Curious Myths of the Middle AgesRivingtons, 1872 - 660 pagina's |
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Pagina 19
... fables , if I insert in these pages what is reported all over Europe of the Jew , coeval with the Saviour Christ ; however , nothing is more common , and our popular histories have not scrupled to assert it . Following the lead of those ...
... fables , if I insert in these pages what is reported all over Europe of the Jew , coeval with the Saviour Christ ; however , nothing is more common , and our popular histories have not scrupled to assert it . Following the lead of those ...
Pagina 34
... fable , it will be well to extract the different accounts given of the Priest - King and his realm by early writers ; and we shall then be better able to judge of the influence the myth obtained in Europe . Otto of Freisingen is the ...
... fable , it will be well to extract the different accounts given of the Priest - King and his realm by early writers ; and we shall then be better able to judge of the influence the myth obtained in Europe . Otto of Freisingen is the ...
Pagina 50
... fable . He writes , " The Catai dwelt beyond certain mountains across which I wandered , and in a plain in the midst of the moun- tains lived once an important Nestorian shepherd , who ruled over the Nestorian people , called Nay- When ...
... fable . He writes , " The Catai dwelt beyond certain mountains across which I wandered , and in a plain in the midst of the moun- tains lived once an important Nestorian shepherd , who ruled over the Nestorian people , called Nay- When ...
Pagina 104
... fable . And this I think probable enough . The story of long sleepers and the number seven connected with it is ancient enough , and dates from heathen mythology . Like many another ancient myth , it was laid hold of by Christian hands ...
... fable . And this I think probable enough . The story of long sleepers and the number seven connected with it is ancient enough , and dates from heathen mythology . Like many another ancient myth , it was laid hold of by Christian hands ...
Pagina 114
... fables ; and he soon learns to doubt and question the most emphatic declarations of , and claims to , reliability . Sir Walter Raleigh , in his prison , was composing the second volume of his history of the world . Leaning on the sill ...
... fables ; and he soon learns to doubt and question the most emphatic declarations of , and claims to , reliability . Sir Walter Raleigh , in his prison , was composing the second volume of his history of the world . Leaning on the sill ...
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