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.

Hand-spinning was a cottage industry in medieval Europe, where the wool spinners ( often women and children ) would provide enough yarn to service the needs of the men who operated the loom.

During the late medieval period, cotton became known as an imported fiber in northern Europe, without any knowledge of how it was derived, other than that it was a plant ; noting its similarities to wool, people in the region could only imagine that cotton must be produced by plant-borne sheep.

The importance of these markets and fairs for the sale of wool and wine, and later of cloth in declined after medieval times.

In medieval times Cottbus was known for wool, and the town's drapery was exported all over the Brandenburg, Bohemia and Saxony.

In medieval times, the abbey became rich through fishing and trading in sheep wool, although the Black Death killed two abbots and many monks — by 1377 there were only fourteen monks at Buckfast.

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.

There is also a medieval reservoir and a mill for wool washing.

Dunwich, the capital of the English medieval wool trade, disappeared over the period of a few centuries due to redistribution of sediment by waves.

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.

The primary industries of the town in medieval times were flour production, woodworking and weaving of wool.

In the medieval period the primary trade in Saffron Walden was in wool However, in the 16th century and 17th century the saffron crocus ( crocus sativus ) became widely grown in the area.

In medieval times, the abbey became rich through fishing and trading in sheep wool, although the Black Death killed two abbots and many monks — by 1377 there were only fourteen monks at Buckfast.

Other attractions include the grand early perpendicular wool church of St James – with its medieval altar frontals ( c. 1500 ), cope ( c. 1400 ) and vast and extravagant 17th century monuments to local wealthy silk merchant Sir Baptist Hicks and his family – the Almshouses and Woolstaplers Hall.

Like many towns in the West Country, Okehampton grew on the medieval wool trade.

* Merchants of the Staple, an English company which controlled the export of wool to the continent during the late medieval period

The prosperity of medieval Shepshed was based on the wool industry and " Well Yard " on Forest Street may well be a corruption of " Wool Yard ", where Bradford wool merchants congregated to buy from local inhabitants.

William founded Newport as the new capital of the Marcher Lordship of Cemais and it was a busy port founded primarily on the growing medieval wool trade.

German medieval scale for weighting bales of wool.

In medieval times ( c. 11th – 15th century ), the wool trade was the major industry of England and the country exported wool to Europe.

The church stands as testimony to the wool business and its dizzying success in medieval times.

Another grand Suffolk wool church is St. Edmund in Southwold, which boasts extraordinary painted chancel screens, although nearly all the medieval stained glass is gone, thanks to zealous Puritans during Cromwell's reign.

Typical of a ' wool church ,' St. Agnes's scale is far grander than what the modest medieval village required.