He chose a medieval legend of incest, Gregorius Vom Stein, and freely borrowed and parodied other myths of the West, mixing themes, language, peoples and times in a master myth in which the old forms continually renew themselves, as in his previous treatment of Joseph.

The medieval parish church of Gunsbach was shared by the Protestant and Catholic congregations, which held their prayers in different areas at different times on Sundays.

The ceremony of the formal admission of a Benedictine abbot in medieval times is thus prescribed by the consuetudinary of Abingdon.

17th-19th century collections of alpine myths and legends suggest that alphorn-like instruments had frequently been used as signal instruments in village communities since medieval times or earlier, sometimes substituting for the lack of church bells.

No larger settlements, however, have been found to have existed in this remote rural area, located at least 15 km from the nearest road even in Roman times, up to the early medieval period when the place is mentioned as a king's mansion for the first time, not long before Charlemagne became ruler of the Germanic Franks.

In early medieval times, Argovia or Argowe was a disputed border region between the duchies of Alamannia and Burgundy.

Belief in the possibility of continued prophetic inspiration, and in its actual occurrence appear throughout much of the medieval period, and even in modern times.

The name Altair has been used since medieval times.

Due to the rich mining history dating from medieval times ( the Black Forest was one of the most important mining regions of Europe circa 1100 ) there are many mines re-opened to the public.

In medieval times there was evidence of a preference for linear planning.

The spine could be used for the incipit, before the concept of a proper title was developed, during medieval times.

In medieval times, Roman nobility gained influence.

In the medieval times, the identification of these stars with the dogs of Boötes arose through a mistranslation.

It is likely the Pope in modern ages is much more powerful than those in medieval times.

As UCLA law professor Stephen Yeazell has pointed out, the most likely reason is that the abysmally poor transportation, communications, and administrative apparatus of medieval times made it impossible for the English sovereign to directly manage the entire country in terms of individuals ; it was easier to structure society by imposing obligations upon groups which were enforced by the sporadic use of force.

Even past the medieval times, characteristics of a closed social systems that define any caste system, existed in England through the modern times.

After the Roman empire, hierarchical castes continued in Italy from ancient times to the medieval times.

The site had been occupied by the village of Kastri since medieval times.

In medieval times Delphi was also called Kastri and was built on the archaeological site.

Some have theorized it emerged from the overwhelming influence of Low German in medieval times, having flattened the originally Nordic melodic accent, but stød is absent in most southern Danish dialects where Low German impact would have been the greatest.

Notwithstanding Dartmouth's connections with the crown and respectable society, it was a major base for privateering in medieval times.

Smith Street was also the site of the town pillory in medieval times.

In Roman and medieval times, ships tended to dock at small quays in the present-day city of London or Southwark, an area known as the Pool of London.

The earliest known activity on the site was a medieval mill race which supplied water to power the corn mill at Kirkstall Abbey.

There were medieval corn mills at Bradfield, Damflask and Owlerton, and cutlers wheels were in use at Wisewood in 1521, at Ashton Carr in 1549, and at Slack Wheel, near the confluence with the Don, in 1581.

In medieval times there was a mill by the Irk at which the tenants of the manor had grind their corn and its fisheries were controlled by the lord of the manor.

This is nothing like most " medieval restaurants " which have wenches dressed in ren-faire bodices and sandals tossing down platters of new world food like corn and turkey legs, which they expect you to eat entirely with your hands.

The weir of a medieval corn mill that is located near modern-day High Mill has been dated back to 1315, and is one of the oldest medieval structures in the village.

From medieval times, the river supported a very large number of water mills for grinding corn.

Florence replaced Turin as Italy's capital in 1865 and, in an effort to modernise the city, the old market in the Piazza del Mercato Vecchio and many medieval houses were pulled down and replaced by a more formal street plan with newer houses.

However, almost all high medieval armies in Europe were composed of a great deal of paid core troops, and there was a large mercenary market in Europe from at least the early 12th century.

Manorialism, an essential element of feudal society, was the organizing principle of rural economy that originated in the villa system of the Late Roman Empire, was widely practised in medieval western and parts of central Europe, and was slowly replaced by the advent of a money-based market economy and new forms of agrarian contract.

Slave market in early medieval Eastern Europe.

According to the legendarium recorded in the 12th-century Gesta Treverorum, the city was founded by an eponymous otherwise unrecorded Trebeta, an Assyrian prince, placing the city's founding legend centuries before and independently of ancient Rome: a medieval inscription on the facade of the Red House in Trier market,

These claims can be sold and quickly ( before 1320 ) give rise to the first recorded secondary market for financial assets in medieval Europe.

Port Talbot grew out of the original small port and market town of Aberavon, which belonged to the medieval Lords of Afan.

Stratford has Anglo-Saxon origins, and grew up as a market town in medieval times.

In the medieval period, Dorking was a prosperous agricultural and market town, benefiting from its position on the junction of a number of important roads and tracks.

Also in the market place is The Shambles, a medieval market stall, although it has been much restored.

In medieval times, it hosted a weekly market, held between at least the start of the fourteenth century and around the mid-fifteenth century, and was also the site of an annual fair beginning on the eve of the feast of St Michael ( later moving to the Sunday after Relic Sunday in July and still celebrated in the nineteenth century ).

Acquiring such feudal rights was regarded as essential to establish a family in the status and dignity of the late medieval gentry ; but for a long period freehold manorial estates had been very rare in the market ; and families of all kinds seized on the opportunity now offered to entrench their position in the social scale.

The wool trade had been an important one in the coastal trading towns of Dumfriesshire and Kirkcudbright since medieval times and by the 18th century Sanquhar had developed as an inland market centre.

As with many of the other market towns in the county, the weaving of local cloth brought prosperity to the town in medieval times.

The rights of the stallholders in the market place today date back to the rights established in medieval times.

Market town or market right is a legal term, originating in the medieval period, for a European settlement that has the right to host markets, distinguishing it from a village and city.

In Norway the medieval market town ( Norwegian kjøpstad from the old Norse kaupstaðr ) was a town which had been granted commerce privileges by the king or other authorities.

Much of the Stanegate provided the foundation for the Carelgate ( or Carlisle Road ), a medieval road running from Corbridge market place and joining the Stanegate west of Corstopitum.

There has been a market held in the High Street since at least medieval times.

Etterbeek hosts an annual medieval market at the end of May on the Avenue du 2ème Régiment de Lanciers in the south of the municipality.

Highburton Cross: Marking the site of the medieval market, the steps at the base probably date from the 14th century, the shaft and ball from the 18th or 19th.

In common with many similar medieval towns, Leatherhead had a market house and set of stocks, probably located at the junction of Bridge Street, North Street and High Street.

The market place is also surrounded by medieval houses.

The prosperity of the medieval market town and centre of the Swaledale wool industry greatly increased in the late 17th and 18th centuries with the burgeoning lead mining industry in nearby Arkengarthdale.