I was having lunch not long ago ( apologies to N. V. Peale ) with three distinguished historians ( one specializing in the European Middle Ages, one in American history, and one in the Far East ), and I asked them if they could name instances where the general mores had been radically changed with `` deliberate speed, majestic instancy '' ( Francis Thompson's words for the Hound Of Heaven's Pursuit ) by judicial fiat.

the Low Countries, where the Middle Ages were to last for another two centuries and die out only when Charles the Bold of Burgundy met his first defeat in the fields and forests below the walls of Grandson.

His Italian journey was a poet's version of those perennial thrusts across the Alps of the German emperors of the Middle Ages.

The relic worship and monasticism of the Middle Ages were more advanced forms than were primitive fetish worship and nature myths.

And you don't meet the folks from home in Northwest Spain which has remained almost untouched by time and tourists since the Middle Ages.

This conception was taken up by the early Church Fathers and by canon lawyers and theologians in the Middle Ages ; ;

Finally, the conception of the natural community of all possessions which originated with the Stoics was firmly fixed in a tradition by More's time, although it was not accepted by all the theologian-philosophers of the Middle Ages.

La Croix on the Customs of the Middle Ages, 16 chapters of Bryce `` and liked it more and more '' ; ;

Horse races took place here in the Middle Ages.

In the Middle Ages, in the Renaissance, right up to the early nineteenth century, the painter was a giant in the world.

In metaphysics, Aristotelianism had a profound influence on philosophical and theological thinking in the Islamic and Jewish traditions in the Middle Ages, and it continues to influence Christian theology, especially the scholastic tradition of the Catholic Church.

These thinkers blended Aristotelian philosophy with Christianity, bringing the thought of Ancient Greece into the Middle Ages.

The Middle Ages have known many arabic writers who revolutionized the Arab world literature with authors like Ahmad al-Buni and Ibn Manzur and Ibn Khaldoun who wrote the Muqaddimah while staying in Algeria, and many others.

The Runic alphabets were used for Germanic languages from AD 100 to the late Middle Ages.

[...] It is not as philosophically thorough as the works of D. Saliba, A. M. Goichon, or L. Gardet, but it is probably the best essay in English on this important thinker of the Middle Ages.

Despite popular opinion, Limbo, which was elaborated upon by theologians beginning in the Middle Ages, never entered into the teaching of the Roman Catholic Church, yet, at times, the church incorporated the theory in its ordinary belief.

Pig iron, a very hard but brittle alloy of iron and carbon, was being produced in China as early as 1200 BC, but did not arrive in Europe until the Middle Ages.

Because the ancients could not produce temperatures high enough to melt iron fully, the production of steel in decent quantities did not occur until the introduction of blister steel during the Middle Ages.

With the introduction of the blast furnace to Europe in the Middle Ages, pig iron was able to be produced in much higher volumes than wrought iron.

Initially in a literary revival Renaissance was determined to move away from the religion-dominated Middle Ages and to turn its attention to the plight of the individual man in society.

During the Middle Ages the word artist already existed in some countries such as Italy, but the meaning was something resembling craftsman, while the word artesan was still unknown.

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

In the Middle Ages, the people of Abensberg enjoyed a level of autonomy above their lord.

After the Communists took control in the 1940s Polish scholars were safer working on the Middle Ages and the early modern era rather than contemporary history.

The reciprocal influence between the French school and Polish historiography was particularly evident in studies on the Middle Ages and the early modern era studied by Braudel.

Einhard was a dedicated servant of Charlemagne and his son Louis the Pious ; his main work is a biography of Charlemagne, the Vita Karoli Magni, " one of the most precious literary bequests of the early Middle Ages.

Both arose under the reign of the Frankish emperor Charlemagne, from which the knighthood of the Middle Ages can be seen to have had its genesis.

One legend, as further elaborated through the Middle Ages, established Astyanax, renamed " Francus ", as the founder of Merovingian dynasty and forefather of Charlemagne.

The Bavarian regiolect has its origins in the Germanic tribe known as the Bavarii, who established a tribal duchy, which covered much of what is today Bavaria and some of Austria in the early Middle Ages and was eventually subdued by Charlemagne.

The Duchy of Saxony () originally was the settlement area of the Saxons in the late Early Middle Ages, when they were subdued by Charlemagne during the Saxon Wars from 772 and incorporated into the Carolingian Empire ( Francia ) by 804.

Later, in the Middle Ages, in 797 ( or possibly 801 ), the caliph of Baghdad, Harun al-Rashid, presented Charlemagne with an Asian elephant named Abul-Abbas and a clock, out of which came a mechanical bird to announce the hours.

The Fay turns up throughout the High and Late Middle Ages, generally in works related to the cycles of Arthur or Charlemagne.

Charlemagne recommended the plant for cultivation in the early Middle Ages, and during the Carolingian Empire, it was cultivated in monastery gardens.

The right was in the Middle Ages supposed to have been granted by Charlemagne for Frisian support of Pope Leo IV ( who was not contemporary with Charlemagne ).

In the Middle Ages, from the beginning of the reign of Charlemagne, the places Biburc ( Biebrich ) and Moskebach ( Mosbach ) were part of the Königssondergau Wiesbaden, held by the Frankish king as his personal property.

Bulfinch originally published his work as three volumes: The Age of Fable, or Stories of Gods and Heroes, published in 1855 ; The Age of Chivalry, or Legends of King Arthur, published in 1858 ; and Legends of Charlemagne, or Romance of the Middle Ages, published in 1863.

Located at the crossroads of several important trade routes and site of an imperial residence since Charlemagne, Fritzlar was a frequent site of royal visits and of assemblies and synods of the German princes and church leaders during the early Middle Ages.

According to later tradition, it was Charlemagne who granted the Frisians the title of freemen and permitted them to choose their own podestat or imperial governor from among the chieftains, to organize and lead the defense of two of the three districts of Frisia, in Middle Frisia, from the Flie to the Lauwers and in East Frisia from the Lauwers to the Weser, later the Countship of Ostfriesland

The protagonist, Pippin, and his father, Charlemagne, derive their characters from two real-life individuals of the early Middle Ages, though the plot presents very little historical accuracy regarding either.

The francisca ( or francesca ) is a throwing axe used as a weapon during the Early Middle Ages by the Franks, among whom it was a characteristic national weapon at the time of the Merovingians from about 500 to 750 and is known to have been used during the reign of Charlemagne ( 768 – 814 ).

The denier was a Frankish coin created by Charlemagne in the Early Middle Ages.

The narrative spans from the Migration Period (" Dark Ages "), when the Germanic tribes fought incessantly among themselves for territory ; to the heroic Early Middle Ages with the rise of Charlemagne (" Draco the Great ") and conflicts with Viking raiders (" porpoises "); through the Renaissance ( Erasmus ); and up to the modern era with motor cars ; and even into a future time in which a thriving high-tech civilization is destroyed by a campaign of terrorist bombings, and everything begins again in an endless cycle.

# Charlemagne – Middle Ages Emperor

In 9th century France, Charlemagne founded an elite corps of crown-funded officials called " Luparii ", whose purpose was to control wolf populations in France during the Middle Ages.

In 9th century France, Charlemagne founded an elite corps of crown funded officials called " Luparii ", whose purpose was to control wolf populations in France during the Middle Ages.

This article includes the advances in technology and the development of several engineering arts before the Middle Ages, which began after the fall of the Western Roman Empire in AD 476, the death of Justinian I in the 6th century, the coming of Islam in the 7th century, or the rise of Charlemagne in the 8th century.

The North Wall Frieze shows lawgivers from the Middle Ages on and includes representations of Justinian, Muhammad, Charlemagne, John of England, Louis IX of France, Hugo Grotius, Sir William Blackstone, John Marshall, and Napoleon.