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In mediaeval times, Alnwick was a walled town ( although fluctuating economic situations in the Middle Ages meant the walls were never completed ), and one remain — Hotspur Tower, a mediaeval gate — is extant, dividing Bondgate Within from Bondgate Without, and restricting vehicles to a single lane used alternately in each direction.
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The danse macabre combines both desires: in many ways similar to the mediaeval mystery plays, the dance-with-death allegory was originally a didactic dialogue poem to remind people of the inevitability of death and to advise them strongly to be prepared at all times for death ( see memento mori and Ars moriendi ).
One of the flute's predecessors, the pan flute, was popular in mediaeval times, and is possibly of Hellenic origin.
The word σκλάβος, in turn, comes from the ethnonym Slav, because in some wars in early mediaeval times many Slavs were captured and enslaved.
Monmouth had a mayor and burgesses in mediaeval times, and the town gained its first charter, from Henry VI, in 1447.
Olav was the first heir to the throne since mediaeval times to grow up in Norway.
As was the case in many Mediterranean lands in mediaeval times, monks were the main practitioners of winemaking in La Rioja and great advocates of its virtues.
Tourist attractions include the Dornburg ( 394 metres ), site of some Celtic ruins from La Tène times ( 5th to 1st century BC ), found in the community of the same name, and Limburg an der Lahn, a town with a mediaeval centre.
Streatham's first parish church, St Leonard's, dates back to Saxon times, although only the mediaeval tower remains in the present church.
Though the alleged Hebrew original of the document is attributed to Nicodemus, the title Gospel of Nicodemus for this fictional account only appeared in mediaeval times, after the document had been substantially elaborated.
The town dates back to approximately AD 600, and over the centuries has thrived as an agricultural centre ; as the location of Alnwick Castle and home of what were in mediaeval times the most powerful northern barons, the Earls of Northumberland ; as a staging post on the Great North Road between Edinburgh and London, and latterly as a modern rural centre cum dormitory town.
In mediaeval times the Church was known for healing miracles: it was said that infertile women visiting the church were later able to conceive.
This system prevented the establishment of a feudalistic system in East Frisia during mediaeval times.
One article in 1998, proposing the existence of Rites of Same Sex Union ( in effect gay marriages ) in early Christian prayerbooks up to mediaeval times, caused a controversy.
Since the mediaeval times the title was used even by rulers of smaller states since they claimed to be the descendants of the ancient maharajas.
Schaumburg Castle, in mediaeval times the seat of the Counts of Schaumburg, is located on the Nesselberg (" nettle mountain ") in Schaumburg, a locality in the town of Rinteln.
Poperinge ( also spelled Poperinghe in the past ) is a municipality located in the Belgian province of West Flanders, Flemish Region, and has a history going back to mediaeval times.
The carillon in the tower of the town's oldest church, Sint-Bertinuskerk, was noted as one of the most beautiful in Flanders in mediaeval times.
The ferry service at Tranmere, which had operated since mediaeval times, closed in 1897.
Ever since the settlement in mediaeval times, the Ore Mountains were farmed intensively.
A historical curiosity about Southam is that in mediaeval times, the town minted its own local currency.
A tradition says that Walther, one of the ten Old Masters, was a Landherr ( land owner ) from Bohemia, which does not contradict his possible origin in the Waldviertel, because in mediaeval times the Waldviertel was from time to time denoted as versus boemiam.
In positioning Velikovsky among catastrophists including Hans Bellamy, Ignatius Donnelly, and Johann Gottlieb Radlof, the British astronomers Victor Clube and Bill Napier noted "... Velikovsky is not so much the first of the new catastrophists ...; he is the last in a line of traditional catastrophists going back to mediaeval times and probably earlier.
In mediaeval times, peasants used to hit a ball against their chapel wall as a form of entertainment.
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* the Alnwick Castle Tournament – a mediaeval jousting spectacular in the grounds of Alnwick Castle
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Historic Swabia was eventually replaced by today's Baden-Württemberg, but it had been the most significant territory of mediaeval Alamannia, comprising all Germania Superior and territory east to Bavaria.
" In 2 Maccabees, a deuterocanonical book of the Bible, the grim martyrdom of a mother and her seven sons is described, and was a well-known mediaeval subject.
In the Middle Ages, Glagolitsa was also known as " St. Jerome's script " due to popular mediaeval legend ( created by Croatian scribes in 13th century ) ascribing its invention to St Jerome ( 342-429 ).
Once in an area of great wealth, the demise of the mediaeval wool trade was indirectly the saving of the village, ( as we know it today ), since the locals were unable to afford the expense of upgrading their houses with the latest architectural fashions.
The ruling class among the mediaeval townsfolk were rich merchant families whose houses stood right near the castle tower and were surrounded by the first town wall once it was built.
During the earlier mediaeval period, the liturgical genre, predominantly Gregorian chant, was monophonic.
Of greater sophistication was the motet, which developed from the clausula genre of mediaeval plainchant and would become the most popular form of mediaeval polyphony.
One of the prime issues confronting mediaeval miners ( and one which Agricola explains in detail ) was the removal of water from mining shafts.
He celebrated the occasion by striking the earliest papal coin, and in a mark of the direction the mediaeval papacy was to take, no longer dated his documents by the Emperor in the east, but by the reign of Charles, king of the Franks.
The mediaeval House of Lords chamber, which had been the target of the failed Gunpowder Plot of 1605, was demolished as part of this work in order to create a new Royal Gallery and ceremonial entrance at the southern end of the palace.
They adopted the term (" the Third Empire " – usually rendered in English in the partial-translation " the Third Reich "), first used in a 1923 novel by Arthur Moeller van den Bruck, that counted the mediaeval Holy Roman Empire as the first and the 1871-1918 monarchy as the second, which was then to be followed by a " reinvigorated " third one.
His friend, historian Henry Adams, proclaimed, " Roosevelt, more than any other living man .... showed the singular primitive quality that belongs to ultimate matterthe quality that mediaeval theology assigned to Godhe was pure act.
He is the first known Oxford Master of Arts and the site where he lived and taught was formed into a mediaeval academic hall in his name and eventually incorporated as the current college St Edmund Hall.
The Chapel of St John's College is entered by the north west-corner of First Court, and was constructed between 1866-9 in order to replace the smaller, mediaeval chapel which dated back to the 13th-century.
There then arose a mediaeval town whose highest governing body was its council.
The original design was by Antonio and Aristotile da Sangallo, and included the Porta Marzia ( 3rd century BC ), the tower of Gentile Baglioni's house and a mediaeval cellar.
As early as the time of Augustus, a public basilica for transacting business had been part of any settlement that considered itself a city, used in the same way as the late mediaeval covered market houses of northern Europe, where the meeting room, for lack of urban space, was set above the arcades, however.
The Old Norse name for Norway was Nóregr, in Anglo-Saxon Norþ weg, and in mediaeval Latin Northvegia.
Diaper was particularly used in mediaeval stained glass to increase the vividness of a coloured pane, for example the field in a shield of arms.
It was an early mediaeval town in the valley of the Mleczna River ( approximately at the location of present-day Old Town ).
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