They're using a computer system that seems positively medieval by today's standards. |
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A number of medieval poems attributed to Taliesin allude to the legend, but these postdate the historical poet's floruit considerably. |
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Not all of Genoa's merchandise was so innocuous, however, as medieval Genoa became a major player in the slave trade. |
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Classical Ulpian's statements were known in medieval Europe, but sovereignty was an important concept in medieval times. |
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Since medieval times the episcopal see of Rome has been recognized as a sovereign entity. |
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The main traditional sport in Greenland is Arctic sports, a form of wrestling thought to have originated in medieval times. |
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Safe conduct documents, usually notes signed by the monarch, were issued to foreigners as well as English subjects in medieval times. |
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He was the earliest of the founders of scholasticism, the dominant school of medieval philosophy. |
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Most ancient and early medieval stone buildings were of dry stone construction. |
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A typical medieval Irish army included light infantry, heavy infantry and cavalry. |
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It is also known as Alt Clut, a Brittonic term for Dumbarton Castle, the medieval capital of the region. |
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David was certainly at least one of medieval Scotland's greatest monastic patrons. |
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Melrose would become the greatest medieval monastic establishment in Scotland south of the river Forth. |
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Feudalism was a combination of legal and military customs in medieval Europe that flourished between the 9th and 15th centuries. |
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Supporters of Brown have suggested that the term should be expunged from history textbooks and lectures on medieval history entirely. |
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The wars were important for other reasons, such as the emergence of the longbow as a key weapon in medieval warfare. |
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The meaning ascribed to words similar to nation during the ancient and medieval periods was often quite different than it is today. |
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The Council of Constance confirmed and strengthened the traditional medieval conception of church and empire. |
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Throughout the medieval and modern periods, piecemeal enclosure took place in which adjacent strips were fenced off from the common field. |
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The Indian early medieval age, 600 CE to 1200 CE, is defined by regional kingdoms and cultural diversity. |
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In medieval folklore King Arthur's magician, the wizard Merlin, carried around a crystal ball for the same purpose. |
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Early references to dribbling come from accounts of medieval football games in England. |
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The origins of Glasgow as an established city derive ultimately from its medieval position as Scotland's second largest bishopric. |
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Newport has been a port since medieval times, when the first Newport Castle was built by the Normans. |
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The area occupied by the medieval burgh of Dundee extends between East Port and West Port, which formerly held the gates to the walled city. |
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The attached church was once the largest parish church in medieval Scotland. |
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The island of Guernsey and the other Channel Islands represent the last remnants of the medieval Duchy of Normandy. |
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It served as a kind of medieval bill of rights for the aristocracy and the judiciary who developed the law. |
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Another example was the fact that in the medieval period most land was owned by the farmers, not the Church or a king. |
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Many words were borrowed from the German language from the sizable German population in Polish cities during medieval times. |
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Early medieval legal documents include a body of Gaelic legal and administrative loans. |
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Annand translated poetry and fiction from German and medieval Latin into Scots. |
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The origins of the Waldensian Evangelical Church lie in the medieval Waldensian movement for religious reform. |
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The modern system of academic degrees later evolved and expanded in the medieval university, spreading across the world as the institution did. |
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These scores are often suggested to represent a survival from medieval Cumbric, a theory first popularized in the 19th century. |
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Writers from medieval Wales such as Geoffrey of Monmouth and Adam of Usk also used Latin and Norman French, in addition to English and Welsh. |
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The poem is written as a literary dream vision and is an example of medieval debate poetry. |
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Religion, a medieval form of unreason, when combined with modern weaponry becomes a real threat to our freedoms. |
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It stood for traditional craftsmanship using simple forms, and often used medieval, romantic, or folk styles of decoration. |
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William Morris was a prolific writer of poetry, fiction, essays, and translations of ancient and medieval texts. |
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These were attempts to revive the genre of medieval romance, and written in imitation of medieval prose. |
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Sir Henry Newbolt's medieval allegorical novel, Aladore, was influenced by Morris's fantasies. |
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The Goldsmiths' Company was established in the 12th century as a medieval guild for goldsmiths, silversmiths and jewellers. |
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During medieval times, the stereographic coordinate system was used for navigation purposes. |
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The foundations of geography can be traced to the ancient cultures, such as the ancient, medieval, and early modern Chinese. |
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However, it was in the medieval era when Baghdad was the capital of the Abbasid Caliphate that the Iraqi kitchen reached its zenith. |
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Medieval civilians accepted without question the fact of prostitution, it was necessary part of medieval life. |
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According to the medieval Book of Aksum, the kingdom's first capital, Mazaber, was built by Itiyopis, son of Cush. |
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The country's cultural heritage includes traditional Icelandic cuisine, Icelandic literature and medieval sagas. |
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Famous medieval painters like the Limbourg brothers were born and educated in Nijmegen. |
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The Codex Gigas from the 12th century is the largest extant medieval manuscript in the world. |
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There are also a few parts of both medieval city walls left, most of them integrated into more recent buildings, but some others still visible. |
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Published editions of medieval poetry by John Barbour and Robert Henryson and the plays of David Lyndsay all gained a new audience. |
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It was in the later medieval era that the borders of Scotland reached approximately their modern extent. |
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The fundamental social bond in late medieval Scottish society was that of kinship. |
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Scottish armies of the late medieval era depended on a combination of familial, communal and feudal forms of service. |
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In medieval Scotland education was dominated by the Church and largely aimed at the training and education of clerics. |
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In the later medieval period there was a general increase in the numbers of educational institutions as well as increasing use by the laity. |
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Scotland is known for its dramatically placed castles, many of which date from the late medieval era. |
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Late medieval Scottish churches also often contained elaborate burial monuments, like the Douglas tombs in the town of Douglas. |
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Often accompanying themselves on the harp, they can also be seen in records of the Scottish courts throughout the medieval period. |
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Several pieces of early medieval sculpture are preserved in the parish church, which is dedicated to St Andrew. |
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Equally remarkably, the collection of medieval bells is the largest to have survived in Great Britain. |
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In medieval histories, such as the chronicles of John of Fordun, the wall is called Gryme's dyke. |
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Whithorn remained an important cultural centre, and all the medieval Kings of Scots made pilgrimages there. |
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In medieval manuscripts, it is often unmarked but sometimes marked with an accent or through gemination. |
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Subsequently, Old Norse became the vehicle of a large and varied body of vernacular literature, unique in medieval Europe. |
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According to later medieval tradition, the three brothers were in Edinburgh when they were besieged by their paternal uncle Donald. |
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Hence the modern village of Scone, and the medieval village of Old Scone, can often be distinguished. |
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The origins of a settlement of any kind at Scone are unknown, although thought to be early medieval. |
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Despite Scone's decline throughout the late medieval period, it some considerable fame for musical excellence through the composer Robert Carver. |
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Saint Andrew Chapel is of probable medieval origin, referenced in 1546 and in earlier documents. |
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The Morays of Petty also possessed influence in the Scottish medieval church. |
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Although there are problems with writing a satisfactory biography of many medieval people, the problems with Wallace are greater than usual. |
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The untidy system of thirteen medieval dioceses was to be replaced by ten more rational districts, each to be overseen by a superintendent. |
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Apparently the mummy was part of the ingredients of medieval pharmacopoeia and it was relabeled in a time of French nationalism. |
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French software house Ubisoft's newie has finally arrived in Angleterre. It's set in a medieval world of swords and sorcery. |
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The prosecution case, which was made in medieval Latin and legal Doric, was unintelligible to jury and accused alike. |
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He was the first to emphasize the debt of medieval culture to Middle Eastern civilization, but otherwise was weak on the Middle Ages. |
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It was not uncommon for medieval hunters to deliberately hunt boars during the breeding season, when the animals were more aggressive. |
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Boar's head was the centrepiece of most medieval Christmas celebrations among the nobility. |
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Argyll was also a medieval bishopric with its cathedral at Lismore, as well as an early modern earldom and dukedom, the Dukedom of Argyll. |
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In medieval Latin, the latter was referred to as a comitatus, which prior to 1889 a Scottish shire had never been. |
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Most planned settlements of medieval Europe were created in the period of about the 12th to 14th centuries. |
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The medieval parish of Irvine was one of the most important regions in Scotland. |
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For the most part, the Reformed tradition did not modify the medieval consensus on the doctrine of God. |
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A smaller medieval tower house, Dun Mhic Leoid, can be found in the middle of Loch St Clare on the west side of the island at Tangasdale. |
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Ordinals for monarchs before the 13th century are anachronisms, as are also ordinals for almost all later medieval monarchs. |
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This seems to be evident from historical sources, and would fit well with what we find in the early medieval Irish and Welsh laws. |
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We also know that, at least amongst the Gaulish and the early medieval Irish nobility, polygyny was a widespread practice. |
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It is not clear whether, in late prehistory, it was equally detailed as Irish law seems to indicate for early medieval Ireland. |
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Steelmaking has played a crucial role in the development of ancient, medieval, and modern technological societies. |
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Distilling technology passed from the medieval Arabs to the medieval Latins, with the earliest records in Latin in the early 12th century. |
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Its use spread through medieval monasteries, largely for medicinal purposes, such as the treatment of colic and smallpox. |
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For later languages there is information from medieval writers and modern native speakers, together with place names. |
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Wales has had a long tradition of poets and bards under royal patronage, with extant writing from medieval royal poets and earlier. |
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The practice is less widely attested in the case of medieval laypeople, but certainly occurred on occasion. |
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In medieval and Renaissance times, the tusk of the narwhal was sometimes sold as unicorn horn. |
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This became a basic emblematic tag that underlies medieval notions of the unicorn, justifying its appearance in every form of religious art. |
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By the 19th century, the town began to expand beyond the original medieval boundaries with streets of new houses and town villas being built. |
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The related, more technical term in Roman and then medieval law was societas. |
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Baptismal font of Renier de Huy, is not the only example of medieval Walloon working expertise. |
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Walnut husk pigments are used as a brown dye for fabric as once applied in classical Rome and medieval Europe for dyeing hair. |
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The collection represents the vast majority of prose found in medieval Welsh manuscripts which is not translated from other languages. |
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The subject matter and the characters described events that happened long before medieval times. |
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During the first excavation of the cave in 1864, finds were made only from the Mesolithic to medieval periods. |
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Little remains of the original medieval castle at Carmarthen, but the old Gatehouse still dominates Nott Square. |
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The loss of the original medieval bridge that it replaced caused controversy. |
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Evidence suggests that this medieval literature was a compilation of several sources, some of which are named by Nennius while others are not. |
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The fountain is a medieval heraldic charge displayed as a roundel barry wavy Argent and Azure. |
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Under the eponymous Aberffraw Dynasty it came to be the most important political centre in medieval Wales. |
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In medieval Europe, the swearing of fealty took the form of an oath made by a vassal, or subordinate, to his lord. |
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These lands were in many cases unprofitable for the barons to hold and English power reached its zenith under Henry for the medieval period. |
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Excavations on top of the motte in 1969 revealed no traces of medieval occupation, suggesting any evidence had been removed. |
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Giles is the Parish Church of Wrexham and is considered to be the greatest medieval church in Wales. |
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In the area a medieval tower was built and, like nearby 18th century and 19th century fortifications, it may have served as a lookout post. |
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Analogous jurisdiction existed in medieval times on the European Continent. |
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The concept of incarcerating individuals as a punishment for crimes did not exist in Wales before or during the medieval period. |
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He is credited with having sponsored Saint Cadfan's monastery on Bardsey Island, which became a major centre of pilgrimage during medieval times. |
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The medieval boroughs of Goodrich and Chepstow, at each end of the Wye Gorge, may have originally been established at this time. |
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The medieval iron industry consumed large quantities of charcoal and much of the woodland was coppiced for this purpose. |
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Steynton is a medieval village to the north, no longer separated due to the expansion of houses. |
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This is a Roman period altar that was hidden for centuries, being used as a stone block in the rebuilding of the medieval church. |
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It is one of the few locations mentioned by name in the anonymous medieval alliterative poem Sir Gawain and the Green Knight. |
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It is graced by many medieval carvings including those of an arrow and a deer, the attributes of Saint Giles. |
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Across the estuary is Bodysgallen Hall, which incorporates a medieval tower that was possibly built as a watch tower for Conwy Castle. |
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Of the medieval city, the most important surviving structure is Chester Castle, particularly the Agricola Tower. |
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Numerous pubs, nightclubs and bars, some of which are based in medieval buildings, populate the city. |
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The historic town centre still retains its medieval street pattern and many narrow passages. |
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Cork city was once fully walled, and the remnants of the old medieval town centre can be found around South and North Main streets. |
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It was originally an early medieval petty kingdom of varying boundaries known as Glywysing until taken over by the Normans as a lordship. |
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The four traditional dialects of Breton correspond to medieval bishoprics rather than to linguistic divisions. |
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The British state invested heavily in the castles and town walls during the 20th century, restoring many of their medieval features. |
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The Welsh medieval history texts belong to the class of literary creations, but the split into two distinct groups. |
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The revival of bardic names became something of a conceit following the reinvention of medieval tradition by Iolo Morganwg in the 18th century. |
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Originally the site of a Roman fort, Gobannium, it became a medieval walled town within the Welsh Marches. |
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The town contains the remains of a medieval stone castle built soon after the Norman conquest of Wales. |
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The church contains some unique alabaster effigies, church monuments and unique medieval wood carving, such as the Tree of Jesse. |
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They are also the best surviving specimens of medieval painting, and the best preserved. |
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It remained a relatively small walled medieval town during the 14th century and was under constant threat from the surrounding native clans. |
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Gill ran the Guild of St Joseph and St Dominic, based on the medieval guild model, in Ditchling, Sussex. |
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Like the great medieval cathedrals of York and Winchester, St Paul's is comparatively long for its width, and has strongly projecting transepts. |
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In section St Paul's also maintains a medieval form, having the aisles much lower than the nave, and a defined clerestory. |
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From medieval times Welsh harpists played with the harp placed on the left shoulder, contrary to continental practice. |
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Jones has written many books and screenplays, including comic works and more serious writing on medieval history. |
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Jones has written books and presented television documentaries on medieval and ancient history and the history of numeral systems. |
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In the medieval agricultural year, Lammas also marked the end of the hay harvest that had begun after Midsummer. |
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Along with the other branches, the tale can be found the medieval Red Book of Hergest and White Book of Rhydderch. |
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During the reign of Philip of Valois, the French monarchy reached the height of its medieval power. |
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It was during this chaotic era that Italian towns saw the rise of a peculiar institution, the medieval commune. |
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They are considered to be the two great medieval masters of painting in western culture. |
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The medieval Code of Jutland applied for Schleswig until 1900 when it was replaced by the Prussian Civil Code. |
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Chroniclers paid little attention to other aspects of medieval Scandinavian culture. |
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Erosion controls have appeared since medieval times when farmers realized the importance of contour farming to protect soil resources. |
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Between courses, the banqueters were entertained by minstrels in medieval garb. |
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In the medieval period monks were enthusiastic exhumers of the mortal remains of the holiest of individuals. |
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Roman and medieval football matches were more violent than any modern type of football. |
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In this, they resembled the alien merchant guilds and hanses of the medieval period. |
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Cricket is generally thought to have been developed in the early medieval period among the farming and metalworking communities of the Weald. |
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Subsequent medieval English kings completed the conquest of Wales and made an unsuccessful attempt to annex Scotland. |
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Later medieval literature included works in Latin, Gaelic, Old English and French. |
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So it is not clear if these medieval dialect divisions correspond to any mentioned by Tacitus and Pliny. |
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The Midlands is a cultural and geographic area roughly spanning central England that broadly corresponds to the early medieval Kingdom of Mercia. |
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Later medieval castles at Helmsley, Middleham and Scarborough were built as a means of defence against the invading Scots. |
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Hocketing was widely used in medieval music and Professor Sander's article provides a convenient survey of those uses. |
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Perhaps ten per cent of the population lived in one of many burghs that grew up in the later medieval period, mainly in the east and south. |
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In 626 Constantinople, by far the largest city of early medieval Europe, withstood a combined siege by Avars and Persians. |
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Sweden had from early medieval times exported iron and silver mined there, while Poland had and still has extensive salt mines. |
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It is widely accepted by medieval historians that this marks the point at which Lothian came under Scottish control. |
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Aristotle's views on physical science profoundly shaped medieval scholarship. |
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The medieval English poet Chaucer describes his student as being happy by having. |
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The works of Aristotle that have survived from antiquity through medieval manuscript transmission are collected in the Corpus Aristotelicum. |
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Until medieval times Ireland was heavily forested with oak, pine and birch. |
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Many survived into late medieval times, others vanished as they became politically unimportant. |
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These can be seen in the ornamentation of medieval religious and secular works. |
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From the medieval period, the process of direct reduction in bloomeries began to be replaced by an indirect process. |
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Surviving maps from the medieval period were not done according to mathematical principles. |
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In later medieval Norway, the title of jarl was the highest rank below the king. |
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In 1644, during the Civil War, the Parliamentarians besieged York, and many medieval houses outside the city walls were lost. |
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York's centre is enclosed by the city's medieval walls, which are a popular walk. |
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The Shambles is a narrow medieval street, lined with shops, boutiques and tea rooms. |
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The street plan of the historic core of the city dates from medieval times and is not suitable for modern traffic. |
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The Assize of Ale is an annual event in the city where people in medieval costume take part in a pub crawl to raise money for local charities. |
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In both medieval East and West, Constantine was presented as an ideal ruler, the standard against which any king or emperor could be measured. |
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During the medieval period, Britons regarded Constantine as a king of their own people, particularly associating him with Caernarfon in Gwynedd. |
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In fact, lecturers in medieval universities commonly advanced the idea that the Earth was a sphere. |
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Building on this account, later medieval writers continued to add new miracles and stories to Augustine's life, often quite fanciful. |
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Later medieval historians, such as Geoffrey of Monmouth also reinforced Alfred's favourable image. |
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A bronze statue of Alfred the Great stands at the eastern end of The Broadway, close to the site of Winchester's medieval East Gate. |
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The new ordo was influenced by West Frankish liturgy and in turn became one of the sources of the medieval French ordo. |
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William's account kept his memory alive, and he was praised by other medieval chroniclers. |
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The Latin names in Pliny's text gave rise to different forms in medieval Germanic texts. |
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Danish, Swedish and Norwegian have, since medieval times, been influenced to varying degrees by Middle Low German and standard German. |
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In the east, Finland, was a fully incorporated part of Sweden since medieval times until the Napoleonic wars, when it was ceded to Russia. |
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This sophisticated medieval form of government was handed over to the Normans and was the foundation of further developments. |
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The Domesday survey was an administrative catalogue of the landholdings of the kingdom, and was unique to medieval Europe. |
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The Norman dynasty had a major political, cultural and military impact on medieval Europe and even the Near East. |
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One of many popular theories suggests the common broom, planta genista in medieval Latin, as the source of the nickname. |
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This arrangement was quite unusual in terms of medieval law, as Conan might have had sons who could have legitimately inherited the duchy. |
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His favourite pursuit was the art of war and, in this, he conformed to the medieval notion of good kingship. |
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The Great Charter was referred to in legal cases throughout the medieval period. |
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In many literary representations of the medieval past, however, Magna Carta remained a foundation of English national identity. |
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The copy was put on display in 1976 as part of the cathedral's medieval library. |
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The great medieval English monasteries produced large surpluses of wool that were sold to mainland Europe. |
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In England, it was not until 1823, that the medieval epidemic was first called the Black Death. |
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Most medieval settlements remained small, with agricultural land and large zones of unpopulated and lawless wilderness in between. |
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Historians debate the extent of impact the wars had on medieval English life. |
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The wars heralded the end of the medieval period in England and the movement towards the Renaissance. |
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Renaissance artists were not pagans, although they admired antiquity and kept some ideas and symbols of the medieval past. |
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Italian Renaissance artists were among the first to paint secular scenes, breaking away from the purely religious art of medieval painters. |
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However, the gothic style and medieval scholastic philosophy remained exclusively until the turn of the 16th century. |
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The word Anglican originates in ecclesia anglicana, a medieval Latin phrase dating to at least 1246 that means the English Church. |
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Charles raised an army using the medieval method of commission of array, and Parliament called for volunteers for its militia. |
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The fire gutted the medieval City of London inside the old Roman city wall. |
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The City was essentially medieval in its street plan, an overcrowded warren of narrow, winding, cobbled alleys. |
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Traces of medieval Birmingham can be seen in the oldest churches, notably the original parish church, St Martin in the Bull Ring. |
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The Gaels, the Picts and the Britons have their respective origin myths, like most medieval European peoples. |
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The medieval period is itself subdivided into the Early, High, and Late Middle Ages. |
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This is untrue, as lecturers in the medieval universities commonly argued that evidence showed the Earth was a sphere. |
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Many of the medieval offices and traditions continue to the present day, demonstrating the unique nature of the City and its Corporation. |
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Historically the lowest bridging point on the Mersey was at Warrington where there has been a bridge since medieval times. |
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The first ferry across the estuary was introduced in medieval times by monks from Birkenhead Priory. |
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Beer stone was a popular kind of limestone for medieval buildings in southern England. |
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The site was once home to a medieval deer park, latterly owned by the Duke of Norfolk. |
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There are also caves beneath the Salutation that date back to the medieval period, although they are no longer used as beer cellars. |
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The cathedral and the associated religious and medieval architectural history provide much of the employment. |
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In the medieval and the early modern period a network of professional banks was established in Southern and Central Europe. |
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This Grade I listed medieval manor house attracts over 50,000 visitors each year. |
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The quarter includes the historic St Peters Church and, on St Peter's Churchyard, the medieval Derby School building. |
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Nearby Southsea is a seaside resort with a pier amusement park and medieval castle. |
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The west wing of Culham Manor was built in the 15th century as a medieval grange for Abingdon Abbey. |
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This was part of a medieval teleological understanding of nature in which all things have an intended role to play in a divine cosmic order. |
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Runestones are important sources in the study of Norse society and early medieval Scandinavia, not only of the Viking segment of the population. |
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In the ancient and medieval era, most Gaels lived in roundhouses and ringforts. |
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During the Bengal Sultanate, medieval Bengali writers were influenced by Arabic and Persian works. |
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The Kantajew Temple and Dhakeshwari Temple are excellent examples of late medieval Hindu temple architecture. |
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The medieval language also possessed two additional tenses for expressing past events and an extended set of possessive suffixes. |
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Whether this was a result of the Angles themselves, as the early medieval writer Gildas argued, or mere coincidence is unclear. |
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The gardens date back to medieval times when orchards and vineyards extended to the north of the Papal Apostolic Palace. |
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He also has a residence, named The Old Palace, next to Canterbury Cathedral on the site of the medieval Archbishop's Palace. |
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A project that is proceeding is the creation of The Queen's Diamond Jubilee Galleries in the medieval triforium of the abbey. |
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The Orb enables visitors to see the work of renowned medieval artist, John Thornton, up close, revealing the remarkable detail in each panel. |
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The chapter house is notable for its octagonal shape, slender central pillar and decorative medieval frieze. |
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During the early second millennium, Saint George became a model of chivalry in works of literature, including medieval romances. |
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After his death he became one of the most important medieval saints of Northern England, with a cult centred on his tomb at Durham Cathedral. |
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Later medieval chroniclers have provided dubious accounts of his life, in the absence of any real details. |
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Both dates were celebrated in early medieval England, but the April date appeared first in the liturgical calendars. |
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The capitals on the medieval arch connecting the chapel to the main sanctuary display symbols associated with More and his office. |
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Early colonial era orientalists proposed that the Puranas were religious texts of medieval Hinduism. |
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He concluded that the idea that medieval revels were pagan in origin is a legacy of the Protestant Reformation. |
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Thus the university, as a form of social organization, was peculiar to medieval Europe. |
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The original purpose of medieval grammar schools was the teaching of Latin. |
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Little of the original medieval glass, designed by Thomas Glazier, survives. |
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Triumphal arch is also the name given to the arch above the entrance to the chancel of a medieval church where a rood can be placed. |
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Fortifications from before the medieval period are not listed, nor are architectural follies. |
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As the role of the castle as fortress declined in the later medieval period, its role as a residence increasingly became the more important. |
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The exact location of the medieval menagerie is unknown, although the lions were kept in the barbican known as Lion Tower. |
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It is in essence a Georgian and Victorian design based on a medieval structure, with Gothic features reinvented in a modern style. |
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The ground floor of the State Apartments retains various famous medieval features. |
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Many of the largest and finest works of English architecture, notably the medieval cathedrals of England are largely built in the Gothic style. |
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The critic John Ruskin was an ardent advocate of all things medieval and popularised these ideas. |
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The nave of the cathedral, in medieval times, was used primarily for processions. |
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The longest cathedrals of Spain, including Seville, which has the largest floor area of any medieval church, are about 120 metres. |
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The last four cathedrals all, for various reasons, either have no medieval nave or only a few remaining bays. |
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Lichfield Cathedral, uniquely in England, has three medieval masonry spires. |
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All the medieval cathedrals of England, with the exception of Salisbury, Lichfield and Wells have evidence of Norman architecture. |
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Built between 1093 and 1537, Chester Cathedral includes a set of medieval choir stalls dating from 1380, with exquisite figurative carving. |
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St Albans also retains some medieval wall paintings, as well as a painted wooden roof of the late 13th century. |
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However, the west front is now Perpendicular, with its huge window filled with fragments of medieval glass. |
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Built between 1084 and 1504, Worcester Cathedral represents every medieval style from Norman to Perpendicular. |
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Some of Davis's misericords have a distinctly medieval flavour and he may have copied some of the original designs. |
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In the medieval period castles were influenced by earlier forms of elite architecture, contributing to regional variations. |
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While the concept of ditches, ramparts, and stone walls as defensive measures is ancient, raising a motte is a medieval innovation. |
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At the same time, French castle architecture came to the fore and led the way in the field of medieval fortifications. |
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This was because to be faithful to medieval design would have left the houses cold and dark by contemporary standards. |
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When building in stone a prominent concern of medieval builders was to have quarries close at hand. |
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This signified a close relationship between feudal lords and the Church, one of the most important institutions of medieval society. |
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There had been occasional examples in town centres going back to medieval times. |
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One of the most important functions of medieval references in the 19th century was nationalist. |
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They introduced him to medieval Italian poetry, the forms and stories of which he would use later. |
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Throughout the medieval Germanic languages, elf was one of the nouns that was used in personal names, almost invariably as a first element. |
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They became associated with medieval romance traditions of fairies and particularly with the idea of a Fairy Queen. |
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Elves appear as a threatening, even demonic, force widely in later medieval prayers. |
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Within Robin Hood's band, medieval forms of courtesy rather than modern ideals of equality are generally in evidence. |
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The original Robin Hood ballads, which originate from the fifteenth century, set events in the medieval forest of Barnsdale. |
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This event recreates a medieval atmosphere and features the major characters from the Robin Hood legend. |
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In the context of the crusades, monastic military orders were founded that would become the template for the late medieval chivalric orders. |
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The intellectual revitalization of Europe started with the birth of medieval universities. |
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Similar incidents are described in the medieval biographies of Carannog, Padarn, and Eufflam, probably written around the 12th century. |
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In the early 19th century, medievalism, Romanticism, and the Gothic Revival reawakened interest in Arthur and the medieval romances. |
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Arthur himself played a minor role in some of these works, following in the medieval romance tradition. |
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Geoffrey wrote several works of interest, all in Latin, the language of learning and literature in Europe during the medieval period. |
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Two hundred and fifteen medieval manuscripts of the Historia survive, dozens of them copied before the end of the twelfth century. |
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The early modern period formed a stark contrast to the medieval history of the town. |
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Other than this association there is no clear evidence linking these late medieval and early modern customs with English mumming. |
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The early modern period was initiated by the Protestant Reformation and the collapse of the unity of the medieval Western Church. |
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This supports the idea that banquets were a symbol of power and prestige for medieval lords and kings. |
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The second opinion holds that the Sunday roast dates back to medieval times, when the village serfs served the squire for six days a week. |
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The most recent painting, consisting of geometric figures, date to the medieval period. |
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It is considered one of the richest sources for visual depictions of everyday rural life in medieval England. |
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