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Gesta Stephani: regis Anglorum, et ducis Normannorum, incerto auctore, sed ...

 By Richard Clarke Sewell
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By Richard Clarke Sewell
Published 1846
sumptibus Societatis
Great Britain
139 pages
Original from Oxford University
Digitized Aug 2, 2007
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The majority of contemporary writers state that Stephen's coronation took place on the 26th December. 3 Minus prudens. ] E. ; prudens, L 2. ; imprudens, SCD... - Page 8

... juste disponeret. Id quoque sui esse juris, suique specialiter privilegii, ut si rex ipsorum quoquo modo obiret, alius suo provisu in regno substituendus e vestigio succederet. - Page 4

Werwellam advenerunt, fort1terque in eos undique irruentes, captis et interemptis plurimis, cedere tandem reliquos et in templum se recipere compulerunt. Cumque vice castelli ad se defendendos templo uterentur, alii, facibus undique injectis, semiustulatos eos e templo prodire, et ad votum suum se sibi subdere coegerunt (fin du livre I, Du Chesne, p. 956 d, Sewell, P- 83). Cet échec aurait décidé, selon le même historien, l'impératrice et ses partisans à évacuer Winchester. Il en est tout... - Page 83

Majores igitur natu, consultuque quique provectiores, concilium coegere, deque regni statu pro arbitrio suo utilia in commune providentes, ad regem eligendum unanimiter conspiravere. - Page 3

Brienus, nacti praeconii titulum, ut, sicut sese antea mutuo et indivise dilexerant, ita nee in adversis, plurimo impediente periculo, aliquatenus separarentur. - Page 85

Novo enim quisque saeviendi raptus amore, in alterum crudele debacchari, tantoque sese gloriosiorem aestimare, quanto in innocentes nocentiùs insurgebat. Legis quoque institutis, quibus indisciplinatus coercetur populus, ex toto neglectis, immo et adnullatis, ad omne illicitum effrenati, quidquid flagitii menti occurrebat, promptissimè peragebant. Ut enim verbis propheticis utar, a planta pedis usque ad verticem non erat in eis sanitas : quia a minimis usque ad summos, animae morbo aegrescentes,... - Page 1

... stirring series of events of personal and individual interest, and, in this respect, it partakes much more of the character of a romance than of a history. We are transported at once into the camp of Stephen and his barons ; we are present at his councils ; we are hurried forward in the night march ; we lurk in the ambuscade; we take part in the storming of castles and cities. Now we stand in the wild morasses of the isle of Ely; at another time we reconnoitre the fortifications of Bristol ;... - Page xi

Deo injustitiae illius ultore, verrais quidam inter vitalia illius innatus irrepsit, lentoque morsu interiora exedens, paulatim sceleratum depavit, multisque tandem vexatum questubus, multis etiam, et horrendis tortum cruciatibus, dignissimo supplicio ad extrema deduxit. - Page 96

Londonias consciviL lilis quoque quasi — ш unam sentinam illuc confluentibus, ecclesiarumque columnis sedendi ordiue dispositis, vulgo etiam confuse, et permixtim, ut solet, ubique se ingerente, plura regno et ecclesiae profutura fuerunt et utiliter ostensa, et salubriter pertractata. De... - Page 16

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Gesta Stephani

by Richard Clarke Sewell - Great Britain - 1964
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