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.

Neighbouring St Fillan's Church is one of the best-preserved medieval parish churches in Scotland, dating largely to the 12th century.

The forms of parish worship in the late medieval church in England, which followed the Latin Roman Rite, varied according to local practice.

The whole act of parish worship might take well over two hours ; and accordingly, churches were equipped with pews in which households could sit together ( whereas in the medieval church, men and women had worshipped separately ).

During much of the later medieval period it was known colloquially by its Scots-speaking inhabitants as " St. John's Toun " or " Saint Johnstoun " because the church at the centre of the parish was dedicated to St. John the Baptist.

Stirling also has its medieval parish church, The Church of the Holy Rude, where King James VI was crowned King of Scots on 29 July 1567.

The first ' Bermondsey ' is that known as the location of an Anglo-Saxon monastery, and known from later charters to be the area around the post-Conquest Bermondsey Abbey and its manor, which was in turn part of the medieval parish.

Sited closer to the original Keston Court than the main village itself, Keston's small medieval church is unusual in that does not have a dedication to a saint, but built into the altar-table is the top of the 17th century altar inlaid with a very elaborate cross and inscribed " The Keston Marke: IN HOC SIGNO VINCES ", so the parish has a distinctive symbol instead.

* Hornsey ( parish ) for the local government unit of which Muswell Hill was part from medieval times to 1867

St Pancras was originally a medieval parish, which ran from close to what is now Oxford Street north as far as Highgate, and from what is now Regent's Park in the west to the road now known as York Way in the east, boundaries which take in much of the current London Borough of Camden, including the central part of it.

The medieval parish of Shoreditch ( St Leonard's ), was once part of the county of Middlesex but became part of the new County of London in 1889.

Part of Ludham Airstrip, a now shrunken remnant of a larger World War II airbase, is also built on parish lands, and there were a number of defensive structures around the medieval bridge.

The largely medieval church of the Holy Cross was initially a chapel of ease to the parish church at Llanblethian.

Within the municipality there are four churches ; of those the church in Trosa rural parish is from the 13th century ; Västerljung's Church is also from the medieval age ; and the Trosa church is one of few 18th century churches in the area.

A church was erected on the site of the medieval parish church in 1730, and almost within a century that church was ruinous, for a third parish church was built close by in 1850.

As its name indicates, Church Street was at the heart of the original settlement of Uckfield, near the medieval chapel ( built c. 1291 ), which was replaced by the present parish church in 1839.

In the parish church of St. Nicholas can be found the ornate tomb of Sir William Paston ; the remains of medieval painted screens ; a telescopic Gothic font canopy ; a unique Royal Arms Board ; an ancient iron bound chest ; and many other ancient artifacts.

The principal parish church for Acomb is St Stephen's, a Grade II listed building built in 1831-1832 by G T Andrews on the site of the previous medieval church.

In medieval times Frodsham was an important borough and port belonging to the Earls of Chester Its parish church, St. Laurence's, still exhibits evidence of a building present in the 12th century in its nave and is referenced in the Domesday Book.

Widespread in 10th century Anglo-Saxon England, minsters declined in importance with the systematic introduction of parishes and parish churches from the 11th century onwards ; but remained a title of diginity in later medieval England for instances where a cathedral, monastery, collegiate church or parish church had originated with an Anglo-Saxon foundation.

It was built in the 15th and early 16th centuries, when it was the parish church of the prosperous medieval town.

The church has other artefacts of medieval Rugby including the 13th-century parish chest, and a medieval font.