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... century . From then until the twelfth century the name Pict was the designation of the strongest element of a population formed of two separate and different peoples but united under a single rule . Bede testifies to the double- nature ...
... century . From then until the twelfth century the name Pict was the designation of the strongest element of a population formed of two separate and different peoples but united under a single rule . Bede testifies to the double- nature ...
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... century possesses some characteristics which are like those of previous centuries . But it is more important to observe the differences and to perceive that the distinguishing characteristics of historical writing in the thirteenth century ...
... century possesses some characteristics which are like those of previous centuries . But it is more important to observe the differences and to perceive that the distinguishing characteristics of historical writing in the thirteenth century ...
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... CENTURIES 1 ' N THE fourteenth century monastic annals still formed the bulk of historical literature . Already in the last quarter of the preceding century , however , a decline in the quality of cloistral historiography is discernible ...
... CENTURIES 1 ' N THE fourteenth century monastic annals still formed the bulk of historical literature . Already in the last quarter of the preceding century , however , a decline in the quality of cloistral historiography is discernible ...
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CHAPTER PAGE I THE ANCIENT ORIENT | 3 |
ANCIENT GREEK HISTORIOGRAPHY | 21 |
THE ALEXANDRIAN AND POSTALEXANDRIAN EPOCH | 41 |
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