Medieval scholars may be considered forerunners of modern anthropology as well, insofar as they conducted or wrote detailed studies of the customs of peoples considered " different " from themselves in terms of geography.

Couples may wear Medieval clothing or more modern wedding garb.

As had been the case since the Ars Nova ( see Medieval music ), there could be either two or three of these for each breve ( a double-whole note ), which may be looked on as equivalent to the modern " measure ," though it was itself a note value and a measure is not.

Medieval poetry may mix Latin and vernacular languages.

The Medieval Warm Period ( MWP ), Medieval Climate Optimum, or Medieval Climatic Anomaly was a time of warm climate in the North Atlantic region, that may also have been related to other climate events around the world during that time, including in China, and other countries lasting from about AD 950 to 1250.

However, this view was questioned by other researchers ; the IPCC First Assessment Report of 1990 discussed the " Medieval Warm Period around 1000 AD ( which may not have been global ) and the Little Ice Age which ended only in the middle to late nineteenth century.

Global temperature records taken from ice cores, tree rings, and lake deposits, have shown that, taken globally, the Earth may have been slightly cooler ( by 0. 03 degrees Celsius ) during the ' Medieval Warm Period ' than in the early and mid-20th century.

The trees may be associated with the Medieval Manorial Scrolls kept in the County Records Office in Lewes.

Recent research by Australian archaeologists suggests that the decline may have been due to a shortage of water caused by the transition from the Medieval Warm Period to the Little Ice Age.

Much may also be learned from the doctrines of the numerous variations of Bogomilism which spread in Medieval Kievan Rus ' after the 11th century.

While his historicity may be debatable, his posthumous importance as the founder of Scotland in the national myth of Medieval and Renaissance Scotland is not in doubt.

Death and the Maiden, a concept ultimately derived from the Medieval " Dance of Death ", may refer to:

The words goblin and gobelin, rendered in Medieval Latin as gobelinus, may in fact derive from the word kobold or from kofewalt.

" Indeed, many historians believe King Arthur to be an entirely mythical character with no basis in historical fact, whilst some others disagree, maintaining that the legendary figure may be based upon an Early Medieval British leader who might have been involved in fighting the migrating Anglo-Saxons who were settling in Britain at that time.

The Roman routes from Wall and Alcester were together named Icknield Street during the later Medieval period, though the implication that they were viewed as a single route by the Romans may be misleading, and it is possible that the road from Droitwich was originally the more important of the two southern routes.

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While it would seem probable that some ringforts may have seen continuation in the Later Medieval period as adapted or imitation mottes it seems doubtful if the continuation that ringforts were still being built on a more general scale throughout the country, and the evidence put forward for such a theory would appear quite slim.

While it is a common misunderstanding that the Destrier that carried the armoured knight of the Middle Ages had the size and conformation of a modern draft horse, and some of these Medieval war horses may have provided some bloodlines for some of the modern draft breeds, the reality was that the high-spirited, quick-moving Destrier was closer to the size, build, and temperament of a modern Andalusian or Friesian.

Three connected arms of a large rectangular moat, now drained of water with the northern arm partly filled-in, may be viewed at the eastern end of Manor Court Drive off Shropshire Brook Road ( SK 0900 1565 ), and is all that survives of the former Medieval mansion of Handsacre Hall.

Medieval silver bracteates may be large, but most are about 15 millimeters across and weigh about 1 gram.

Medieval scholars have suggested that people may have been under the impression that the rat king was actually one animal with many bodies, with the “ king ” referring to the animal's size.

Medieval representations of Fortune emphasize her duality and instability, such as two faces side by side like Janus ; one face smiling the other frowning ; half the face white the other black ; she may be blindfolded but without scales, blind to justice.

Medieval motet composers include:

Medieval church leaders ( e. g., Thomas Aquinas ) took a more expansive view of gluttony, arguing that it could also include an obsessive anticipation of meals, and the constant eating of delicacies and excessively costly foods.

These forms include the Socratic method, Hindu, Buddhist, Medieval, Hegelian dialectics, Marxist, Talmudic, and Neo-orthodoxy.

Some of the architecture styles witnessed include the Carpenter Gothic, the Medieval, the High Victorian Period, the “ Queen Anne Cottage ”, and American Georgian.

Its collections include Egyptian, Medieval, Renaissance, Contemporary, and Native American.

Medieval sex manuals include the lost works of Elephantis, by Constantine the African ; Ananga Ranga, a 12th century collection of Hindu erotic works ; and The Perfumed Garden for the Soul's Recreation, a 16th century Arabic work by Sheikh Nefzaoui.

Medieval designs include a large number of catapults such as the Mangonel, Onager, the ballista, the traction trebuchet ( first designed in China in the 3rd century BC and was brought over to Europe in the 4th century AD ), and the counterweight trebuchet ( first described by Mardi bin Ali al-Tarsusi in the 12th century, though of unknown origin ).

Forms of German-language music include Neue Deutsche Welle ( NDW ), Krautrock, Hamburger Schule, Volksmusik, Classical, German hip hop, trance, Schlager, Neue Deutsche Härte ( NDH ) and diverse varieties of folk music, such as Waltz and Medieval metal.

Medieval objects include: architectural fragments, mainly from the Old Palace of Westminster ( acquired after the 1834 fire ), tiles and stained glass.

Medieval objects include: architectural fragments, tiles and stained glass.

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.

Medieval art was produced in many media, and the works that remain in large numbers include sculpture, illuminated manuscripts, stained glass, metalwork and mosaics, all of which have had a higher survival rate than other media like fresco wall-paintings, work in precious metals or textiles, including tapestry.

Legacies from the Medieval period include consolidation of village and market town patterns ; in Melton Mowbray, Bottesford, Wymondham, and Waltham-on-the-Wolds.

Other notable works stored there include early Medieval sculptures from the seventh and eighth centuries.

The examples cited include those living amidst skewed sex ratios caused by the death of many men in a war or preferential abandonment or abortion of females ( the latter is particularly severe in China and India ); prisoners ; those without access to the money needed to deal with a child ; those denied the right to marry by social norms like widows in certain Hindu communities or younger sisters in societies that call for the oldest to be married first ; women whose families lack money for the dowries required by their society ; people who would lose their jobs if they were known to be sexually active like apprentices and journeymen in certain trades in Medieval Europe, or certain Western domestic servant or educator positions prior to the previous centuries ; and, also, men castrated against their will.

Types include the Neolithic long house of Europe, the stone Medieval Dartmoor longhouse which also housed livestock, and the various types of longhouses built by different cultures among the indigenous peoples of the Americas.

These include Medieval Europe, Babylon, the Crusades, 1800s and even a time slice of modern industry.

Medieval examples include:

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For example, while amico and cum amico both mean " with a friend " in Classical and Medieval Latin, for the sake of clarity Medieval Latin would tend to include the preposition cum.

These include that it is a complaint against Medieval English taxes on wool and that it is about the slave trade.

Rabbis who believed in the idea of reincarnation include, from Medieval times: the mystical leaders Nahmanides ( the Ramban ) and Rabbenu Bahya ben Asher ; from the 16th-century: Levi ibn Habib ( the Ralbah ), and from the mystical school of Safed Shelomoh Alkabez, Isaac Luria ( the Ari ) and his exponent Hayyim Vital ; and from the 18th-century: the founder of Hasidism Yisrael Baal Shem Tov, later Hasidic Masters, and the Lithuanian Jewish Orthodox leader and Kabbalist the Vilna Gaon.

Medieval forms include Sesomirs ( 664 ), Sesmarus ( 950 ), Sesmoys ( 1104 ), and Semoir ( 1244 ).