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  2. Alysoun - Wikipedia

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    "Alysoun" or "Alison", also known as "Bytuene Mersh ant Averil", is a late-13th or early-14th century poem in Middle English dealing with the themes of love and springtime through images familiar from other medieval poems. It forms part of the collection known as the Harley Lyrics, and exemplifies its best qualities. [1]

  3. Medieval literature - Wikipedia

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    Medieval literature is a broad subject, encompassing essentially all written works available in Europe and beyond during the Middle Ages (that is, the one thousand years from the fall of the Western Roman Empire ca. AD 500 to the beginning of the Renaissance in the 14th, 15th or 16th century, depending on country).

  4. List of medieval abbreviations - Wikipedia

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    ā—annus or aut.; á—aut.; Ắ—Antiphona.; a'—antiphona or autem. a.—annus. A.—Accursius or Albericus. A:—Amen. ab.—Abbas. abbāssa—Abbatissa.; abd ...

  5. Homonym - Wikipedia

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    Homographs (literally "same writing") are usually defined as words that share the same spelling, regardless of how they are pronounced. [note 1] If they are pronounced the same then they are also homophones (and homonyms) – for example, bark (the sound of a dog) and bark (the skin of a tree).

  6. Homograph - Wikipedia

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    Words with the same writing and pronunciation (i.e. are both homographs and homophones) are considered homonyms. However, in a broader sense the term "homonym" may be applied to words with the same writing or pronunciation. Homograph disambiguation is critically important in speech synthesis, natural language processing and other fields.

  7. ‘Bone biographies’ reveal what life was like for everyday ...

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    This week, read the “bone biographies” of medieval Cambridge, learn why chinstrap penguins take thousands of naps, peer inside a mysterious galactic cloud, and more.

  8. Courtly love - Wikipedia

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    Courtly love (Occitan: fin'amor; French: amour courtois [amuʁ kuʁtwa]) was a medieval European literary conception of love that emphasized nobility and chivalry. Medieval literature is filled with examples of knights setting out on adventures and performing various deeds or services for ladies because of their "courtly love".

  9. Medieval token of love — with a familiar phrase — unearthed ...

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    The ribbon had a romantic phrase written in Latin: AMOR VINCIT OMNIA, which translates to “love conquers all.” Archaeologists identified the artifact as a love token from medieval times.