...the researches made into the conditions of mediaeval life.1 The halcyon period of English labor was at the end of the fourteenth and beginning of the fifteenth centuries ; and those who have most earnestly studied the subject believe that the European working classes were...

...authors the teachers of that epoch. They extend over more than two centuries, forming a continuous chain at the end of the fourteenth and beginning of the fifteenth centuries. Contrary to the opinion expressed by several of the early chroniclers, that the study of French at...

...demand for it that of no book, with the exception of the Scriptures, can more manuscripts be found of the end of the fourteenth and beginning of the fifteenth centuries. The marvelous stories in which the work abounds will not be a matter of surprise when we consider the enthusiasm...

...129. " Cruelties of the Welsh." These are mentioned in such chroniclers as Walsingham and Knyghton, at the end of the fourteenth and beginning of the fifteenth centuries. The Welsh women used to go out after a battle, torture the wounded, and shamefully mutilate the slain,...

...undertaken, is that of Mirza Aba Bakr, Amir of Kashghar, so fully described by our author. It may be dated about the end of the fifteenth and beginning of the sixteenth century, and we may infer that nearly everything of intrinsic value was brought to light, while much that was...

...fifteenth centuries often enough had a taste of the quality of the English bow and the Swiss pike. At the end of the fourteenth and beginning of the fifteenth centuries serfdom had in fact ceased in Bohemia as well as in England, but attempts were not wanting among the...

...the " Black Death," were the causes of the final break-up of the Feudal System in England. This was at the end of the fourteenth and beginning of the fifteenth centuries, and from that time forth the air seemed astir with big movements and new births. By the middle of the...

...Severino also had its local school of painters. The brothers Giacomo and Lorenzo da Sanseverino lived at the end of the fourteenth and beginning of the fifteenth centuries. A totally ruined 'Marriage of St. Catherine," belonging to the Cistercians of S. Severino. bears an...

...John Marten, 1441-1474; William Gregforth, 14741488; John Rokysburgh, 1488-1509. IN the Church crisis at the end of the fourteenth and beginning of the fifteenth centuries, brought about by Wycliffe's teaching, the general sympathy of the University was without doubt on the...

...furnished by the "societgs joyeuses" — burlesque dramatic societies which sprang up all over France at the end of the fourteenth and beginning of the fifteenth centuries. The Abbot of Bonaccord would correspond with the "prince des sots" of Paris, "la mere folle" of Dijon,...