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unusual facts about late medieval



Nils Håkansson

Nils Håkansson (Latinized as Nicolaus Haquini) was a late medieval Swedish painter from Vadstena, known for his wall paintings in numerous churches in Scania, Sweden.

Reszel

Near Reszel is the Catholic shrine of Święta Lipka (German: Heiligelinde), a baroque church and Late Medieval shrine augmented in the 17th century.


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Agnes von Mansfeld-Eisleben

Ozment, Steven, The Age of Reform 1250–1550, An Intellectual and Religious History of Late Medieval and Reformation Europe. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1986, ISBN 9780300027600

Appleby Parva

The late medieval settlement pattern was largely obliterated by the construction of Appleby Hall, as older surrounding properties were demolished and 'New Road' was built to replace the earlier road that passed by the front of the house; so creating a private garden and parkland around the house, which was then landscaped.

Atworth

1470 by Thomas Tropenell, and is described by Pevsner as being ‘one of the most perfect examples of the late medieval English manor house’.

Aubrey de Vere I

Late medieval sources put forward claims of descent from Charlemagne through the Counts of Flanders or Guînes.

Capital punishment in France

Klemettilä, Hannele: The executioner in late medieval French culture.

Chichester Cross

Malmesbury Market Cross in Wiltshire is the other surviving late medieval covered English market cross with a similar form, but rather smaller and more simple.

Cormac mhac Taidhg Bhallaigh Ó Dálaigh

A member of the Ó Dálaigh family of professional poets, Cormac's flourit is uncertain, and can only be assigned to the High and Late Medieval Era in Ireland.

Dance of the Dead

Danse Macabre, a late-medieval allegory on the universality of death

David Arianites

David is generally considered to be the first member of the Arianiti clan active in late medieval Albania, but the connection can't be verified due to lack of sources.

David James Bowen

He has contributed many learned articles on late medieval Welsh poetry, including the work of Dafydd ap Gwilym, although his main interest was the life and work of poet Gruffudd Hiraethog (d. 1564).

Edapally Rajas

Edappalli Rajas ("Kings of Edappalli", known to the Portuguese as Repolim and to the Dutch as Repleim) were the rulers of the late medieval feudal kingdom of Edappally (Elangallur Swarupam), which also included parts of Kallooppara, Karthikapally, Haripad, Cherthala, Vazhakulam,(muvattupuzha) in the present day state of Kerala, India.

Epiphania of Pavia

Epiphania, Epifania or Pyphania (d. 800) is recorded in the late medieval traditions of Pavia as daughter of Ratchis (744/749 – 756/757), King of the Lombards and of Italy.

Finding in the Temple

In late medieval depictions, the Doctors, often now carrying or consulting large volumes, may be given specifically Jewish features or dress, and are sometimes overtly anti-Semitic caricatures, like some of the figures in Albrecht Dürer's version in the Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum in Madrid.

Hope Emily Allen

Themes in her work include the spirituality of women in the late Middle Ages (Ancrene Riwle), contradictions and impossibilities in the work of Richard Rolle, and ideas on the religious life of late-medieval women in the Book of Margery Kempe.

Hrastovlje

It is best known for the Church of the Holy Trinity, which contains a late-medieval Danse Macabre fresco.

Isabelline

Isabelline Gothic, or Isabelline, a late medieval architectural style developed under the reign of Isabella I of Castile

Llanrhos

The church was extensively rebuilt in 1865 but incorporates the roof beams and many other features of the former late medieval church said to have been built on the site of the original mid-6th-century church of Maelgwn Gwynedd whose castle was within the parish on the twin peaks at Deganwy.

Marsh, Buckinghamshire

Formerly a parish in its own right, it was annexed into the parish of Great Kimble in the late medieval period when its manor was purchased by Lord Griffith Hampden (ancestor of John Hampden) who was also the lord of Great Kimble manor.

Norton Conyers House

Norton Conyers House is a grade II* listed late medieval manor house with Stuart and Georgian additions sited in Wensleydale, North Yorkshire, England, some 4 miles (7 km) north of Ripon.

Pike and shot

By the end of the fifteenth century, those late-medieval troop types that had proven most successful in the Hundred Years' War and Burgundian Wars dominated warfare, especially the heavily armoured gendarme (a professional version of the medieval knight), the Swiss and Landsknecht mercenary pikeman, and the emerging artillery corps of heavy cannons, which were rapidly improving in technological sophistication.

San Francesco, Arezzo

The Basilica of San Francesco is a late Medieval church in Arezzo, Tuscany, Italy, dedicated to St Francis of Assisi.

Saracen's Head

The Saracen's Head is the name formerly given to a group of late medieval buildings in Kings Norton, Birmingham.

Schismatic temperament

Mark Lindley and Ronald Turner-Smith argue that schismatic tuning was briefly in use during the late medieval period.

Scottish trade in the early modern era

Haddington, which had been one of the major centres of trade in the late Medieval period, saw its share of foreign exports collapse in the sixteenth century.

Semiphoras and Schemhamphorash

Its text cannot be traced to an earlier date, but it is possible that it is of late medieval origin, the title being mentioned among grimoires by earlier authors such as Johannes Hartlieb.

Sigismund, Holy Roman Emperor

With the support of Sigismund, Stibor become one of the most influential men in late medieval Europe, holding titles as Duke of Transylvania and owning about 25% of Slovakia of today including 31 castles of which 15 were situated around the 406 km long Váh river with surrounding land that was given to him by Sigismund.

Terminology related to Germany

In the Late Medieval and Early Modern period, Germany and Germans were known as Almany and Almains in English, via Old French alemaigne, alemans derived from the name of the Alamanni and Alemannia.

Tholsel

The Tholsel building in Dublin was a late medieval building, erected as a merchants' hall at the corner of Nicholas St. and Christ Church place, next to the Church of St. Nicholas Within.

Waiting for Snow in Havana

Professor Eire, who received his PhD from Yale University in 1979, specializes in the social, intellectual, religious, and cultural history of late medieval and early modern Europe.

Walloons

Jean Lemaire de Belges, late Medieval, early Renaissance poet and historian