From then on and with the increasing flow of pilgrims, the fiera assumed great religious importance through the numerous gatherings of people from Umbria and the Marche …. The Macereto fairs were particularly useful for those involved with the sheep business .”

Its political importance now ended, but its temple of Adonis and Aphrodite Amathusia remained famous in Roman times.

Up to the twelfth or thirteenth century, the duty of the Apostolic-or Roman Chancery was to prepare and expedite the pontifical letters and writs for collation of church dignities and other matters of grave importance which were discussed and decided in Consistory.

As the chief port of north-west Asia Minor, the place prospered greatly in Roman times, becoming a " free and autonomous city " as early as 188 BC, and the existing remains sufficiently attest its former importance.

The city fell under Roman rule around 60 BC, its importance lying in the commerce of tin and lead towards Rome.

Signs of this can be found in Blackstone ’ s Commentaries on the Laws of England, and Roman law ideas regained importance with the revival of academic law schools in the 19th century.

He realized the importance of the Roman Catholic Church as a bastion of loyalty, legitimacy, social control, and stability, as had been the case in the colonial period.

Columba is credited as being a leading figure in the revitalization of monasticism, and " His achievements illustrated the importance of the Celtic church in bringing a revival of Christianity to Western Europe after the fall of the Roman Empire.

Near Padstow, a Roman site of some importance now lies buried under the sands on the opposite side of the Camel estuary near St. Enodoc's Church, and may have been a western coastal equivalent of a Saxon Shore Fort.

One final, amusing example that comments on the importance Roman poets placed on their verse rules comes from the Ars Poetica of Horace, line 263:

In the Roman tradition a large variety in the meaning and importance of the imperial form of monarchy developed: in intention it was always the highest office, but it could as well fall down to a redundant title for nobility that had never been near to the " Empire " they were supposed to be reigning.

The importance and meaning of coronation ceremonies and regalia also varied within the tradition: for instance Holy Roman Emperors could only be crowned emperor by the pope, which meant the coronation ceremony usually took place in Rome, often several years after these emperors had ascended to the throne ( as " king ") in their home country.

The emblem ’ s popularity during the French Revolution is due in part to its importance in ancient Rome: its use alludes to the Roman ritual of manumission of slaves, in which a freed slave receives the bonnet as a symbol of his newfound liberty.

Nevertheless, the growing Roman Republic soon understood the importance of Mediterranean control in the outcome of the conflict.

Certain European ritual traits such as the significance of the number 3, the importance of the head and of water sources such as springs remain in the archaeological record, but the differences in the votive offerings made at the Roman Baths ( Bath ), Bath, Somerset before and after the Roman conquest suggest that continuity was only partial.

The fundamental importance, in Roman Catholic theology, of the sacrament of water baptism gives rise to the argument that, because original sin excludes from the beatific vision enjoyed by the souls in heaven, those who have not been freed from it either by the sacrament or by baptism of desire or baptism of blood are not eligible for entry into heaven.

However, she also says that although recent studies have minimized the Iranizing aspects of the self-consciously Persian religion " at least in the form which it attained under the Roman empire ", the name Mithras is enough to show " that this aspect is of some importance ".

However, John A. T. Robinson and other scholars argued for a much earlier dating, based on the fact that the New Testament writings make no mention of ( 1 ) the Great Fire of Rome ( A. D. 64 ), one of the most destructive fires in Roman history, which Emperor Nero blamed on the Christians, and led to the first major persecution of believers ; ( 2 ) the final years and deaths of Paul, who wrote most of the epistles, Peter, whom Catholics recognize as the first pope, and the other apostles ; ( 3 ) Nero's suicide ( A. D. 68 ); or ( 4 ) the total destruction of the temple in Jerusalem ( A. D. 70 ), which Robinson thought should certainly have appeared, considering the importance of that event for Jews and Christians of that time.

30 – 130 ), the Roman capital became recognized as a Christian center of exceptional importance.

In his discussion of the importance of the ludi Megalenses in early Roman theater, John Arthur Hanson says that this particular festival “ provided more days for dramatic representations than any of the other regular festivals, and it is in connection with these ludi that the most definite and secure literary evidence for the site of scenic games has come down to us ”.

But, by a brilliant campaign in 1506, Julius succeeded in freeing Perugia and Bologna from their despots ( Giampolo Baglioni and Giovanni II Bentivoglio, respectively ), and raised himself to such a height of influence as to render his friendship of prime importance both to Louis XII of France and the Holy Roman Emperor.

During the Roman period, the town's importance declined with the foundation of nearby Portus Luguidonis.

He championed the learning of Greek ( and Greek rhetoric ), contributed to Roman ethics, linguistics, philosophy, and politics, and emphasized the importance of all forms of appeal ( emotion, humor, stylistic range, irony and digression in addition to pure reasoning ) in oratory.

The ending of a romantic comedy is meant to affirm the primary importance of the love relationship in its protagonists ' lives, even if they physically separate in the end ( e. g. Shakespeare in Love, Roman Holiday ).< ref > Mernit, Billy.

The historical importance of Roman law is reflected by the continued use of Latin legal terminology in legal systems influenced by it.

we do not even need to commit ourselves to assessing on the same inconceivable scale the relative importance of the medieval, the Renaissance, and the modern.

The castle ruin Hammershus, on the northwestern tip of the island, is the largest medieval fortress in northern Europe, testament to the importance of its location.

The word " thesaurus " is derived from 16th-century New Latin, in turn from Latin thēsaurus, which is the latinisation of the Greek ( thēsauros ), literally " treasure store ", generally meaning a collection of things which are of big importance or value ( and thus the medieval rank of thesaurer was a synonym for treasurer ).

This incident and the importance of Martin in the medieval Christian West made Tours, and its position on the route of pilgrimage to Santiago de Compostela, a major centre during the Middle Ages.

Although it was from him that the medieval Norwegian dynasty descended, his historical importance has been obscured by the treatment of Harald Fairhair and St Olaf ( Olaf Haraldsson ) in medieval writings.

The Assize of Bread and Ale in the thirteenth century demonstrated the importance of bread in medieval times by setting heavy punishments for short-changing bakers, and bread appeared in the Magna Carta a half-century earlier.

The distinction between a town and a city similarly depends on the approach adopted: a city may strictly be an administrative entity which has been granted that designation by law, but in informal usage, the term is also used to denote an urban locality of a particular size or importance: whereas a medieval city may have possessed as few as 10, 000 inhabitants, today some consider an urban place of fewer than 100, 000 as a town, even though there are many officially designated cities that are very, very much smaller than that.

The importance of Brest in medieval times was great enough to give rise to the saying, " He is not the Duke of Brittany who is not the Lord of Brest ".

The importance of these markets and fairs for the sale of wool and wine, and later of cloth in declined after medieval times.

This strategic location invested it with importance in medieval times and its large castle remains largely intact.

R. G. Conzen remarked of Ludlow " Its composite medieval town plan and a history of eight and a half centuries with several periods of considerable importance have endowed its Old Town with an historically well-stratified and richly textured landscape.

The importance of the Abbey as a medieval place of pilgrimage is reflected in the medieval finds of two papal seals, that would have secured documents from the Pope.

The city was the seat of a bishop from the fourth century – the legend of its bishop Lupus ( Loup ), who saved the city from Attila by offering himself as hostage is hagiographic rather than historical – though it was several centuries before it gained importance as a medieval centre of commerce.

This importance was due to the Old Salt Route ( Alte Salzstraße ), one of the major medieval trade routes.

Its importance dates from the 1930s, when the necropoleis of the medieval Muscovite monasteries ( Simonov, Danilov, Donskoy ) were scheduled for demolition.

* In medieval period Avicenna noted the importance of urine in diagnosing liver conditions.

These names signal both the increased importance of the Cult of the Virgin and the prominence of art in service to Marian devotion during the late medieval period.

Widespread in 10th century Anglo-Saxon England, minsters declined in importance with the systematic introduction of parishes and parish churches from the 11th century onwards ; but remained a title of diginity in later medieval England for instances where a cathedral, monastery, collegiate church or parish church had originated with an Anglo-Saxon foundation.

Firstly, Hillel ben Samuel's importance in the history of medieval Jewish philosophy lies in his attempt to deal, systematically, with the question of the immortality of the soul.

it rises to importance in the medieval history of Hinduism, where the Bhakti movement saw a rapid growth of bhakti beginning in Southern India with the Vaisnava Alvars ( 6th-9th century CE ) and Saiva Nayanars ( 5th-10th century CE ), who spread bhakti poetry and devotion throughout India by the 12th-18th century CE.

In medieval times Soest was the biggest city of Westphalia ; however, after it liberated itself from the bishops of Cologne in the Soester Fehde in 1449 it slowly lost importance, only to gain it again when in 1816 the new Prussian government created the district.

Gardēzī's work is of great importance to the history of medieval Afghanistan, Persia, and Central Asia.

The only medieval tomb of importance to remain relatively unscathed in the Dom is that of Bishop Guy of Avesnes ( also known as Gwijde van Henegouwen ), the brother of John II, Count of Holland and Hainaut, who was bishop from 1301 until his death in 1317.