...and its arrival in Iraq slightly too late. Thus the earliest surviving Syriac manuscript dates from the end of the seventh or the beginning of the eighth century at the latest, not from the ninth as Nallino would have it; 116 the work must in other words have existed...

...with Helena is in Aldhelm's prose version of De Virginitate, a collection of saints' lives produced at the end of the seventh or the beginning of the eighth century. Aldhelm (d. 709) was Abbot of Malmesbury and later Bishop of Sherborne. In his prose text, he situates...

...in his desert cell! So it is not unlikely that Anastasius is referring to the commentary of John. At the end of the seventh or the beginning of the eighth century, then, this would have been circulating as a work of Dionysius of Alexandria. Who was the forger? Is...

...iconography of Maria regina was developed.31 Given the degree of ardour which they show, a date at the end of the seventh or the beginning of the eighth century (in other words, very shortly after the introduction of the feast) would be most likely, as Rome was...

...where they were invented is not clear. There are wall paintings from Central Asia, probably dating from the end of the seventh or the beginning of the eighth century, which show stirrups in use. Literary sources say that they were first used by Arab armies operating...

...Three Kitchens, Preached by the Buddha (Foshuo sanchu jing ffiB&— SlZE), is an apocryphon dating from the end of the seventh or the beginning of the eighth century that was discovered in a dozen recensions at Dunhuang. It is also found in two manuscript copies of...

...current as Buddhist history, that the religion was driven out by Brahminist persecutions somewhere about the end of the seventh or the beginning of the eighth century after Christ ; but I believe this to be an almost groundless fiction. These two centuries seem to have...

...unpublished Irish-Latin commentary on the Catholic Epistles, which from internal evidence I should date of the end of the seventh or the beginning of the eighth century : the MS is of the ninth century), ccxxxviii (Vigilius of Thapsus against the Arians), and ccli (part of...

...only certain reference to its practice occurs in an ancient Irish canon, written or rather copied in the end of the seventh or the beginning of the eighth century, but then attributed by the writer to the time of St Patrick (fifth century)1. The old writer, in referring...

...opinions of the various editors differ. The Acts of the Council are in three hands, all belonging to the end of the seventh or the beginning of the eighth century AD m1 and m2 are in half-uncials, m3 in Roman half-cursive. The Letters of Fronto are written in uncials,...