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  • 91Babington, Anthony — born October 1561, Dethick, Derbyshire, Eng. died Sept. 20, 1586, London English conspirator. Raised secretly as a Catholic, Babington was joined by the priest John Ballard in the unsuccessful Babington Plot to assassinate Queen Elizabeth I and… …

    Universalium

  • 92Boccaccio, Giovanni — born 1313, Paris, France died Dec. 21, 1375, Certaldo, Tuscany Italian poet and scholar. His life was full of difficulties and occasional bouts of poverty. His early works include The Love Afflicted (с 1336), a prose work in five books, and The… …

    Universalium

  • 93Bagnorea — • A diocese situated in the district of Viterbo, Italy, and immediately subject to the Holy See Catholic Encyclopedia. Kevin Knight. 2006. Bagnorea     Bagnorea      …

    Catholic encyclopedia

  • 94Literary or Profane Legends —     Literary or Profane Legends     † Catholic Encyclopedia ► Literary or Profane Legends     In the period of national origins history and legend are inextricably mingled. In the course of oral transmission historic narrative necessarily becomes …

    Catholic encyclopedia

  • 95Lucius Perpetuus Aurelianus Marius Maximus —     Lucius Perpetuus Aurelianus Marius Maximus     † Catholic Encyclopedia ► Lucius Perpetuus Aurelianus Marius Maximus     Roman historian, lived c. 165 230. No connected account of his life exists, but he is frequently quoted as an authority in …

    Catholic encyclopedia

  • 96Critical responses to David Irving — have changed dramatically as David Irving, a writer on the subject of World War II and Nazism, changes his own public political views, further there are doubts as to how far Irving applies the historical method. This article documents some of… …

    Wikipedia

  • 97Pipe Organ —    Principal instrument of many Christian traditions. How an instrument associated with outdoor political and secular festivals of ancient Rome became the sole instrument allowed inside Christian churches by the 13th century remains mysterious,… …

    Historical dictionary of sacred music

  • 98Portative —    Easily portable pipe organ. The bellows is operated by the left hand and the keyboard by the right. Its depiction in medieval art suggests a role in sacred music, but there is no other documentary proof …

    Historical dictionary of sacred music

  • 99mural — [16] The Latin for ‘wall’ was mūrus, derivatives of which have given English immure [16] and mural. It came from an earlier form moerus, to which was related moenia ‘walls’, source of the verb mūnīre ‘fortify, defend’. This has given English… …

    The Hutchinson dictionary of word origins

  • 100bare — adj 1 Bare, naked, nude, bald, barren are comparable when they mean destitute or divested of the naturally or conventionally appropriate covering or clothing. Bare strongly suggests the removal or, often, the rejection of something additional,… …

    New Dictionary of Synonyms