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The word "page" comes from the Latin term pagina, which means, "a written page, leaf, sheet", [2] which in turn comes from an earlier meaning "to create a row of vines that form a rectangle". [3] The Latin word pagina derives from the verb pangere , which means to stake out boundaries when planting vineyards.
The categorisation of the past into discrete, quantified named blocks of time is called periodization. [1] This is a list of such named time periods as defined in various fields of study. These can be divided broadly into prehistorical periods and historical periods (when written records began to be kept).
The Song of the Albigensian Crusade in Provençal language, stands out. Two famous rhyming chronicles were written in German: the Cologne Chronicle and the Austrian Chronicle. The Cologne Rhymed Chronicle was commissioned by the Small Council and written by Godephrit Hagenet, who served as the city's chief scribe from 1250 to 1295.
A yuga, in Hinduism, is generally used to indicate an age of time. [1] [2] In the Rigveda, a yuga refers to generations, a period of time (whether long or short), or a yoke (joining of two things). [3] In the Mahabharata, the words yuga and kalpa (a day of Brahma) are used interchangeably to describe the cycle of creation and destruction. [4]
Robert Recorde (c. 1510 – 1558) was a Welsh [1] [2] physician and mathematician. He invented the equals sign (=) and also introduced the pre-existing plus (+) and minus (−) signs to English speakers in 1557.
Recto page from a rare Blackletter Bible (1497). The canons of page construction are historical reconstructions, based on careful measurement of extant books and what is known of the mathematics and engineering methods of the time, of manuscript-framework methods that may have been used in Medieval- or Renaissance-era book design to divide a page into pleasing proportions.
Medieval literature is a broad subject, encompassing essentially all written works available in Europe and beyond during the Middle Ages (that is, the one thousand years from the fall of the Western Roman Empire ca. AD 500 to the beginning of the Renaissance in the 14th, 15th or 16th century, depending on country). The literature of this time ...
But perhaps the most widely discussed periodization scheme of the Middle Ages was the Six Ages of the World, written by the early 5th century AD, [3] where every age was a thousand years counting from Adam to the present, with the present time (in the Middle Ages) being the sixth and final age.