| Notitia Dignitatum The Notitia Dignitatum is a unique document of the Roman imperial chanceries. One of the very few surviving documents of Roman government, it details the administrative organisation of the eastern and western empires, listing several thousand offices from the imperial court down to the provincial level. It is usually considered to be up to date for the Western empire in the 420s, and for the Eastern empire in 400s. However, no absolute date can be given, and there are omissions and problems. Notitia_Dignitatum
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| Quintus Aurelius Symmachus Quintus Aurelius Symmachus (c. 340 gens Aurelia, held the offices of governor of Africa in 373, urban prefect of Rome in 384 and 385, and consul in 391. A representative of the political cursus honorum, Symmachus sought to preserve the traditional religions of Rome at a time when the senatorial aristocracy was rapidly converting to Christianity. Quintus_Aurelius_Symmachus
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| Sabazios Talk:Sabazios
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| Karl Philipp Moritz Karl Philipp Moritz (b. Hamelin, September 15 1757, d. Berlin, June 26 1793) was a German author, editor and essayist of the Sturm und Drang, late enlightenment, and classicist periods, influencing early German Romanticism as well. He led a colourful life as a hatter's apprentice, teacher, journalist, literary critic, professor of art and linguistics, and member of both of Berlin's academies. Karl_Philipp_Moritz
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| Elara (moon) Talk:Elara_(moon)
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| Theory of descriptions The theory of descriptions is the philosopher Bertrand Russell's most significant contributions to the philosophy of language. It is also known as Russell's Theory of Descriptions (commonly abbreviated as RTD). In short, Russell argued that the syntactic form of descriptions (phrases that took the form of "The aardvark" and "An aardvark") is misleading, as it does not correlate their logical and/or semantic architecture. Theory_of_descriptions
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| Hrotsvitha Hrotsvitha, also known as Hroswitha, Hrotsvit, Hrosvit, and Roswitha (c. 935 to c. 1002) was a 10th century German canoness of the Benedictine Order, as well as a dramatist and poet who lived and worked in Gandersheim, in modern-day Lower Saxony. Her name, as she herself attests, is Saxon for "strong voice." She wrote in Latin, and is considered by some to be the first person since antiquity to compose drama in the West. Hrotsvitha
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| Johann Georg Faust Dr. Johann Georg Faust (1480 alchemist, astrologer and magician of the German Renaissance. His life became the nucleus of the popular tale of Doctor Faust from ca. the 1580s, notably culminating in Marlowe's The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus (1604) and Goethe's Faust (1808). Johann_Georg_Faust
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| Theophilus Presbyter Theophilus_Presbyter
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| Johannes von Tepl Johannes von Tepl (c. 1350 Johannes von Saaz (), was a Bohemian writer of the German language, one of the earliest known writers of prose in Early New High German (or late Middle German Johannes_von_Tepl
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| Parzival Parzival is a major medieval German epic poem attributed to the poet Wolfram von Eschenbach, written in the Middle High German language. The poem is commonly dated circa the first quarter of the 13th century. The poem is, in part, an adaptation of Chrétien de Troyes’s Perceval, the Story of the Grail and mainly centers on the Arthurian hero Parzival (Percival in English) and his long quest for the Holy Grail, following his initial failure to achieve it. Parzival
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| Theban Legion The Theban Legion (also known as the Martyrs of Agaunum) figures in Christian hagiography as an entire Roman legion Christianity and were martyred together, in 286, according to the hagiographies of Saint Maurice, the chief among the Legion's saints. Their feast day is held on September 22. Theban_Legion
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| Vangiones Vangiones appear first in history as an ancient Germanic tribe of unknown provenience. They threw in their lot with Ariovistus in his bid of 58 BC to invade Gaul through the Doubs river valley and lost to Julius Caesar in a battle probably near Belfort. After some Celts evacuated the region in fear of the Suebi the Vangiones, who had made a Roman peace, were allowed to settle among the Mediomatrici in northern Alsace. Vangiones
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| The Owl and the Nightingale The Owl and the Nightingale is a 12th or 13th century Middle English poem detailing a debate between an owl and a nightingale as overheard by the poem's narrator. The_Owl_and_the_Nightingale
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| Lay of Hildebrand The Lay of Hildebrand (Das Hildebrandslied) is a heroic lay, written in Old High German alliterative verse. It is one of the earliest literary works in German, and it tells of the tragic encounter in battle between a son and his unrecognized father. It is the only surviving example in German of a genre which must have been important in the oral literature of the Germanic tribes. Lay_of_Hildebrand
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| Louis-Sébastien Mercier Louis-Sébastien Mercier (6 June 1740 - 25 April 1814) was a French dramatist and writer. Louis-Sébastien_Mercier
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| Dukus Horant Dukus_Horant
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| Abraham Sutzkever Abraham Sutzkever (July 15, 1913 - ) is a Yiddish poet and Second World War partisan. (Alternate English spellingsSutzkever was born in Smorgon, Poland (now Smarhon, Belarus). During the First World War his family fled to seek refuge in Siberia, then in 1922 migrated to Vilna (at that time, Wilno, Poland. He studied in cheder and attended gymnasium (academic high school), and in 1930 joined the Bee Yiddish scouting movement. Abraham_Sutzkever
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| Battle of Roncevaux Pass Talk:Battle_of_Roncevaux_Pass
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| Lohengrin Lohengrin is a character in some German Arthurian literature. The son of Parzival (Percival), he is a knight of the Holy Grail sent in a boat pulled by swans to rescue a maiden who can never ask his identity. His story is a version of the Knight of the Swan legend. Lohengrin
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