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4 unusual facts about late middle ages


Alsó-Fehér County

Alsó-Fehér (Lower Fehér) county was formed when the county Fehér was split in the Late Middle Ages.

Counties of the Kingdom of Hungary

Note that the formal title comes was also borne by some dignitaries of the Court (e. g. comes curiae) and other nobles in the Early Middle Ages, and then by other members of middle nobility in the Late Middle Ages, and it did not mean count in these cases.

Cratloe

As Cratloe was an important pass in both ancient times and more recent times, the area around the village is full of interesting sites from antiquity all the up until the Late Middle Ages.

Leonhard Schiemer

The central message of Schiemer's writing is on the theology of the cross and Passion mysticism of the Late Middle Ages: Christ suffered for the faithful of this world.


Bridge castle

In the Late Middle Ages, Gian Galeazzo Visconti ordered the construction of a mighty bridge fortress under the four-winged inner bailey of the local castle between Mantua and Lake Garda.

Calvörde Castle

In the Late Middle Ages and Early Modern Period it was frequently fought over due to its location between the territories of Brandenburg, Magdeburg and Brunswick.

Carter Bar

Carter Bar was the location of Truce days, that were held between the Lord Wardens of the Marches of both countries to dispense cross border justice in the Late Middle Ages and Early modern period.

Coat of arms of Orkney

The island was pawned as dowry security in 1468, to the kingdom of Scotland, where members of the Sinclar family held the Earldom of Orkney for almost a century in the Late Middle Ages in fealty to the monarchs of Norway.

Continuity thesis

He claims that the Renaissance was in fact a period when thought declined significantly, bringing to an end a period of advance in the late Middle Ages, and that the twelfth century was the "real, true, and unqualified renaissance".

Cratloe Woods

Scientifically, if a woods can be shown to continuously exist from the late Middle Ages (1600 AD in England, later changed to 1700 AD by Oliver Rackham for Scotland and Ireland), it is classified as an ancient wood.

Ibbenbüren

In this transition of the High Middle Ages to the Late Middle Ages the noble gentlemen of Ibbenbüren, that is the abbot of Herford and the counts of Tecklenburg, possessed basic rule in the place.

Jeton

Nuremberg, Germany, was in the Late Middle Ages an important center of production of jetons for commercial use.

Lateen

The Northern European adoption of the lateen in the Late Middle Ages was a specialized sail that was one of the technological developments in shipbuilding that made ships more maneuverable, thus, in the historian's traditional progression, permitting merchants to sail out of the Mediterranean and into the Atlantic Ocean; caravels typically mounted three or more lateens.

Principality of Krk

The Principality of Krk was a semi-independent principality on the Croatian-Adriatic island of Krk that existed from 1451 to 1480 during the late middle ages.

Reszel

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

Sieglinde Hartmann

As researcher, she mainly focuses on Medieval German literature, especially Oswald von Wolkenstein (ca. 1376/77-1445), a widely travelled knight, considered to be the most important German composer and poet of the Late Middle Ages.


see also

City map

The Nuremberg Chronicle, which first appeared in 1493, is one of the most important collections of city views of the late Middle Ages, with over 100 such illustrations.

Croatia in the union with Hungary

However (as was common throughout Europe in the Late Middle Ages), in enabling the nobility to seize more and more economic and military power, the kingdom itself lost influence to the Frankopan, Šubić, Lacković, Nelipčić, Kačić, Kurjaković, Drašković, Babonić and other families.

Feu fiscal

Jean Favier, Finance and Taxation in the late Middle Ages, SEDES al.

François Tristan l'Hermite

He took his pseudonym from Tristan l'Hermite, a shadowy figure of the late Middle Ages who was provost of the marshals of the King's household under Louis XI of France.

Frederick III, Holy Roman Emperor

His grave, built by Nikolaus Gerhaert von Leyden, in St. Stephen's Cathedral, Vienna, is one of the most important works of sculptural art of the late Middle Ages.

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.

House of Anjou

The House of Plantagenet, the continuation of the senior line of the House of Anjou as Kings of England during the High and Late Middle Ages

Humanae

The Speculum Humanae Salvationis was a bestselling anonymous illustrated work of popular theology in the late Middle Ages.

James Dowdall

The Dowdalls of Louth originated at Dovedale in Derbyshire and became prominent in Ireland in the late Middle Ages.

L'Hermite

Tristan l'Hermite, a French political and military figure of the late Middle Ages

Manfredi family

The Manfredi were a noble family of northern Italy, who held the lordship of Faenza in the late Middle Ages and early Renaissance.

Matija Divković

Considering the sources he used within the Counter-Reformation, his choice was already obsolete in his age, since during the Catholic Baroque period, he found his models in Catholic literature of the late Middle Ages.

Pont Ambroix

The floods of 7 September 1933 reduced the bridge from two arches to the one we see today.The site was abandoned when transit patterns changed, the Domitia became less important and the community relocated to Lunel-Viel which better served a north south transit pattern, but the bridge continued in use till the late Middle Ages.

Robert Baldauf

Baldauf discovered parallels between the historical books of the Old Testament and the works of the mediaeval Romance genre as well as Homer's Iliad that were string enough to lead him to the assumption that the text of both the Iliad and the Bible date from the late Middle Ages.

University of Otago Registry Building

They have their origins in Flemish and Netherlandish civic buildings of the late Middle Ages but in this revived, Victorian form are part of a family which includes A.W. N. Pugin’s for Scarisbrick Hall and the tower housing Big Ben on the Palace of Westminster.

Varlet

Valet de chambre, a court appointment introduced in the late Middle Ages