item: #1 of 22 id: 10882 author: Cabell, James Branch title: The Eagle's Shadow date: None words: 51152 flesch: 83 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. keywords: billy; billy woods; boy; care; colonel; course; dear; eagle; eyes; face; good; head; heart; hugonin; jukesbury; kathleen; kennaston; left; life; like; love; man; margaret; margaret hugonin; miss; moment; money; mrs; night; peggy; saumarez; selwoode; think; thought; time; voice; way; woman; woods; world cache: 10882.txt plain text: 10882.txt item: #2 of 22 id: 10940 author: Jacob, P. L. title: Manners, Customs, and Dress During the Middle Ages and During the Renaissance Period date: None words: 159061 flesch: 60 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. keywords: account; ages; arms; authority; birds; body; bourgeois; bread; case; centuries; century; character; charlemagne; charles; church; classes; commerce; consequence; corporation; council; countries; country; court; custom; day; days; de paris; death; des; dress; duke; emperor; end; europe; fact; fashion; fifteenth; fig; figs; folio; food; fourteenth; france; free; french; games; general; gold; good; great; hand; head; history; holy; house; hunting; illustration; jews; judges; justice; kind; king; kingdom; ladies; law; laws; library; life; lord; louis; manuscript; means; members; men; middle; miniature; money; national; nobility; nobles; number; officers; order; origin; paris; parliament; people; period; persons; place; position; power; present; privileges; provinces; public; queen; reign; right; roman; round; royal; silver; simile; sixteenth; sort; state; subject; system; table; taxes; thirteenth; time; towns; trade; tribunal; use; war; water; way; wife; wine; women; woodcut; work; year; young cache: 10940.txt plain text: 10940.txt item: #3 of 22 id: 11752 author: Cabell, James Branch title: Chivalry: Dizain des Reines date: None words: 60923 flesch: 82 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. keywords: big; boy; branwen; brother; camoys; copeland; daughter; day; dead; death; earl; edward; end; england; eyes; face; father; france; friend; girl; god; good; grace; gregory; half; hand; head; heart; heaven; heleigh; henry; jehane; john; katharine; king; king edward; lady; life; lips; lord; love; madame; man; maudelain; men; messire; night; osmund; person; place; prince; queen; richard; rosamund; sang; save; sire; story; time; voice; wife; woman; world; years; ysabeau cache: 11752.txt plain text: 11752.txt item: #4 of 22 id: 12745 author: None title: The World's Greatest Books — Volume 11 — Ancient and Mediæval History date: None words: 104613 flesch: 63 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. keywords: arms; army; athenians; athens; authority; b.c; babylon; battle; capital; century; christian; church; cities; citizens; city; conquest; constantinople; country; crown; cyrus; cæsar; days; death; dynasty; east; egypt; emperor; empire; end; enemy; england; english; europe; father; fleet; force; gaul; general; god; gods; government; great; greeks; hands; harold; head; henry; high; history; house; italy; jerusalem; jews; king; kingdom; left; life; march; men; order; people; period; persian; place; position; power; public; queen; reign; revolt; roman; rome; rule; sea; second; senate; set; slain; soldiers; son; sons; state; struggle; syria; system; temple; throne; time; title; troops; war; way; west; william; work; world; years cache: 12745.txt plain text: 12745.txt item: #5 of 22 id: 14245 author: Ferrar, William John 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 date: None words: 35186 flesch: 83 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. keywords: abbot; bay; brother; castle; chapter; day; duke; ere; father; forth; god; good; grand; guernsey; hand; hugo; lay; left; lord; man; men; moment; pirates; samson; sarrasin; thee; thou; thought; thy; vale; way; william cache: 14245.txt plain text: 14245.txt item: #6 of 22 id: 17973 author: Morris, William title: The World of Romance being Contributions to The Oxford and Cambridge Magazine, 1856 date: None words: 35667 flesch: 68 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! keywords: away; church; day; eyes; face; fair; god; gold; good; hair; hand; head; heart; king; knight; know; left; love; man; men; mother; people; right; round; things; thought; time; wind cache: 17973.txt plain text: 17973.txt item: #7 of 22 id: 19468 author: Jarrett, Bede title: Mediaeval Socialism date: None words: 28031 flesch: 66 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. keywords: authority; england; god; individual; king; labour; land; law; life; lord; m.a; man; men; nature; need; new; people; possession; power; property; right; social; state; theories; theory; things; thomas; time; use; way; work; wycliff cache: 19468.txt plain text: 19468.txt item: #8 of 22 id: 22463 author: Cabell, James Branch title: Chivalry date: None words: 57932 flesch: 83 summary: Many men have died for me, my friend. Presently comes not Blanch but Philippe, with many men to back him. keywords: big; boy; camoys; copeland; daughter; day; dead; death; earl; edward; end; england; eyes; face; father; france; friend; girl; god; grace; gregory; half; hand; head; heart; heaven; heleigh; henry; jehane; john; katharine; king; lady; life; lips; lord; love; madame; man; maudelain; men; messire; nay; night; osmund; person; prince; queen; richard; rosamund; sang; save; sire; story; thought; time; voice; wife; woman; world; years; ysabeau cache: 22463.txt plain text: 22463.txt item: #9 of 22 id: 33540 author: Hallam, Henry title: View of the State of Europe during the Middle Ages, Vol. 3 date: None words: 234663 flesch: 62 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 _ keywords: accession; account; administration; ages; anglo; answer; appears; assent; authority; barons; bishop; books; boroughs; burgesses; case; causes; centuries; century; chancellor; character; charlemagne; charles; charter; chief; chivalry; church; cities; citizens; city; civil; clergy; come; commons; condition; conquest; consent; constitution; council; country; course; court; crown; d. p.; death; degree; des; doubt; duke; early; edward; edward iii; effect; election; eleventh; end; england; english; europe; fact; feudal; fifteenth; form; fourteenth; france; french; general; germany; good; government; grant; great; greek; henry; henry ii; high; history; honour; house; i. p.; ignorance; iii; influence; instances; italian; italy; john; jurisdiction; justice; king; kingdom; knights; lands; language; latin; law; laws; learning; letters; liberty; life; literature; london; lords; louis; man; manners; means; members; middle; military; money; nature; necessary; new; nobility; norman; note; number; opinion; order; original; paris; parliament; passage; peers; people; period; persons; petition; place; poetry; power; prerogative; present; prince; principle; privileges; proceedings; progress; proof; prynne; question; read; realm; reign; relative; representation; respect; richard; richard ii; right; roll; roman; rot; royal; rymer; saxon; second; sense; service; sheriff; sidenote; sir; society; spirit; state; statute; subject; summons; system; t. i.; t. ii; tenants; tenure; time; towns; v. p.; vii; vol; william; word; work; writ; writers; year; york cache: 33540.txt plain text: 33540.txt item: #10 of 22 id: 36934 author: Lamprey, Louise title: In the Days of the Guild date: None words: 69471 flesch: 86 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. keywords: barbara; barty; basil; boy; brother; country; dame; david; day; edrupt; england; english; eyes; fair; father; garden; glass; gold; good; guy; hand; head; home; house; king; leather; london; look; making; man; market; mary; master; men; merchant; mother; new; padraig; people; place; queen; quentin; ranulph; red; richard; rose; saint; saw; set; shop; stone; things; time; tomaso; town; wall; way; wood; wool; work; years; young cache: 36934.txt plain text: 36934.txt item: #11 of 22 id: 37848 author: None title: Old English Chronicles date: None words: 221400 flesch: 75 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. keywords: 3_s; account; angles; arms; army; arthur; assistance; aurelius; barbarians; battle; begat; beginning; bishop; blood; body; book; britain; british; britons; brother; brutus; caer; camp; chap; children; christ; church; cities; city; coast; coming; cornwall; countries; country; course; crown; cæsar; daughter; day; days; death; desire; duke; earth; east; edition; end; enemies; enemy; english; fall; father; fear; find; fire; fleet; flight; footnote; forces; gaul; general; germany; god; good; government; great; ground; hand; hath; head; hengist; history; holy; honour; house; inhabitants; ireland; island; iter; judgment; justice; kent; king; king alfred; kingdom; law; leave; left; length; life; london; long; lord; love; m.a; m.p; manner; men; miles; mother; nations; near; new; night; nobility; north; number; order; original; pagans; parts; people; picts; place; power; present; princes; prophet; province; reason; reign; rest; return; rev; river; road; roman; rome; royal; saith; saxons; saying; scots; sea; second; set; ships; sides; slain; slaughter; soldiers; son; sons; south; station; street; sword; thee; things; thou; thought; thy; time; town; victory; vols; vortigern; wall; war; way; west; western; wicked; wood; words; work; world; xii; year king; years; york; | | cache: 37848.txt plain text: 37848.txt item: #12 of 22 id: 3821 author: Kingsley, Charles title: The Roman and the Teuton A Series of Lectures delivered before the University of Cambridge date: None words: 98968 flesch: 70 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! keywords: battle; blood; centuries; century; children; church; city; clergy; common; constantinople; country; course; day; days; death; dietrich; earth; east; emperor; empire; end; europe; evil; eyes; fact; father; force; forest; franks; german; god; good; gothic; goths; half; hand; having; head; heart; history; human; italy; king; land; laws; left; life; lombards; look; lord; man; men; mere; mind; moral; nations; new; noble; north; order; people; place; pope; power; race; right; roman; rome; round; save; saw; science; set; slaves; son; teuton; theodoric; things; thought; time; tribes; war; way; women; work; world; years; young cache: 3821.txt plain text: 3821.txt item: #13 of 22 id: 39143 author: Maugham, W. Somerset (William Somerset) title: The Making of a Saint date: None words: 73759 flesch: 90 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. keywords: arms; bartolomeo; checco; children; count; countess; day; door; ercole; eyes; face; father; filippo; forli; girolamo; giulia; god; good; hand; head; heart; help; house; leave; left; life; look; love; man; matteo; mind; moment; night; palace; people; piazza; room; round; savello; things; thought; time; town; want; way; wife; woman cache: 39143.txt plain text: 39143.txt item: #14 of 22 id: 39227 author: None title: A Source Book of Mediæval History Documents Illustrative of European Life and Institutions from the German Invasions to the Renaissance date: None words: 192604 flesch: 66 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. keywords: abbot; account; ages; aid; alfred; army; authority; barons; battle; bishop; body; book; brother; century; character; charlemagne; charles; charter; christ; christian; church; cities; city; clergy; clovis; concerning; council; count; country; day; days; death; emperor; empire; england; english; father; following; france; francis; frankish; franks; french; general; germans; god; good; great; gregory; hand; henry; history; holy; iii; john; king; kingdom; lands; later; latin; law; letter; life; little; long; lord; louis; love; man; manner; mediæval; men; middle; monastery; monks; new; northmen; oath; order; papal; paris; peace; people; period; person; peter; philip; pope; power; present; princes; right; roman; rome; royal; rule; saxons; service; set; sidenote; son; source; text; things; time; treaty; university; use; vol; war; way; william; work; world; year cache: 39227.txt plain text: 39227.txt item: #15 of 22 id: 40371 author: Bowman, Florence L. title: Britain in the Middle Ages: A History for Beginners date: None words: 29397 flesch: 85 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. keywords: -| -|; -| |; barons; battle; chapter; church; day; days; edward; england; english; france; french; god; illustration; king; knight; land; left; lord; man; men; money; people; round; saxons; soldiers; sword; time; war; water; | -| cache: 40371.txt plain text: 40371.txt item: #16 of 22 id: 42707 author: McNeal, Edgar Holmes title: A Source Book for Mediæval History Selected Documents illustrating the History of Europe in the Middle Age date: None words: 225023 flesch: 71 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. keywords: abbot; aid; archbishop; authority; bishop; brothers; cases; christ; church; churches; cities; city; clergy; consent; council; court; day; days; decree; documents; duke; election; emperor; empire; faith; father; following; form; frederick; free; germany; god; god king; good; great; gregory; henry; hold; holy; honor; iii; innocent; italy; judge; jurisdiction; karl; king; kingdom; land; law; letter; life; lord; man; men; monastery; new; note; oath; office; officials; order; papal; pay; peace; people; person; peter; pope; possessions; power; present; princes; promise; property; right; roman; roman church; rome; royal; rule; service; son; subjects; things; time; war; way; wish; year cache: 42707.txt plain text: 42707.txt item: #17 of 22 id: 42824 author: Cutts, Edward Lewes title: Scenes and Characters of the Middle Ages Third Edition date: None words: 185633 flesch: 67 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. keywords: a.d; abbey; abbot; add; ages; altar; armour; arms; benedictine; bishop; black; blue; body; book; british; canons; castle; cell; century; chamber; chapel; chaplain; chapter; character; chaucer; choir; church; churches; clergy; clerk; cloister; close; convent; costume; country; court; cross; date; day; days; description; earl; east; edward; end; england; english; example; fair; fashion; feet; fifteenth; figure; folio; form; fourteenth; friars; gate; general; god; gold; good; gown; green; group; habit; half; hall; hand; head; helmet; henry; hermit; hermitage; history; holy; hood; house; iii; illustration; iron; john; kind; king; knight; lady; launcelot; left; life; little; london; long; lord; mail; man; mass; master; mediæval; men; merchants; middle; military; minstrels; monasteries; monastery; monks; museum; near; noble; north; number; order; page; parish; people; period; picture; pilgrim; pilgrimage; place; priest; prior; read; recluse; red; representation; richard; right; round; royal; rule; saxon; service; set; shape; shield; ship; sir; south; spear; staff; stone; subject; sword; thirteenth; thomas; thou; timber; time; town; vol; wall; water; way; west; white; william; window; woodcut; work; world; year cache: 42824.txt plain text: 42824.txt item: #18 of 22 id: 44703 author: White, James title: The Eighteen Christian Centuries date: None words: 160888 flesch: 63 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. keywords: --his; --the; a.d; age; army; authority; battle; bishop; blood; body; cause; century; character; charlemagne; charles; chief; christian; church; city; clergy; conquest; country; course; court; crown; crusade; day; days; death; dignity; east; edward; emperor; empire; end; enemies; england; english; europe; faith; france; french; general; germany; god; good; government; great; hand; head; henry; history; holy; home; human; influence; italy; james; john; king; kingdom; lands; law; life; louis; man; men; military; nations; new; nobility; order; people; period; philip; place; policy; pope; possession; power; present; rank; reign; religion; rise; roman; rome; round; scotland; sea; second; self; seq; son; spain; spirit; state; support; supremacy; sword; thing; thought; throne; time; war; way; wealth; world; years cache: 44703.txt plain text: 44703.txt item: #19 of 22 id: 6369 author: Davis, H. W. Carless (Henry William Carless) title: Medieval Europe date: None words: 52329 flesch: 56 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. keywords: age; century; charles; christian; church; cities; city; class; crusade; eastern; emperor; empire; england; europe; form; france; frankish; franks; frederic; general; german; government; great; history; holy; imperial; italy; king; kingdom; law; life; lord; medieval; middle; military; national; north; order; otto; policy; pope; power; provinces; roman; rome; royal; service; society; state; time; war; wars; western; years cache: 6369.txt plain text: 6369.txt item: #20 of 22 id: 8771 author: Cabell, James Branch title: Jurgen: A Comedy of Justice date: None words: 96464 flesch: 80 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. keywords: anaïtis; black; chloris; come; course; dame; day; dear; dorothy; duke jurgen; emperor jurgen; eyes; face; fellow; fine; girl; god; gogyrvan; good; guenevere; hand; head; heart; heaven; helen; hell; jurgen; jurgen abode; justice; king jurgen; koshchei; lady; left; life; lisa; look; love; madame; man; matter; men; moment; mother; night; people; persons; place; prince jurgen; queen; saw; shadow; shirt; sir; sort; talk; things; thought; time; way; wife; woman; world; young cache: 8771.txt plain text: 8771.txt item: #21 of 22 id: 9488 author: Cabell, James Branch title: The Line of Love; Dizain des Mariages date: None words: 58056 flesch: 84 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. keywords: adelais; adhelmar; boy; catherine; content; cousin; d'arnaye; day; dear; death; eyes; face; falmouth; father; florian; france; françois; girl; god; good; half; hand; hath; head; heart; hugues; john; king; lady; life; look; lord; love; man; marquis; master; matthiette; men; mervale; moment; monsieur; mélite; night; pevensey; poor; puysange; raymond; saint; set; sieur; sir; sweet; think; thought; tiburce; time; voice; woman; world; years; young cache: 9488.txt plain text: 9488.txt item: #22 of 22 id: 9663 author: Cabell, James Branch title: Domnei: A Comedy of Woman-Worship date: None words: 36955 flesch: 82 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. keywords: ahasuerus; beauty; bracciolini; callistion; dame; dame melicent; day; death; demetrios; domnei; eyes; face; forêt; god; gold; hair; hand; heart; heaven; jew; king; life; love; man; melicent; men; messire; montors; mélusine; nacumera; nicolas; night; orestes; perion; place; proconsul; sword; theodoret; thought; time; woman; world cache: 9663.txt plain text: 9663.txt