Parliament has held the power of impeachment since mediæval times.

A number of legislatures have existed in Ireland since mediæval times.

Since the monastic Christmas revels of mediæval times, Latin plays have been presented by the Scholars, with a prologue and witty epilogue on contemporary events.

The town of Hastings was the head port of the Cinque Ports in mediæval times.

From mediæval times, Chepstow was the largest port in Wales ; its ships sailed as far as Iceland and Turkey, as well as to France and Portugal, and the town was known for its imports of wine.

Chepstow developed from mediæval times as a port and trading centre.

Along with the products of many other Livery Companies, girdles have become of less importance than in mediæval times.

The Masons ( entirely unrelated to the Freemasons ) were formed in mediæval times to regulate stonemasons.

A controversial new M3 motorway linking the towns of Cavan and Kells with Dublin is scheduled to cut through farmland within sight of Ardbraccan House and the ancient monastery site in Ardbraccan, before slicing through the archaeologically sensitive site of Tara, the capital of Ireland under the Árd Rí ( High King of Ireland ) in mediæval times.

El Misteri d ' Elx is an old, religious musical play that dates back to mediæval times.

In mediæval times Ashridge was the location of Ashridge Priory, a college of the monastic order of Bonhommes founded in 1283 by Edmund, 2nd Earl of Cornwall, who had a palace here.

Boroughs had existed in England and Wales since mediæval times.

One of the towns that prospered greatly from Wiltshire's wool trade in mediæval times, it maintained its prosperity after the decline of that trade through the quarrying of Bath stone, with underground mining works extending to the south and west of Corsham.

In mediæval times the symbols to represent words were widely used and the initial symbols, which were as low as 140 according to some sources, were expanded to 14, 000 by the Carolingians who used them in conjunction with other abbreviations.

Each papal tiara since early mediæval times contained two lappets.

While many early crowns were in uncovered circlet form ( and some European crowns continue to be in circlet form ( see Danish Crown Regalia ) from late mediæval times it became traditional to enclose the crown in a headcovering or cap, in part due to the drafty nature of mediæval cathedrals, castles, palaces and halls where crowns were worn.

By the middle of the 19th century, industrialisation swept away most of the city's medieval rules of production and commerce, although the entirely corrupt remains of the city's mediæval constitution was kept in place ( compare the famous remarks of Georg Forster in his Ansichten vom Niederrhein ) until 1801, when Aachen became the " chef-lieu du département de la Roer " in Napoléon's First French Empire.

In the mediæval days when monks inhabited the island, it was thought that if the soul was in God's keeping, the body must be fortified with Lindisfarne Mead.

As Tunis was Muslim territory, his body was subject to the process known as mos Teutonicus ( a postmortem funerary custom used in mediæval Europe whereby the flesh was boiled from the body, so that the bones of the deceased could be transported hygienically from distant lands back home.

To avoid the professional hazard of politicized history, some historians chose pre-modern, mediæval history or classical history, where ideological demands were relatively relaxed and conversation with other historians in the field could be fostered ; nevertheless, despite the potential danger of proscribed ideology corrupting historians ’ work, not all of Soviet historiography was corrupt.

According to the mediæval chronicler Berthold of Reichenau, the nobleman Burkhard I, Count of Zollern ( de Zolorin ) was born before 1025 and died in 1061.

Northumbria () was a mediæval kingdom of the Angles, in what is now Northern England and South-East Scotland, becoming subsequently an earldom in a united Anglo-Saxon kingdom of England.

Authorities such as Christopher Wren lent their aid in deprecating the old mediæval style, which they termed Gothic, as synonymous with everything that was barbarous and rude.

Widukind of Corvey ( c. 925after 973 ) was a mediæval Saxon chronicler.

The mediæval cottages were to have been replaced by a further classical range, but survived because money for this purpose was never available ; the Hall and Chapel, by James Wyatt, were not completed until the 1770s.

Ireland is notable in its rich hagiographical tradition, and for the large amount of material which was produced during the mediæval period.

Modelled and named after the laws of the German city of Magdeburg and developed during many centuries of the Holy Roman Empire, it was possibly the most important set of Germanic mediæval city laws.

Martin Luther's posting of his ninety-five theses to the church door in Wittenberg in 1517 was a direct consequence of the perfunctory sacramentalism and treasury doctrines of the mediæval church.

Banbury's mediæval prosperity was based on wool.

The " Lyme " section could refer to the Lyme Brook or the extensive Forest of Lyme that covered the area with lime trees in the mediæval periodThis is Newcastle-Under-Lyme Newcastle is named after a ‘ new castle ’ that was built in the area in the twelfth century.

Hence MPs faced each other from former pews, a seating arrangement continued when the new British Houses of Parliament were built in the mid-19th century after the mediæval building was destroyed by fire.

( 1 ) The existing narrow-streeted mediæval city required major redevelopment, and ( 2 ) major new development of residential areas was required.

A new body called the Wide Streets Commission was created to remodel the old mediæval city.

It was said by them to originate from a mythical " Bishop Golias ", a mediæval Latin form of the name Goliath, the giant who fought King David in the Bible, suggestive of their posing as heavy drinking yet learned students who lampooned the ecclesiastical and political establishment.

Scholarly opinions differ on the exact manner of recitation, but it is generally believed that the chansons de geste were originally sung ( whereas the medieval romances were probably spoken ) by poets, minstrels or jongleurs, who would sometimes accompany themselves, or be accompanied, on the vielle, a mediæval fiddle played with a bow.

Though the rebuilding ensured the survival of the Cathedral, the failure to preserve records of the scale of the rebuild means that little is known as to how much of the current building is genuinely mediæval and how much is Victorian pastiche.

This was the " Old Jerusalem Tavern ", a now defunct public house occupying what had once been the gatehouse to the ancient Clerkenwell Priory, the mediæval Grand Priory of the Knights Hospitaller, otherwise known as the Knights of Saint John.

* Three zoos, the Parc zoologique de Paris ( also known as the Zoo de Vincennes ), at the Bois de Vincennes in the XIIe arrondissement, the Parc zoologique de Clères, at a mediæval manor in Clères ( Seine-Maritime ) and the Réserve de la Haute Touche in Obterre ( Indre ), the largest in France,

* Brute of Troy, a legendary descendant of the Trojan hero Æneas, known in mediæval British legend as the founder and first king of Britain

South Godstone was originally known as Lagham and centred on the old mediæval moated manor house of Lagham, a scheduled ancient monument and Grade II * listed building.

Many societies exist that also aid in the design and registration of personal arms, and some nations, like England and Scotland, still maintain to this day the mediæval authorities that grant and regulate arms.

In Anglo-Saxon and mediæval England, Hagiography became a literary genre par excellence for the teaching of a largely illiterate audience.

Pembroke Castle, the remains of a stone mediæval castle was the birthplace of King Henry VII of England.

The root of the presence of Crown ministers in the Commonwealth realms lies in mediæval England, where monarchs often headed cabinets, which consisted of ministers who advised the monarch and implemented his decisions.

Pevensey, on the southeast coast of England, is the site of a mediæval castle that figures importantly in British history at several points.

The History of Anglo-Saxon England covers the history of mediæval England from the end of Roman Britain and the establishment of Anglo-Saxon kingdoms in the 5th century until the conquest by the Normans in 1066.

The mediæval Church of England was organized into 17 dioceses.

The cathedral was designed in the Gothic style of early Fourteenth Century, based on the great mediæval cathedrals of England, a style at the height of its popularity in the mid 19th century.

The modern border between Wales and England was largely defined by the Laws in Wales Acts 1535-1542, based on the boundaries of mediæval Marcher lordships.