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unusual facts about medieval England



1215: The Year of Magna Carta

1215: The Year of Magna Carta is a historical documentation of life in Medieval England written by author and journalist, Danny Danziger and emeritus professor of history at the London School of Economics, John Gillingham.

Merton Abbey Mills

Merton Abbey Mills is a former textile factory in the parish of Merton in London, England near the site of the medieval Merton Priory, now the home of a variety of businesses, mostly retailers.

The Matter of Araby in Medieval England

The Matter of Araby in Medieval England is a 1977 book by Dorothee Metlitzki in which the author attempts to show the beginnings of the relationship between medieval England and the Arab world.


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Anglo-French

It may also be used erroneously to describe the Anglo-Norman language, the dialect of Old Norman used in medieval England

Arthur Francis Leach

A modern scholar has said that his The Schools of Medieval England published in 1915, the year of his death, "formed the basis for all subsequent work on medieval and Reformation schooling until the publication of Nicholas Orme.s English Schools in the Middle Ages in 1973".

K. B. McFarlane

The main sources for his scholarship are the book Lancastrian Kings and Lollard Knights, his Ford Lectures from 1953 published in 1980 as The Nobility of Later Medieval England, and the essays and shorter articles published by his student G. L. Harriss in 1981 under the title England in the Fifteenth Century.

Verysdale

Verysdale is a part of medieval England which is mentioned in the early ballads of Robin Hood (especially the ballad A Gest of Robyn Hode, in which a friendly knight, Richard at the Lee, befriends the gallant outlaw and later is revealed as the lord or Earl of Verysdale).