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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. Confessio Amantis - Wikipedia

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    Full text Confessio Amantis at Wikisource Confessio Amantis ("The Lover's Confession") is a 33,000-line Middle English poem by John Gower , which uses the confession made by an ageing lover to the chaplain of Venus as a frame story for a collection of shorter narrative poems.

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

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    Medieval dove plaques have been found in the Netherlands and United Kingdom. Similar to modern times, turtle doves were used as medieval symbols of love and loyalty because the birds typically ...

  5. 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 ...

  6. Homonym - Wikipedia

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    In addition, it has several related but distinct meanings – a bent line is sometimes called a 'bowed' line, reflecting its similarity to the weapon. Even according to the most restrictive definitions, various pairs of sounds and meanings of bow , Bow and bough are homonyms , homographs , homophones , heteronyms , heterographs , capitonyms and ...

  7. List of Germanic and Latinate equivalents in English

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    This list contains Germanic elements of the English language which have a close corresponding Latinate form. The correspondence is semantic—in most cases these words are not cognates, but in some cases they are doublets, i.e., ultimately derived from the same root, generally Proto-Indo-European, as in cow and beef, both ultimately from PIE *gʷōus.

  8. Medieval poetry - Wikipedia

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    Poetry took numerous forms in medieval Europe, for example, lyric and epic poetry. The troubadours, trouvères, and the minnesänger are known for composing their lyric poetry about courtly love usually accompanied by an instrument. [1] Among the most famous of secular poetry is Carmina Burana, a manuscript collection of 254 poems.

  9. ‘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.