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... contains many notices of northern affairs . Other Lives are the Life of Edmund , the martyred king of East Anglia ( d . 870 ) , by Abbo of Fleury - sur - Loire , who at one time was a resident in Ramsey Abbey ; the Vita S. Elphege , who ...
... contains many notices of northern affairs . Other Lives are the Life of Edmund , the martyred king of East Anglia ( d . 870 ) , by Abbo of Fleury - sur - Loire , who at one time was a resident in Ramsey Abbey ; the Vita S. Elphege , who ...
Page 413
... contains information not alluded to elsewhere . We have finally to consider a fourth Vita whose authorship has long proved a mystery . Hearne , who published the work in 1727,89 attributed it to Elmham ; and this relationship has been ...
... contains information not alluded to elsewhere . We have finally to consider a fourth Vita whose authorship has long proved a mystery . Hearne , who published the work in 1727,89 attributed it to Elmham ; and this relationship has been ...
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... contains a valuable description of this war , occupying the first three books ; the remaining four books deal with the incidents during Mendo- za's viceroyalty , including a valuable account of Alvaro de Mendana's expedition to the ...
... contains a valuable description of this war , occupying the first three books ; the remaining four books deal with the incidents during Mendo- za's viceroyalty , including a valuable account of Alvaro de Mendana's expedition to the ...
Contents
CHAPTER PAGE I THE ANCIENT ORIENT | 3 |
ANCIENT GREEK HISTORIOGRAPHY | 21 |
THE ALEXANDRIAN AND POSTALEXANDRIAN EPOCH | 41 |
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