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.

Middle Welsh grann ‘ chin ; beard, hairs ’ and Old Irish grend ‘ beard, hairs ’) has enjoyed some scholarly support, from which Jürgen Zeidler dissents, proposing a different root * granno-with " probable reference to the sun's heat and healing properties ".

The name of the German invasion plan was Operation Barbarossa, named after a well-known German Emperor in the Middle Ages who had according to legend, ' a great red beard ', thus the CSA's operation's name.

Old English ea and éa became in Early Scots, merging with vowel 2 () or vowel 4 () in Middle Scots depending on dialect or lexeme, except for a few Northern Scots dialects where it became, for example Modern Scots: beard, breid ( bread ), deid ( dead ), deif ( deaf ), heid ( head ), " meat " ( food ), steid ( stead ) and tread from beard, bréad, déad, déaf, héafod, mete, stede and tredan.

Even during the Middle Ages, when the numbered Anno Domini year began on March 25 or December 25, the second month was February whenever all twelve months were displayed in order.

Prior to the ascendancy of Anwar Sadat to president of Egypt in 1970, the Middle East had been an important arena in the global superpower competition, most lucidly displayed in the arms sales and cooperation between the American and Soviet governments with Israel, Saudi Arabia, and Iran allied to The United States, and Egypt, Syria, and Iraq allied with the Soviet Union.

The inclusion of copper bells, elaborate rings, and button like ornaments in Early and Middle Postclassic elite burials shows that at least some residents of the site displayed such items in certain social and ritual settings.

Kaulbach matured, after the example of the masters of the Middle Ages, the practice of mural or monumental decoration ; he once more conjoined painting with architecture, and displayed a creative fertility and readiness of resource scarcely found since the era of Raphael and Michelangelo.

Handbells and hand chimes are deliberately transposed and sound one ( 1 ) octave higher than their displayed pitch ( e. g., The Piano Middle C4 is the same as the Handbell / Chime C5 ).

Joe Stork, the director of HRW's Middle East division, said: " The Iranian authorities have again displayed their readiness to silence those who denounce human rights violations.

The Middle English poem Arma Christi, which appeared before the end of the 14th century, exists in fifteen manuscripts, attesting to its popularity, of which seven are engrossed in highly unusual scroll form, designed to be displayed in church as a pictorial aid to public devotion ; manuscripts of Arma Christi are generally accompanied by illustrations of the instruments, viewing of which, according to the texts, granted indulgence of a certain number of days in Purgatory to come.

" The author connects the Jews ' migration from the Middle East to Egypt and their following of German colonists to rats traveling as a group, who " even then displayed the same criminal traits that they still displayed ".

A comprehensive assemblage of Triassic ( including Rhaetic ), Lower Jurassic and Middle Jurassic fissure fillings are well displayed.

Hashashins appeared frequently in art and literature of the Middle Ages, sometimes being illustrated as one of the knight's archenemy and a quintessential villain during the crusades, with both the knight and hashashin being constant opposite to each other.

The Schlaraffen, members of a men's organization ( many of a mellower age and in secure positions ), meet in midwinter ( October 1 – April 30 ) once per week in their Schlaraffen castle ( equipped in the style of a knight's tavern from the Middle Ages ) for " Sippungen " ( gatherings which take place in the fixed ceremonial form of a knight's play ).

The term ' palfrey ' usually referred to the most expensive and highly-bred types of riding horse during the Middle Ages, sometimes equalling the knight's destrier in price.

In honour of this, Cularo was renamed Gratianopolis (" city of Gratian ") in 381 ( leading to Graignovol during the Middle Age and then Grenoble ).

Historian Johan Huizinga remarks in his book The Waning of the Middle Ages, " the source of the chivalrous idea, is pride aspiring to beauty, and formalized pride gives rise to a conception of honour, which is the pole of noble life.

In contrasting the literary standards of chivalry with the actual warfare of the age, the historian finds the imitation of an ideal past illusory ; in an aristocratic culture such as Burgundy and France at the close of the Middle Ages, " to be representative of true culture means to produce by conduct, by customs, by manners, by costume, by deportment, the illusion of a heroic being, full of dignity and honour, of wisdom, and, at all events, of courtesy.

In June 2006, Bahrain was elected head of the United Nations General Assembly, and used the honour to appoint Haya bint Rashid Al Khalifa as the Assembly's president, making her the first Middle East woman and only the third woman in history to take over the post.

" Policy and vision: The case of the Holy Lance found at Antioch ", in John Gillingham & J. C. Holt, War and Government in the Middle Ages: Essays in honour of J. O. Prestwich, Boydell, 1984, pp. 33 – 45

Primate is a title of honour denoting ceremonial precedence in the Church, and in the Middle Ages there was an intense rivalry between the two archbishoprics as to seniority.

During the Late Middle Ages, the longsword had a position of honour among these disciplines, and sometimes Historical European Swordsmanship ( HES ) is used to refer to swordsmanship techniques specifically.

The 1994 prize went to Yasser Arafat, Shimon Peres, and Yitzhak Rabin " to honour a political act which called for great courage on both sides, and which has opened up opportunities for a new development towards fraternity in the Middle East.

He clearly gained admittance to the Middle Temple, where he excelled, having been qualified to sit as a Bencher, and subsequently elevated to the honour of both Lent and Autumn Reader.

In June 2006, Bahrain was elected head of the United Nations General Assembly, and used the honour to appoint Haya bint Rashid Al Khalifa as the Assembly's President, making her the first Middle Eastern woman and only the third woman in history to take over the post.

Kobayashi received the Liszt Memorial Decoration ( 1986 ), the Hungarian Order of Culture ( 1990 ), and the Middle Cross with the Star of the Order of the Republic of Hungary decoration ( the highest civilian honour ) from the Hungarian government in 1994.

( There is no historicity to the assertion of Diodorus Siculus that this was the model for the labyrinth of Crete that Greeks imagined housed the Minotaur ,) The demolition of the " labyrinth " may date in part to the reign of Ptolemy II, under whom the Pharaonic city of Shedyt ( Greek Crocodilopolis, the modern Medinet el-Fayum ) was renamed to honour his sister-wife Arsinoë ; a massive Ptolemaic building program at Arsinoe has been suggested as the ultimate destination of Middle Kingdom limestone columns and blocks removed from Hawara, and now lost.