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... represented by continued work on the calculation of Easter , and in 1124 Roger Infans , who says that he was then very young , produced a Computus , following and connecting that of Gerland . The new school is now represented in its ...
... represented by continued work on the calculation of Easter , and in 1124 Roger Infans , who says that he was then very young , produced a Computus , following and connecting that of Gerland . The new school is now represented in its ...
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... represented Earth . Below this , nearest to the spectators , was hell , an enclosed place in which cries were made , chains were rattled , and out of which smoke came ; out of which also men and boys dressed as devils came by a door ...
... represented Earth . Below this , nearest to the spectators , was hell , an enclosed place in which cries were made , chains were rattled , and out of which smoke came ; out of which also men and boys dressed as devils came by a door ...
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... represented those who maintained faith in the pope's supreme authority , and resisted changes in the Church law of a former time . And so the controversy stood during the later days of Gower and of Chaucer . 34. But the best as well as ...
... represented those who maintained faith in the pope's supreme authority , and resisted changes in the Church law of a former time . And so the controversy stood during the later days of Gower and of Chaucer . 34. But the best as well as ...
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