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The large village settlement model was one of the important causes of open-field system in champion country of Medieval England.

Henry was one of the least effective of England's medieval monarchs.

Wine was very commonly drunk during medieval days because it was one of the only safe liquids available.

And she knew that she would have to wear heavy medieval clothes and that her underwear, like her body, would be washed only once a week.

When a medieval moneylender could not pay his debts, his bench was broken in two, sometimes over his head.

Certainly, the story of Arthur developed a life of its own after Geoffrey's account became the medieval equivalent of a bestseller.

The atrium, which had a columned portico all around, extended under all the medieval edifice and had at its centre a cistern.

The peasant who did not labor hard simply starved, partly because medieval lords took as much as 80% of his rice crop in taxes.

Undermining Faith. Christians are sometimes inclined to look back nostalgically at the medieval world as the great age of faith.

I love history - and especially the medieval period, so lists like this are a real pleasure to put together.

Idyllic scenes like this one of a snow-covered medieval castle are standard fare in the Bavarian city of Mittenwald.

Today it may be tempting to see medieval marriage in the light of certain lofty religious doctrines and the poetry of the troubadours.

And he agreed that the debate had not been settled over whether the Medieval Warm Period was warmer than the current period.

Societies that do not experiment can be historical dead ends like the closed and static feudal manors of medieval Europe.

Tigana, perhaps his best work, takes place in a world much like medieval Italy during a time of two tyrants.

He was one of the first, if not the first, medieval theologian to embrace explicitly the two-source view of revelation.

Carol and Dwight invited Mike and Kate to their medieval banquet ball to have dinner. In fact, it was just a small attic.

Like the creatures drawn on the edge of a medieval map, the shapes of the denizens of this land are a mixture of observation and guesswork.

What used to be the agricultural land of a medieval castle is now a superb garden.

Leaf Springs have been used for the suspensions of wheeled vehicles since medieval times.

His father was a professor of medieval studies and his mother a strict Calvinist.

In medieval Europe, it was the worst punishment possible, because people's identities were defined by their role and place in society.

The buildings are surrounded by grass and trees, so I felt as if I had walked into a medieval castle.

We selected the best of a medieval expert's rare hoard and are offering them for less than similarly graded coins have sold for elsewhere.

As if placing me in the 11 century France and 13-15 century Europe, and let me deeply feel the peak of the medieval art.

If you think of medieval cities, medieval cities the boroughs all have the names of the guilds and professions that lived there.

A turreted medieval wall enclosed the city, which had once served as the capital of Christendom for nearly a hundred years.

It's the classic blueprint of a medieval castle, its thick outer walls separated from the inner structure by a moat dug out of the rock.

During the Medieval Warm Period extensive fires burned through parts of the Giant Forest at intervals of about 3 to 10 years, he said.

In 1890 a famous English Catholic, Cardinal Manning, said the Holy See's diplomatic activities were "a mere pageant" , a medieval relic.

This system was first used in medieval Europe, although claims have been made that the system dates back to Ancient Rome or Greece.

They believed consciousness resided in the heart, a view shared by Aristotle and a legacy of medieval thinkers.

Your cell phone becomes your kingdom, mission is to use the hands only go trebuchet to destroy the enemy's medieval castle.

It was that Roman rule and the Germanic tradition had great impact on the medieval English peasants'economic thoughts.

Attempts by medieval European potters to imitate true porcelain led to the discovery of soft-paste porcelain, which can be cut with a file.

One of the largest hospitals in the medieval period, the site provided shelter for the sick, the poor, elderly and homeless.

He also insisted that he would not remain silent over the "medieval torture and corruption" in Iran's prisons.

It is a little like medieval justice: sometimes innocence can be proved only at the cost of a career.

Bernard Shaw points out in the preface to a drama that people nowadays are more superstitious than in the medieval period.

IN MEDIEVAL Christendom it was almost impossible not to believe in a transcendent power that determined human destiny.

The name derives from the minium, or red lead, used to emphasize initial letters in medieval illuminated manuscripts.

I'm sure you know- sex-in medieval china was a key part of life.

In its frozen state, the Iceman's deep caramel skin had a dignified luster, reminiscent of a medieval figure painted in egg tempera.

Setting aside the introduction for the moment, the twelve chapters fall into four groups: ancient, medieval, early modern and contemporary.

Founded in the11th century, it was a medieval trading post and a Lithuanian stronghold against the Teutonic Knights.

I believe that rather than being one person's account, it's a sort of medieval database of European knowledge of the Far East at the time.

You see a source of veneration with which Aristotle was held in the later medieval period.

Unable to drive into the stadium, the trucks were replaced by blue and yellow tents like a medieval tournament.

There are sculptures - like a pair of palace guards from medieval Iran and paintings of courtly scenes, or lovers embracing.

To accommodate his madness, his sister keeps him in a medieval castle surrounded by actors playing the role of his courtiers.

Today, it might seem as though we have returned to the sloppiness of medieval feasting, or even Cheddar Gorge.

This produces a temper of mind very different from that of the medieval dogmatist.

As an important form of revenue, taxes serves as a right perspective in which people see kingship of medieval Kngland.

No serious theologian today would attempt to describe the qualities of God as the medieval scholastic did with such assurance.

Yes they'll be similar, but with a new set of Medieval ones. We've also tweaked and improved the system.

The great-grandmother of Jesus was a woman named Ismeria, according to Florentine medieval manuscripts analyzed by a historian.

The typical boat tour includes the Old Town, or Gamla Stan. Situated on an island, this old city center still looks like a medieval city.

He loved history and he had been totally absorbed in medieval England since the death of his wife ten years ago.

The word palatine, used in various European countries in the medieval and modern eras, has the same derivation.

The 19th-century French historian who saw the Black Death as the divide between the medieval world and the modern had, at least, a point.

The first tool for fighting kidney cancer is usually the one used since medieval times : the knife , or its technological equivalent .

A casual visitor to Madurai, a vibrant medieval-temple town in southern India, would not think it was a hotbed of innovation.

Like the previous game, it will focus on Medieval warfare, religion and politics in Europe, North Africa and Southwest Asia.

The medieval city lost tens of thousands of citizens and nearly every building to heavy Anglo-American bombing near the end of World War II.

Castrato, the special singer which created in medieval Europe, is the combination of religion and human physiology of that age.

Founded c. 1030, it was the medieval capital of Flanders and is now a commercial, cultural, and manufacturing center. Population, 168, 424.

"They too are apparently medieval, " she said, considering common ground between his works and her own.

Unlike the walled medieval city-states, today's financial centres are increasingly dependent on their connections to one another.

Scrying became widespread by the 5th century AD and was condemned by the medieval Christian church as the work of the devil.

For the most part, the military tools and techniques of medieval China would have been familiar to a Byzantine visitor (and vice versa).

A heavy medieval war club with a spiked or flanged metal head, used to crush armor.

Use multiple medieval weapons for close combat &long-range attacks or to trigger activations .

In place of the medieval church, the spiritual direction of society should fall to the men of science.

trace The style of these paintings can be traced back to early medieval influences .

just as others speak of a medieval commercial revolution.

Contrary to popular belief, medieval English people bathed quite regularly in public baths designed for that purpose.

medieval weapon consisting of a spearhead attached to a long pole or pikestaff; superseded by the bayonet.

The expert found a skull and some fossils of animal skeleton that were extinct in medieval times.

These bras, discovered in a medieval castle in Austria, reveal that the undergarment may have been worn as far back as the 15th century.

He insists his elevation to boy warlord was not simply due to a medieval - style hereditary due to a medieval - style hereditary right.

The fact that most Sinologists with Bodde's exposition establishes the Western Medieval Studies to support the direction of East Hanwei Jin.

Cinque Ports bored in the early Medieval England, is the only city alliance in British history.

i designed witchcraft : necromancy when witchcraft : alchemy is finished . also , it ' s a card game whose style is still occident medieval.

In many ways, the salarian political network functions like the noble families of Earth's Medieval Europe.

The worst thing about medieval life was the unwavering evil of the Christian "justice" system and the tools of torture they employed.

It is not a scientific objection, it is an objection which goes back to the medieval tradition, when people knew what logic was.

Of course, medieval battles did not happen on treadmills.

as quixotic as a restoration of medieval knighthood; a romantic disregard for money; a wild-eyed dream of a world state.

The medieval architectures, textiles and women of melodic movements are the main themes of his work.

In medieval times, these questions would have been met with a simple answer.

It allows you to manage ancient, medieval and modern coins , organize Web resources and contacts, and build a coin glossary.

Helen: London was a large medieval city, one of the major cities in Europe.

Ten galleries on three levels have been created to house the new Medieval and Renaissance galleries, which are due to open on December 2nd.

n medieval and Renaissance Italy, it was often used in conjunction with a public square, as in Florence's Loggia dei Lanzi (begun 1376).

Flores had offered Wittman one of the gems of medieval Flemish art, The Temptation of Saint Anthony, by Pieter Bruegel the Elder.

But they did more than this: they managed to infuse the emerging medieval world with a playfulness previously unknown.

It's not something from medieval times, it's a way of how the modern Russian countryside house builders look on things.

Medieval old streets full of vitality and history, picturesque scenery make a GeErWei became the Irish place one of the most spectacular.

Arsenic remained king of bug killers from medieval times up to the mid-1900s, when science found something more effective.

Spanish boats, following the traditions of the medieval Basques, fish all over the world.

Everywhere in Europe I encountered theliving facts of medieval caste and of the static medieval social order.

These masterpieces today form part of a well-preserved medieval urban fabric with some particularly fine private dwellings.

At its heart was a medieval manor house, which itself had been aggrandised over the centuries.

Besides the good looks, they said they yearned for the sense of adventure and honour of the medieval era.

There was no medieval word corresponding closely to our word 'town'

With its medieval economy and eccentric leader, the Hermit Kingdom often seems more tragi-comic than threatening.

He felt that philosophy should move away from the beliefs of the medieval scholastics and found itself on firm foundations.

It is a fine example of contract civilization of medieval England's boroughs.

In pre-medieval Germany for instance, local courts would meet under the boughs of a lime tree believing the tree would find the truth.

Indeed, the founders were simply formalising what had been at the core of exchanges since they were first formed in medieval times.

The poet tried to tell himself that he should be looking inward at his soul--the medieval view.

In his previous incarnation as European Union trade commissioner, Pascal Lamy, WTO director-general, labelled this procedure "medieval" .

They're very familiar with medieval Christian ways of interpreting scripture to have several different meanings and layers of meanings.

It also helps to explain some of the differences between modern plague and its medieval forerunner.

Entertainment performed between the acts of a medieval mystery or morality play.

These ethical ideals were in sharp contrast to realities of the very materialistic and powerful medieval church.

Unlike medieval kings who threw coins to the masses, though, Jesus had the advantage of dangling real rewards before His audience.

The image was supposed to be in medieval times, so modern structures like electric poles were prohibited.

Shaw's long, skinny body could be a medieval tomb carving, apart from the hints in the shadows of a 20th-century background.

Traditionally, medieval kings were supposed to meet their own royal expenses out of their own wealth.

This almost pedestrian zone* is the medieval part of the city and is partly surrounded by a wall (the third rampart) cut with large doors.

Ashkenazi Jews, aka Ashkenazim, are the descendants of Jews originally from medieval Germany, and later, from throughout Eastern Europe.

Thousands of wrecks from medieval ships to warships sunk during the world wars of the 20th century have been found in the Baltic Sea.

A Day in a Medieval City breathes life into the activities of city streets, homes, fields, schools, and places of worship.

The museum has a fine collection of medieval ivories.

There was infighting on the board worthy of a medieval court, and it ended only when Mr Sarin purged his predecessor's lieutenants.

It is the only systematic introduction for students to all types of Medieval Latin writing.

Inquisition of the Medieval Ages devised many demoniac means of torture.

Basically Germanic, it was expanded by the conquering Normans, who introduced French, and the medieval scholars and clergy, who used Latin.

Another popular meaning of the word in medieval England was "seathieves" .

The game has a simple premise: You are the imperial ruler of your very own medieval kingdom.

In Europe, medieval cities passed ordinances against throwing garbage into the streets and canals, but those laws were largely ignored.

Now he seems bent on using another medieval Scottish hero, Robert the Bruce, to work the same magic for his Scottish National Party (SNP).

It is a post-medieval disused burial ground in London, England.

The interaction between feudal tax and national tax constitutes the basic form of English medieval taxes.

The six-stroke character xing (running), for instance, was reduced to a mere two vertical strokes in medieval calligraphic practice.

His argument is complex, and takes us back to the late medieval era, when Italy was ahead of the rest of Europe.

This idea, sometimes neglected today (to the detriment of those who neglect it), dominated medieval etymologizing.

Islamic law is one of the huge impact law systems in the medieval and contemporary time.

Medieval the lord of a palatinate who exercised sovereign powers over his lands.

The Roman Catholic Church has never pronounced on the authenticity of the shroud which some dismiss as a medieval forgery.

Medieval Western Europe, when the Irish pagans who believe in ghosts Halloween will be clustered around the home and receive a banquet.

a piece of armor (with eye slits) fixed or hinged to a medieval helmet to protect the face.

"The bottom line is, we could have a Medieval-style drought with even warmer temperatures, " Woodhouse said.

The main segments are labelled: "Early Medieval Masterpieces " , "Scholarship and Science" and "Tools and Materials" .

From these Wars, English feudalism received its death blow. The great medieval( mediaeval ) nobility was much weakened.

Much of the medieval centre of Paris was replaced with broad tree lined boulevards, covered walkways and arcades, just like Lord Street.

ALMOST nothing is known of the men who built the great medieval cathedrals.

The cross lies close to the ruins of two medieval long houses that date to the same period.

Heading east, Downtown ends at Midan Ataba and the old medieval heart of the city known as Islamic Cairo takes over.

Gothic architecture is a style of architecture, which developed in Europe during the high and late medieval period.

Now the Vatican has decided to shed some new light on this often obscure period of late medieval history.

The medieval centre is a UNESCO World Heritage Site, while Albert Einstein once lived and worked in the city as a patent office clerk.

Medieval Europeans would not likely have seen too many hyenas but they still had opinions about them.

At the medieval courts Shakespeare described, the exercise of power was not a means to an end, it was itself the end.

In medieval Europe, Latin, deemed as the "cosmopolitan language" , enjoyed the privilege in religion, politics and culture.

After 10 days spent trying to identify those responsible, it issued what the paper called the "medieval diktat. "

The ontology and epistemology of the medieval Arabian Aristotle's school included different degrees of materialism, pantheism.

Planning: The factory shop opens daily except Sundays. Explore the medieval city of Tournon, across the river.

At a time supposedly devoid of science, here is a medieval pope who was highly proficient in mathematics and astronomy.

For the first purpose it is seldom mounted with a sharp "Point of War" and never sharpened for the purpose of recreating a medieval joust.

Kushner returned to the city for college, receiving a degree in medieval literature from Columbia University.

In Medieval folklore, the Ziphius, or "Water-Owl" , was a monstrous nautical creature said to attack ships in the northern seas.

Christopher Hitchens, the writer, has called him a "medieval princekin " .

The door, laced with medieval ironwork, was swung open, as always.

medieval ruins in a natural landscape were thought to be picturesque.

The park has the atmosphere of a medieval circus, with animals treated in a way that would cause outrage in any western country.

Professor Binns had asked for a three-foot-long composition on "The Medieval Assembly of European Wizards. "

Avignon's central core, immediately east of the river, appears as a rough oval, delineated by medieval walls.

In fiction, the adventurer figure or Picaro may be regarded as a descendant of the knight-errant of Medieval romance.

Then next class period, on Wednesday, we'll talk about medieval exegesis, late ancient and medieval exegesis--interpretations of the Bible.

The medieval town of Yangshuo is among the most popular destinations for domestic travellers.

A general term referring to the Christian philosophy of the Middle Ages, especially at the medieval universities.

In French medieval cuisine, banquets were common among the aristocracy.

And after checking their email, Oltrarno artisans go back to banging, firing and polishing, as they have since medieval times.

Usury in medieval and ancient churches was regarded as intermittent pain and was most influenced by this conflict.

Early medieval scholastics attached her name to the western end of the Eurasian land mass.

Along the way he cites an eclectic library of consolation: Homer, the "Mahabharata, " Native American rituals, medieval sagas.

For medieval clerics, it was the city that housed the papal seat.

Almost every way of life in the medieval period was washed away by the tide of change.

When it comes to travel literature, she says, one can find strong links between the early medieval period and the 19th century.

The autonomy of medieval universities in the West was developed in the conflicts between the universities and the church or government.

I had never met this professor and I wasn't studying medieval history.

Tackling this hoary puzzle requires expertise in several fields, including cryptography, linguistics and medieval history.

The first of several gates aimed at protecting the tower as well as the adjacent medieval cathedral and baptistery has been put into place.

Western European medieval early education, culture almost entirely for church monopoly, pagan school banned secular culture is denied, .

We don't use it much today, but it was widely used in medieval remedies to lift the mood.

It's a whole heritage site and is crammed with narrow, cobbled streets and steep-roofed medieval buildings.

They also toured a restored medieval tower where they surveyed the view from a balcony, and visited a grotto where the pope often prays.

From these Wars, English feudalism received its death blow. The great medieval nobility was much weakened.

medieval walls around the historic city of tallinn , the capital of estonia.

Florence became one of medieval and Renaissance Europe's great industrial cities.

The goal of this game server is to provide a no-magic medieval alternative to traditional MUDs.

In medieval Europe, rare, expensive rice was kept locked in the spice cupboard along with all the other imported culinary jewels.

The low production of scholarly medieval studies basically reflects the number of medievalists in Taiwan.

Generally speaking, money-lending is the main profession of medieval Anglo-Jewry. Many Jewish women are discovered to attend it.

After these fortifications were completed, Trotsky likened his home to a medieval fortress.

Medieval alchemists hunted in vain for the rejuvenating Philosopher's Stone; industrial-age quacks got rich off their patent elixirs.

When gentlemen in medieval Japan wished to seal an agreement, they urinated together, crisscrossing their streams of urine.

AM: It's true that there are nightmarish images from hell but this was part of the medieval mentality.

In medieval England, newlyweds smooched over a pile of buns, supposedly ensuring a prosperous future.

In a medieval sense, the toiletyearnsto keep itself full by means of thisautomaticplumbing.

The vineyard folds out along the Canal du Midi on the outskirts of the Medieval city of Carcassonne.

In medieval Europe, education was conducted in Latin, and Latin grammar became the foundation of the liberal arts curriculum.

Since the medieval time, lighting a candle on a tree is common to welcome guests.

In my days as a medieval historian, I spent much of my time deciphering handwriting.

Academic power in early medieval universities gradually developed in the extrusion of the church, secular society.

Situated in the historic centre of Bologna this hotel evokes all the charms of this Medieval city.

I found the answer with a medieval mathematician and an 18th-century naturalist.

Knighthood was an ideal in medieval Europe.

As a student of medieval walls and turrets , Lawrence [of Arabia] viewed the citadel of Aleppo as a natural stop on his 1909 journey.

They infer that medieval Europe must have been invaded by two different sources of Yersinia pestis.

Music Of, relating to, characteristic of, or composed in any of the modes typical of medieval church music.

Brown's demolition of the myth that medieval people believed in a flat Earth is especially welcome.

Instead of a friendly orange blob, it resembles something that has escaped from a medieval torture chamber.

Medieval scholastics are reputed to have enjoyed debating how many angels you can fit on the head of a pin.

"Visit the Saxon villages in Romanian Transylvania. In Bulgaria, I would go for the medieval monasteries and Black Sea resorts. "

Medieval Christian turns Greek artistic ideal into specific theological form which emphasizes God is primary for ideal and artistic beauty.

The weekly peace vigils that Kosch joined had begun eight years earlier at the Nikolai Church in the medieval town center.

Early Greek philosophers identified beauty as an essential quality of life and medieval Christian thinkers reinforced this idea.

Rudolf II was the first medieval age King which establised a "jewelry maker" within the kingdom.

In medieval and more modern times, crowns were generally made of metal, often gold inlaid with precious gems.

Such wild men haunted the forests of medieval and renaissance romance: irrational, carnivorous, dangerous, untamed .

Medieval philosopher , father of Scholasticism and author Of the ontological argument. Monologion; Proslogion.

Medieval accounts from the Coptic Church, the ancient church of Egypt, praise Sultan al-Kamil for his tolerance.

When he finished two complete strips he refolded them in silence, with medieval art, and closed the briefcase.

Ancient chronicles, epics and medieval foreign writers' notes bear all evidence that the Slavs were extremely fond of music.

It's like watching a medieval morality play, with the forces of Good and Evil battling for power.

The medieval universities were great contributions made by the Middle Ages to the civilization of mankind.

Its old town is encircled by a medieval canal, and you can hop on a boat tour to visit the city's bustling, vibrant wharves.

How then could a tradition-ridden country like China, with no rising merchant or industrial class, free itself from medieval slavery?

Carly Fiorina, former chairperson and CEO of Hewlett-Packard Company, received a degree in medieval history and philosophy from Stanford.

The general introduction of Medieval History of China.

Nearby medieval villages and C? te D'Azur beaches beckon you to explore.

The local government regulations in modern architecture, city suburb only with antique medieval architecture.

much of the European armour, Renaissance and medieval objects on view come from him.

During end of thirteen century, medieval cities of Italy - Florence, Pisa and Siena - they battled and fought each other.

So let me roll the clock back to medieval England.

In this country, the self is not dissolved in Oriental group-think, or subordinated within medieval hierarchy.

Inspired by Richard Wagner's operas, the young King Ludwig sought to re-create the legendary dreamworld of medieval knights and heroes.

By the banks of the River Wye, Monmouth has historic connections with early Roman and medieval times.

(in medieval England) an attendant and shield bearer to a knight; a candidate for knighthood.

The medieval Changan's cultural spirit is the rich humane heritage accumulated in the thousands of years' development of Xi'an.

Whether arising prior to or medieval freshmen, have shown Middle Chinese disyllabic adverb characteristics.

The European sites listed were the medieval cathedral city of Albi in southwestern France and the picturesque canals of Amsterdam.

This article guides you along the shortest path to ruling your own medieval kingdom.

Skeptics contend the shroud is a medieval hoax or forgery - or even a devotional work of artistic verisimilitude .

Then, like penitent medieval monarchs, they depart on pilgrimages to "listen" to the voters and "unite" their followers.

Following closely on these economic changes came a breakup in the political foundations of the medieval world.

In medieval Europe the caps and gowns worn by the accademic community were in black.