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its eminent disputants, 427; influence of Aristotle and of the church, 429, 430; unprofitableness of the scholastic discussions, 430, 431; labours of Roger Bacon and Albertus Magnus, 432 and _note_ s, 433; cultivation of the new languages, 433; the troubadours and their productions, 434-436; origin of the French language, 436; early French compositions, 437, 438; Norman tales and romances, 439; the Roman de la Rose, 440; French prose writings, 441, 442 and _notes_; formation of the Spanish language: the Cid, 442, 443, and _notes_; rapid growth of the Italian language, 443, 444; excuses of Italians for writing in French, 445 _note_ z; Dante and his Divine Comedy, 445-449; Petrarch and his writings, 449-452; dawn of the English tongue, 452; Layamon's Brut, 453 and _note_ k; Robert of Gloucester and other metrical writers, 453; merit of Piers Plowman's Vision, 454; cause of the slow progress of the English language, _ib._; earliest compositions in English, 455; pre-eminence of Chaucer, 456; revival of classical learning, 457; eminent cultivators thereof, 458; invention of paper, 459; transcribers and booksellers, _ib. note_ x; rarity and dearness of books, 460; recovery of classical manuscripts, 461; eminent labourers in this field, 462, 463; revival of the study of Greek, 465, 466; state of learning in Greece, 466; services rendered by the mediaeval Greeks, 467-469 and _notes_; opposition to the study of Greek at Oxford, 470; fame due to Eton and Winchester schools, _ib._; invention of printing, 471; first books issued from the press, _ib._; first printing presses in Italy, 472; elucidatory note on the state of learning in the dark ages, 474-476; Dr. Maitland's views thereon, 476-479; earliest use of the English language in public documents, 484-486. Legislation under the early French kings, i. 212; the "Champ de Mars" or Field of March, 213, 214; participation of the people in legislative proceedings, 214, 333-336; Charlemagne's legislative assemblies, 215; cessation of national assemblies, 218; assemblies of the barons, 219; the cours plenieres, 220; limitation of the king's power, 221; substitutes for legislative authority, _ib._; ecclesiastical councils and their encroachments, 222; general legisla
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