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    to spend fifteen years at Cantimpré, a constant source of edification for his brethren. Later, in 1232, Thomas of Cantimpré entered the Dominican Order...
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    during her life. Thomas of Cantimpré wrote a hagiography of her based on accounts from people who knew her, which made her known outside of Sint-Truiden....
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  • Seelie and Unseelie. In the mid-thirteenth century, Thomas of Cantimpré classified fairies into neptuni of water, incubi who wandered the earth, dusii under...
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  • Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, LJS 23 (Thomas de Cantimpré, Liber de Natura Rerum)...
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    Jerome, Thomas of Cantimpré corroborated the existence of Cynocephali in his Liber de Monstruosis Hominibus Orientis, xiv, ("Book of Monstrous men of the...
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  • religious who lived in monasteries. In Defence of the Mendicants, the Flemish Dominican Thomas of Cantimpré wrote: Well, my brethren, you need not be ashamed...
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    century work of natural history, written by Flemish Roman Catholic friar and medieval writer. Thomas of Cantimpré. De natura rerum may be Thomas' most significant...
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    and medieval authors including Pliny the Elder, Isidore of Seville, and Thomas of Cantimpré. Amia is thought to have diverged from its sister genus,...
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    wilden tier)" Thomas of Cantimpré, who was Conrad's primary source also associated the headless with sin, but allegorically. To Thomas the headless represented...
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    Thomas of Cantimpré, the tale grew increasingly infamous and detailed as it spread throughout Europe and was elaborated on by later authors. Thomas claims...
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