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thirteenth-century

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  • The last stronghold of the Druids, it was also rich in history and lore, from its moated, thirteenth-century Beaumaris Castle to its Tudor pubs and Georgian mansions.

    William and Kate Christopher Andersen 2011

  • The last stronghold of the Druids, it was also rich in history and lore, from its moated, thirteenth-century Beaumaris Castle to its Tudor pubs and Georgian mansions.

    William and Kate Christopher Andersen 2011

  • The leader of the first column directed his men “to put to the torch everything that can be burned and to put to the bayonet every inhabitant you encounter on your way,” a secular version of the “Kill them all” command of the papal envoy at the thirteenth-century massacre at Béziers.

    Bloodlust Russell Jacoby 2011

  • Saint Anthony was a thirteenth-century Portuguese saint.

    Soul Trapper F. J. Lennon 2011

  • The building was intended to evoke the architectural qualities of an English thirteenth-century cathedral church -- through the use of the most modern materials available.

    Arthur Brown and St. Mark's, Seattle 2009

  • Sometime the very letters become decorative designs (see the elaborately ornate and well-nigh illegible initials in the Harkness Gospels from tenth-century Brittany, or the large word panels in the thirteenth-century German Hebrew Xanten Bible, or the stunning calligraphy of the fourteenth-century Turkish Qur'an).

    The New York Public Library: All That Is Godly Must Glitter The New York Public Library 2010

  • Sometime the very letters become decorative designs (see the elaborately ornate and well-nigh illegible initials in the Harkness Gospels from tenth-century Brittany, or the large word panels in the thirteenth-century German Hebrew Xanten Bible, or the stunning calligraphy of the fourteenth-century Turkish Qur'an).

    The New York Public Library: All That Is Godly Must Glitter The New York Public Library 2010

  • Sometime the very letters become decorative designs (see the elaborately ornate and well-nigh illegible initials in the Harkness Gospels from tenth-century Brittany, or the large word panels in the thirteenth-century German Hebrew Xanten Bible, or the stunning calligraphy of the fourteenth-century Turkish Qur'an).

    The New York Public Library: All That Is Godly Must Glitter The New York Public Library 2010

  • Sometime the very letters become decorative designs (see the elaborately ornate and well-nigh illegible initials in the Harkness Gospels from tenth-century Brittany, or the large word panels in the thirteenth-century German Hebrew Xanten Bible, or the stunning calligraphy of the fourteenth-century Turkish Qur'an).

    The New York Public Library: All That Is Godly Must Glitter The New York Public Library 2010

  • Émile Mâle, in his study of the religious art of thirteenth-century France, thus said that “mediaeval art was before all things a symbolic art, in which form is used merely as the vehicle of spiritual meaning”.

    The Theology and Metaphysics of the Gothic Cathedral - part 1 2009

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