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biography and
bibliography Catholic Encyclopedia entry for
Alexander of
Neckham (newadvent.org)
Works by
Alexander Neckam at
LibriVox (public
domain audiobooks)...
- the Bishop's
Palace gates,
causing a riot,
which was put down.
Alexander Neckham,
Abbot of Cirencester, was born on the same
night as
Richard the Lion-heart...
- The
Perry Index is a
widely used
index of "Aesop's Fables" or "Aesopica", the
fables credited to Aesop, the
storyteller who
lived in
ancient Greece between...
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sentence of
eternal death". In the
Renaissance of the 12th century,
Alexander Neckham placed the "divine"
Aeneid on his
standard arts curriculum, and Dido became...
- the gods, man has been able to
reproduce it".
English scholar Alexander Neckham ****erted that the
Ancient Roman poet
Virgil had
built a
palace with automaton...
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Writers such as
Thierry of Chartres,
William of
Conches and
Alexander Neckham referenced classical writers that had
discussed Pythagoreanism, including...
- It is
first do****ented in the 12th
century in the
writings of
Alexander Neckham. His
recipe includes sage, parsley, dittany, thyme, garlic, salt, pepper...
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works into
three distinct parts: the
didactic works e.g.
Alexander of
Neckham's De
scaccis (c. 1180);
works of
morality like
Liber de
moribus hominum...
- was
commented upon copiously: by John
Scotus Erigena, Hadoard,
Alexander Neckham, and
Remigius of Auxerre. In the
eleventh century the
German monk Notker...
- did not
dwell on the
difficulties raised by
these statements.
Alexander Neckham,
writing later in the
twelfth century,
explicitly recognized the paradoxical...
