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Article: Ranulf Higden
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Ranulf Higden d. c.1364, English chronicler. He wrote the
Polychronicon,
a universal history, interesting chiefly for its display of the geographical, scientific, and historical knowledge of its time. It was translated from Latin into ...
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Article: Mind your language
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May 9, 1998 ;
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... ... happily applied to the science of morals, a meaning it retained. John of Trevisa, a Cornishman who died in 1412, in his translation of a Latin history by Ranulf Higden, a monk of Chester, wrote, `Ethik, that is the sciens of thewes ...
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