It has been described as the single most important and influential work in the West on Medieval and early Renaissance Christianity, and is also the last great Western work that can be called Classical.

In the icons of Eastern Orthodoxy, and of the Early Medieval West, very little room is made for artistic license.

The Queen Mother of the West in Medieval China, Stanford University Press, Stanford, 1993, ISBN 0-8047-2584-5

A History of Medieval Political Theory in the West.

For Aristotle, the first cause was the unmoved mover, a being which set the universe into motion without itself being in motion, which has been read as God, particularly when Aristotle's work became prevalent again in the Medieval West.

‘ On the origin and development of the college in Islam and the West ’, in Islam and the Medieval West, ed.

* North West England includes Cumbria, though Cumbria was more of a Northumbrian colony with its own client kings for most of its history in the Early Medieval era

Depictions of Islamic " Moors " and " Turks " ( imprecisely named Muslim groups of North Africa and West Asia ) can be found in Medieval, Renaissance, and Baroque art.

979 – 1035 ) was a Medieval and Viking age Swedish Queen consort and West Slavic Princess, married to Olof Skötkonung, the King of Sweden, ca.

Medieval and early modern Europeans applied the name to the Berbers, Arabs, Muslim Iberians and West Africans from Mali and Niger who had been absorbed into the Almoravid dynasty.

Notable regional kingdoms and lordships of Early Medieval Munster were Iarmuman ( West Munster ), Osraige ( Ossory ), Uí Liatháin, Uí Fidgenti, Éile, Múscraige, Ciarraige Luachra, Corcu Duibne, Corcu Baiscinn, and Déisi Muman.

Propaganda for pre-eminence in early medieval Ireland, Bart Jaski, in The Propagation of Power in the Medieval West, ed.

Unlike in the West where Medieval and Renaissance combative and self-defense blade arts have gone extinct ( having devolved into sport fencing with the advent of firearms ), blade fighting in the Philippines is a living art.

They were also carried into the Muslim world, from which they were reintroduced into the West to form the foundation of Medieval philosophy and the Renaissance, as discussed below.

Medieval instruments somewhat resembling the crwth appear in pictures ( first in Continental Europe ) as far back as the 11th century, shortly after bowing was first known in the West.

Historical reenactors often camp with gear correct or similar to that available in the period they represent ( Wild West, Medieval, Civil War, etc .).

Roman Barbarians: The Royal Court and Culture in the Early Medieval West.

Medieval West Africa Before 1400: Ghana, Takrur, Gao ( Songhay ) and Mali.

Medieval Portraits from East and West.

The twenty-two equestrian units in the 2011 Rose Parade were the 1st Cavalry Fort Hood, All American Cowgirl Chicks, Benny Martinez Family, California State Firefighters ’ Association, Cowgirls Historical Foundation, Equine Extremist with Tommie Turvey, Giddy Up Gals Drill Team, Kern County Sheriffs Mounted Posse, Long Beach Mounted Police, Medieval Times Dinner and Tournament, New Buffalo Soldiers, Region One Arabians, Saving America's Mustangs Foundation, Scripps Miramar Saddlebreds, Southern California Peruvian Paso Horse Club, Spirit of the West Riders, The Shire Riders, United States Marine Corps Mounted Color Guard, Valley Hunt Club, Victorian Roses Ladies Riding Society, Wells Fargo, and Wild West Willie ( combined with Kern County Sheriffs Mounted Posse ).

2012 Rose Parade Equestrians were the All American Cowgirl Chicks, Arizona Mini Mystique, Broken Horn Ropers, Calgary Stampede Showriders ( riding with the Calgary Stampede Showband ), Calizona Appaloosas, Cowgirls Historical Foundation, Escondido Mounted Police, First Cavalry Fort Hood ( US Army ), Kings County Sheriff's Posse, LAPD Mounted Unit, Long Beach Mounted Police, Los Hermanos Banuelos, Medieval Times, Merced County Sheriff's Posse, New Buffalo Soldiers, The Santa Rosa Palomino Club, So Cal Peruvian Pasos, Spirit of the West, War Horse Militia, US Marine Corps, Valley Hunt Club, and Wells Fargo.

These and other variations on the theme were all set in the " temper of the times " of the Muslim-Christian conflict as Medieval Europe was becoming aware of its great enemy in the wake of the quickfire success of the Muslims through a series of conquests shortly after the fall of the Western Roman Empire, as well as the lack of real information in the West of the mysterious east.

The Archbishopric of Riga (, ) was an archbishopric in Medieval Livonia, a subject to the Holy See.

Elections were used as early in history as ancient Greece and ancient Rome, and throughout the Medieval period to select rulers such as the Holy Roman Emperor and the Pope.

The 5 Ecclesiastical states of the Holy Roman Empire in Medieval Livonia were organized into the Livonian Confederation in 1418 A diet or Landtag was formed in 1419.

Louis was guaranteed the kingship of all lands to the east of the Rhine and to the north and east of Italy, which was called East Francia which was the precursor to the Medieval conglomeration of disparate states known as the Holy Roman Empire and thence to modern Germany.

*" Apologia Against Those Who Decry Holy Images " at the Internet Medieval Sourcebook

Medieval interest in Joseph centered on two themes, that of Joseph as the founder of British Christianity ( even before it had taken hold in Rome ), and that of Joseph as the original guardian of the Holy Grail.

After the 16th century, this elected monarch governed the Holy Roman Empire ( later called Holy Roman Empire of the German Nation ), a Central European union of territories of the Medieval and Early Modern period.

* Brooke, Daphne, Wild Men and Holy Places: St Ninian, Whithorn and the Medieval Realm of Galloway.

Already the Medieval Holy Roman Empire of which parts evolved into modern Germany had had no capital, considering itself rather as a confederation of varied territories of which some were German while others were not.

These descend from rites initially created in Byzantium, Visigothic Spain, Carolingian France and the Holy Roman Empire and brought to their apogee during the Medieval era.

Medieval churches survive that have a tiny window (" squint ") built into the shared wall near the sanctuary to allow the anchorite to participate in the liturgy by listening to the service and to receive Holy communion.

* The Hungarian House of Árpád ( known during the Medieval Times as the dynasty of the Holy Kings )

Medieval restorers unfamiliar with the encaustic method found that the paints they applied to the damaged areas " simply sloughed off the image " according to the medieval chronicler Risinius, and their solution was to erase the original image and to repaint it on the original panel, which was believed to be holy because of its legendary origin as a table top from the home of the Holy Family.

' The Holy Lance of Antioch: Power, Devotion and Memory on the First Crusade ', Reading Medieval Studies 33 ( 2007 ), 3-36.

High Medieval Northern Italy was further divided by the long-running battle for supremacy between the forces of the Papacy and of the Holy Roman Empire: each city aligned itself with one faction or the other, yet was divided internally between the two warring parties, Guelfs and Ghibellines.

Styles found in other countries sometimes associated with the German New Simplicity movement include the so-called " Holy Minimalism " of the Pole Henryk Górecki and the Estonian Arvo Pärt ( in their works after 1970 ), as well as Englishman John Tavener, who unlike the New Simplicity composers have turned back to Medieval and Renaissance models, however, rather than to 19th-century romanticism for inspiration.

The German school of fencing () is the historical system of combat taught in the Holy Roman Empire in the Late Medieval, Renaissance and Early Modern periods ( 14th to 17th centuries ), as described in the Fechtbücher (" combat manuals ") written at the time.

In late Medieval and early Renaissance Europe, cultural centers tended to move from one place to another due to changing political stability and the presence of either the spiritual or temporal power, for instance the Pope, Anti-pope or the Holy Roman Emperor.

* Dromnea, Bardic School Medieval post 1200 AD, Ornamental Tower erected Lord Bandon, Holy Well ( tober na nduanairidhe well of the poets ), possible fulach fiadh

File: Asenova-krepost1-ifb. JPG | Medieval Bulgarian Church of the Holy Mother of God at Asen's Fortress

File: Asenova-fortress-2008-06-01-2. jpg | Medieval Bulgarian Church of the Holy Mother of God at Asen's Fortress

This renowned translator and anthologist ( of the Medieval and foreign poetry ) and author of several books of poems best spread the spiritual tradition of the Serbian Orthodox people around the world by means of his two books: An Anthology of Medieval Serbian Literature ( as co-author ), The Holy Mount and Hilandar monastery.