There had been settlement on this part of the Abens river since long before the High Middle Ages, dating back to Neolithic times.

Private and alternative education institutions for children in preschool-12th grade include Regents School of Austin, Redeemer Lutheran School, Garza ( public ), Austin Discovery School ( public charter ), Austin Jewish Academy, The Austin Waldorf School, The Griffin School, The Khabele School, Concordia Academy, St. Ignatius Martyr Catholic School, Holy Family Catholic School, San Juan Diego Catholic High School, Brentwood Christian School, St. Austin Catholic School, St. Stephen's Episcopal School, St. Mary's, St. Theresa's, St. Michael's Catholic Academy, St. Gabriel's Catholic School, St. Andrew's Episcopal School, St. Francis Episcopal School, Saint Paul Lutheran School, Trinity Episcopal School, Huntington-Surrey, Cleaview Sudbury School, The Inside Outside School, ACE Academy, Paragon Preparatory Middle School, Austin International School, The Progress School and a number of Montessori schools.

The first known use of the word ball in English in the sense of a globular body that is played with was in 1205 in in the phrase, "" The word came from the Middle English bal ( inflected as ball-e ,-es, in turn from Old Norse böllr ( pronounced ; compare Old Swedish baller, and Swedish boll ) from Proto-Germanic ballu-z, ( whence probably Middle High German bal, ball-es, Middle Dutch bal ), a cognate with Old High German ballo, pallo, Middle High German balle from Proto-Germanic * ballon ( weak masculine ), and Old High German ballâ, pallâ, Middle High German balle, Proto-Germanic * ballôn ( weak feminine ).

Scotland is often said to use the civil law system but it has a unique system that combines elements of an uncodified civil law dating back to the Corpus Juris Civilis with an element of common law long predating the Treaty of Union with England in 1707 ( see Legal institutions of Scotland in the High Middle Ages ).

Modern versions typically retain Camelot's lack of precise location and its status as a symbol of the Arthurian world, though they typically transform the castle itself into romantically lavish visions of a High Middle Ages palace.

* Heresies of the High Middle Ages, Walter Wakefield and Austin P. Evans.

The Cathars: Dualist heretics in Languedoc in the High Middle Ages.

During the High Middle Ages, Chartres Cathedral operated the famous and influential Chartres Cathedral School.

During the XII and XIII centuries many encyclopedic works have been written. Among them De proprietatibus rerum by Bartholomeus Anglicus ' ( 1240 ) was the most widely read and quoted encyclopedia in the High Middle Ages while Vincent of Beauvais's Speculum Majus ( 1260 ) was the most ambitious encyclopedia in the late-medieval period at over 3 million words.

Eleanor of Aquitaine () ( 1122 or 1124 – 1 April 1204 ) was one of the wealthiest and most powerful women in Western Europe during the High Middle Ages.

The practice of first aid fell largely in to disuse during the High Middle Ages, and organized societies were not seen again until in 1859 Jean-Henri Dunant organized local villagers to help victims of the Battle of Solferino, including the provision of first aid.

Category: High Middle Ages

During the High Middle Ages flags came to be used primarily as a heraldic device in battle, allowing more easily to identify a knight than only from the heraldic device painted on the shield.

The wool industry, originally established at Bruges, created the first European industrialized zone in Ghent in the High Middle Ages.

The first treatises on Hebrew grammar appeared in the High Middle Ages, in the context of Mishnah ( exegesis of the Hebrew Bible ).

Treatment of vernaculars began gradually during the High Middle Ages, with isolated works such as the First Grammatical Treatise, but became influential only in the Renaissance and Baroque periods.

An early flowering of German literature is the Middle High German period of the High Middle Ages.

In addition, Gesta Danorum offers singular reflections on European affairs in the High Middle Ages from a unique Scandinavian perspective, supplementing what has been handed down by historians from Western and Southern Europe.

Eastern Europe in the High Middle Ages was dominated by the rise, and later fall, of the Mongol Empire.

In the High Middle Ages, the dukes and princes of the empire gained power at the expense of the emperors.

The House of Hohenstaufen, also known as the Swabian dynasty or the Staufer, was a dynasty of German monarchs in the High Middle Ages, reigning from 1138 to 1254.

The first treatises on Hebrew grammar appear in the High Middle Ages, in the context of Midrash ( a method of interpreting and studying the Hebrew Bible ).

The " difficulty " of English as a written language thus began in the High Middle Ages, when French orthographic conventions were used to spell a language whose original, more suitable orthography had been forgotten after centuries of nonuse.

A Middle High German version was described as " Perhaps the flower of religious literary creativity in the German Middle Ages " by Heinrich Heine.

During the High Middle Ages, knighthood was considered a class of lower nobility.

The Salian dynasty Salier was a dynasty in the High Middle Ages of four German Kings ( 1024 – 1125 ), also known as the Frankish dynasty after the family's origin and role as dukes of Franconia.

The franchise's first home game at Mile High Stadium, and first win in franchise history, came four days later with an 11 – 4 win over the Montreal Expos.

High productivity came about thanks to the transition to more productive steam-powered boats, while the rest of Europe's fishing fleets were slower because they were still powered by sails.

Bogart's breakthrough as a leading man came in 1941, with High Sierra and The Maltese Falcon.

The first release as Irresistible Force was the single, " I Want To " ( 1988 ), but success came with the first album, Flying High, released in 1992 on Rising High Records.

Then came private Mass or spiritual reading or work until 9am when the office of Terce was said, and then High Mass.

Tanganyika as a geographical and political entity did not take shape before the period of High Imperialism ; its name only came into use after German East Africa was transferred to the United Kingdom as a mandate by the League of Nations in 1920.

High costs of the war came to burden the Dutch economy, fueling public resentment.

Funding for the development of Mosaic came from the High-Performance Computing and Communications Initiative, a program created by the High Performance Computing and Communication Act of 1991.

His first book of poetry, The North Ship, was published in 1945, followed by two novels, Jill ( 1946 ) and A Girl in Winter ( 1947 ), but he came to prominence in 1955 with the publication of his second collection of poems, The Less Deceived, followed by The Whitsun Weddings ( 1964 ) and High Windows ( 1974 ).

The first international co-ordination on refugee affairs came with the League of Nations ' appointment of Fridtjof Nansen to the newly created post of High Commissioner for Refugees.

Upon his death, the line of the Silesian Piasts fragmented into numerous Dukes of Silesia, who ( except for Henry's grandson Henry IV Probus ) were no longer able to prevail as Polish High Dukes and subsequently came under the influence of the neighbouring Kingdom of Bohemia.

In chapter 49, High describes that when Odin and his wife Frigg arrived at the funeral of their slain son Baldr, with them came the valkyries and also Odin's ravens.

At the age of 15, Wright, whilst attending Markethill High School, took a part-time job as a farm labourer where he came into contact with a number of staunchly unionist and loyalist farmers who served with the Royal Ulster Constabulary ( RUC ) Reserve or the Ulster Defence Regiment ( UDR ).

He was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actor five times, four of which came in his first five years of film acting: for The Keys of the Kingdom ( 1944 ), The Yearling ( 1946 ), Gentleman's Agreement ( 1947 ), and Twelve O ' Clock High ( 1949 ).

By doing so, he came into conflict with High King Máel Sechnaill mac Domnaill whose power base was the Province of Meath.

The French historian Fernand Braudel, in his famous volume on Mediterranean civilisation, describes the Alps as “ an exceptional range of mountains from the point of view of resources, collective disciplines, the quality of its human population and the number of good roads .” This remarkable human presence in the Alpine region came into being with the population growth and agrarian expansion of the High Middle Ages.

" This view is witnessed to by the prayers of the Divine Liturgy of St. John Chrysostom, when the priest says: " Accept, O God, our supplications, make us to be worthy to offer unto thee supplications and prayers and bloodless sacrifices for all thy people ," and " Remembering this saving commandment and all those things which came to pass for us: the cross, the grave, the resurrection on the third day, the ascension into heaven, the sitting down at the right hand, the second and glorious coming again, Thine own of Thine own we offer unto Thee on behalf of all and for all ," and "… Thou didst become man and didst take the name of our High Priest, and deliver unto us the priestly rite of this liturgical and bloodless sacrifice …"