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    Otia Imperialia ("Recreation for an Emperor") is an early 13th-century encyclopedic work, the best known work of Gervase of Tilbury. It is an example...
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    solatium, ita moriens uniuerse milicie fuit exitium. Gervase of Tilbury, Otia imperialia, ed and trans S. E. Banks and J. W. Binns (Oxford: Oxford University...
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  • Telecommunications and Information Administration in the U.S. Otia Imperialia, a 13th-century encyclopedia Otia de Machomete, a 12th-century poem about Muhammad Otis...
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  • grandson, Emperor Otto IV, for whom he wrote his best known work, the Otia Imperialia. Gervase was of the son of a knight of the Honor of Rayleigh. He was...
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    editors of the Oxford Medieval Texts edition of Gervase of Tilbury's Otia Imperialia conclude that although their being the same man is an "attractive possibility"...
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    important translations from Latin. He translated Cicero, Boethius, the Otia imperialia and possibly the rule of the Knights Hospitaller. His original writing...
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    may or may not be the same man as Gervase of Tilbury, author of the Otia Imperialia, "Recreation for an Emperor", written for Emperor Otto IV. The connection...
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    the Fermes Letter was translated verbatim in Gervase of Tilbury's Otia Imperialia (ca. 1211) which describes a "people without heads" ("Des hommes sanz...
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    Veronica from the words Vera Icon (eikon) "true image" dates back to the "Otia Imperialia" (iii 25) of Gervase of Tilbury (fl. 1211), who says: "Est ergo Veronica...
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    supposedly dropped onto London in 1122, and in Gervase of Tilbury's Otia Imperialia (completed c. 1211). Gervase tells us that, when leaving their local...
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    Tilbury Otia Imperialia. Penguin. pp. 38–39. Gervase of Tilbury (2006). Gerner, Dominique; Pignatelli, Cinzia (eds.). Les traductions françaises des Otia imperialia...
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    nature of the land they inhabited. Gervase of Tilbury wrote in his Otia imperialia ("Recreation for an Emperor", 1211): Inter Alpes Huniae et Oceanum...
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  • (方丈記, Account of a Ten-Foot-Square Hut) 1214 – Gervase of Tilbury – Otia Imperialia c. 1215 Bertrand de Bar-sur-Aube – Girard de Vienne Rumi – Diwan-e...
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  • Turkish World Map, by Kashgari (1072) « Strange Maps Gervase of Tilbury, Otia Imperialia, (Oxford Medieval Texts), Oxford, 2002, p. xxxiv. Edson, Evelyn (1997)...
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    the ocean lies Poland") by Gervase of Tilbury, was described in his Otia Imperialia ("Recreation for an Emperor") in 1211. Thirteenth- to fifteenth-century...
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    possibility of King Arthur's messianic return. In his encyclopaedic work, Otia Imperialia, written around the same time and with similar derision for this belief...
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    some mountain or hill. First referenced by Gervase of Tilbury in his Otia Imperialia (c.1211), this was maintained in British folklore into the 19th century...
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  • myths and tales such as Gervase of Tilbury's medieval encyclopedia Otia Imperialia in 1856, he also published works such as Herman Grimm's Leben Michelangelo...
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  • historian and bishop Gregory of Tours. It was also included in the Otia Imperialia by Gervase of Tilbury (c. 1211). Notable manuscripts include codd....
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    Africa as usurpations. Gervase of Tilbury, in a suspect passage of his Otia imperialia, implies that the Emperor Frederick I, who regarded Roger as a usurper...
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    Légendes Epiques, Bedier, Joseph - excerpt from Gervase of Tilbury's Otia Imperialia (~1212) Emile, Gerards (1908). Paris Souterrain. Paris, France. p. 443...
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  • Landsberg, the first woman to write an encyclopedia, between 1159 and 1175 Otia Imperialia by Gervase of Tilbury, 1214 Guillaume d'Auvergne, De universo creaturarum...
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    mentions Pons. Pons is also mentioned by Gervase of Tilbury in his Otia Imperialia, where he is explained to have been the lord of the werewolf Raimbaud...
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  • The Fairy Horn, Gloucester, England. Recorded in the 13th-century Otia Imperialia. The Story of the Fairy Horn, nr. Gloucester, England. Version similar...
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  • Teutonic legend, see: Felix Liebrecht's edition of Gervasius of Tilbury Otia Imperialia, p. 149 Wilhelm Mannhardt, Germanische Mythen, p. 360 compare also...
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    101. See also Mythology in the Low Countries. Gervase of Tilbury, Otia Imperialia, tertia decisio LXXXVI, p. 41 in the edition of Liebrecht online. On...
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    Oisivetz des emperieres ("Leisure of Emperors"), a translation of the Otia imperialia of Gervase of Tilbury, survives in a single manuscript. There is an...
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    12–27. Gervase of Tilbury (2002). Banks, S. E.; Binns, J. W. (eds.). Otia Imperialia. Oxford: Clarendon Press. pp. 692–693. ISBN 978-0-1982-0288-2. Walkling...
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    mention of viticulture in Roquemaure is by Gervase of Tilbury in his Otia Imperialia which was completed around 1214. An English translation of the Latin...
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    surrounding hills are shrouded in legends. Gervase of Tilbury said in his Otia Imperialia of 1214: In England, on the borders of the diocese of Ely, there is...
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