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the
medieval
pirate
Cord Widderich
occupied
Eiderstedt
and made the
Pellworm
church tower
his base?
the
medieval
Horne Church
(pictured)
in
Denmark
has box seating for the
nobility
that was used by the family of
astronomer
Tycho Brahe
?
the
medieval
bylaw
, which states any
Welshman
loitering within
Chester city walls
(pictured)
after
sunset
may be shot with a
longbow
, has never been officially repealed?
the
Catalan Atlas
(pictured)
, one of the most important maps of the
medieval
period, was made by
Abraham Cresques
, who belonged to the
Majorcan cartographic school
, in 1375?
in the 1936
Siege of the Alcázar
, around 1000
Spanish Nationalists
in
Toledo
held a
medieval
castle
for two months despite aerial and artillery
bombardments
and a sustained assault by 8000
Republican
troops?
one of the most important advances in
medieval
Islamic psychology
was the establishment of the first
psychiatric hospitals
?
the
medieval
Old Punch Bowl
in
Crawley
, England, has been a house, a dairy farm, a
tearoom
, an officers'
mess
, a
YMCA
and a bank, and is now a
pub
?
the
medieval
village of
Babington
in
Somerset
,
England
was destroyed around 1705 to make way for a new
Manor House
?
the important
medieval
fresco
cycle in
Castelseprio
,
Italy
, (
pictured
) was rediscovered only in
1944
?
the subject in art of
Christ taking leave of his Mother
(pictured)
has no biblical basis but derives from
medieval
devotional writing?
the
Regimen sanitatis Salernitanum
, a
medieval
didactic
poem, was considered a scholarly medical work that was seriously discussed until the
19th century
?
the
Tollemache Almshouses
(pictured)
in
Nantwich
,
Cheshire
, may stand on the site of the
Hospital of St Lawrence
, a
medieval
lazar house
?
the
New Zealand
McGillicuddy Serious Party
wanted to return to a
medieval
lifestyle and establish a monarchy based on the Scottish
Jacobite
line?
in 1907, the
medieval
Great Hall
of
Lytes Cary
manor house
(pictured)
was being used as a
cider
store?
before
brick
became available as a
building material
,
churches
in
medieval
Northern Europe
were commonly
built with glacial erratics and rubble
?
Cockaigne
was a legendary
peasant
utopia
of
medieval
Europe
?
Dunash ben Labrat
, a
medieval
Jewish
writer, introduced
Arabic language
poetic meter
into
Hebrew poetry
?
Calcot Manor
in
Gloucestershire
sold its principal roof to an
American
new town
that wished to emulate the appearance of a
medieval
European
village
?
Byzantium under the Komnenoi
was the
Medieval
continuation of the
Roman Empire
, and played a key role in the history of the
Crusades
in the
Holy Land
?
medieval
pilgrims on the
Way of St James
would join up at the French
Basque
town of
Saint-Jean-Pied-de-Port
before crossing the
Pyrenees
?
Ani
, a
medieval
city
once rivaling
Constantinople
, was ransacked by
Mongols
and now stands in
ruin
?
Eketorp
is an
Iron Age
ringfort
on the island of
Öland
,
Sweden
that was mysteriously abandoned for three centuries and rebuilt as a
Medieval
castle
?
Main Market Square
(pictured)
in
Kraków
is one of the biggest
medieval
market squares
in
Europe
?
The Georgian Chronicles
are a series of
medieval
texts outlining the history of the
Kingdom of Georgia
dating from the 9th to the 14th century?
podestà
was a powerful position in
medieval
north
Italian
cities?
St Teilo's Church, Llandeloy
in
Pembrokeshire
was built in 1926–27 from
medieval
ruins?
St Laurence Church, Ludlow
,
England
has an extensive collection of
medieval
misericords
and other
wood carvings
, but may be best known as
poet
A.E. Housman
's gravesite?
St. Mary's Church, South Stoneham
(pictured)
is one of the two remaining
medieval
churches in the city of
Southampton
, England, with parts of the building dating from the 12th century?
archeological
excavations proved that the
Visoko valley
(
pictured
) was the center of the
medieval
Bosnian
state and later
kingdom
?
Facts on topics related to Medieval
Medieval art
medieval
donor portraits
often showed the donor of a religious image at a completely different scale to the main figures?
cycles of the
Life of Christ
in
medieval art
(example pictured)
usually show relatively few of
his miracles
?
the
crux gemmata
or "jeweled cross" was used to represent the
New Jerusalem
and the
Tree of Life
in
Early Christian
and
Medieval art
?
the history of
medieval art
(example pictured)
can be seen as the history of the interplay between the elements of
classical
,
early Christian
and "
barbarian
" art?
Medieval warfare
pig fat
,
cannabis
oil,
fish
,
scorpions
and hot
sand
were used in various
offensive weapons
in
ancient
and
medieval warfare
?
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