Alexander Neckam (8 September 1157 – 31 March 1217) was an English poet, theologian, and writer. He was an abbot of Cirencester Abbey from 1213 until his... 12 KB (1,398 words) - 04:18, 24 March 2024 |
were first described in medieval Europe by the English theologian Alexander Neckam (1157–1217 AD). The first literary description of a compass in Western... 56 KB (7,310 words) - 01:33, 25 March 2024 |
reputation that the famous Norman scholars Geoffrey de Gorham and Alexander Neckam applied for the post of Master. Geoffrey de Gorham was later to become... 31 KB (3,615 words) - 21:31, 18 March 2024 |
pushed back the first mention of the magnetic compass in Europe to Alexander Neckam about +1190, followed soon afterwards by Guyot de Provins in +1205... 15 KB (1,553 words) - 17:31, 25 March 2024 |
of Alexander Neckam and wet nurse of Richard I of England. Hodierna is also known as Audierne. According to legend, Richard I and Alexander Neckam were... 2 KB (289 words) - 12:16, 17 April 2022 |
Demetrius of Phalerum Phaedrus Babrius Avianus Dositheus Magister Alexander Neckam Adémar de Chabannes Odo of Cheriton John Lydgate Kawanabe Kyōsai Laurentius... 5 KB (640 words) - 14:54, 26 April 2024 |
from the Aurora. Macaulay also found borrowings "from the poem of Alexander Neckam De Vita Monachomm, from the Speculum Stultorum, or from the Pantheon... 30 KB (4,014 words) - 12:41, 8 April 2024 |
12th-century treatise by the otherwise unknown Albricus (possibly Alexander Neckam), and the older so-called Vatican Mythographies. These themselves drew... 15 KB (1,854 words) - 13:29, 27 April 2024 |
works, which are enumerated by Tanner. Alexander may be confused with Alexander Neckam, also called Alexander of St Albans. Both were abbots and writers... 2 KB (246 words) - 16:22, 16 April 2022 |