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	AllRefer.com - Middle English literature : The Early Period (English Literature To 1499) - Encyclopedia
		Several poems in early Middle English are extant.
		The Orrmulum (c.1200), a verse translation of parts of the Gospels, is of linguistic and prosodic rather than literary interest.
		Of approximately the same date, The Owl and the Nightingale (see separate article) is the first example in English of the dEbat, a popular continental form; in the poem, the owl, strictly monastic and didactic, and the nightingale, a free and amorous secular spirit, charmingly debate the virtues of their respective ways of life.
	reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/M/MiddleEn-the-early-period.html (212 words)

	Early Medieval Period
		In 756, Abd al-Rahman revived the defeated Umayyad caliphate in Cordoba ushering in a period of great cultural, artistic, scientific, and intellectual advancements marked by unprecedented tolerance among Christians, Jews, and Muslims.
		Abbasids, aided by those arch enemies of the Umayyads, the Persian Shiites who were still smarting from the humiliating slayings of their imams, Ali and Husayn, by the early Umayyad caliphs.
		Period of the Tulunid Dynasty in Egypt, founded by Ahmed Ibn Tulun, the dashing young governor sent by the caliph in Baghdad to rule Egypt.
	www.nmhschool.org /tthornton/mehistorydatabase/early_medieval_periods.htm (2818 words)

	EARLY ENGLISH PERIOD - LoveToKnow Article on EARLY ENGLISH PERIOD (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		It is chiefly characterized by the almost universal employment of the pointed arch, not only in arches of wide span such as those of the nave arcade, but for doorways and windows.
		In the spandrils of the arches of the nave, transept or choir arcades, diaper work is occasionally found, as in the transept of Westminster Abbey.
		The latter is one of the chief examples of the period, to which must be added the cathedral of Salisbury (except the tower); the Galilee at Ely; nave and transept of Wells (1225-1240); nave of Lincoln; west front of Peterborough; and the minster at Beverley.
	16.1911encyclopedia.org /E/EA/EARLY_ENGLISH_PERIOD.htm (290 words)

	Early Modern English and the Scientific Revolution (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		English did not begin to regain its position until 1362 when Parliament declared that since French was no longer understood by most people, English would be the official language once again.
		English was used generally in public schools starting in 1385, but the universities of Cambridge and Oxford held out until the reforms of the 1850s.
		English (and French) had been used in introductory Latin grammars in the Middle Ages, but the only use allowed by statute was in public sermons.
	www.lucasianchair.org /lucasianchair.org/EME.html (4931 words)

	Colorants Used During Mexico's Early Colonial Period
		are a group of maps and manuscripts created during the Early Colonial Period in response to a questionnaire developed for Philip II of Spain to survey the diverse regions of New Spain (Mexico), Central America, South America, and the Spanish West Indies during the years 1578-1585.
		are typical of Early Colonial Mexican manuscripts in that the native practice of stylized or iconographic representations of objects is often combined with the European convention of depicting objects as they appear in nature.
		In the author's opinion, it is reasonable to believe that the colorants of the six maps are native given the presence of these minerals in Mexico and the manufacture of a variety of inorganic colorants by indigenous painters.
	aic.stanford.edu /sg/bpg/annual/v16/bp16-05.html (4891 words)

	Early English Biblical Translations (Pre-Reformation) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		Other early translations include the Book of Psalms by Aldhelm, Bishop of Sherborne (640-709); the Ten Commandments and other parts of Exodus 21-23 by Alfred the Great (849-899), king of the West Saxons; and an interlinear English translation in the Lindisfarne Gospels.
		In the 10th century, Aldred added an interlinear English translation to the book, the earliest one in English of all the gospels.
		During the reign of Henry IV (1399-1413), the English statute for burning of heretics, De Heretico Comburendo (1401), was adopted.
	gbgm-umc.org /umw/bible/english.stm (863 words)

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