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The Oxford Companion to the Book

Reference type:
Subject Reference
Current Version:
2010
Subject:
History, Social sciences
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24 words

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1000-600 BCE

1000-600 BCE

Reference type:
Timelines
Current Version:
2012
Subject:
History, Ancient history (non-classical to 500 CE)
The Jews write down the Torah, the earliest part of the text subsequently known to Christians as the Old Testament ...
10th century

10th century

Reference type:
Timelines
Current Version:
2012
Subject:
History, Early history (500 CE to 1500)
With the end of iconoclasm, the screen between the nave and the altar sanctuary becomes covered in icons in Orthodox churches ...
11th century

11th century

Reference type:
Timelines
Current Version:
2012
Subject:
History, Early history (500 CE to 1500)
Iceland's parliament, the althing, passes a resolution that everyone on the island is to be baptized ...
12th century

12th century

Reference type:
Timelines
Current Version:
2012
Subject:
History, Early history (500 CE to 1500)
The Assassins, a sect of Nizari Ismailis, begin to acquire strongholds in Persia ...
13th century

13th century

Reference type:
Timelines
Current Version:
2012
Subject:
History, Early history (500 CE to 1500)
The new Christian doctrine of Transubstantiation prompts rumours that the Jews desecrate the consecrated Host ...
14th century

14th century

Reference type:
Timelines
Current Version:
2012
Subject:
History, Early history (500 CE to 1500)
Flying buttresses are a striking new structural feature on the exterior of Gothic cathedrals ...
15th century

15th century

Reference type:
Timelines
Current Version:
2012
Subject:
History, Early history (500 CE to 1500)
Guilds of singers and song-writers develop in German towns, calling themselves Meistersinger, or master singers ...
16th century

16th century

Reference type:
Timelines
Current Version:
2012
Subject:
History, Early history (500 CE to 1500)
The people of Benin begin a lasting tradition of sculpture in brass, melted down from objects brought by traders ...
17th century

17th century

Reference type:
Timelines
Current Version:
2012
Subject:
History, Early Modern History (1500 to 1700)
The Yoruba develop an extensive empire centred on Oyo in southern Nigeria ...

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