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  • It reminded me of a Neil Gaiman story about a mediaval knight coming to the home of a British senior citizen looking for the Holy Grail.

    GIVEN HINDSIGHT • by Adam Armour 2010

  • The Roman and mediaval warm periods unexplained by human induced CO2.

    Unthreaded #14 « Climate Audit 2007

  • This is yet another epic fantasy saga set in a mediaval world that his heavily influenced by Northern European myth and folklore, particularly Celtic ...

    Neth Space Neth 2007

  • Apparently, there are plenty historical elements describing mediaval wine activities in the North of France.

    Keenan's Comment on Chuine « Climate Audit 2006

  • The movement of civilization, with the exception of the Greek, mediaval, and renaissance city states, has involved a breaking away from this original unity until, among ourselves, art is developed and enjoyed in isolation from the rest of life.

    The Principles of Aesthetics Dewitt H. Parker

  • Compare them with the great writers of other ages; and we feel instinctively that, in spite of their surroundings, they have far more of vital kindred with Homer or the creators of the mediaval epic, than with the

    English literary criticism Various

  • In many ways he was still in bondage to the mediaval, and wholly uncritical, tradition.

    English literary criticism Various

  • Just below is Laval, more like a mediaval palace than a modern university.

    Canadian Cities of Romance 1922

  • In every part of Italy there was revolt against mediaval government and Austrian supremacy.

    Charles Philip Yorke, Fourth Earl of Hardwicke, Vice-Admiral R.N. Ledbury, Lady Bidulph of 1910

  • I express this in my description of the journey; but in the author of Gred, who often sought this delightful city, and made himself familiar with life there in the days of its mediaval prosperity, these childish impressions became something wholly new.

    The Story of My Life Ebers, Georg, 1837-1898 1892

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