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Agaw languages

There is a rich literature in Agaw but it is widely dispersed: from fascinating mediaeval texts in the Qimant language, now mostly in Israeli museums, to the modern, flourishing and topical in the Blin language, with its own newspaper, based in Keren, Eritrea.

Alfred P. Smyth

Earlier, he was Professor of Mediaeval History at the University of Kent, when he was Master of Keynes College.

Amaravati Buddhist Monastery

The mediaeval convent of St Margaret's, abolished by Henry VIII during the Dissolution of the Monasteries, was for centuries just 400 yards along the lane.

Ashill, Norfolk

The north windows hold some 15th-century mediaeval glass, the chancel features 19th-century glass by Lavers, Barraud and Westlake, whilst the roof is of 17th-century origin.

Bade Fateh Ali Khan

Though trained also in the mediaeval Dhrupad genre, the uncle-nephew duo restricts its repertoire to the modern mainstream genre, Khayal, and the romanticist genres, Thumris, Dadra, and Ghazal.

Bewcastle Cross

Schapiro, Meyer, Selected Papers, volume 3, Late Antique, Early Christian and Mediaeval Art, 1980, Chatto & Windus, London, ISBN 0-7011-2514-4 (includes The Religious Meaning of the Ruthwell Cross (1944), etc.

Biblioteca Comunale Ariostea

In the library holds mediaeval manuscripts, among them the biblical manuscripts: 581, 582.

Blackwell Hall

Blackwell Hall in the City of London (also known as Bakewell Hall) was the centre for the wool and cloth trade in England from mediaeval times until the 19th century.

Cadoc

Similar incidents are often described in mediaeval biographies such as those of Carannog, Padern and Goeznovius: miracles in dealings with temporal authority bolster the case for church freedom.

Charles Dawson

In 1893 Dawson investigated a curious flint mine full of prehistoric, Roman and mediaeval artefacts at Lavant, near Chichester and probed in inner depths of two tunnels beneath Hastings Castle.

Claude Lecouteux

The Melusinian Motiv in German mediaeval Literature (doctoral thesis, 1980)

College Garden

The north side is formed by the great hall of Westminster School (originally the monks' dormitory), and the houses of the Abbey canons; the east and south sides are a mediaeval wall with a watergate which formerly opened into the River Thames, now embanked fifty yards away beyond the House of Lords.

Crescenzio

Pier Crescenzio or Pietro de' Crescenzi, mediaeval Italian jurist and writer on agriculture

Crick, Monmouthshire

In July 1645, during the English Civil War, a mediaeval hall at Crick was the site of a key meeting between King Charles, who had been recently defeated at Langport in Somerset, and his nephew and ally Prince Rupert of the Rhine.

Elvet Bridge

Elvet Bridge is a mediaeval masonry arch bridge across the River Wear in the city of Durham, in County Durham, England.

Evenley

The mediaeval building was replaced in 1864-65 by the present Church of England parish church of Saint George, designed by the Gothic Revival architect Henry Woodyer.

Fairford

Grade 1 listed by English Heritage, St. Mary's is of national historical and architectural importance because it houses the most complete set of mediaeval stained glass windows in the country, attributed to Barnard Flower, and its structure and details remains unaltered since originally built.

Fantasia Lindum

The "Fantasia Lindum" sequence, which makes up the first side of the album, is the band's musical tribute to the city of Lincoln, the Lincolnshire countryside and the mediaeval Lincoln Cathedral.

Faughan Hill

Historians and folklorists believe that the hill's name originated from fraughan berries which in mediaeval times were recorded as growing all around it.

Framwellgate Bridge

Framwellgate Bridge is a mediaeval masonry arch bridge across the River Wear, in Durham, England.

Geddington

The old main road runs through the village and crosses the River Ise by a spectacular mediaeval bridge.

Giussano-class cruiser

They were designed by general Giuseppe Vian and were named after military commanders of the Italian Mediaeval and Renaissance periods.

Heinrich von Morungen

An essential theme in Heinrich's work is the demonic nature of Minne, the Middle High German word for this type of love, which for the mediaeval writers was embodied by the ancient classical goddess of love, Venus.

Ilchester Nunnery

Ilchester Nunnery, in Ilchester, Somerset, England, was founded around 1217-1220 as the "White Hall Hospital of the Holy Trinity", (Latin: Alba Aula, French: Blanche Halle/Blanchesale) after the gift of a house and other property by William "The Dane" of Sock Dennis manor, Ilchester (Norman-French: Le Deneis etc., Latinised to Dacus (the adjectival form of Dacia being mediaeval Latin for Denmark) modernised to "Dennis").

Johannes Fried

He was professor at the University of Cologne 1980-1983 and holds the Chair of Mediaeval History at the University of Frankfurt am Main since 1983.

Lainston House

Commissioned by Charles II to build a palace at Winchester, renowned English architect Sir Christopher Wren started work on the site in 1683 by building on the grounds of an earlier mediaeval dwelling.

Lituus

One of the last compositions orchestrated for the mediaeval lituus was Bach's motet O Jesu Christ, meins Lebens Licht (BWV 118).

Llangarron

It is identified with St. Deiniol, or Deiniel, a sixth-century abbot-bishop who founded a monastery at Bangor and to whom the mediaeval Bangor Cathedral was dedicated.

Parvise

At the parvis of St Paul's Cathedral, the Serjeants-at-law originally practised in mediaeval times, and there clients could seek their counsel.

Peter Parsons

Some melanges of hybrid buildings of various epochs like the KAFKAESQUE MEDIAEVAL CASTLE ($150), are clever bits of fun mixed with scariness.

Pythagorean tuning

Bragod is a duo giving historically informed performances of mediaeval Welsh music using the crwth and six-stringed lyre using Pythagorean tuning

Richborough

Although now some distance from the sea, Richborough stood at the southern end of the Wantsum Channel from prehistory to the early mediaeval period.

Robert Hesketh

He succeeded his father in 1588, inheriting Martholme, the mediaeval Manor House near Great Harwood, as well as other property at Rufford, Holmes and Holmeswood.

Rockfield, Monmouthshire

The church tower is mediaeval, but the rest of the church was rebuilt and refitted in 1859-60 by John Prichard and John Pollard Seddon in the Early English and Perpendicular styles.

Saint-Bertrand-de-Comminges

The mediaeval scholar and ghost story writer M. R. James used Saint-Bertrand, and more particularly, its cathedral, as a setting for his classic tale of terror "Canon Alberic's Scrap-Book", which can be found in the collection Ghost Stories of an Antiquary (1904).

Shincliffe

Shincliffe is the site of a mediaeval bridge over the River Wear and archaeological investigations in 2005 suggest Shincliffe may have been the site of a Roman crossing.

South Kyme

This was a mediaeval castle which is believed to have been built between 1339 and 1381 by Gilbert de Umfraville third Earl of Angus and Lord of Kyme.

St Martin's Chapel, Chisbury

St Martin's Chapel, Chisbury is a Mediaeval former chapel next to the manor house in the hamlet of Chisbury, Wiltshire.

St Swithin, London Stone

Excavations were carried out on the site by Professor W. F. Grimes on behalf of the Roman and Mediaeval London Excavation Council.

Stendal

Other buildings include the Gothic cathedral, the Town Hall with the statue of Roland and the two mediaeval town gates.

Sutton Farm

Not far down the road that skirts Sutton Farm, almost opposite Percy Thrower’s Garden Centre, is a mediaeval chapel, now used as Shrewsbury Greek Orthodox Church.

The Wolf and the Crane

A political lesson can also be drawn from some mediaeval sculptures of the fable, most notably on the Great Fountain in Perugia executed in 1278 by Nicola Pisano and his son Giovanni.

UCL Institute of Archaeology

Amongst the staff who work there are noted archaeologists such as Mark Roberts, who directed the Boxgrove Quarry project, Late Prehistory specialist Sue Hamilton, Mediaeval specialist Andrew Reynolds, Public Archaeology specialist Tim Schadla-Hall and Caribbean archaeologist José Oliver.

Varna Archaeological Museum

Four other sites are undergoing conservation and will be added to the museum roster: the 4th-5th-century episcopal basilica on Khan Krum Street; the basilica and monastery of the same period at Dzhanavara; the 9th-10th-century Theotokos monastery and scriptorium of the Preslav Literary School at Pchelina; and the Mediaeval fortified settlement of Kastritsi at Euxinograd.

Victorian gothic

Gothic Revival architecture, a type of architecture based on a mediaeval style revived in the Victorian period

Zurla

Giacinto Placido Zurla (1769-1843), an Italian cardinal and a historian of mediaeval geography


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