadours. ... Category:Art, music, literature, sports and leisure 125959102 ...
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  • poets in the history of Japanese literature. In his own times, Basho ... overloaded with allusions to classical literature and contemporary gossip ...
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  • within numerous modern works of art, film, and literature. ... ===Moloch in medieval texts=== Like some other gods and demons found ...
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  • Chaucer is generally considered not only the father of English literature ... On an April day, a group of medieval pilgrims set out on a pilgrimage ...
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  • it was one of the four that were shown in medieval art almost to the exclusion ... The Laborers in the Vineyard also appears in Early Medieval works ...
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  • Lucan's place in the history of Latin literature is somewhat ... would find more recognition among the medieval and Romantic poets of Europe ...
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  • when it originated, its themes reflect a Medieval culture of princes and Medieval ... category:Art, music, literature, sports and leisure category:Literature ...
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  • ethnological ecumenism, however, to the medieval Jews, who he regarded as ... The Khazars in Russian Nationalist Literature," The World of the ...
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  • against the religious authoritarianism of Medieval Catholicism, it emphasized ... humanists held positions as teachers of literature and grammar or as government ...
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  • Victorian literature is the body of poetry, fiction, essays, and letters ... classical literature but also the medieval literature of England. The Victorians ...
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  • visual arts, decorative arts, and literature that is predominant of ... In literature, some of Shakespeare's most powerful plays were ...
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  • time) clichéd metaphors borrowed from medieval and classical sources. Instead ... These poems revealed his faith in the medieval order of things, which had ...
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  • Information about Joachim and Anne is derived from apocryphal literature ... was that Anne married once. In late medieval times, legend held that ...
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  • was able to find its way into the literature of early modern Europe. ... cited it as his favorite work of literature, and helped to re-introduce ...
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  • He avoided the traditional assumption of medieval exegesis, that certain texts ... astrology a significant role in medieval thought. Ibn Ezra believed ...
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  • === Literature === *In 1939, Dr. Seuss wrote a short illustrated novel ... *French, K. L. "The legend of Lady Godiva," Journal of Medieval ...
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  • literary tradition of Arthurian romance. Medieval Arthurian writing reached ... A notable stylistic aspect of medieval Arthurian literature is that ...
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  • The basilisk has appeared in literature for centuries. Geoffrey Chaucer ... *Hassig, Debra. The Mark of the Beast: The Medieval Bestiary in Art ...
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  • and easily the most important work of literature written in that language ... of Old English literature—and medieval literature in general. ...
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  • of German Romanticism. His study of literature, Greek antiquity, art and ... art and the history of ancient literature. He became especially interested ...
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  • Lyric in European literature of the medieval or Renaissance period ... coffee-house or French salon, where literature was discussed, was not ...
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  • Nemanyid; German: Nemanjiden) was a medieval Serbian ruling dynasty which ... Muslims were demonized in much Serbian literature. The Serbian Church set ...
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  • – 1430) was a writer and analyst of the Medieval era, who strongly challenged ... that she had been identified in previous literature. Her choice of media as ...
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  • the event to be an expression of the medieval "Cult of the Innocents ... of social explosions, through which medieval men and women--and children ...
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  • buried in 79 C.E.), all the texts (Greek literature) are scrolls; in the Nag ... of a proper title was developed, during medieval times. ...
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  • The image of women during medieval times was limited. They were usually ... This work both fascinated and disturbed medieval commentators. ...
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  • with Jesus Christ. In earliest Grail literature, it was described as the ... table in different stages of a meal. Late medieval writers spoke of the sangréal ...
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  • The spiritual crisis of medieval Japan (twelfth-fourteenth centuries ... hijiri. He found himself too attached to literature, to music, and to an ideal ...
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  • the "prince of demons." In medieval times, Beelzebub was seen ... == Apocryphal literature == In the Testament of Solomon, chapter 6 ...
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  • elements that made up the population of medieval Spain. ... All the later medieval history-writing of Spain was based on Isidore’s ...
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  • an anonymous masterpiece of East Slavic literature written in the Old East ... authentic poem, preserved in six medieval copies and created in the ...
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  • such as the Acts of Pilate, given the medieval title Gospel of Nicodemus ... ==Other medieval texts== Medieval interest in Joseph centered around ...
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  • borders on the top and bottom show medieval fables and the Tapestry ... In common with other embroidered hangings of the early medieval period ...
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  • and ghosts are a major theme in literature from those eras. ... Guardian angels appear in literary works throughout the medieval and ...
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  • === Medieval necromancy === In the middle ages, the literate members ... with other stories in similar cultural literature (Kieckhefer, 43). The ceremony ...
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  • In classical Rabbinical literature, there are divergent opinions of ... early church but rather a part of Jewish literature. The question is whether ...
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  • of the three canonical poets of Latin literature. Ovid is generally considered ... the epic legends of the Greek and Latin literature he had assimilated in his ...
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  • Ashkenazim, are Jews descended from the medieval Jewish communities of the ... the tenth and nineteenth centuries. From medieval times until the mid-twentieth ...
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  • began to attracted interest. During the medieval period, shakuhachi were ... Travel around medieval Japan was restricted by the shogunate, but ...
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  • pending action by another person. In literature, it often refers to some ... of God in the days of Noah." Medieval drama sometimes portrayed ...
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  • == Averroes in Literature == Reflecting the respect which medieval European scholars paid to him ...
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  • Library is one of the best libraries for medieval, modern, and contemporary ... collection, particularly rich in medieval manuscripts and prints. ...
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  • 1600, marking the transition between Medieval and Early Modern Europe. ... achievements. They include works of literature by such figures as Petrarch ...
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  • The Wandering Jew is a figure from medieval Christian that spread ... of Jerusalem" in Finnish). Literature detailing his exploits ...
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  • " The laws are designed to protect literature and to separate the obscene ... *McDonald, Nicola. 2006. Medieval Obscenities. York Medieval Press ...
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  • together with the theme of a group of medieval wanderers who set out to ... These were attempts to revive the genre of medieval romance, and not ...
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  • Maimonides is typically regarded as the greatest of the medieval Jewish ... * Kellner, Menachem. Dogma in Medieval Jewish Thought. Littman Library ...
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  • In medieval symbolism, dragons were often symbolic of apostasy and ... The Medieval Church's interpretation of the Devil being associated ...
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  • Tamil literature refers to literature in the Tamil language. Tamil ... ==Medieval literature== The medieval period was the period of the Imperial ...
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  • him a place in the history of Russian literature, but he did gain a measure ... with the rationalism of Aristotle and medieval Catholic Doctors of the ...
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  • included among the Four Great Novels of Chinese literature. ... work resembles the chronicles of early Medieval Europe. The text is bland ...
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  • Christians to lecture on "polite literature" in 362 C.E., whereupon ... Philosophers, 32. Pontifical Institute of Medieval Studies, 1952. cf. Victorinus ...
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  • Apsaras were also an important motif in the art of Champa, medieval Angkor's neighbor to the east along the coast of what is now central ...
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  • and narrative perceived to be from the medieval period. The name "romantic ... == Visual art and literature == In visual art and literature, “Romanticism” ...
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  • began to expand his knowledge of art, literature and ethics. In 1912 he ... During his teens and early twenties his works were mainly literature ...
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  • Eastern art and literature were still seen as "exotic" and ... Africa and West Asia) can be found in Medieval, Renaissance, and Baroque ...
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  • teaching Confucianism and Chinese literature among other things. Also ... The medieval Greek world had no autonomous and continuing institutions ...
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  • The term medieval music encompasses European music written during ... The only medieval music which can be studied is that which was written ...
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  • an invaluable contribution to the literature and history of sixteenth ... in English, European, and classical literature. Throughout his life Raleigh ...
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  • or Longinus,” an ascription by the medieval copyist that was misread ... treatise, since it is notable that no literature later than the first century ...
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  • the most perfect short novels in world literature." ... *Kristjánsson, Jonas. Eddas and Sagas. Iceland's Medieval Literature ...
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  • Conquest of 1066. Almost all of the literature of this period was orally ... all of these texts can be fairly called literature, but those that can present ...
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  • Scholars believe the book reflects the cultural literature of the ... it regained popularity among Jews in the medieval period and remains widely ...
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  • She was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1928. ... #039;s own familiarity with Norse medieval literature and culture (her father ...
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  • Wilton, Matilda increased the quality of literature and culture at court. Her ... * Huneycutt, Lois L. Matilda of Scotland: A Study in Medieval Queenship ...
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  • was an Islamic thinker from the early medieval period to whom is ascribed ... His books strongly influenced the medieval European alchemists and ...
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  • or Greek has been recovered; while the medieval translations that have survived—in ... except as it may have influenced the medieval Arabic and Latin texts that ...
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  • Steven John Livesey, and Faith Wallis, Medieval Science, Technology, and ... called Zij were later written in medieval Islamic astronomy. ...
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  • The Zohar, a medieval work of Kabbalah, lays stress on the universal observance of the two days of Rosh Hashanah. It interprets two passages ...
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  • Centaurs have appeared many times and in many places in literature and popular fiction. One example is the Centaur Inn featured in Shakespeare ...
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  • of the most substantial works of English literature to emerge from the fourteenth ... In genre it is usually considered a poem of consolation, a medieval ...
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  • The Trilogy is the most revered work of literature in Poland. ... where he immersed himself in the literature and Old Polish. ...
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  • developed a great love for the Greek literature and mythology while studying ... in Honor Moderations (Greek and Latin Literature) in 1920, a First in Greats ...
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  • In medieval iconography, as in the stained glass images in cathedrals: ... first use of scrolls in the recording of literature before the codex or bound ...
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  • * Beresford, Andrew M. The Legend of Saint Agnes in Medieval Castilian Literature. Papers of the Medieval Hispanic Research Seminar, 59. London: ...
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  • greatest literary statement produced in medieval Europe. ... in the fifth century, like all medieval literature it is far removed ...
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  • was an English poet and forger of pseudo-medieval poetry. Committing suicide ... represented as an enlightened patron of literature, and Rowley's dramatic ...
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  • The battle saw the end of the medieval Serbian kingdom, and the start of more than four centuries of Ottoman rule. The medieval Serbian kingdom ...
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  • *Humor: Fables are a didactic mode of literature; that is their primary ... The fable is one of the most enduring forms of folk literature, and ...
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  • Ethnic and Geographical Identities in the Medieval and Early Modern Periods ... Thematic Explorations of Interracial Literature. Harvard University Press ...
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  • to rescind his decree against Jewish literature, but Reuchlin found himself ... humanist scholar and expert in Hebrew literature, Johann Reuchlin. To justify ...
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  • derived from the Anglo-French gobelin (medieval Latin gobelinus), which ... The Fairies in English Tradition and Literature (London: University of ...
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  • work in the field of absurdist literature. Though the term absurd ... , was interested in music and literature. A precociously brilliant ...
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  • ) is the oldest major work of French literature. It exists in various ... Perhaps drawing on oral traditions, medieval historians who worked ...
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  • Many Indian intellectual traditions were codified during the medieval ... ] in Sanskrit philosophical literature, 'āstika' means ...
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  • #Early and Heian Literature—Kojiki and past The Tale of Genji to 1185 ... reviver of the traditional Japanese literature, attempted to revive waka ...
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  • early days of Islamic influence. Persian literature was instrumental in the ... from the Chinese, and also Chagatay Literature, converted to Islam and ...
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  • #039; find mention in the Tamil Sangam literature as totemic worshipers of ... Brahmanic caste during early and later medieval times. Being native Kannadigas ...
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  • In the medieval period, Maimonides held that every congregation was ... knowledge in Talmud, the early and late medieval commentators and Jewish ...
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  • of the most well-known phrases of the literature of her era. It was quoted ... * Wilson, Katharina M. Medieval women writers. Athens, Ga. : Univ ...
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  • folklore, whose story originates from medieval times but who remains significant ... have been merely a nick-name disguising a medieval bandit perhaps known to ...
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  • Chola I ruled as notable emperors of the medieval Cholas. ... lasting legacy. Their patronage of Tamil literature and their zeal in building ...
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  • and writer of the Silver Age of Latin literature. During the times when ... them. Seneca’s works were read by Medieval scholars and his tragedies—with ...
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  • *in a given kind of literature 3. Evaluating objective: to assist in ... are used in the House of Wisdom and other medieval Islamic libraries where ...
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  • superlative examples of Indian literature. He built impressive cities ... of the finest pieces of poetry in Indian literature. Written in Sanskrit language ...
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  • His long reign also witnessed the advent of Slavonic literature and ... * Fine, Jr., John V.A. The Early Medieval Balkans: A Critical Survey ...
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  • in the Talmud and works of rabbinic literature. It is included in the ... not be confused with another, different medieval work called The Alphabet ...
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  • be the standard work on love in Sanskrit literature. A portion of the work ... attributed to Vatsayana, along with a medieval and modern commentary. ...
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  • creatures" in historical literature). Examples of legendary creatures can be found in medieval bestiaries ...
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  • some Shin scholars for his engagement in medieval politics and his alleged ... was particularly widespread in early medieval China, and in Japan at the ...
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  • in Japanese folklore, art, theater, literature and religious mythology ... tales of the tengu are common in both literature and folk tales (described ...
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  • chronicle in the history of Chinese literature). Therefore, from 109 B ... Sima Qian's Shiji is respected as a model of biographical literature ...
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  • devote himself to commerce rather than literature, and so he became a banker ... Ages (1809-1818) described the cities of medieval Italy as the origin of the ...
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  • in 1791. Besides his enthusiasm for medieval architecture and trappings ... debate at the time about the function of literature, that is, whether or not ...
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  • Entertainments or simply The Nights) is a medieval Middle Eastern literary ... cliffhanger seem broader than in modern literature. While in many cases a ...
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  • cultural achievements in the areas of literature, art, and architecture ... ===The Medieval period=== With pilgrims traveling along the Via Francigena ...
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  • as the greatest work of Japanese literature. It is also thought to ... the bridge: comparative essays on medieval European and Heian Japanese ...
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  • History, Art, Science, and General Literature; Derived from the Most ... Several different variants of the story appear in the medieval Middle ...
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  • 1430) is considered to be the greatest medieval Russian painter of Orthodox ... life of Andrei Rublev, its depiction of medieval Russia is realistic. Tarkovsky ...
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  • "The Meanings of Elf and Elves in Medieval England"] (Ph.D. dissertation ... origins was the influence from literature. In Elizabethan England ...
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  • play." These stage performances of medieval Europe were known as such ... imagery, notably the Holy Grail from Arthurian literature. ...
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  • Ancient Greek literature refers to literature written in the Greek ... In addition to history and philosophy, Ancient Greek literature is ...
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  • the diverse corpus of rabbinic non-legal literature. At the same time, since ... Controversies over halakhic issues lend rabbinic literature much of ...
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  • **Medieval & Renaissance horoscopic astrology **Modern Western ... astrology including Indian, Hellenistic, Medieval, and most other modern Western ...
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  • exist. Since at least the 1960s, many medieval historians have included ... Generally, feudalism has been regarded as the fabric of medieval society ...
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  • the expressive and intense style of late medieval Central European art into ... and mystical spiritual traditions of the medieval northern European art, in ...
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  • is conjecture. Of the Druids' oral literature (sacred songs, formulas ... In Irish literature, the Druids are frequently mentioned, and their ...
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  • and bring back the masterpieces of Greek literature. After 1441, when the Residence ... schools. Anxious to provide a religious literature for sent them to Edessa ...
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  • in the West is distinguished from Medieval philosophy, which was largely ... myth, religious beliefs, ethics, literature, cosmology, and theories ...
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  • to works of a genre of Early Christian literature.Peter Stuhlmacher (ed. ... have survived, except indirectly in some medieval Gospel harmonies that can ...
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  • The recorder was popular from medieval times but declined in the eighteenth ... on the depiction of various whistles in medieval paintings. To this day whistles ...
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  • training in rhetoric and ancient literature. Family troubles disrupted ... which at the time was still very new to European literature. ...
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  • Anthropomorphism is frequently used as a device in art, literature ... pre-Christian Greek philosophy into the Medieval Christian world view by ...
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  • Nazis during World War II. Most of his literature addresses the cultural ... formative years in "the kitchen of literature" (his own expression ...
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  • The first important works of Roman literature were the tragedies and ... Renaissance theater derived from several medieval theater traditions ...
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  • Dagon has become a popular figure in recent literature, movies, and ... The medieval rabbinical sage Rashi records a tradition that the name ...
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  • The Deccan sultanates refer to five Muslim-ruled late medieval kingdoms– ... they left a rich legacy of architecture, literature, and art in the southern ...
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  • that their positions described in later literature were meant as rhetorical ... group within Judaism up until early medieval times, and they may have ...
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  • that are unlike anything else in English literature. His poems are best understood ... In 1884 he became professor of Greek literature at University College Dublin ...
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  • described primarily in Jewish Rabbinical literature as well as non-canonical ... quot; portion of the Heikhalot literature make "Ishmael ben ...
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  • in great detail in folklore, plays, and literature, including The Tale of ... *Asakawa, Kan’ichi. Land and society in medieval Japan; studies ...
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  • leader of Christendom. So he is the typical medieval hero. Yet he was not reactionary. His policy was constructive: firm central government supported ...
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  • such as the Wenxuan (Selections of Refined Literature). for anyone seeking to understand early medieval Chinese religion, culture ...
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  • The medieval Bhakti movement has had a significant impact on the traditional ... The Bhakti literature created by those Alvars has contributed to the ...
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  • in a composition aiming at a High Medieval audience that was familiar ... *Merwin, W. S. 1998. Medieval Epics. Modern Library. ISBN 0679603018 ...
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  • Guild of Poets, which was modeled after medieval guilds of Western Europe ... * Terras, Victor. A History of Russian Literature, Yale University ...
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  • . This name is not recorded in other medieval Slavic countries. Even in ... of Poussinesque rendering of early medieval subject matter. ...
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  • impact on Islamic philosophy and on medieval European scholasticism. ... and was used for several centuries in medieval Europe and the Arab world ...
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  • order to distinguish ancient Roman from Medieval Greek history without drawing ... nationalist awareness is reflected in literature, particularly in the acritic ...
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  • Cultural activities such as poetry, literature, and visual arts would ... enlightenment and the transformation of medieval Japanese Buddhism. Honolulu ...
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  • of popular early Christian apocalyptic literature. Once a serious candidate ... of Peter seems to have inspired many medieval descriptions of the afterlife ...
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  • a keen interest in Russian history and medieval epics, which would be reflected ... had immense influence on later Russian literature. Boris Pasternak, for instance ...
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  • === Medieval cranes === [[Image:Old_crane.jpg|thumb|right|300px|Modern ... (magna rota) reappears in archival literature in France about 1225,Andrea ...
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  • a Noh mask. Noh plays are taken from the literature and history of the Heian ... material from the people, events and literature of the Heian period (794–1185 ...
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  • He received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1997. His dramatic work ... , a play of monologues based on a mix of medieval plays and topical issues ...
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  • destroy even the remnants of the tradition of medieval plays. ... * Edwards, Robert. The Montecassino Passion and the Poetics of Medieval ...
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  • The Electronic Text Corpus of Sumerian Literature. Retrieved July 29, 2013. ... language, much as Latin later would be in Medieval Europe. The power of these ...
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  • as one of the greatest poets of Turkic literature and a prominent figure ... sue/77486/1303895 "Turkish Literature of the Period of Sultan ...
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  • is now recognized as among the greatest literature written in English in the ... Mary and Percy shared a love of languages and literature. They enjoyed ...
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  • are occasions when comparison with other medieval sources makes it clear that ... for their own purposes. Some later medieval historians also used the ...
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  • A purported letter of Prester John fed medieval popular fantasy and inspired ... the Christian legend was also provided by medieval Jewish beliefs surrounding ...
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  • "The Cloisters," which features medieval art. ... that the collection is strongest in late medieval European pieces and Japanese ...
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  • to the king. There are various stories in medieval texts describing the lack ... is a single document in the Persian literature that can reunite Persia ...
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  • 1923. Between 1943 and 1947, he studied medieval history at the École des ... After almost a decade of teaching French literature in the United ...
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  • became an important influence on medieval Christian Scholasticism ... credited with introducing Neoplatonism to medieval Christian Europe. The Arabic ...
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  • and the supernatural, usually within a medieval setting. Gothic Tales was ... things have written books about her and her literature. ...
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  • as the ethnonym for the ancestors of the medieval and modern Korean nation ... *Lee, Peter H. 1981. Anthology of Korean literature: from early times ...
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  • still dominated, but slowly the peculiar medieval book culture emerged. ... Bookmarks were used throughout the medieval period, For a ninth century ...
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  • the Navaratna (nine jewels) of Sanskrit literature assembled, inaugurating ... the Navaratna (nine jewels) of Sanskrit literature inaugurated a golden age ...
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  • the most accepted in Western scholarly literature. It affirms that the Georgian ... The Odzrkhe line, known in the medieval annals as the Bivritianis ...
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  • develop the tradition of radicalism in Russian literature. ... to Moscow, the site of Russia's medieval capital. The symbolism was ...
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