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    John Trevisa (or John of Trevisa; Latin: Ioannes Trevisa; fl. 1342–1402 AD) was a Cornish writer and professional translator. Trevisa was born at Trevessa...
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    Hereford is known to have translated a part of the text; John Purvey and perhaps John Trevisa are names that have been mentioned as possible authors. The...
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  • Lord and a Clerk, or Dialogus inter dominum et clericum, was written by John Trevisa. Along with the dedicatory Epistle, it forms the introduction to his...
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    Bartholomeus Anglicus's De proprietatibus rerum (ca 1260) was translated by John Trevisa as cockatrice (1397). This legend has a possible Egyptian folk root;...
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    Cassambazar and Pattana were put under the Hughly agency. In 1658, Johnathan Trevisa was appointed as the second to Gawton and was meant to succeed him after...
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    sea), as in e.g. Bartholomeus Anglicus (d. 1272), in the translation of John Trevisa (1397): by the place of this sterre place and stedes and boundes of the...
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    Pope Benedict XIV. Writers in 14th- and 15th-century-England such as John Trevisa and Thomas Hoccleve translated or adapted him into English. Very little...
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    use strange stammering, chattering, snarling, and grating gnashing. John Trevisa, c. 1385 Middle English is often arbitrarily defined as beginning with...
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  • unknown in its own time and was not published until 1378. A translation by John Trevisa (1342-1402) was popular in England because of its antipapalism, and it...
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  • dialect thrived between the 8th and 13th centuries and was referred to by John Trevisa, writing in 1387: "For men of the est with men of the west, as it were...
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