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, 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.

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.

The emir agrees to convert to Christianity for the sake of the daughter and resettle in Romania ( Ρωμανία, the lands of the Ρωμηοί or mediaeval and early modern Greeks ) together with his people.

As late as mediaeval era, the Kamboja cavalry had also formed part of the Gurjara-Pratihara armed forces in 8th / 10th centuries AD.

His characterisations also can be comic, giving his prose a baroque / mediaeval tinge.

As the monastery's highly literate herbalist / gardener, holding a rare skill set in demand in both town and abbey, Cadfael is the equivalent of the mediaeval physician, possessing an independent authority that sets him aside from his fellows.

The V & A presented a combined concert / lecture by British progressive folk-rock band Gryphon, who explored the lineage of mediaeval music and instrumentation and related how those contributed to contemporary music 500 years later.

On a circular mound next to the mediaeval church, there is an earthwork called Camp Green, which is thought to be a fortification built by the Danes around 850 CE ( This is scheduled as a Norman ringwork castle of the C11 / C12.

Josephus names Astyages as the father of Darius the Mede, and the description of the latter as uncle and father-in-law of Cyrus by mediaeval Jewish commentators matches that of Cyaxares II, who is said to be the son of Astyages by Xenophon.

According to several mediaeval Irish chronicles, most notably the Auraicept na n-Éces and Lebor Gabála Érenn, the Irish race are a composite including descendants of Japheth's son Magog from " Scythia ".

It is copied from the mediaeval chimneypiece in the Bishop's Palace, Exeter, installed c. 1485 by Peter Courtenay ( d. 1492 ) Bishop of Exeter, a younger son of Sir Philip Courtenay ( 1404 – 1463 ) of Powderham.

Elishah was the son of Javan according to the Book of Genesis ( 10: 4 ) as well as the mediaeval, rabbinic Book of Jasher ; he is said in Jasher to have been the ancestor of the " Almanim ", possibly a reference to Germanic tribes ( Alamanni ).

The design is copied from the mediaeval chimneypiece in the Bishop's Palace, Exeter, installed c. 1485 by Peter Courtenay ( d. 1492 ) Bishop of Exeter, a younger son of Sir Philip Courtenay ( 1404 – 1463 ) of Powderham.

The mediaeval period thus is the mid-time of the traditional division of Western history into Classical, Medieval, and Modern periods ; moreover, the Middle Ages usually is divided into the Early Middle Ages, the High Middle Ages, and the Late Middle Ages.

Establishing the end of the mediaeval era and the beginning of the Renaissance is difficult ; the usage in this article is the one usually adopted by musicologists.

A modern replica has been built as a tourist attraction in a theme park in downtown Gol ; the replica is far from the original site of the mediaeval church.

They are called thus from their Latin name litterae patentes long used by mediaeval and later scribes when such documents were written in Latin, expressed in the plural, in the ancient sense of a collection of letters of the alphabet arranged to be read rather than in the modern sense of the word as an " epistle " or item of correspondence ; thus no singular form exists.

The work was popular and was widely distributed, showing that it catered well to the tastes of the times ; it was perhaps the second largest late mediaeval best-seller, second only to the Golden Legend of Jacobus de Voragine.

The earliest surviving buildings of the town are the medieval church of St Edburg ; the vicarage of 1500 and two post Dissolution houses in the former Priory Precinct constructed from reused mediaeval material.

In 1170, Henry the Young King, heir to the throne, was crowned as a second king of England, subordinate to his father Henry II ; such coronations were common practice in mediaeval France and Germany, but this is only one of two instances of its kind in England ( the other being that of Ecgfrith of Mercia in 796, crowned whilst his father, Offa of Mercia, was still alive ).

* the independent mediaeval state of Croatia founded in the ninth century ;

For example, the small village of Norton, Hertfordshire, contains the mediaeval church of St Nicholas, which served it adequately for centuries ; but when the large new town of Letchworth was built, partly within the parish, St Nicholas's became too small to serve the increased population.

In 1879 he became a professor at Bordeaux and in 1889 professor of mediaeval history at the Sorbonne ; in 1895 he became a member of the Académie des sciences morales et politiques, where he obtained the Jean Reynaud prize just before his death.

Sites of particular interest include: Hakoinen fortress hill and manor house, the latter being privately owned ; St Lauri's ( Lawrence's ) mediaeval stone church ; the Torppari Museo ( authentic wooden village buildings and windmill ) and numerous Bronze Age sacrifice stones, all in Janakkala village.

Not much remains of the mediaeval chapel ; only the Gothic quire is still preserved, likely built early in the 14th century.

Two versions of the game were originally created: a " formal piece " using three-dimensional wooden models of mediaeval buildings and towers ; and an " abstract piece " consisting of two-dimensional squares.

During the mediaeval period, the church " changed hands " several times, revenues being received by the Prior of Bermondsey in the 12th century, and then by the Hospital of the Holy Ghost in Rome from the early 13th ; the turbulent reign of Richard II saw the church being seized by the king, eventually coming under the control of William of Wykeham's New College, Oxford in 1399.

* Le Strange, Guy ( 1890 ) Palestine under the Moslems: a description of Syria and the Holy Land from A. D. 650 to 1500 ; translated from the works of the mediaeval Arab geographers.

The north side is formed by the great hall of Westminster School ( originally the monks ' dormitory ), and the houses of the Abbey canons ; the east and south sides are a mediaeval wall with a watergate which formerly opened into the River Thames, now embanked fifty yards away beyond the House of Lords.

Women occasionally commanded besieged mediaeval garrisons, for if the lord of a castle were away his wife might be left in charge ; but Agnes ’ s is one of the few sieges which has been widely remembered.

Many of the present street names derive from families living in Bloxham in the early 16th century, e. g. Humber, Job and Budd Lane ; although these may remain from mediaeval times they were not documented until 1700.

Amongst modern " folkies " and neo-pagans the Jack in the Green has become identified with the mysterious Green Man depicted in mediaeval church carvings and is widely felt to be an embodiment of natural fertility, a spirit of the primeval greenwood and a trickster ; by extension he is linked to such mythological characters as Puck, Robin Goodfellow, Robin Hood, the wild man, and the Green Knight, among others such as the folklore behind the legend of Robin Hood.

Popular modern usage favours Cotton Thistle Onopordum acanthium, perhaps because of its more imposing appearance, though it is unlikely to have occurred in Scotland in mediaeval times ; the Spear Thistle Cirsium vulgare, an abundant native species in Scotland, is a more likely candidate.