Example sentences of "[prep] [art] thirteenth century " in BNC.
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| 1 | Roger Bacon has enjoyed renown , both for an emphasis on firsthand experience of nature and for an advocacy of mathematics that , for the thirteenth century , was remarkably energetic . |
| 2 | Complaints of irregular and oppressive conduct by local Forest officers were frequent during the thirteenth century . |
| 3 | During the course of the fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries over 60 per cent of the parish churches in England were extensively rebuilt , normally in the magnificent Perpendicular style of Gothic architecture first employed in the construction of Gloucester Cathedral during the thirteenth century . |
| 4 | Genghis Khan , the Mongol war lord , is said to have brought seed of the white poppy with him on his advance on Europe during the thirteenth century . |
| 5 | Several kinds of apples became established in Britain during the thirteenth century . |
| 6 | During the thirteenth century their privileges , dignities and revenues increased . |
| 7 | During the thirteenth century they associated together in communities submitting to an organised communal life of prayer , including the Canonical Hours , and active charity as well as their work , though they were still dependent on the guidance of priests and religious houses . |
| 8 | The greatest creative period was between the thirteenth century and the seventeenth . |
| 9 | Actually , a curious discovery is how many scribes and illuminators were still members of religious orders , even after the thirteenth century when book production had largely become a secular enterprise . |
| 10 | After the thirteenth century larger schemes were built of stone but , more often in the north , in brick . |
| 11 | By the end of the thirteenth century , they were common landmarks in the English countryside . |
| 12 | William Morris thought of it as being ‘ in the style of the thirteenth century ’ , but then it is also in the style of Philip Webb 's master , G.E . |
| 13 | At the end of the thirteenth century we find three great courts definitely established : King 's Bench , Common Pleas , Exchequer . |
| 14 | As regards the real estate of the deceased , it is settled by the end of the thirteenth century that he can make no will , except where there is a local custom to that effect . |
| 15 | The Admiral , whose office dates from the end of the thirteenth century , has at first no jurisdiction apart from the discipline of the fleet , but in the course of the fourteenth century we find him assuming a jurisdiction to punish crimes , such as piracy , committed at sea , as well as a civil jurisdiction over shipping and commercial matters . |
| 16 | But by the time the Israelites first passed that way , towards , probably , the end of the thirteenth century BCE , that tower , now exposed to view by the archaeologist 's shovel , would have been hidden deep beneath the ground , buried beneath layer after layer of the remains of a series of settlements . |
| 17 | For instance , English coins of the thirteenth century were still available in the fifteenth , so the loss of one could have taken place at any time during its three centuries of circulation . |
| 18 | The hostility between Scotland and England began at the end of the thirteenth century with the Scottish succession crisis caused by the death of Alexander III in 1286 and of his only direct heir , his granddaughter Margaret Maid of Norway , in 1290 . |
| 19 | From the middle of the thirteenth century they were allowed to deduct for themselves a fixed salary out of the Forest revenues they collected — 100 marks a year for the Justice of the Forest north of Trent , and £100 for his colleague south of it . |
| 20 | References to them in contemporary documents increased during the second half of the thirteenth century . |
| 21 | In the forest of Essex towards the end of the thirteenth century there were six riding foresters , all appointed by the warden , and removable at his pleasure . |
| 22 | A cairn , later surrounded by an Iron Age fort , marks the ancient grave ; and at Carinish , before the causeway to Benbecula , are the ruins of one of the oldest churches in Scotland , Teampull na Trionaid , established in the early years of the thirteenth century . |
| 23 | Nevertheless , this peculiar combination had a long life and was destined to reappear in the Middle Ages as the Albigensian heresy that flourished for a while in southern France but was eventually crushed in the first quarter of the thirteenth century by the northern French at the command of the most powerful of the medieval Popes , Innocent III . |
| 24 | Nevertheless , the actual origin of the mechanical clock remains a mystery , although it probably occurred towards the end of the thirteenth century . |
| 25 | No one knows who first made this ingenious invention , although as already indicated it was probably towards the end of the thirteenth century . |
| 26 | Moorish Spain came into being over a period of several hundred years — from the period of the first Moslem conquest in the eighth century , to the eventual re-conquest by Christians from the north of the peninsula in the later part of the thirteenth century . |
| 27 | Although legend persisted regarding Barbarossa , by the beginning of the thirteenth century , within a decade of his death , his historical achievements had virtually vanished . |
| 28 | This inconsistency is due to the fact that the bridge was originally built of timber in the last quarter of the thirteenth century , and the arches were dictated by the size of the oak beams used ; then in the fifteenth century , when the bridge was rebuilt in stone , the timber structure was used as scaffolding and the masonry erected round it , leaving the original wood enclosed within the stone piers and arches . |
| 29 | Then it became a matter of convenience and practical good sense for an heir , on coming into his estate , to employ the same devices as his father , as an indication of familial continuity and lordship , so arms achieved hereditary significance and , by the end of the thirteenth century , there were both heraldic ‘ rules ’ and terminology . |
| 30 | By the beginning of the thirteenth century there was a widely held belief within the Church that masses said on behalf of the dead would shorten the length of time a soul spent in purgatory . |