This last point is well illustrated by Arnesen, who calculated that the number of direct vassals in the shogunal bodyguard was sixty to seventy percent the number of direct vassals enrolled under the Late Hōjō clan of the sixteenth century.

Britain throughout the Late Medieval and Early Modern periods was an almost entirely Christian society ( with the only exception being a small Jewish population ), although during this period there was a gradual shift from adherence to Roman Catholicism to forms of Anglicanism and Protestantism following the English Reformation in the sixteenth century.

) Adobe brickmaking was used in Spain starting by the Late Bronze Age and Iron Age, from the eighth century B. C.

During the Late Bronze Age circa 2000 BC, they created an empire, the Hittite New Kingdom, which reached its height in the 14th century BC, controlling much of Asia Minor.

Late in the 18th century the first wave of Romantics such as Goethe and Turner came to admire the scenery ; Wordsworth visited the area in 1790, writing of his experiences in The Prelude.

Late 14th and 15th century pottery from central Arizona, widely traded in the region, has colors and designs which may derive from earlier ware by both Ancestral Pueblo and Mogollon peoples.

Late 18th century French revolutionary " decimal " clockface.

Late in the 20th century, caller ID and prepaid cellphone service became commonplace.

Probably the most recognised style of armour in the World became the plate armour associated with the knights of the European Late Middle Ages, but continuing to the early 17th century Age of Enlightenment in all European countries.

Late in the nineteenth century astronomers such as Richard Proctor and Charles Piazzi Smyth investigated the astronomical orientations of the pyramids.

The basis of western astronomy as taught during Late Antiquity and until the Early Modern period is the Almagest by Ptolemy, written in the 2nd century.

Late 19th century and the 20th century were marked by large scale economic migrations abroad.

Late in the 20th century, urban police bicycles became more common, as the mobility of car-borne officers was increasingly limited by traffic congestion and pedestrianisation.

The significant Late Neolithic and Early Bronze Age Cycladic culture is best known for its schematic flat idols carved out of the islands ' pure white marble centuries before the great Middle Bronze Age (" Minoan ") culture arose in Crete, to the south: these figures have been looted from burials to satisfy a thriving Cycladic antiquities market since the early 20th century.

Late in the century the name came to be applied to a class of software for converting among digital signal formats, and including compander functions.

This was the two-fluid theory of electricity, which was to be opposed by Benjamin Franklin's one-fluid theory later in the century. Late 1780s diagram of Galvani's experiment on frog legs.

Late Roman Empire ( Christian ) 1st-2nd century frescoes were found in catacombs beneath Rome and Byzantine Icons were also found in Cyprus, Crete, Ephesus, Cappadocia and Antioch.

Prior to that, hunting by local natives can be documented from Late Stone Age Scandinavia and eastern North America, as well as from early 5th century Labrador, where the bird seems to have occurred only as a straggler.

* Late 10th century: Pomerelia was united with Poland.

The 13th century also saw a general structural change in how land was administered, preparing the shift of political power towards the rising bourgeoisie at the expense of aristocratic feudalism that would characterize the Late Middle Ages.

Late 15th century BCE, Ancient Agora Museum in Athens

Late in the century there was a short Druze uprising over the extremely harsh government and high taxation rates, but there was far less of the violence that had scalded the area earlier in the century.

In the early seventeenth century, when western European explorers made their first forays into the region, they encountered descendants of the Late Woodland Indians: the Chippewa, Menominee, Sauk, Fox, Winnebago, Miami, Ottawa, and Potawatomi.

Belgian historian Henri Pirenne and Dutch historian Johan Huizinga popularized the following subdivisions in the early 20th century: the Early Middle Ages from 476 to 1000, the High Middle Ages from 1000 to 1300, and the Late Middle Ages from 1300 to 1453.

During the first taping of the Late Show with David Letterman following the attacks, CBS newsman Dan Rather cried briefly as he quoted the fourth verse.

A re-recorded version of Graeme Edge's " Late Lament " again followed, which had each group member reading a verse of the poem.

Late in the century, Miguel Matheo de Dallo y Lana set the verse of poet Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz.

Late in the poem, the verse even picks up Norman metre and something like a couplet form.

Simon & Garfunkel also performed the " missing verse " on Saturday Night Live in 1975 and when they reunited for The Concert in Central Park in 1981, and on Late Show with David Letterman.

Other recent books are The Floor of Heaven ( Harper Collins, 1992 ), a book-length sequence of four verse narratives, the poetry collections Late Night Radio ( Polygon, Edinburgh, UK, 1998 ), Heart Print ( Salt, Cambridge, UK, 2001 ), Different Hands ( Folio / Fremantle Arts Centre Press, Cambridge and Western Australia, 1998 ), a collection of seven experimental computer-assisted prose pieces, Borrowed Voices ( Shoestring Press, Nottingham, 2002 ), a dozen reinterpretations of poems by other poets, Studio Moon and Trio ( both Salt Publications, UK, 2003 ).

Late that following year, the group recorded the disco anthem, " Love Machine ", which came off their self-produced hit album, City of Angels.

As the name Asia came to be extended to other areas east of the Mediterranean, the name for Anatolian became specified as Asia Minor (" Lesser Asia ", Μικρὰ Ἀσία ) in Late Antiquity.

The word battle is a loanword in English from the Old French bataille, first attested in 1297, from Late Latin battualia, meaning " exercise of soldiers and gladiators in fighting and fencing ", from Late Latin ( taken from Germanic ) battuere " beat ", from which the English word battery is also derived via Middle English batri, and comes from the staged battles in the Colosseum in Rome that may have numbered 10, 000 individuals.

" Pagan Monotheism in Late Antiquity ", in: Journal of Early Christian Studies.

The tradition of using " terms of venery " or " nouns of assembly ", collective nouns that are specific to certain kinds of animals stems, from an English hunting tradition of the Late Middle Ages.

In the Superman: The Animated Series episode " The Late Mr. Kent ", wherein Clark Kent is presumed dead, Superman expresses frustration at the idea of not being Clark and having to be someone else instead (" I am Clark Kent.

The word catholic ( derived via Late Latin catholicus, from the Greek adjective ( katholikos ), meaning " universal ") comes from the Greek phrase ( katholou ), meaning " on the whole ", " according to the whole " or " in general ", and is a combination of the Greek words meaning " about " and meaning " whole ".

Some authorities claim the word derives from the Late Latin phrase forestam silvam, meaning " the outer wood "; others claim the term is a latinisation of the Frankish word * forhist " forest, wooded country ", assimilated to forestam silvam ( a common practise among Frankish scribes ).

Late Middle Japanese has the first loanwords from European languages – now-common words borrowed into Japanese in this period include pan (" bread ") and tabako (" tobacco ", now " cigarette "), both from Portuguese.

The album was nominated for a Grammy Award for Best New Artist in 1985, and produced two top ten hits, the title track " Valotte ", and " Too Late For Goodbyes ".

* 1969 " Middle and Late Bronze Age Strata at Megiddo ", Levant 1 ( 1969 ), pp. 25 – 60.

The ideal of chivalry as the ethos of the Christian warrior, and the transmutation of the term knight from the meaning " servant, soldier ", and of chevalier " mounted soldier ", to refer to a member of this ideal class, is significantly influenced by the Crusades, on one hand inspired by the military orders of monastic warriors, as seen retrospectively from the point of view of the beginning Late Middle Ages, and on the other hand influenced by Islamic ( Saracen ) ideals of furusiyya.

English-speaking historians, following their German counterparts, generally subdivide the Middle Ages into three intervals: " Early ", " High " and " Late ".

The word " priest " is ultimately from Greek, via Latin presbyter, the term for " elder ", especially elders of Jewish or Christian communities in Late Antiquity.

The English term patriot is first attested in the Elizabethan era, via Middle French from Late Latin ( 6th century ) patriota " countryman ", ultimately from Greek πατριώτης ( patriōtēs ) " countryman ", from πατρίς, " fatherland ".

To overcome such problems, Empress Dowager Cixi issued an imperial edict in 1901 calling for reform proposals from the governors-general and governors and initiated the era of the dynasty's " New Policy ", also known as the " Late Qing Reform ".

Late 19th century nationalists were the first to embrace contemporary discourses on " race ", ethnicity and " survival of the fittest " to shape new nationalist doctrines.

Radical, from Late Latin radicalis " of roots " and from Latin radix " root ", may refer to:

The word is derived from Late Latin succuba " strumpet " ( from succubare " to lie under ", from sub-" under " and cubare " to lie "), used to describe the supernatural being as well.