# bib

id: 19468
author: Jarrett, Bede
title: Mediaeval Socialism
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words: 28031
sentence: 1263
flesch: 66
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summary:
  Where all the workers were paid by their tenancy of land, where, in other words, fixity and stability of possession were the very basis of social life, the fluidity of labour was impossible. Had man continued in this state of innocence, government, slavery, and private property would never have been required.


id: 40371
author: Bowman, Florence L.
title: Britain in the Middle Ages: A History for Beginners
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words: 29397
sentence: 1421
flesch: 85
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summary:
  Great men brought gifts of frankincense and myrrh, to be burned in the church on holy days, or jewels for the altar, and silk from the east for hangings, but the greatest treasure of all was the relic. The Archbishop soon after asked for a council, for the King was still robbing the Church and the Christian religion had well-nigh perished in many men.


id: 14245
author: Ferrar, William John
extension: .txt
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words: 35186
sentence: 1472
flesch: 83
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title:
  The Fall of the Grand Sarrasin Being a Chronicle of Sir Nigel de Bessin, Knight, of Things that Happed in Guernsey Island, in the Norman Seas, in and about the Year One Thousand and Fifty-Seven

summary:
  His words to me so frank, his description of great men so just--his---- I was about to be fervent indeed in the praise of my new-found friend. And once within the market-place I ran as I was bid to the Church of St. Pierre, and great man I felt myself, as I pushed open the church door and took the bell-rope in my hand.


id: 17973
author: Morris, William
title: The World of Romance being Contributions to The Oxford and Cambridge Magazine, 1856
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 35667
sentence: 888
flesch: 68
cache: cache/17973.txt
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summary:
  So when I had seen William de la Fosse slain by many men, I cast my shield and helm over the battlements, and gazed about for a second, and lo! thou hast done the very noblest deed of all, for thou hast kept grown men from weeping shameful tears!


id: 9663
author: Cabell, James Branch
title: Domnei: A Comedy of Woman-Worship
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words: 36955
sentence: 2290
flesch: 82
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summary:
  Said Perion: When I first saw Dame Melicent the sea was languid, as if outworn by vain endeavours to rival the purple of her eyes. It was a May morning, very hot and still, and Demetrios sat with his Christian wife in the Court of Stars. Said Melicent, It is not unlikely that the Perion men know to-day has forgotten me and the service which I joyed to render Perion.


id: 10882
author: Cabell, James Branch
title: The Eagle's Shadow
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words: 51152
sentence: 3093
flesch: 83
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summary:
  Margaret Hugonin had a pretty hand, and Mr. Woods, as an artist, could not well fail to admire it. Said Billy, between puffs of a cigar: Peggy's changed a bit.


id: 6369
author: Davis, H. W. Carless (Henry William Carless)
title: Medieval Europe
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 52329
sentence: 1876
flesch: 56
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summary:
  He was not the inventor of feudalism, but was the first to see the possibility of basing royal power on the support of vassals pledged to support their lord, in every quarrel, with life and limb and earthly substance. In Scandinavia, in Hungary, in the Slavonic lands, the tree of royal power was enveloped and strangled by the undergrowth of a bastard feudalism, by the territorial power of aristocracies which, under cover of administrative titles, converted whole provinces into family estates and claimed over their tenants the divine right of unlimited and irresponsible sovereignty.


id: 9488
author: Cabell, James Branch
title: The Line of Love; Dizain des Mariages
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 58056
sentence: 3385
flesch: 84
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summary:
  But how, asked Mélite, was this lady fashioned that you commend so highly?--and how can you know of her beauty who have never seen her? Said Adhelmar: I have read of her fairness in the chronicles of Messire Stace of Thebes, and of Dares, who was her husband's bishop. By reason of this, when he had ended his reading about the lady of the hollow hill, Sir Adhelmar sighed again, and stared at his companion with hungry eyes, wherein desire strained like a hound at the leash. Said Mélite, Was this Lady Venus, then, exceedingly beautiful? Adhelmar swore an oath of sufficient magnitude that she was.


id: 11752
author: Cabell, James Branch
title: Chivalry: Dizain des Reines
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 60923
sentence: 3411
flesch: 82
cache: cache/11752.txt
txt: txt/11752.txt
summary:
  Presently will come to you not Blanch but Philippe, with many men to back him. For by the cowardice and greed and ignorance of little men is Salomon himself confounded, and by them is Hercules lightly unhorsed.


id: 22463
author: Cabell, James Branch
title: Chivalry
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 57932
sentence: 3418
flesch: 83
cache: cache/22463.txt
txt: txt/22463.txt
summary:
  Many men have died for me, my friend. Presently comes not Blanch but Philippe, with many men to back him.


id: 36934
author: Lamprey, Louise
title: In the Days of the Guild
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 69471
sentence: 3544
flesch: 86
cache: cache/36934.txt
txt: txt/36934.txt
summary:
  Although Italian born, he had spent much of his life in France, and had known men of many nations, including the English. By the armorer's tower the fire burned bright In the long black shadows of coming night.


id: 39143
author: Maugham, W. Somerset (William Somerset)
title: The Making of a Saint
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 73759
sentence: 5819
flesch: 90
cache: cache/39143.txt
txt: txt/39143.txt
summary:
  At last Checco got up and said Good-night. Then, turning to me, Matteo added, 'This is my cousin, Checco d'Orsi.' Checco d'Orsi smiled and bowed.


id: 3821
author: Kingsley, Charles
title: The Roman and the Teuton A Series of Lectures delivered before the University of Cambridge
extension: .txt
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words: 98968
sentence: 3652
flesch: 70
cache: cache/3821.txt
txt: txt/3821.txt
summary:
  And yet he who will give us a science of great men, must begin by having a larger heart, a keener insight, a more varying human experience, than Shakespeare's own; while those who offer us a science of little men, and attempt to explain history and progress by laws drawn from the average of mankind, are utterly at sea the moment they come in contact with the very men whose actions make the history, to whose thought the progress is due. How women were captivated by his chivalry, older men by his genuine humility and sympathy!


id: 8771
author: Cabell, James Branch
title: Jurgen: A Comedy of Justice
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 96464
sentence: 5131
flesch: 80
cache: cache/8771.txt
txt: txt/8771.txt
summary:
  Said Jurgen: I do not criticize. And besides, you must remember what you did with that gimlet! Said Jurgen: All this is hardly to the purpose.


id: 12745
title: The World's Greatest Books — Volume 11 — Ancient and Mediæval History
extension: .txt
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words: 104613
sentence: 4345
flesch: 63
cache: cache/12745.txt
txt: txt/12745.txt
summary:
  On great days of festival or sacrifice they laid aside all insignia of royalty and were clad as ordinary priests. On his arrival being known, the Sotiates assembled great forces, and the battle that followed was long and vigorously contested.


id: 44703
author: White, James
title: The Eighteen Christian Centuries
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words: 160888
sentence: 6473
flesch: 63
cache: cache/44703.txt
txt: txt/44703.txt
summary:
  The scenes of those six years are like a series of dissolving views, or the changing combinations of a kaleidoscope: Condé and Turenne, always on opposite sides,--for each changed his party as often as the other; battles prepared for by masquerades and theatricals, and celebrated on both sides with epigrams and songs; the wildest excesses of debauchery and vice practised by both sexes and all ranks in the State; archbishops fighting like gladiators and intriguing like the vulgarest conspirators; princes imprisoned with a jest, and executions attended with cheers and laughter; and over all an Italian ecclesiastic, grinning with satisfaction at the increase of his wealth,--caballing, cheating, and lying, but keeping a firm grasp of power:--no country was ever so split into faction or so denuded of great men. Great men arose on both sides.


id: 10940
author: Jacob, P. L.
title: Manners, Customs, and Dress During the Middle Ages and During the Renaissance Period
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words: 159061
sentence: 5525
flesch: 60
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summary:
  The functions of this kind of domestic magistracy were exercised by officers known under various names, such as _kings, masters, elders, guards, syndics_, and _jurors_, who were besides charged to visit the workshops at any hour they pleased in order to see that the laws concerning the articles of workmanship were observed. For the three following courses, there was a roe-deer, a pig, a sturgeon cooked in parsley and vinegar, and covered with powdered ginger; a kid, two goslings, twelve chickens, as many pigeons, six young rabbits, two herons, a leveret, a fat capon stuffed, four chickens covered with yolks of eggs and sprinkled with powder _de Duc_ (spice), a wild boar, some wafers (_darioles_), and stars; a jelly, part white and part red, representing the crests of the three above-mentioned persons; cream with _Duc_ powder, covered with fennel seeds preserved in sugar; a white cream, cheese in slices, and strawberries; and, lastly, plums stewed in rose-water.


id: 42824
author: Cutts, Edward Lewes
title: Scenes and Characters of the Middle Ages Third Edition
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words: 185633
sentence: 6855
flesch: 67
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summary:
  Hold no conversation with any man out of a church window, but respect it for the sake of the Holy Sacrament which ye see there through;[156] and at other times (other whiles) take your women to the window of the house (huses thurle), other men and women to the parlour-window to speak when necessary; nor ought ye (to converse) but at these two windows. ._ per week; and yearly ten large stock-fish, one bushel of oatmeal, one of rye, two gallons of oil for lamps, one pound of tallow for candles, six loads of turf, and one load of faggots; also to repair their habitations; and to find a chaplain to say mass in the chapel of these recluses daily; their successors to be nominated by the duke and his heirs.


id: 39227
extension: .txt
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words: 192604
sentence: 7408
flesch: 66
cache: cache/39227.txt
txt: txt/39227.txt
title:
  A Source Book of Mediæval History Documents Illustrative of European Life and Institutions from the German Invasions to the Renaissance

summary:
  But each one shall answer for his own cause or tax or debt, unless any one is infirm or ignorant of pleading;[182] for these the _missi_, or the chiefs who are in the court, or the judge who knows the case in question, shall plead before the court; or, if it is necessary, such a person may be allowed as is acceptable to all and knows the case well; but this shall be done wholly according to the convenience of the chiefs or _missi_ who are present. And many other kings and relatives of his, who he feared might take his kingdom from him, were slain, and his dominion was extended over all Gaul.


id: 42707
author: McNeal, Edgar Holmes
extension: .txt
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words: 225023
sentence: 9961
flesch: 71
cache: cache/42707.txt
txt: txt/42707.txt
title:
  A Source Book for Mediæval History Selected Documents illustrating the History of Europe in the Middle Age

summary:
  You and your successors shall have in them the rights which you exercise in other churches of our lands, which are accustomed to receive their consecration and benediction from the Roman church, and these churches shall pay the legal taxes to the Roman see. This decree shall not be to the prejudice of the canon law or of the practice in other churches where the voice of the majority is declared to be decisive in elections, because any dispute arising in these churches can be settled by appeal to higher authority.


id: 37848
title: Old English Chronicles
extension: .txt
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words: 221400
sentence: 11823
flesch: 75
cache: cache/37848.txt
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summary:
  This giant had made himself furs of the beards of kings he had killed, and had sent word to Arthur carefully to cut off his beard and send it to him; and then, out of respect to his pre-eminence over other kings, his beard should have the honour of the principal place. To which Mauricius replied: It did not become so great a man to appear abroad in a mean figure, or without soldiers for his guard; especially considering, that by reason of the Roman power, and the actions of his ancestors, he is become obnoxious to many kings.


id: 33540
author: Hallam, Henry
title: View of the State of Europe during the Middle Ages, Vol. 3
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words: 234663
sentence: 10129
flesch: 62
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summary:
  the writ of _subpoena_ was invented by John de Waltham, master of the rolls; and to this a great importance seems to have been attached at the time, as we may perceive by the frequent complaints of the commons in parliament, and by the traditionary abhorrence in which the name of the inventor was held. Thus _exfregit_ and _adrogavit_ assumed a form representing their more liquid sound; and _


# ent

id: 33540
sid: 299
eid: 5
type: ORG
entity:
  pro se et totâ communitate comitatûs prædicti ad consulendum et consentiendum pro se et communitate illâ


id: 33540
sid: 7330
eid: 2
type: PERSON
entity:
  benedict--la pensée morale et la discipline générale en sont sévères; mais dans le détail de la vie elle est humaine et modérée


