Homer, The Iliad

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Homer, The Iliad

• Sing, o goddess, the anger of Achilles that
  brought countless ills upon the Acheans
• trans. Samuel Butler (1874)
• Let us begin, goddess of song, with the angry
  parting that took place between Agamemnon King of
  Men and the great Achilles son of Peleus.
• trans. E.V. Rieu (1950)

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Herodotus, History

• The First Book, Entitled Clio
• These are the researches of Herodotus of
  Halicarnassus, which he publishes, in the hope of
  thereby preserving from decay the remembrances of
  what men have done.
• Trans. George Rawlinson (1858)

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Even before the advent of the Black Death
(1348-50), population expansion had ceased,
serious and widespread famines had reappeared,
and the European economy had begun to slide into
a financial crisis and a depression that was to
last until the latter part of the fifteenth
century and even, in some sectors, into the
sixteenth. Francis Oakely, The Medieval
Experience, p. 41
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Even before the advent of the Black Death
(1348-50), population expansion had ceased,
serious and widespread famines had reappeared,
and the European economy had begun to slide into
a financial crisis and a depression that was to
last until the latter part of the fifteenth
century and even, in some sectors, into the
sixteenth. Francis Oakely, The Medieval
Experience, p. 41
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A comparison of the values of 1346 with those of
1382 and 1383 of those manors that were kept in
hand shows a decline in each case Alciston had
declined by 24 to 43 percent Lullington by about
40 percent Westfield by 41 to 85 percent,
Iklesham by between 44 and 63 percent Wye by
about 80 percent Dengenmarsh by between 20 and
41 percent, Barnhorn by between 20 and 30
percent and Bronham by nearly 25
percent. Eleanor Searle, Lordship and
Community. Battle Abbey and its Banlieu
1066-1538, p. 258
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A comparison of the values of 1346 with those of
1382 and 1383 of those manors that were kept in
hand shows a decline in each case Alciston had
declined by 24 to 43 percent Lullington by about
40 percent Westfield by 41 to 85 percent,
Iklesham by between 44 and 63 percent Wye by
about 80 percent Dengenmarsh by between 20 and
41 percent, Barnhorn by between 20 and 30
percent and Bronham by nearly 25
percent. Eleanor Searle, Lordship and
Community. Battle Abbey and its Banlieu
1066-1538, p. 258
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As histories of excluded bodies, the bodies that
made national Englishness possible, this
counterpastoral challenged the politics of
visibility that made the very modern English
models of nature, society, and the individual
visible through the invisibility of bodies that
did not matter. Kathleen Biddick, The Shock of
Medievalism (1998), p. 64
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As histories of excluded bodies, the bodies that
made national Englishness possible, this
counterpastoral challenged the politics of
visibility that made the very modern English
models of nature, society, and the individual
visible through the invisibility of bodies that
did not matter. Kathleen Biddick, The Shock of
Medievalism (1998), p. 64
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