...schoolmen confess, that the use of indulgences commenced in the time of Pope Alexander III. towards the end of the twelfth or the beginning of the thirteenth century, and from that period, until the folly and iniquity of them occasioned the reformation, the sale of...

...century. In the East the art still continued to flourish ; but it did not revive in Europe until towards the end of the twelfth or the beginning of the thirteenth century. One of the places chierly celebrated for this art was Florence, where, it is said, there were no less...

...been as sudden and unaccountable as his arrival. His death is supposed to have taken place about j the end of the twelfth, or the beginning of the thirteenth, century of the Chriatfan era. From this period, to the epoch of the arrival of the Spaniards, the native historians...

...seven weavers that were introduced into Ceylon by a Mahomedan merchant of the town of Barbareen, about the end of the twelfth, or the beginning of the thirteenth century. [3] Pearls.— p. 355. The principal pearl-banks, belonging to his Majesty's government, are situated...

...mentioned in the text (p. 580.) as asserting the immunities of the house against its patron. He lived at the end of the twelfth, or the beginning of the thirteenth, century. Esch. ut sup. 3°. GERVASE, who assigned the manor of Drungewick to the see of But, whilst the priory...

...preface to his chronicle, takes notice of many different ways of compulation in his time, that is, at the end of the twelfth, or the beginning of the thirteenth century. He says, that some computed from the annunciation, some from the nativity, some from the circumcision,...

...regarded as early specimens of the first pointed style of architecture, probably of a date not later than the end of the twelfth or the beginning of the thirteenth century. The three easternmost archways present slender clustered columns rising much higher than those last...

...killed at the siege of Ptolemais. A branch of this noble family was established in Scotland, about the end of the twelfth or the beginning of the thirteenth century, by the Count of Aumale, one of the sons of Robert of Bethune, the Fifth. One of his descendants married...

...or make any pretensions to the possession of taste. VOlsungasaga was no doubt written out either at the end of the twelfth, or the beginning of the thirteenth century. In fine, as would be readily inferred from what precedes, as the Teelanders wrote down for their own...

...Tournay the right of erecting a belfry d ; an evident proof that it did not exist before. It is then at the end of the twelfth, or the beginning of the thirteenth century, that we must fix the date of the construction of this building, with which the style of its architecture...