In the high villages people live in homes built according to medieval designs that withstand cold winters.

Already during the high medieval period, and increasingly during the Late Middle Ages, city states and communes such as those of the Old Swiss Confederacy also began to use flags as field signs.

These high medieval heroic epics are written in rhymed strophes, not the alliterative verse of Germanic prehistory.

Although high level of stylization, mystical appeal, and surreal elegance were often preferred over realism ( such as in shan shui style ), beginning with the medieval Song Dynasty there were many Chinese painters then and afterwards who depicted scenes of nature that were vividly real.

Longbows were very difficult to master because the force required to deliver an arrow through the improving armour of medieval Europe was very high by modern standards.

Longbows have been in continuous production and use for sport and for hunting to the present day, but since 1642 they have been a minority interest, and very few have had the high draw weights of the medieval weapons.

After plummeting in the Early Middle Ages, the High Middle Ages | high and Late Middle Ages | late medieval period witnessed a sharp increase of manuscript production.

However, almost all high medieval armies in Europe were composed of a great deal of paid core troops, and there was a large mercenary market in Europe from at least the early 12th century.

As the Middle Ages progressed in Italy, Italian cities began to rely mostly on mercenaries to do their fighting rather than the militias that had dominated the early and high medieval period in this region.

With the advent of the great castles of high medieval Europe however, this problem was typically something commanders prepared for on both sides, so sieges could be long, drawn-out affairs.

During medieval times the city was known for its tanneries and for the shoes and other leather goods that were made from the high quality leathers that were produced there.

A very high medieval tower is incorporated into the palazzo.

Norse sources of the high medieval period, most prominently Snorri Sturluson's Heimskringla, also give a Polish princess as Cnut's mother, whom they call Gunhild and a daughter of Burislav, the king of Vindland.

The medieval walled city of Carcassonne in France is built upon high ground to provide maximum protection from attackers.

Unusual for the medieval period, contemporaries also commented on her high intelligence.

In the prologue to the second book of the Commentaries is found one of the best examples of a Mappae Mundi of the high medieval culture.

Gothic architecture is a style of architecture that flourished during the high and late medieval period.

In the course of the high medieval town construction, the settlement of Zug also received a city wall at some point after 1200.

The existence of pre-Christian matriarchy has usually been treated with scepticism as has the persistence of underlying paganism in high medieval Europe.

Von See ( 1981 ) identifies direct influence of the Disticha Catonis on the Gestaþáttr, suggesting that also this part is a product of the high medieval period and casting doubt on the " unadulterated Germanic character " of the poem claimed by earlier commentators.

During medieval times in Europe, porcelain was very expensive and in high demand for its beauty.

The ancient street pattern survives extensively as do a high proportion of the medieval building plots and oak framed houses, albeit often masked with later facades.

The achievements of insular art, in illuminated manuscripts like the Book of Kells, high crosses, and metalwork like the Ardagh Chalice remain very well known, and in the case of manuscript decoration had a profound influence on Western medieval art.

These are five lancets, each high and glazed with grey ( grisaille ) glass, rather than narrative scenes or symbolic motifs that are usually seen in medieval stained glass windows.

Behind the high altar is the Great East Window, the largest expanse of medieval stained glass in the world.

Above the main cornice rises a high, weighty 4. 40m high attic on which is a central tablet bearing the dedicatory inscription.

In this inscription, which bears evidence of high antiquity, Robin Hood is described as Earl of Huntington – his claim to which title has been as hotly contested as any disputed peerage upon record.

The inscription indicating the commissioners, architect and date is high up on the east facade.

In one inscription, Antiochus wrote erecting his tomb in a high and holy place should be remote from people and should be close to the gods and be in rank with them.

The first reverse, used until 1780, showed the crowned " I " in high relief, with the inscription ; the second reverse, used until 1786, was similar but in lower relief, the " I " being much flatter ; the third reverse, used in 1792 only, was completely redesigned with a much smaller " I " under a smaller crown with the inscription running around the crown, with the same legend as before.

Old English scholar and noted commentator on the Ruthwell Cross Daniel H. Haigh argues that the inscription of the Ruthwell Cross must be fragments of one of Caedmon's lost poems, stating " On this monument, erected about A. D. 665, we have fragments of a religious poem of very high character, and that there was but one man living in England at that time worthy to be named as a religious poet, and that was Caedmon ".

Although little more than a stream in the south, until 1935 the encased watercourse flooded during heavy rains every decade or so ; an inscription on a white stone tablet high up the side of a building in Elder Road, West Norwood reads: " FLOOD LEVEL 17th July 1890 ".

Another Greek inscription found in a large temple at Deir El Aachayer on the northern slopes notes the year that a bench was installed " in the year 242, under Beeliabos, also called Diototos, son of Abedanos, high priest of the gods of Kiboreia ".

His noble conception of art and his high personal ambition were evidenced in the inscription which he placed over his studio Il disegno di Michelangelo ed il colorito di Tiziano (" Michelangelo's design and Titian's color ").

He also made adding any inscription normally found on a coin to any piece of metal that may resemble a coin high treason.

Thus, and although it seems that this has never been generally recognized, it can be argued that there was throughout the United Kingdom a construction of war memorials with reference to the concept of peace ( e. g. West Hartlepool War Memorial in what is now known as Hartlepool ( previously West Hartlepool ) with the inscription ' Thine O Lord is the Victory ' relating to amongs other architecture the 1871 Royal Albert Hall of Arts and Sciences with a frieze including the same words and concluding ' Glory be to God on high and on earth peace ').

18 feet high statue shows the dead fisherman George Henry Smith and carries the following inscription:

The tower is high and consisted of two rooms " neatly furnished ", with a Latin inscription above the door announcing that it had been built for not only his own pleasure, but also for the enjoyment of others.

The otherwise plain reverse bears the prominent relief inscription in 2mm high letters " HERO OF RUSSIA " () at its center, in the upper portion, the award serial number in 1mm high numbers.

In the center, the relief inscription " Hero of Socialist Labor " () in 2mm high letters, the award serial number was inscribed just above in 1mm high numbers.

His influence was so great that President Roosevelt, sent him a photograph in 1896 with the inscription " To Sir Dietrich Brandis, in high appreciation of his services to forestry in the United States.

Behind the high altar is a papal altar with an inscription naming the makers, of the Cosmati family, and dating it to 1148.

The site was believed to have used originally during the Sasanid era as a Zoroastrian temple., An inscription located 14 metres high on the south wall which in old Kufic script mentions Qubbeye Masud ibn Davud or Kubey Mesud ibn Da ’ ud, an architect active during the 12th century ; he was the father of architect who built the Mardakan Round Tower.

Cross of the Scriptures: This 4-metre high sandstone cross is one of the most skillfully executed of the surviving high crosses in Ireland, and of particular interest for its surviving inscription, which asks a prayer for Flann Sinna, King of Ireland, and Abbot Colmán who commissioned the cross.