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Early English

a style of architecture used in England in the 12th and 13th centuries, characterized by lancet arches, narrow openings, and plate tracery
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Chapter 4 presents three European countries where early English initiatives were introduced via deliberate policy measures, that is, Poland, Italy, and Sweden.
Commemorating Roberta Frank's work at Yale University since 2000, scholars of early English poetry connect stylistic and formal questions of Old English poetry to historical and conceptual ones.
Recent surveys have shown that most parents would like the government to do more, not less, to support early English education.
In her new book, historian Jenny Shaw offers a fresh look at the relationship between elites and nonelites, Whites and Blacks, and the English, Irish, and Africans in the early English Caribbean--Barbados in particular.
The Records of Early English Drama (REED) project has for decades encouraged and facilitated the expansion of archival work on the drama beyond the play texts themselves to consider a range of records documenting performance.
Being a collector and admirer of British arms, especially revolvers, I was particularly interested in this publication, for despite the fact that the subject has not exactly been ignored over the years, information has often been spotty, especially in the treatment of early English repeaters.
Washington, DC, United States-- Archaeologists said Tuesday they have identified the remains of four men who were among the leaders of an early English settlement in Virginia's Jamestown.
It is described as "an almost perfect example of early English style" and the church is apparently often referred to as a "mini cathedral".
In 2005 Cambridge University Press published my work Magic on the Early English Stage.
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