A late account by Rudolph de Novamagia refers to Albertus ' encounter with the Blessed Virgin Mary, who convinced him to enter Holy Orders.

This source refers to the use of a giant crossbow in the 6th to 5th century BC, corresponding to the late Spring and Autumn Period.

Dementia praecox ( a " premature dementia " or " precocious madness ") refers to a chronic, deteriorating psychotic disorder characterized by rapid cognitive disintegration, usually beginning in the late teens or early adulthood.

Thus began what is now often called " The Golden Age of Hollywood ", which refers roughly to the period beginning with the introduction of sound until the late 1940s.

In the late 20th century, Belgium became a federal state in which the Dutch-speaking part was given autonomy as the Flemish Community () and the Flemish Region (); these two entities were effectively merged, and Flanders now refers to the territory of the Flemish Community, which additionally has partial jurisdiction over Brussels.

It is a neologism coined in the late 1960s as part of a feminist critique of conventional historiography, and refers to history ( reinterpreted as " his story ") written from a feminist perspective, emphasizing the role of women, or told from a woman's point of view.

The title of the essay refers to a postal stamp commemorating Philby issued in the Soviet Union in the late 1980s.

The oldest known occurrence of the name Mesopotamia comes from the Anabasis Alexandri, which was written in the late second century AD but specifically refers to sources from the time of Alexander the Great.

The title was chosen late in the poem's gestation ; it refers to the youngest of the three Parcae ( the minor Roman deities also called The Fates ), though for some readers the connection with that mythological figure is tenuous and problematic.

In Germany Landflucht (" flight from the land ") refers to the mass migration of peasants into the cities that occurred in Germany ( and throughout most of Europe ) in the late 19th century.

Frontinus refers to " Vitruvius the architect " in his late 1st-century work De aquaeductu.

However during the late twentieth century the term Indigenous peoples evolved into a legal category that refers to culturally distinct groups that had been affected by the processes of colonization.

Freon is a trademark of the Dupont Corporation and refers to these CFCs, and later hydrochlorofluorocarbon ( HCFC ) and hydrofluorocarbon ( HFC ), refrigerants developed in the late 1920s.

It was originally referred to as the Book of Winchester, and refers to itself as such in a late edition.

The term, the Wars of the Roses, refers to the informal heraldic badges of the two rival houses of Lancaster and York which had been contending for power, and ultimately for the throne, since the late 1450s.

Modern Greek literature refers to literature written in common Modern Greek, emerging from late Byzantine times in the 11th century AD.

The financial community sometimes refers to companies or economic sectors that rise early after an economic downturn as " crocuses " in reference to the flower's ability to thrive in the late winter or early spring.

The word Zend or Zand, literally meaning " interpretation ", refers to late Middle Persian ( see Pazend and Pahlavi ) language paraphrases of and commentaries on the individual Avestan books: they could be compared with the Jewish Targums.

Cassette culture, or the cassette underground, refers to the practices surrounding amateur production and distribution of recorded music that emerged in the late 1970s via home-made audio cassettes.

The meaning of spado in late antiquity can be interpreted as a metaphor for celibacy, however Tertullian's specifically refers to St. Paul as being castrated.

As late as 1947 an Ordnance Survey map refers to the island as Borough Island.

Lake Timsah was connected to Pithom in Gesem at various times by a canal, and a late 1st millennium text refers to Migdol Baal Zephon as fort on the canal.

Green Revolution refers to a series of research, development, and technology transfer initiatives, occurring between the 1940s and the late 1970s, that increased agriculture production around the world, beginning most markedly in the late 1960s.

The latter refers to the tendency of oral societies, such as that of Europe in the medieval period, to view knowledge as the product, expression, and property of the collective.

In a historical or geopolitical sense the term usually refers collectively to Christian majority countries or countries in which Christianity dominates or was a territorial phenomenon .“ Christendom is originally a medieval concept steadily to have evolved since the fall of the Western Roman Empire and the gradual rise of the Papacy more in religio-temporal implication practically during and after the reign of Charlemagne ; and the concept let itself to be lulled in the minds of the staunch believers to the archetype of a holy religious space inhabited by Christians, blessed by God, the Heavenly Father, ruled by Christ through the Church and protected by the Spirit-body of Christ ; no wonder, this concept, as included the whole of Europe and then the expanding Christian territories on earth, strengthened the roots of Romance of the greatness of Christianity in the world .”

The term “ penny ”, as it refers to nails, probably originated in medieval England to describe the price of 100 nails.

In medieval contexts, it refers to the dialects spoken by the Slavic Pomeranians.

The term Moors refers to the medieval Muslim inhabitants of Northwest Africa, the Iberian Peninsula, Septimania, Sicily and Malta.

Morganatic, already in use in English by 1727 ( according to the Oxford English Dictionary ), is derived from the medieval Latin morganaticus from the Late Latin phrase matrimonium ad morganaticam and refers to the gift given by the groom to the bride on the morning after the wedding, morning gift, i. e. dower.

However, the term often refers specifically to literature from the Talmudic era, as opposed to medieval and modern rabbinic writing, and thus corresponds with the Hebrew term Sifrut Hazal ( ספרות חז " ל ; " Literature our sages blessed memory ," where Hazal normally refers only to the sages of the Talmudic era ).

According to the interpretation of the historic Bonincontro Morigia, which refers to the medieval symbolism, the moon is a symbol of imperial power, reflected in the white sun that is related to the papal power.

In the work by anthropologist Raphael Patai entitled The Hebrew Goddess, the author argues that the term Shekhinah refers to a goddess by comparing and contrasting scriptural and medieval Jewish Kabbalistic source materials.

O ' Mulconry's Glossary, a thirteenth century compilation of glosses from medieval manuscripts preserved in the Yellow Book of Lecan, describes Macha as " one of the three morrígna " ( the plural of Morrígan ), and says the term Mesrad Machae, " the mast crop of Macha ", refers to " the heads of men that have been slaughtered.

The celebrated fourteenth-century bard, Dafydd ap Gwilym refers to Gwyn in a number of texts, suggesting that the character was widely-known in Wales during the medieval period.

Judge Welborn Ayres refers to it as " one of the foremost rural high schools in the state ," having offered instruction even in the less-studied subjects of physics and medieval history.

This most certainly refers to the rat plagues being a great threat in the medieval milling town and the more or less successful professional rat catchers.

The philosophy of mind was studied in medieval Islamic psychological thought, which refers to the study of the nafs ( literally " self " or " psyche " in Arabic ) in the Islamic world, particularly during the Islamic Golden Age ( 8th – 15th centuries ) as well as modern times ( 20th – 21st centuries ), and is related to psychology, psychiatry and the neurosciences.

The name also refers to other territorial gains ( often small and short-lived ) made by medieval Christendom against Muslim and pagan adversaries.

In some South Slavic languages especially in Serbian, the word krajina refers primarily to border or borderland of a country, with established military defense, and secondarily to a region, area, or landscape ; but in medieval Croatian of Glagolitic texts the last is its primary earlier meaning and military role appeared since Turks.

A goðorð or godord refers to a domain or an area of influence controlled by an Icelandic medieval chieftain, or goði.

Folk music of England refers to various types of traditionally based music, often contrasted with courtly, classical and later commercial music, for which evidence exists from the later medieval period.

* In medieval scholastic philosophy, " The Commentator " refers to Averroes, a 12th century Muslim philosopher

The affix ' Goldington ' came later and refers to " Peter of Goldington " ( from Goldington in Bedfordshire ) who was the principal tenant in the village in the medieval period.

In what the medieval Georgian chronicle refers to as didi turkoba, " the Great Turkish Invasion ", several provinces of Georgia became depopulated and George was forced to sue for peace, becoming a tributary of the sultan Malik-Shah I in 1083.

Medieval German sources give as names for the wild woman lamia and holzmoia ( or some variation ); the former clearly refers to the Greek wilderness demon Lamia while the latter derives ultimately from Maia, a Greco-Roman earth and fertility goddess who is elsewhere identified with Fauna and who exerted a wide influence on medieval wild-man lore.

A more common view is that the name refers to medieval reception of the travelog, namely that it was full of ' a million ' lies.