A will-o '- the-wisp or ignis fatuus (; Medieval Latin: " foolish fire ") is a ghostly light seen by travellers at night, especially over bogs, swamps or marshes.

Surviving contemporary records of climate in the Sahel begin with early Muslim travellers in the early Medieval Warm Period.

Some examples might be " Music during World War I ," " Medieval and Renaissance instrumental music ," " Music and Process ," " Mozart's Don Giovanni.

Medieval and Renaissance wall tombs in Santi Giovanni e Paolo, Venice, including an equestrian statue at the left.

The enormous dimensions of the Chinese ships of the Medieval period are described in Chinese sources, and are confirmed by Western travelers to the East, such as Marco Polo, Ibn Battuta and Niccolò da Conti.

Ostensibly an inventor by trade, Martin also builds several advanced devices, such as a time machine that transports Tim and the Martian back to Medieval England and other times and places, such as St. Louis in 1849, the early days of Hollywood, or bring Leonardo da Vinci and Jesse James into the present.

Bartolus de Saxoferrato ( Italian: Bartolo da Sassoferrato ) ( 1313 – 13 July 1357 ) was an Italian law professor and one of the most prominent continental jurists of Medieval Roman Law.

Paolo da Firenze ( Paolo Tenorista, " Magister Dominus Paulas Abbas de Florentia ") ( c. 1355 – after September 20, 1436 ) was an Italian composer and music theorist of the late 14th and early 15th centuries, the transition from the musical Medieval era to the Renaissance.

The city contains a picturesque Medieval and Renaissance historic centre, with ancient buildings such as Trento Cathedral and the Castello del Buonconsiglio.

* Tacconi, Marica S. Cathedral and Civic Ritual in Late Medieval and Renaissance Florence: The Service Books of Santa Maria del Fiore.

* Historia Medieval del Reyno de Navarra

The Gulf of Lion ( French: golfe du Lion, Spanish: golfo de León, Occitan: golf del / dau Leon, Catalan: golf del Lleó, Medieval Latin: sinus Leonis, mare Leonis, Classical Latin: sinus Gallicus ) is a wide embayment of the Mediterranean coastline of Languedoc-Roussillon and Provence in France, reaching from the border with Catalonia in the west to Toulon.

* Historia Medieval del Reyno de Navarra ; Banu Qasi

* Trapani: spread around various sites in the region are the July Music Festival and the International Opera and Youth Festival ( both in the city of Trapani ), the International Week of Medieval and Renaissance Music ( in Erice ), the International Opera Festival ( in Alcamo ), and the International Piano Competition and the Mario del Monaco Opera Competition ( in Marsala ).

The other tower in the square is not the one giving the name to the place, but the Medieval Torre del Papito (" Little Pope's Tower "), attributed by tradition to Antipope Anacletus II Pierleoni, allegedly not a tall person.

( Even though there were Europeans in Medieval China, notably Marco Polo, that period of contact had been interrupted by the fall of the Yuan Dynasty.

Western Africa is incorrect, though technology at the time made such calculations difficult ; the Cape Verde archipelago lies hundreds of miles out of its proper place ; and the Atlantic is filled with mythological islands that were psychologically important to isolated Medieval Christendom Japan is located only 1500 miles off the coast, and was just where Marco Polo mentioned it, placing it temptingly within sailing distance of the Canaries.

From the Medieval Arabic king lists of both African states, allegedly copied from earlier lists in ancient Near Eastern languages it appears that the state founders claimed to be deportees of the Assyrian empire who had fled from Syria and Samaria after the defeat of the Egyptian-Assyrian army at Carchemish in 605 BCE.

The grosse messer was a Medieval large knife, employed both as a tool and as a weapon.

The word " parsley " is a merger of the Old English petersilie ( which is identical to the contemporary German word for parsley: Petersilie ) and the Old French peresil, both derived from Medieval Latin petrosilium, from Latin petroselinum, the latinisation of the Greek πετροσέλινον ( petroselinon ), " rock-parsley ", from πέτρα ( petra ), " rock, stone ", + σέλινον ( selinon ), " parsley ".

Although there is an extreme scarcity of data from Australia ( for both the Medieval Warm Period and Little Ice Age ) evidence from wave-built shingle terraces for a permanently full Lake Eyre during the 9th and 10th centuries is consistent with this La Niña-like configuration, though of itself inadequate to show how lake levels varied from year to year or what climatic conditions elsewhere in Australia were like.

Its corpus, already a varied mixture of Khuzdul, Avarin, and Sindarin, was probably now exposed more heavily to the influence of Quenya ( which served a role much the same as Latin in Medieval Europe ) and possibly even Valarin, both due to regular contact with Aman.

The Albigensian Crusade also had a role in the creation and institutionalization of both the Dominican Order and the Medieval Inquisition.

The collection of Italian, Medieval, Renaissance, Baroque and Neoclassical sculpture ( both original and in cast form ) is unequalled outside of Italy.

It was titled The Spirit of Medieval Philosophy by Étienne Gilson, and inside he encountered an explanation of God that he found both logical and pragmatic.

Medieval Christianity both conserved and transformed the ideal, largely limiting equality to the capacity of each believer to attain posthumous salvation.

The term comes into English via both New Latin and Medieval Latin coscinomantia, and is ultimately derived from the Ancient Greek koskinomantis () a diviner using a sieve, from koskinon () a sieve.

There are numerous finds of Vinča culture, Hallstatt culture, as well as from both Roman and Medieval periods.

The stories of the Mabinogion appear in either or both of two Medieval Welsh manuscripts, the White Book of Rhydderch ( Llyfr Gwyn Rhydderch ) written ca.

They maintained a Medieval view of hierarchical proportion and religious symbolism, while delighting in a realistic treatment of material elements, both natural and man-made.

For inspiration, painters in both Italy and northern Europe frequently turned to Jacobus de Voragine's Golden Legend ( 1260 ), a highly influential source book for the lives of saints that had already had a strong influence on Medieval artists.

Medieval French kings conferred the dignity of peerage upon certain of his preëminent vassals, both clerical and lay.

Medieval art was now heavily collected, both by museums and private collectors like George Salting, the Rothschild family and John Pierpoint Morgan.

Examples of flyting are found throughout Norse, Anglo-Saxon and Medieval literature involving both historical and mythological figures.

The long and short hundredweight are both descended from the French avoirdupois weight system, which became established in England in Late Medieval times.

Medieval European medicine became more developed during the Renaissance of the 12th century, when many medical texts both on ancient Greek medicine and on Islamic medicine were translated from Arabic during the 12th century.

The only other remains of the Medieval village are three stone crosses: one wayside cross lay beside the A513 at the entrance to Church Lane ( SK 0769 1626 ), and another lay beside the A51 at the entrance to Bardy Lane ( SK 0666 1523 ) about 1 mile ( 2 km ) south-west of Armitage, both of which have been lost.

Martin also appeared as Theodoric of York, Medieval Judge, in skits that lampooned both the medieval and modern judicial systems.

The term ( also in the nutritional sense ) is derived from Medieval Latin dieta, meaning both " parliamentary assembly " and " daily food allowance ", from earlier Latin diaeta transcribing Classical Greek diaita, meaning " way of living ", and hence also " diet ", " regular ( daily ) work ".

The words " sexton " and " sacristan " both derive from the Medieval Latin word sacristanus meaning " custodian of sacred objects ".

It also marks a shift in literary style, with a preference for encyclopedic works in a dense and allusive style, consisting of summaries of earlier works ( anthologies, epitomes ) often dressed up in elaborate allegorical garb ( e. g. De Nuptiis Mercurii et Philologiae ( The Marriage of Mercury and Philology ) of Martianus Capella, and the De Arithmetica, De Musica, and Consolatio Philosophiae of Boethius — both later key works in Medieval education ).