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Page vii
... Henry of Huntingdon ; Benedictus Abbas ; William of Newburgh ; Diceto ; Giraldus de Barri ; Roger de Hoveden ; Roger of Wendover ; Matthew Paris ; Higden . Monastic Chronicles , 29 : Jocelin de Brakelond . - Law ; MEDICINE ...
... Henry of Huntingdon ; Benedictus Abbas ; William of Newburgh ; Diceto ; Giraldus de Barri ; Roger de Hoveden ; Roger of Wendover ; Matthew Paris ; Higden . Monastic Chronicles , 29 : Jocelin de Brakelond . - Law ; MEDICINE ...
Page ix
... Henry VI . , ' ' Titus Andronicus , ' & c . ( see Index ) ; his Middle Period : ' Henry V. , ' ' Merry Wives of Windsor , ' & c . ( see Index ) , 43 ; his Later Plays , 47 : ' Troilus and Cressida , ' ' Cymbeline , ' & c . ( see Index ) ...
... Henry VI . , ' ' Titus Andronicus , ' & c . ( see Index ) ; his Middle Period : ' Henry V. , ' ' Merry Wives of Windsor , ' & c . ( see Index ) , 43 ; his Later Plays , 47 : ' Troilus and Cressida , ' ' Cymbeline , ' & c . ( see Index ) ...
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... Henry II . ( 1154 ) , the writer or writers being by that time probably unable to resist any longer the universal fashion of employing Latin for any serious prose work . William of Malmesbury , Henry of Huntingdon , Geoffrey of Monmouth ...
... Henry II . ( 1154 ) , the writer or writers being by that time probably unable to resist any longer the universal fashion of employing Latin for any serious prose work . William of Malmesbury , Henry of Huntingdon , Geoffrey of Monmouth ...
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... Henry of Huntingdon , took as their literary model the Venerable Beda , the father of modern history in the West ; that Richard the Canon records with natural complacency the chivalrous adventures of King Richard , in whose train he ...
... Henry of Huntingdon , took as their literary model the Venerable Beda , the father of modern history in the West ; that Richard the Canon records with natural complacency the chivalrous adventures of King Richard , in whose train he ...
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... Henry I. , and the chief patron of literature in those times . He congratulates himself on being the ' first who , since Beda , has arranged a continuous history of the English . ' Being , as he tells us , of Norman descent by one ...
... Henry I. , and the chief patron of literature in those times . He congratulates himself on being the ' first who , since Beda , has arranged a continuous history of the English . ' Being , as he tells us , of Norman descent by one ...
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