Sentence examples for old chronicles from inspiring English sources
Although Shcherbatov's History was later criticized as the work of a reactionary, its incorporation of old chronicles and legal documents proved invaluable to later Russian historians.
To answer these questions, the author reviewed the previous scholarly work on the topics and conducted a series of archaeological surveys and excavations, ethnographic interviews, and studies of historical records, such as stone inscriptions and old chronicles.
Nakazawa et al. (2004) summarized 16 old records of the low-latitude auroras described in the old chronicles and personal diaries written between 1150 and 1859.
But, the "old chronicles" say that some sort of castle reliably existed on the Lave peninsula quite a long time prior to that.
This type of literature differs from bald statements of fact, such as those recorded in an old chronicle or inserted in a business letter or in an impersonal message of mere information.
Watch out, too, for Jane Feaver's first novel, According to Ruth (Harvill Secker), in which a wry, romantic 15-year-old chronicles the break-up of her parents' marriage over the course of a Northumbrian summer.
Pērkons is described in the oldest chronicles and in poetic and epic folklore, but, though he is a primary divinity, there is no reason to believe that he is the main god.
Shakespeare's reliance on various older chronicles for his characters and plots is a commonplace, and it would be ludicrous to suggest that in Paradise Lost Milton was "plagiarising" the story of Genesis.
Just as Shakespeare used older chronicles to construct his anguished balance between imagination and action, Updike has used Shakespeare to write a free-standing, pleasurable and wonderfully dexterous novel about three figures in complex interplay with their public state, their private longings and one another.
Ancient Japanese Culture, which he wrote in 1920, is an attempt to revitalize Japan's oldest Chronicles (the Kojiki and Nihongi) using modern literary techniques as well as newly available archaeological evidence.
