• two Viking women named Gerlög and Inga documented their tragic and dramatic family saga on a series of runestones during the civil wars of 11th century Sweden?
• the Russian academician Aleksey Shakhmatov attempted to reconstruct the earliest Slavonic chronicle, supposedly compiled at the court of Yaroslav the Wise in the mid-11th century?
• the Canon Episcopi, which was inserted into canon law by Burchard of Worms in the 11th century, demanded that Roman Catholics be skeptical about witchcraft?
• Yue ware (example pictured) was an early type of Chinese ceramics that was exported as far as the Middle-East and East Africa from the 8th to the 11th century?
• Mir Geribert defied the Count of Barcelona for nearly two decades in the 11th century, even claiming the title of Prince of Olèrdola?

Facts on topics related to 11th century

12th century

• among many historic landmarks at the Andrew's Descent in Kiev, there is a medieval Gothic style castle that locals call the "Castle of Richard the Lion Heart" due to the legend the 12th century King of England had visited the building?
• from the 6th to 12th centuries, a large part of Dagestan was dominated by the Christian kingdom of Sarir?
• the Persian walled city of Ray was a military objective so frequently that, starting in the late 12th century, its inhabitants gradually moved out to an undefended village nearby called Tehran?
• the MacHeths were a Gaelic kindred who raised several rebellions against the Scotto-Norman kings of Scotland in the 12th and 13th centuries?
• the Melisende Psalter, produced in the 12th century, is the most notable example of Crusader art?
• the Stavelot Triptych is a 12th century masterpiece of Mosan art created to display pieces of the True Cross?
• the Codex Calixtinus, a 12th-century illuminated manuscript, is prefaced by a forged letter purporting the manuscript to be the work of Pope Callixtus II?

8th century

• Norse sagas record some Finnish campaigns against Sweden in the mid-8th century?
• Chinese influences on Islamic pottery (example pictured) date back to the 8th century?
• Ethelbert of York's 8th century library was probably the largest book collection of its day outside of Rome?
• Japanese currency started in the 8th century with the minting of the Wadōkaichin coin (pictured)?
• Makhir of Narbonne was a Babylonian-Jewish scholar who settled in Narbonne, France at the end of the 8th century, and his descendants were leaders of the local Jewish community who bore the title of "nasi" (prince)?
• Yue ware (example pictured) was an early type of Chinese ceramics that was exported as far as the Middle-East and East Africa from the 8th to the 11th century?
• an alliance was formed in the 8th century between the Abbasid Caliphate and the Frankish Carolingian Empire against the Byzantine Empire and the Muslim Umayyads of Spain?

16th century

• 16th century Scottish Bishop of Ross Henry Sinclair was simultaneously Lord President of the Court of Session, and was succeeded in that office by his brother, John Sinclair, Bishop of Brechin?
• aiguillettes (pictured) are decorative tags or tips for cord or ribbon, usually of gold and sometimes set with gemstones or enameled, used to decorate 16th and 17th century clothing and hats?
• Johannes Bugenhagen introduced the Protestant Reformation to Pomerania and Denmark in the 16th century?
• Marcin Kromer was a 16th century Prince-Bishop of Warmia, cartographer, and historian in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth?
• panel painting was the primary painting medium used in the West, from about the 13th to the 16th century, before canvas and oil paint became the norm?
• Laments by 16th century Polish poet Jan Kochanowski, a masterpiece of the Polish Renaissance, were inspired by the death of the poet's young daughter, Urszula (pictured)?
• after being auctioned at Christie's for over £100,000, the 16th-century Sapieha beaker was presented as a gift to Lithuania by the Ortiz brothers?
• by kneeling before a cross the renowned 16th-century English performing horse Marocco (pictured) saved his master from death by burning as a witch?
• the 1318 Mamluk Qala'un Mosque was considered the most glamorous mosque in Cairo until its wooden dome collapsed in the 16th century?
• the Istanbul landmark Mihrimah Mosque was constructed in the 16th century for Suleiman the Magnificent's daughter?