...work about the doorway of St. Andrea at Pistoja is like that of Gruamonte, but inferior to it. Towards the end of the twelfth, or the beginning of the thirteenth century, a taste for extravagant or capricious ornament in architectural sculpture showed itself in the facade...

...ground-plan. '' From the character of the chancel windows, thai part of the Church is probably as old as the end of the twelfth or the beginning of the thirteenth century, and must therefore be the original Church erected by the first Norman settlers. o2 ADARE. About seventy...

...opinion as to the country to which this poetry more efpecially belongs. Giraldus Cambrenfis, writing at the end of the twelfth or the beginning of the thirteenth century, evidently thought that Golias was an Englifhman ; and at a later date the goliardic poetry was almoft...

...among great men, in a region of peace and melancholy repose. His works had been translated into Latin about the end of the twelfth or the beginning of the thirteenth Century, and had found so many advocates in the University of Paris as to provoke a host of opponents, and to...

...and the purj-.-*— to which it was destined. Most probably this <-a>tlo had l»een commenced towards the end of the twelfth, or the beginning of the thirteenth, century. In 1*281 it wag greatly enlarged, by the addition of that part which was afterwards known :i~ ilie...

...commencement of history in Britain. There it lingered on, struggling for life with the red-deer until, towards the end of the twelfth or the beginning of the thirteenth century it became extinct. In Germany, also, it seems to have retreated, and taken refuge in Pomerania and...

...fain be loved. The key-note of the whole poem of the ' Nibelunge,' such as it \vas written down at the end of the twelfth, or the beginning of the thirteenth century, is ' Sorrow after Joy.' This is the fatal spell against which all the heroes are fighting, and fighting...

...and imperfect to the divine. THE SCHOOL OF PYTHAGORAS, Or Merton Hall, at Cambridge, is a grange of the end of the twelfth or the beginning of the thirteenth century; but so much altered that very little remains of the original character. It has always been used for...

...work made its appearance, remarked, — ' The ftyle of the drawing is perfectly conformable to that of the end of the twelfth or the beginning of the thirteenth century. We fee the elongated forms, the tranquil attitudes, and the expreffions of the compofitions of the...

..." is said to be of 'Limoges' work, and of the same period as the swords." " The date is probably at the end of the twelfth or the beginning of the thirteenth century." Pp. 135-6. We have thus works of art of the twelfth or thirteenth century covered by a stalagmite floor...