The Mysteries of Chronology: With Proposal for a New English Era, to be Called the VictorianW. Heinemann, 1900 - 239 oldal |
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Abbey accession and death Alfred Anderson's Royal Genealogies Anglo-Saxon Chronicle Anno Domini appear Arabic numerals ascended the throne Bayeux Bede Bede's Benedictine birth officially unknown Bishop British Museum Calendar Calends chapter Christian chronology Church copy date of day dated coin dated with Arabic dates in Arabic day of month died Dionysius Exiguus documents Domesday earliest dated early ecclesiastical edition Edward English history fifteenth figures Geoffrey Gerbertus Gildas given gives Henry VII Hijra historian Incarnation dates Incarnationis indiction inscriptions January John Boston John Leland June King later Latin legend letters literary London Gazette Lord Malmesbury manuscripts March Matthew Paris mentioned monasteries monks Nennius notified October original paschal cycle period Polydore Vergil Pope printed Queen records reign of Henry Richard Roman numerals Rome Rymer's September Sir Harris Nicolas sixteenth century style tapestry term Anno Domini tion tomb undated VIII William the Conqueror writers written wrote
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8. oldal - Rules to know when the Moveable Feasts and Holy-days begin. EASTER-DAY, on which the rest depend, is always the first Sunday after the full moon which happens upon or next after the twenty-first day of March, and if the full moon happens upon a Sunday, Easter Day is the Sunday after.
1. oldal - Sun is a revolution of 28 years ; in which time the days of the months return again to the same days of the week ; the sun's place to the same signs and degrees of the Ecliptic on the same months and days...
152. oldal - Under-Tenants in the time of the Survey : as well as of the Holders of Lands mentioned in Domesday anterior to the formation of that record ; with an Abstract of the Population of England at the close of the reign of William the Conqueror, as far as the same is actually entered ; illustrated by numerous Notes and Comments.
170. oldal - MS. Tiber. A. xiv.] is one of the earliest, having been written at the end of the 8th century or early in the 9th, and consequently not long after the life-time of Bede himself. It belonged to Sir E. Cotton, and was considerably damaged in the fire among his books at Ashburnham House in 1731. A still older copy is exhibited in Case B, No. 33.
11. oldal - In England in the seventh century, and as late as the thirteenth, the year was reckoned from Christmas Day, but in the twelfth century the Anglican Church began the year with the Feast of The Annunciation of the Blessed Virgin (\лау Day) on March 25 and this practice was adopted generally in the fourteenth century.
151. oldal - Willielmus, and then a list of the bishops, religious houses, churches, any great men, according to their rank, who held of the king in capite in that county, likewise of his thains, ministers, and servants ; with a numerical figure in red ink before them, for the better finding them in the book. In some counties the cities and capital boroughs are taken notice of before the list of the great tenants is entered, with the particular laws or customs which prevailed in each...
29. oldal - III., who died in 1227, is the very last Pope who saw the volumes, who studied them carefully, and who makes express mention of them. None of his successors, so far as we can discover, mentions the library and the archives as an existing institution. Not . one of the volumes, of the documents, of the regesta, belonging to the incomparable collection formerly in the buildings of Damasus, then in the Lateran, and lastly in the Turris Cartularia, has escaped destruction, — not one has come down to...
192. oldal - Chronicle provides an interesting example of the methods of the early historians, who incorporated their predecessors' works in their own with the utmost freedom. It begins where Bede ends, in 731, and ends in 1201. For the part from 731 to 1148 he simply copied an earlier Chronicle, written at Durham, called The History of the English since the death of Bede, which was itself compounded from the histories of Simeon of Durham [see no. 5] and Henry of Huntingdon [see no. 7] ; while, to go still further...
64. oldal - Among the rest was a large collection of original letters, written during the reigns of Henry VI. Edward IV. Richard III. and Henry VII. by such of the Paston family...