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unusual facts about medieval period



An Arundel Tomb

The poem describes a medieval tomb that can be found in Chichester Cathedral; the tomb is of Richard FitzAlan, 10th Earl of Arundel (d. 1376), and his second wife, Eleanor of Lancaster (d. 1372), with their dogs at their feet.

Holt Castle

In the medieval period, the five-towered fortress was actually known as Castrum Leonis or Castle Lyons because it had a Lion motif carved into the stonework above its main gate.

Polis, Cyprus

Archaeological evidence indicates that the city was also inhabited during the late Medieval period between the 12th and 14th centuries.

Pomayrols

He illustrated itself, with his friends in arms by its bravery at the time of the defense of the fortress of Rhodes besieged by Suleiman the Magnificent in 1522, under the reign of Francis I of France.


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A Dream of John Ball

This positive portrayal of the Medieval period is a recurring theme in Morris' literary and artistic oeuvre, from the largely pastoral and craftsman based economies of the prose romances, to his similar dream vision of Britain's utopian future, News from Nowhere (1889).

Alt-Hohenschönhausen

By the 13th century the area had been colonised by Germans, particularly from the settlement of Schönhausen, during the eastward migration and settlement of Germans in the medieval period.

Aralık

During the medieval period, Aralık was part of the Kingdom of Bagratuni Armenia.

Architecture of Ethiopia

Throughout the medieval period, and especially from the 10th to 12th centuries, churches were hewn out of rock throughout Ethiopia, especially during the northernmost region of Tigray, which was the heart of the Aksumite Empire.

Stelae (hawilts) and later entire churches were carved out of single blocks of rock, emulated later at Lalibela and throughout Tigray, especially during the early-mid medieval period (c. 10th and 11th centuries in Tigray, mainly 12th century around Lalibela).

Camiers

In its highest part, the commune rises onto the Upper Cretaceous at 176 metres but most lies on the levelled marine sand which in the medieval period, was off-shore.

Danebury

In the medieval period, their construction was attributed variously to iconic figures such as King Arthur, King Alfred, the Danes, Julius Caesar, and even giants.

Galata

The Greeks believe that the name comes either from Galaktos (meaning milk, as the area was used by shepherds in the early medieval period) or from the word Galat (meaning Celtic in Greek) as the Celtic tribe of Galatians were thought to have camped here during the Hellenistic period before settling into Galatia in central Anatolia.

Kailasanathar Temple

Koneswaram temple, Chola-Pallava-Pandya rock cut black granite megalithic Shiva temple of Trincomalee, also known from medieval period as Thirukonamalai Konesar Kovil and Dakshina Kailasam

Kallala dynasty

In the pre-historic time, the Jumla Valley might have been a lake like the Kathmandu Valley and it might have been made habitable by God Chandannath of Kashmir, who is said to have introduced the paddy crop there first, but in the medieval period this region was ruled by the renowned Mallas.

Karabakh carpet

The oldest extant Armenian carpet from the region, referred to as Artsakh during the medieval period, is from the village of Banants (near Gandzak) and dates to the early thirteenth century.

Libros del saber de astronomía

The Libros del saber de astronomía del rey Alfonso X de Castilla (Books of wisdom of astronomy of King Alfonso X of Castile) is a literary work of the medieval period, composed during the reign of Alfonso X of Castile.

Llanarmon Dyffryn Ceiriog

The village church of St. Garmon (St. Germanus of Auxerre) was reputedly founded in the 5th century, and rebuilt in the medieval period.

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.

Milhan

Rumaysa bint Milhan (medieval period), one of the earliest women converts to Islam in Yathrib

Mortimer Trail

The route is named after the Mortimer family of ruling Marcher Lords, often titled Earl of March, whose rise through successive generations from Norman times through the medieval period helped to shape the history and geography of this area of the Welsh Marches.

Naish Priory

The extant 14th century buildings evidence primary links to the important de Courtenay family of the medieval period, Earls of Devon, close blood relatives of the Plantagenet, Lancastrian and Tudor kings, and one of the most important English Renaissance families.

Negationism in India: Concealing the Record of Islam

Elst claims that historians of the Aligarh school (e.g. Irfan Habib) or Indian Marxists (e.g. Romila Thapar) have resorted to history-rewriting: "Therefore, in 1982 the National Council of Educational Research and Training issued a directive for the rewriting of schoolbooks. Among other things, it stipulated that: "Characterization of the medieval period as a time of conflict between Hindus and Muslims is forbidden.

Nikki Bungaku

The medieval period saw the rise of diaries such as Abutsu Ni’s Izayoi Nikki and travel diaries such as Matsuo Bashō's Oku no Hosomichi.

Ovee

Ovees have been extensively used in medieval period poetry by Marathi saint poets like Tukaram, Eknath and Ramdas.

Raon-sur-Plaine

Through and beyond the later medieval period, the history of the villages in the valley dominated by Celles-sur-Plaine was effectively the history of Salm-Salm.

Ratna Pariksha

There is also mention of another author in medieval period, Thakkar Pheru, who is again credited to have worked on this subject.

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.

Sengar River

Sengar - originally called Basind - is said to have been named after the Sengar Rajputs after they captured most of Etawah following the fall of Kannauj in the medieval period.

The George Inn

The George Inn, Southwark, a public house established in the medieval period

Thomas Onslow, 2nd Baron Onslow

He entered Parliament aged 22 or 23 for an underpopulated rural borough that had once had a market in the medieval period, Gatton, Surrey before moving to represent the larger settlement of Chichester, West Sussex.

Tudor architecture

Hammerbeam roofs still in use from medieval period under Henry VII and remained so until 1603 for great halls, but were more decorative: often had corbels the were carved into beasts or had geometric patterns

Viele

Vielle, a European bowed stringed instrument used in the Medieval period