...anxious to gain the good-will of the inhabitants after the Portuguese invasion. Built either toward the end of the twelfth or the beginning of the thirteenth century, Santa Maria la Mayor, popularly called la catedral, closely resembles the cathedral church at Zamora....

...cloister is close to the top of the stairs. Women are not generally admitted. The cloisters date from the end of the twelfth or the beginning of the thirteenth century. They have no great pretension to architectural design, but they contain a number of interesting inscriptions...

...further. Such evidence as exists all points in the same direction, and we must conclude that, up to about the end of the twelfth or the beginning of the thirteenth century, the principle of judgment by peers for the protection of the subject in the king's court existed, if...

...a burialplace — fell into their hands about the same time. Callan, as a town, probably dates from the end of the twelfth, or the beginning of the thirteenth, century. Besides Kilkenny Castle, Danesfort, Lisdowney, and other places, the Earl of Ormonde obtained possession...

...a burialplace — fell into their hands about the same time. Callan, as a town, probably dates from the end of the twelfth, or the beginning of the thirteenth, century. Besides Kilkenny Castle, Danesfort, Lisdowney, and other places, the Earl of Ormonde obtained possession...

...longer exists. In its stead there is a beautiful structure of Early English style, dating either from the end of the twelfth or the beginning of the thirteenth century. Mr. Collins gives us an excellent idea of the wonderful and elaborate architecture of the west front....

...eleventh century. However that may be, the Scarisbrick family seem to have been living at Scarisbrick from the end of the twelfth or the beginning of the thirteenth century, and presumably they had a house to live in. The name Scarisbrick does not occur in Domesday Book, the...

...ft. When these important improvements were being carried out, evidences appeared of a restoration in the end of the twelfth or the beginning of the thirteenth century, while it is said that up to the middle of the eighteenth century the remains of an earlier building...

...Nibelungs. The Nibelungen Lied, the great medieval epic of Germany, was composed in its present shape at the end of the twelfth or the beginning of the thirteenth century. Yet the beginning must be sought at an epoch when most of the German tribes, proud of their freedom,...

...extant. There was also a German Lanzelet, by Ulrich von Zatzikhofen, whose work is usually ascribed to the end of the twelfth or the beginning of the thirteenth century : in this case he preceded Wolfram, which theory recent criticism is, however, inclined to question....