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of such a cure) have had the administration and rule of, because of the age and debility that are reported to be in me. So it is, right worshipful sir, I trust I am not yet now so enfeebled or infirm, either in body or memory, or by any extremity of age (which, for the most part, debility always readily accompanies), or by any immoderate affliction of any great continual
dated a little more narrowly by his reference in the preface to Pope Innocent VI (who died in September 1362) as ‘of happy memory’. Pietro was made a clerk, he says, by Castellano Salomoni and was a canon of the cathedral before becoming bishop. He was serving the bishop at the time of Rigo’s death forty-four years earlier and presents himself both as an
lifestyle. Nevertheless, Ludwig’s decision was hardly a common one, and it is not surprising that the monks at Arnstein chose to preserve in writing the memory of their exceptional founder. The text translated here combines an account of Ludwig’s life with a history of the Premonstratensian community at Arnstein. As it shows, Ludwig did not disappear from the world of the secular
will of John Northampton, formerly citizen of London [d. 1398], who left to us his tenements in Pentecost Lane, we are similarly obliged that one altar in our church should be assigned, where two monks should celebrate daily, having in special memory the soul of this John; and the souls of James, Andrew and his wife Matilda; his parents Thomas and Mariot; his former wives Joan
900 – which, he argued, are best explained by supposing that Regino was writing some years after the memories of these events had faded. 35 Secondly, thematic links between the pre- and post-818 parts of the Chronicle , to be discussed below, would suggest that the work was conceived as a single piece. Finally, the fact that Regino’s accounts of royal marriage and divorce in the Chronicle show
study. He became, as much as his age allowed and time permitted, keen of memory and clever in grasping not only learning from books, but all those things which pertain to the heart. Because the Holy Book has so much to teach him, in time he fully and fairly comprehended the seven major liberal arts. Therefore he went to school both in England and in France, particularly in the capital city Paris, which has always had the
godparents suggest the inculcation of the basic tenets of the faith through little more than rote-memory: the Creed, the Our Father, and the Ave, available for constant repetition. 26 There are hints that much of this instruction was provided by women: this was perhaps a religion which was at its most basic matrilineal (most explicitly represented in the traditional iconography of St Anne teaching the Virgin to read). 27 However
as a potential patron for the text. 7 The latter seems more likely; Admont had been founded by an archbishop of Salzburg, and the vita praises this archdiocese and its prelates. However, it is also possible that the author(s) intended the text to be read principally inside the community of nuns at Admont, as a means of preserving the memory of one of the most
died on 5 October. 16 In his place his 17 son Henry , who was still a boy, began to reign with his mother , Agnes. 18 In Rome after Victor [II] 19 Frederick, brother of Duke Godfrey, formerly archchaplain of Pope Leo of blessed memory, who, having been a clerk, became a monk and was afterwards promoted to be abbot in Monte
, the blessed Trinity, the blessed Lady and Virgin St Mary, Amen. The 28th day of October, the year of Our Lord God 1500 ... I, Dame Jane Strangweys, widow, being of full mind and good memory, make this my last will and testament in the manner and to the effect hereafter following. First, I bequeath my soul to almighty God, and to the blessed Lady and Virgin St Mary, and to the whole company of Heaven