A medieval depiction of the Ecumene ( 1482, Johannes Schnitzer, engraver ), constructed after the coordinates in Ptolemy's Geography ( Ptolemy ) | Geography and using his second map projection.

Late medieval depiction of Máel Coluim III with MacDuib (" MacDuff "), from an MS ( Corpus Christi MS 171 ) of Walter Bower's Scotichronicon.

A medieval depiction of the Ecumene ( 1482, Johannes Schnitzer, engraver ), constructed after the coordinates in Ptolemy's Geography ( Ptolemy ) | Geography and using his second map projection

A harpy in Ulisse Aldrovandi's Monstrorum Historia, Bologna, 1642 A medieval depiction of a harpy as a bird-woman.

There is a wide variety of secondary sources of information, but they must be treated with caution: the popular, romanticised view of Hereward often has little basis in the medieval sources, owing more to the fictional depiction by Charles Kingsley and later authors.

Renaissance-era depiction of a joust in traditional or " high " armour, based on then-historical late medieval armour ( Paulus Hector Mair, de arte athletica, 1540s )

Today, the temples serve as fine examples of Indian architectural styles that have gained popularity due to their explicit depiction of sexual life during medieval times.

A modern ( 1850 ) depiction of the first medieval settlers arriving in Iceland

The knight-errant stock character became the trope of the " knight in shining armour " in depiction of the Middle Ages in popular culture, and the term came to be used also outside of medieval drama, as in e. g. The Dark Knight as a title of Batman.

The depiction of a horned Moses was the normal medieval Western depiction of Moses, based on the description of Moses ' face as "" (" horned ") in the Latin Vulgate translation of Exodus.

In the purely literary sense, however, the depiction of Calormene religion may owe something to the bogey image of Islam found in medieval romances: see Mahound and Termagant.

Little is known about early medieval fencing techniques save for what may be concluded from archaeological evidence and artistic depiction ( see Viking Age arms and armour ).

He wrote Le Roman de la violette or Gérard de Nevers, one of the most outstanding medieval poems, famous for its vivid narrative and faithful depiction of contemporary customs.

This episode, though inaccurate in its depiction of an English nobleman in medieval times being the duke of anywhere within Scotland, takes the concept of the treacherous ( and illegitimate ) Edmund from King Lear further, and also satirizes the Medieval views of entertainment, such as bearded ladies and eunuchs.

In medieval and renaissance Europe, a number of visual signs are found that consist of three elements interlaced together in the same way that the Borromean rings are shown interlaced ( in their conventional two-dimensional depiction ), but the individual elements are not closed loops.

In about 1863, Tissot suddenly shifted his focus from the medieval style to the depiction of modern life through portraits.

A medieval depiction of Bernart de Ventadorn.

Some historians regard the play as highly inaccurate, especially in its depiction of medieval society.

A medieval depiction of the betrothal of Mary and Joseph from the Nuremberg Chronicle

19th century depiction of a medieval boy bishop, attended by his Canon ( priest ) | canons

Ecclesia et Synagoga, a medieval depiction comparing Jewish and Christian law on the façade of Notre Dame de Paris | Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris.

This 15th-century depiction of a Tournament ( medieval ) | tournament shows fully caparison ed Horses in the Middle Ages | horses

A specific historical context for this Anglo-Saxon inscription and depiction has been proposed, ( see references ), and an archaeological and historical context for an early medieval religious site, incorporating a post-Roman, pre-Norman church forming the focus for a significant large early Christian monastic estate.

Inspired by the Black Death, The Dance of Death, an allegory on the universality of death, is a common painting motif in the late medieval period.

Some medieval chronicles and literary works derive the name of the city of Buda from him. There is an ancient legend, amongst the Székely people that says: " After the death of Attila, in the bloody Battle of Krimhilda, 3000 Hun warriors managed to escape, to settle in a place called " Csigle mezo " ( today Transylvania ) and they changed their name from Huns to Szekler ( Szekely ).

Richard appears to have started to recognise John as his legitimate heir in the final years before his death, but the matter was not clear-cut and medieval law gave little guidance as to how the competing claims should be decided.

The term " Limbo of the Fathers " was a medieval name for the part of the underworld ( Hades ) where the patriarchs of the Old Testament were believed to be kept until Christ's soul descended into it by his death through crucifixion and freed them ( see Harrowing of Hell ).

Some of the earliest recorded speculations linked mind ( sometimes described as identical with soul or spirit ) to theories concerning both life after death, and cosmological and natural order, for example in the doctrines of Zoroaster, the Buddha, Plato, Aristotle, and other ancient Greek, Indian and, later, Islamic and medieval European philosophers.

After his death, it was rumored that John XXI had actually been a magician ( a suspicion frequently directed towards the few scholars among medieval popes even during their papacy ; cf.

In the 1980s, upon the death of one of the US Military men, the Theft of medieval art from Quedlinburg came to light.

Known as Adalbert of Prague upon the death of Adalbert of Magdeburg in 981, Adalbert's mission took place in 997 and ended in the missionary's martyrdom at the hands of the pagan Prussians, which occurred in April 997 on the Baltic Sea coast in the vicinity of Truso ( a medieval emporia near modern city of Elbląg ).

There remain 17 fragments ( preserved in ancient anthologies ) and the Epitaph of Adonis, a mythological poem on the death of Adonis and the lament of Aphrodite ( preserved in several late medieval manuscripts of bucolic poetry ).

Interpretations of the unicorn myth focus on the medieval lore of beguiled lovers, whereas some religious writers interpret the unicorn and its death as the Passion of Christ.

During the medieval and early modern period, the penalty for sodomy was usually death.

After his death he became one of the most important medieval saints of England, with a cult centred at Durham Cathedral.

Sirens continued to be used as a symbol for the dangerous temptation embodied by women regularly throughout Christian art of the medieval era ; however, in the 17th century, some Jesuit writers began to assert their actual existence, including Cornelius a Lapide, who said of Woman, " her glance is that of the fabled basilisk, her voice a siren's voice — with her voice she enchants, with her beauty she deprives of reason — voice and sight alike deal destruction and death.

It was interpreted with concurrent meanings in all four modes of medieval exegesis: literally as historical fact, and allegorically as the death of the ancient order at the coming of the new.

Lleu's death is alluded to in a number of times in medieval texts.

The figure of the doomed sinner, forced to wander without the hope of rest in death till the second coming of Christ, impressed itself upon the popular medieval imagination, mainly with reference to the seeming immortality of the wandering Jewish people.

In one example, Pugin contrasted a medieval monastic foundation, where monks fed and clothed the needy, grew food in the gardens – and gave the dead a decent burial – with " a panopticon workhouse where the poor were beaten, half starved and sent off after death for dissection.

His death was ( unusually ) dramatised in a medieval mystery play cycle from Cornwall, the Cornish Ordinalia.

Roland's death during retreat from the Battle of Roncevaux Pass in Iberia was transmogrified in later medieval and Renaissance literature.

In the medieval tradition, a spring would always be found in connection to the death of a saint.

His followers commissioned Stephen of Ripon to write a Vita Sancti Wilfrithi ( or Life of Wilfrid ) shortly after his death, and the medieval historian Bede also wrote extensively about him.

The main sources for knowledge of Wilfrid are the medieval Vita Sancti Wilfrithi, written by Stephen of Ripon soon after Wilfrid's death, and the works of the medieval historian Bede, who knew Wilfrid during the bishop's lifetime.

Following Leland's death or ( more probably ) his descent into madness, King Edward VI arranged for Leland's library ( including many medieval manuscripts ) to be placed in the custody of Sir John Cheke.