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

 * ... 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)
 * Symbol voting keep.svg 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)