Avignon

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• It was particularly popular in Sienese painting during the fourteenth century and in particular in the work of Simone Martini at Avignon. The Long Lost Diptych
• Pope John of Avignon issued a decree condemning the Ars Nova in 1324, forbidding a practice that, according to him, had given rise to an excess of virtuosity; the abuse of the hocket technique had made the sung texts incomprehensible and was also very little suited to calm meditation. Archive 2009-04-01
• An alternative is Dutch motorail to Avignon and, new this summer, Fréjus, from s-Hertogenbosch, around three hours 'drive from Calais, less from Dunkirk and Belgian/Dutch ports: book through www. seat61.com offers plenty of detailed advice on train travel to and within France. Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph
• Rome, the other at Avignon, yea, when he reads of three contestants for papal honors, and beholds the Church as a tricephalous monster, he must stop thinking. Luther Examined and Reexamined A Review of Catholic Criticism and a Plea for Revaluation
• In the case of convents in university towns, especially Paris and the Roman Curia (Avignon, afterwards Rome) the nomination belonged to the general or the general chapter; and there appears to have been an unwritten law that at Cambridge, Louvain, and other universities the priorship should be filled by the bachelor who in the course of the year was to take his degree as Master in Divinity. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 3: Brownson-Clairvaux
• From his harvest, Mr. Salahi made red and white wines, including a riesling, cabernet savignon and gewurztraminer. Dirgham Salahi, Virginia winery owner and Montessori school founder, dies at 81
• The rest of the town of Avignon, placed as it is on a low level, affords no striking coup d'oeil, from the direction in which we approached it: the ancient walls, however, which inclose its whole circumference, unbroken and perfect, and beautifully crenated in every part, are a very remarkable feature. Itinerary of Provence and the Rhone Made During the Year 1819
• I shall annex a statement of the proceedings of the M.ssion at Avignon, during the Lent of 1819, copied and abridged from a short pamphlet, written by a M. Fransoy, a lawyer of that city; which being published by Itinerary of Provence and the Rhone Made During the Year 1819
• The "Pont d'Avignon" is known to every French-speaking child, and with many variants the old "ronde" is sung and danced from the remotest plains of Canada to the valleys of the Swiss Alps. The good folk of Avignon, however, protest that their "rondes" were not danced perilously on the narrow Pont St. Benezet, but under its arches on the green meadows of the Seeing Europe with Famous Authors, Volume 3 France and the Netherlands, Part 1
• My Thursday was drawing to a close; I had to return to Avignon, to resume my lessons on the electrophorus and the The Glow-Worm and Other Beetles