Template:Did you know nominations/De laude Cestrie

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The result was: promoted by Yoninah (talk) 17:31, 13 October 2016 (UTC)

De laude Cestrie edit

  • ... that the 12th-century manuscript De laude Cestrie is one of the earliest prose works about an English town?
  • Reviewed: Jessica Pierce
  • Comment: Moved to mainspace, after languishing in my sandbox forgotten for months, on 6 September 2016.

Moved to mainspace by Espresso Addict (talk). Self-nominated at 21:30, 6 September 2016 (UTC).

  • Supporting quotation: "Written ca. 1195 ... Lucian's De laude Cestrie represents one of the earliest English instances of urban descriptio." [Barrett 2009, p. 29]. Espresso Addict (talk) 11:21, 19 September 2016 (UTC)
  • This article is new enough and long enough. The hook facts are sourced and the article is neutral. Most of the sources cited were not available to me, so I am unable to assess whether there are any policy issues. Cwmhiraeth (talk) 19:31, 12 October 2016 (UTC)