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... Greek manuscripts , and trained copyists . He is said to be the first person who deliberately utilized the quiet of the convent for the preservation of learning . The fact that so 1 Read before the Bibliographical Society , 21 February ...
... Greek manuscripts , and trained copyists . He is said to be the first person who deliberately utilized the quiet of the convent for the preservation of learning . The fact that so 1 Read before the Bibliographical Society , 21 February ...
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... Greek , was Archbishop of Canterbury from 668-90 , and as a result of his teaching Greek as well as Latin was known in England in the time of Bede . The Anglo - Saxon monks at an early date joined their Irish brethren on the Continent ...
... Greek , was Archbishop of Canterbury from 668-90 , and as a result of his teaching Greek as well as Latin was known in England in the time of Bede . The Anglo - Saxon monks at an early date joined their Irish brethren on the Continent ...
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... with the Emperor , and , what was still more important , he was a first - rate scholar , well acquainted with classical Greek . Until then the Italians could not learn The Reappearance of the Texts of the Classics 21.
... with the Emperor , and , what was still more important , he was a first - rate scholar , well acquainted with classical Greek . Until then the Italians could not learn The Reappearance of the Texts of the Classics 21.
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... Greek . Until then the Italians could not learn Greek , since they had no one to teach them except some ignorant Calabrians . Petrarch took lessons , when at Avignon , from one of these named Barlaam , but never succeeded in learning ...
... Greek . Until then the Italians could not learn Greek , since they had no one to teach them except some ignorant Calabrians . Petrarch took lessons , when at Avignon , from one of these named Barlaam , but never succeeded in learning ...
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... Greek grammar of Roger Bacon , and a lexicon , recently discovered by Dr. Montague James in the Library of the College of Arms in Victoria Street , London , designed for the circle of Grosseteste and Bacon , in which some 16,000 Greek ...
... Greek grammar of Roger Bacon , and a lexicon , recently discovered by Dr. Montague James in the Library of the College of Arms in Victoria Street , London , designed for the circle of Grosseteste and Bacon , in which some 16,000 Greek ...
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