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- The Athanasian Creed, also known as (Quicumque vult) from its opening Latin words, is a statement of Christian trinitarian doctrine traditionally ...10 KB (1,699 words) - 18:41, 19 August 2023
- == Latin Averroism: Siger de Brabant == Ibn Rushd or Averroes (1126 ... *Mandonnet, P. Siger de Brabant et l’ averroïsme latin au XIIIe ...10 KB (1,606 words) - 14:38, 27 January 2023
- techniques of meter and rhyme, derived from Latin poetry, that are utilized ... years (ninth–eleventh century), in both Latin and the vernacular. Old English ...17 KB (2,716 words) - 06:00, 28 July 2023
- as one of the three canonical poets of Latin literature. Ovid is generally ... bear on the epic legends of the Greek and Latin literature he had assimilated ...14 KB (2,130 words) - 06:01, 18 November 2022
- who pushed for the full independence of Latin American nations from the ... conflict with the Lautaro Lodge, whose more Latin-Americanist centered objective ...13 KB (1,978 words) - 19:38, 9 May 2024
- Mundus Novus ("New World") was a Latin translation of a lost Italian ... made by Vespucci between 1497 and 1504. A Latin translation was published ...12 KB (1,880 words) - 06:51, 25 July 2023
- aspects of this was her taste for elaborate Latin church music. Byrd seems ... He published three collections of Latin motets or Cantiones Sacrae ...10 KB (1,651 words) - 15:42, 6 May 2023
- He was known as the Liberator (Greek: Eleutherios/ Latin: Liber), ... html Senatus consultum de Bacchanalibus in Latin] at The Latin Library. ...10 KB (1,570 words) - 05:25, 26 August 2023
- in Spain. During the twelfth century, new Latin translations from Greek and ... Greek forms, others are derived from Latin equivalents of Aristotle’s ...18 KB (2,450 words) - 06:29, 12 August 2023
- structures such as eparchies, alongside the Latin dioceses. One country, Eritrea ... between the Greek-speaking East and the Latin-speaking West and of rivalry ...27 KB (4,042 words) - 02:32, 1 October 2020
- of some works, particularly those in Latin with no Arabic originals ... the acquisition of copies of Greek and Latin authors for translation into ...16 KB (2,525 words) - 08:37, 13 March 2024
- poets. His thorough knowledge of Classical Latin literature, as well as his ... particularly noted for his facility with Latin) Gray never received a degree ...10 KB (1,574 words) - 21:15, 30 April 2023
- it from Syriac into both Greek and Latin. As late as the ninth century ... he translated the work into both Greek and Latin is cited as evidence for ...11 KB (1,737 words) - 14:45, 30 December 2022
- in his Introduction to Categories. A Latin translation of the Introduction ... (usually called the Sententiae; in Latin, Sententiae ad intelligibilia ...10 KB (1,415 words) - 05:40, 30 November 2022
- Pseudo-Dionysius and translated them into Latin while adding his own commentary ... Eriugena's next work was a Latin translation of Dionysius the ...10 KB (1,486 words) - 15:09, 1 August 2022
- Neptune (Latin: Neptūnus) was the god of the sea in Roman mythology. He is most identifiable as a tall, white-bearded figure carrying a trident ...9 KB (1,493 words) - 16:21, 11 November 2022
- forgotten in the West. The few existing Latin translations of Aristotle’s ... Cordova in 1195, many of them exist only as Latin or Hebrew translations. His ...19 KB (2,761 words) - 07:15, 23 August 2023
- The term natural philosophy, or the philosophy of nature (Latin, philosophia naturalis), has several applications, according to its historical ...13 KB (1,838 words) - 22:42, 28 March 2023
- Europe and Latin America constituted minor destinations for post-war ... Brazil has Latin America's largest Koreatown while Koreatowns ...13 KB (1,907 words) - 15:38, 14 April 2023
- Juan Rulfo (May 16, 1918 – January 7, 1986) was one of Latin America's most admired novelists and short story writers. His most commendable ...12 KB (1,960 words) - 06:06, 10 May 2024
- of later ancient lyric poetry, well into the Latin era, is tremendous. It is a testament to his triumphant skill as a poet that, although only ...7 KB (1,079 words) - 06:16, 24 November 2022
- In proof by contradiction (also known as reductio ad absurdum, Latin ... Erat Demonstrandum", which is Latin for "that which was ...9 KB (1,489 words) - 23:56, 1 December 2022
- and classical scholar. Educated at the famous Latin school in Schlettstadt, which produced a number of prominent scholars, and at the University ...12 KB (1,792 words) - 10:18, 26 September 2023
- birds. The name ratite comes from the Latin word for raft (ratis), because their breastbone looks like a raft. Among ratites are included ostriches ...7 KB (1,107 words) - 06:45, 17 July 2022
- during the Rennisance took an interest in Latin and Greek inscriptions, and ... The Duenos Inscription is one of the earliest known Old Latin texts ...14 KB (2,129 words) - 19:07, 13 February 2024
- Liberation theology is a Christian school of theology that developed in Latin America in the 1960s and 1970s, focusing on liberation of the oppressed ...31 KB (4,535 words) - 22:27, 25 October 2022
- ) is a genre of Latin American literature that challenges the role ... Although mostly associated with the Latin American Boom of the 1960s ...35 KB (5,274 words) - 15:31, 5 July 2023
- Bridge of Asses or Pons Asinorum (Latin for "Bridge of Asses") is a term used to refer to a problem that severely tests the ability ...8 KB (1,319 words) - 23:03, 20 November 2023
- ==Latin Fathers== Those fathers who wrote in Latin are called the Latin (Church) Fathers ...21 KB (3,112 words) - 21:58, 10 December 2023
- created through Jerome the standard Latin translation of the Bible ... He promulgated the use of a standardized Latin language format for the mass ...13 KB (2,066 words) - 18:08, 24 January 2024
- original was in English; elsewhere he says it was in Latin. To his translation (1530) of a Latin Chronicle and Description of ...10 KB (1,495 words) - 17:39, 25 January 2023
- Johannes de Grocheio (Grocheo) (ca. 1255 – ca.1320) was a Parisian musical theorist of the early fourteenth century. His French name was Jean ...3 KB (494 words) - 15:13, 1 August 2022
- The Great Schism, also called the East-West Schism, divided Christendom into Western (Latin) and Eastern (Greek) branches, which then became ...19 KB (2,956 words) - 07:37, 4 January 2024
- In Greek mythology, a nymph, from the Latin word nympha, is any member ... claims that the word nymph comes from the Latin nympha, which is the Latinized ...13 KB (2,065 words) - 19:37, 17 November 2022
- as different. It derives from the Latin words ad and iacere (Latin ... adjectives and adjectives from French, Latin, Greek, and other languages ...13 KB (1,956 words) - 06:00, 15 June 2023
- a title he shares with Diophantus. Latin translations of his Arithmetic ... Sicily. Later, they were translated into Latin and passed on to universities ...22 KB (3,234 words) - 17:58, 10 November 2022
- ), also Saint Bede, the Venerable Bede, or (from Latin) Beda (IPA: ... He knew some Greek, but no Hebrew. His Latin is generally clear and without ...12 KB (1,884 words) - 10:20, 26 September 2023
- in the affairs of the newly independent Latin American states or potential ... justify unilateral United States influence in Latin America. ...24 KB (3,682 words) - 21:11, 9 November 2022
- music, sings in a variety of languages, including Latin and her native Irish, in many of her works. Medwyn Goodall, who is becoming more widely known ...8 KB (1,225 words) - 16:29, 11 November 2022
- was just beginning to take hold in the Latin West, to theological studies ... of philosophy and theology and his Latin style attracted many students ...12 KB (1,817 words) - 14:26, 18 July 2023
- the Nature of Things”), a masterpiece of Latin verse which sets out in careful ... Lucretius' writing is unparalleled in Latin literature, with the possible ...13 KB (2,021 words) - 02:28, 5 November 2022
- the classics and most likely was fluent in Latin and Greek. For centuries ... #039;s progressive ideas. Apart from Latin and Greek, the curriculum ...12 KB (1,976 words) - 21:20, 30 April 2023
- in Havana in 1943. Since then, other Latin-American band leaders such ... dance pro known as the "Mambo King of Latin Dance." Steadily building ...10 KB (1,553 words) - 06:41, 5 November 2022
- Caliburn, used in Geoffrey of Monmouth (Latin Caliburnus). "Caliburnus ... Excalibur was originally derived from the Latin phrase Ex calce liberatus ...13 KB (2,142 words) - 23:53, 24 March 2024
- between Catholic and Orthodox traditions. The Latin term filioque means "and [from] the son," referring to whether the Holy Spirit "proceeds ...16 KB (2,507 words) - 19:46, 26 March 2024
- Scholasticism, from the Latin word scholasticus ("that [which] belongs to the school) was a method of learning taught by the academics ...14 KB (1,990 words) - 17:20, 25 January 2023
- book was first published anonymously, in Latin, ca. 1418; several other ... the time, 400 different editions. Some 545 Latin and about 900 French editions ...10 KB (1,599 words) - 22:58, 30 April 2023
- A crucifix (from Latin cruci fixus, meaning "one fixed to a cross") is a cross with a representation of Jesus' body, or corpus ...15 KB (2,416 words) - 06:30, 11 January 2024
- Juvenal, an Anglicized form derived from the Latin (Decimus Iunius) Iuvenalis, was a Roman poet active in the late first century and early second ...19 KB (2,900 words) - 21:25, 4 October 2022
- The English word spirit comes from the Latin "spiritus" ("breath") and has several interrelated meanings: Metaphysically ...17 KB (2,627 words) - 21:55, 28 October 2020
