...extant copies it is clear that the practice of drawing up chronicles or annals began among the Franks at the end of the seventh, or the beginning of the eighth, century, in connection with the greater churches or monasteries. In a short time these annals were circulated...

...Coward's " Island), was given because of the life and labours of a nun who chose it as her abode about the end of the seventh, or the beginning of the eighth, century. The nun was St. Kentigema, Matron, who is commemorated on the 7th of January. She was the sister of...

...Simple, erect, severe, austere, sublime — l Shrine of all saints and temple of all Gods, Empire, as a proof that the Coliseum was entire, when seen...seventh, or the beginning of the eighth, century. A notice on the Coliseum may be seen in the Historical Illustrations, p. 263. [" ' Quamdiu stabit Colyseus,...

...statement about these details. In the matchless illuminations of the Book of Kells commonly assigned to the end of the seventh or the beginning of the eighth century, we meet representations of horsemen several centuries earlier than those from the cross of Kells, but...

...afterwards continued and ultimately formed the Liber Pontificalia, the oldest known copy of which belongs to the end of the seventh or the beginning of the eighth century. A first continuation of it extends to Gregory II., who became Pope in 714, and a second ends with Stephen...

...we without the help of the historian. 1 This is quoted in the Decline and Fail t*f tht Roman Empire, mself that nought Could give him trouble A notice on the Coliseum may be seen in the Historical Illustrations, p. 263. 280 CHILDE HAROLD'S PILGRIMAGE...

...10318 and 8071 in the Bibliotheque Nationale in Paris; 'the handwriting dates ' the former ' as written at the end of the seventh or the beginning of the eighth century ; the other ... is about two hundred years later in date. Modern scholars regard both MSS. as traceable...

...always more or less subject to the Danes and not connected in any way with the Empire. Even as early as the end of the seventh or the beginning of the eighth century we hear of Danes in the neighbourhood of Heligoland, though the island itself is represented as a Frisian...

...unpublished Irish-Latin commentary on the Catholic Epistles, which from internal evidence I should date of the end of the seventh or the beginning of the eighth century : the MS is of the ninth century), ccxxxviii (Vigilius of Thapsus against the Arians), and ccli (part...

...Row, EC 1905. 12ino. pp. xii.+308. Portrait. The latest date assigned to the founding of Greenlaw is the end of the seventh or the beginning of the eighth century. William de Greenlaw is the first name, among its inhabitants, which has been discovered, its mention...