...afterward 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...

...contradict such a statement, they do not in fact do so. Their date can be placed with reasonable certainty at the end of the seventh or the beginning of the eighth centuries, and from that time the story is one of progressive loss of skill in design and workmanship....

...and Wilfred, Archbishop of York, whom we know to have founded churches after his return from Rome, at the end of the seventh or the beginning of the eighth century, no doubt built them " more Romano" also. Wolstan, in his metrical description of Winchester Cathedral,...

...century: he records that a church (said to be dedicated to St Laurence) was built there by Aidhelm at the end of the seventh or the beginning of the eighth century. Controversy surrounds the identity of the surviving building with that built by Aldhelm. The structure...

...liturgical books, we will soon be convinced that this formula did not appear in the Roman liturgy before the end of the seventh or the beginning of the eighth century. It is true, however, that in the earlier period baptism involved a triple immersion, each immersion...

...a common stock in the lists indicates the existence of a tradition of elementary-grammar writing by the end of the seventh or the beginning of the eighth century. I shall now survey the evidence for the existence of this tradition in early Southumbria. The ' Declinationes...

...the sixth century a few inspired leaders had sought in vain to herald the coming of a new world. By the end of the seventh or the beginning of the eighth century, however, a number of visionaries had come forward in response to anxieties stemming from the crisis...

...Greek into Arabic and Georgian. Thus, for example, the Vita Sabae was translated into Georgian already at the end of the seventh or the beginning of the eighth century (Garitte 1954, 84 n. 1; Linder 1987b, 1 17-21). On the other hand, Syriac writings of Isaac of Nineveh...

...from her excavations on the site of Golgotha and the tomb of Christ. Although it took until some time at the end of the seventh or the beginning of the eighth century for the rite of the Veneration of the Cross at this basilica to establish itself as part of the Papal...

...but the territory in which it was based." One step in this transformation seems to have occurred by the end of the seventh or the beginning of the eighth century, by which time we find the seals of civil officials who are either governors or tax supervisors of the...