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| 731 |
| | The Venerable Bede, in his monastery at Jarrow, completes his history of the English church and people | |
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| c. 800 |
| | Beowulf, the first great work of Germanic literature, mingles the legends of Scandinavia with the experience in England of Angles and Saxons | |
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| c. 950 |
| | The material of the Eddas, taking shape in Iceland, derives from earlier sources in Norway, Britain and Burgundy | |
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| 1078 |
| | Anselm includes in his Proslogion his famous 'ontological proof' of the existence of God | |
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| c. 1300 |
| | Duns Scotus, known as the Subtle Doctor in medieval times, later provides humanists with the name Dunsman or dunce | |
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| c. 1340 |
| | William of Ockham advocates paring down arguments to their essentials, an approach later known as Ockham's Razor | |
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