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The Roman Catholic Diocese of Retimo Latin: Dioecesis Rhithymnensis) was a Roman Catholic diocese located in the town of Rethymo (modern day Rethymno) on the north coast of the island of Crete. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] It was established around 1250 AD.
[1] The new Norman rulers built various structures in what has become known as the Arab-Norman style. They incorporated the best practices of Arab and Byzantine architecture into their own art. [2] Although a different builder constructed each of the sites, they are linked together because of their shared architecture and time period. [3]
Museo dell'Opera del Duomo, Florence The Penitent Magdalene is a wooden sculpture of Mary Magdalene by the Italian Renaissance sculptor Donatello , now usually dated to around 1440. The sculpture was probably commissioned for the Baptistery of Florence .
Wulfstan II, Archbishop of York wrote some works in Latin, and numerous works in Old English, then the vernacular. [1] He has also been credited with a few short poems. His works can generally be divided into homiletic, legal, and philosophical (or socio-political) categories.
Permission was granted by the Pope on July 7, 1466. The brotherhood was also required to hire a priest and set up a church committee. Every year the church of Rome on February 2 provided one pound of candles to commemorate the transfer of icons of Saint James and Saint Christopher from the church of Saint Francis to the new church.
The Trinity Homilies are a collection of 36 homilies found in MS Trinity 335 (B.14.52), held in Trinity College, Cambridge.Produced probably early in the thirteenth century in the Early Middle English period, the collection is of great linguistic importance in establishing the development of the English language, [1] since it preserves a number of Old English forms and gives evidence of the ...
The first was compiled between c. 610 and c. 620 by John, Archbishop of Thessalonica, and the second was compiled in the 680s. [1] The first book enumerates fifteen episodes of Saint Demetrius's intervention on behalf of Thessalonica , most of which occurred in the episcopate of John's predecessor, Eusebius, including outbreaks of plague and ...
A page from the Ormulum demonstrating the editing performed over time by Orrm, [1] as well as the insertions of new readings by "Hand B". The Ormulum or Orrmulum is a twelfth-century work of biblical exegesis, written by an Augustinian canon named Orrm (or Orrmin) and consisting of just under 19,000 lines of early Middle English verse.