Example sentences of "during [art] fifteenth " in BNC.
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| 1 | When , for example , Alexander Gordon of Strathdon came to Elgin on 5 November 1539 to bind himself in manrent to George earl of Huntly , promising to serve him in peace and war , give him counsel , and protect him against harm , he was only one of many hundreds of men throughout the country during the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries making such an obligation , and thereby creating strong personal relationships based always in theory and normally in reality not just on mutual self-interest but on mutual loyalty and trust . |
| 2 | Writs for the holding of the regard in forests such as Sherwood , Galtres , pickering , Inglewood and Rutland continued to be sent out from the Chancery during the fifteenth century , but the Forest Eyre , which would have punished offences revealed by the regard , had now almost fallen into desuetude . |
| 3 | The illuminated manuscripts known as Books of Hours , produced in the Lowlands during the fifteenth century , particularly those containing the Office of the Dead , not only show how corpses were dressed at that time but also indicate how the limbs were positioned . |
| 4 | However , during the fifteenth century changes were introduced and we see for the first time representations of corpses , cadavers and skeletons , and it is from these — usually to be found on memorial brasses , and particularly on those in East Anglia — that we acquire our first glimpse of the English shroud . |
| 5 | The Greeks could not forgive this outrage and when , during the fifteenth century , they repeatedly asked the West for help against the Ottoman Turks , the Latins were decidedly lukewarm in their response . |
| 6 | As a great many parishes had invested in new pulpits and lecterns during the fifteenth century , few were erected during Elizabeth 's reign , but following the issuing in 1604 of new ecclesiastical canons which ordered that ‘ a comely and decent pulpit ’ should be kept in every church , the reign of James I saw a notable upsurge in pulpit-building . |
| 7 | England had probably lost in international importance during the fifteenth century , partly because of her defeat in the Hundred Years War , partly because of the success of the Habsburgs in building up their empire on the basis of dynastic marriages . |
| 8 | In addition to Newbury it centred on Reading and Abingdon , about which information is scanty , and had flourished at Wantage during the fifteenth century . |
| 9 | Considerations of this kind probably help to account for some interesting changes in the tenure of offices during the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries . |
| 10 | The earliest reversions to Exchequer offices were granted during the fifteenth century ; they became frequent during the sixteenth . |
| 11 | During the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries , the humanist " revolution " in educational ideas led to a privileging of classical literature as the means of providing a liberal education , although this was later considerably transformed into a narrow disciplinary process tied to the maintenance of social distinctions . |
| 12 | As the Ottoman threat advanced northward through Bosnia and Serbia during the fifteenth century , Christian Europe prepared to resist . |
| 13 | This trade came to an end during the fifteenth century . |
| 14 | Also , during the fifteenth century there was a more considerable transforming influence in the movement for enclosures , which had brought an increasing area under grazing at the expense of arable ( Ch.5 ) . |
| 15 | During the fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries there were intermittent popular revolts , but apart from that of Jack Cade in 1450 , they tended to be far more limited in scope than that of 1381 . |
| 16 | This was not universal — some tenants held land by custom alone , without possessing a copy of the court roll entry , and they were generally more vulnerable to pressure from their lords , as legal protection was gradually extended to copyhold tenants by the courts both of common law and of equitable jurisdiction during the fifteenth century . |
| 17 | During the fifteenth century , the laws of supply and demand worked in favour of the peasantry . |
| 18 | The relative absence of major revolts during the fifteenth century probably reflects the fundamental state of the economy , and it is perhaps a reasonable assumption that the basic prosperity of the peasantry in their relations with the land-owning class contributed to this . |