Page of segulot in a mediaeval Kabbalistic grimoire ( Sefer Raziel HaMalakh, 13th century )

Unfortunately, historians, both mediaeval and modern, have taken less of an interest in what this epithet suggests about the king's advisers, and have instead focused on the image it creates of a blundering, misfit king.

Still, even scholars who deny this version the exclusive status of " the only real Arabian Nights " recognize it as being the best source on the original style and linguistic form of the mediaeval work and praise the Haddawy translation as " very readable " and " strongly recommended for anyone who wishes to taste the authentic flavour of those tales ".

Paon de Ruet is found early, in a legal document, in the form Paganus de Rodio — referring to Rodium, the mediaeval Latin form corresponding to the Roeulx, or Le Rœulx, the name of a town of 3000 inhabitants, 8 miles north-east of Mons, on the highway leading from Mons to Nivelle located in the Belgian province of Hainaut.

Examples were in mediaeval paintings in Salisbury cathedral, and others are shown in the illustrations on this page.

By way of increasingly more artificial sets ( based on mediaeval paintings ) the film finally returns to The Globe.

Uninformed modern readers might think that what they see on the page is the writing system exactly as the ancient Greeks used it in Classical Greece, but it is really Ancient Greek as transcribed by mediaeval Byzantine scribes.

The island on which the Palaiopolis was situated is now part of the mainland and is the site of the mediaeval village of Sant Martí d ' Empúries.

* Magdalen Hall, Oxford — a former hall of the University of Oxford, originally sited next to the college of the same name, was refounded as Hertford College on the mediaeval site of Hart Hall.

The town dates back to approximately AD 600, and over the centuries has thrived as an agricultural centre ; as the location of Alnwick Castle and home of what were in mediaeval times the most powerful northern barons, the Earls of Northumberland ; as a staging post on the Great North Road between Edinburgh and London, and latterly as a modern rural centre cum dormitory town.

Schaumburg Castle, in mediaeval times the seat of the Counts of Schaumburg, is located on the Nesselberg (" nettle mountain ") in Schaumburg, a locality in the town of Rinteln.

However, they have none of the demonic qualities attributed to them in mediaeval Christian literature, neither is there anything comparable to the overwhelming preoccupation with Jews and Judaism ( except perhaps in the narratives on Muhammad's encounters with Medinan Jewry ) in Muslim traditional literature.

With its location on An tSráid Láir ( Middle Street ) the Taibhdhearc is situated in the heart of the mediaeval city of Galway.

The Rural Life Museum is housed in a former malt barn, possibly of mediaeval origin, on Old Market Street.

The PRO was placed under the control of the Master of the Rolls, a senior judge whose job had originally included responsibility for keeping the records of the Chancery Court, and was originally located in the mediaeval Rolls Chapel ( the former Domus Conversorum, a chapel for Jews who had converted to Christianity ), on Chancery Lane at the boundary of the City of London with Westminster.

The town is named after the castle built on a hill above the mediaeval town centre ( Burg is German for “ castle ”)

* Protestant church of Diósgyőr ( Baroque, built on the ruins of a mediaeval monastery )

Coins dating from the 1320s were found with the skeleton, and the evidence suggests that the man was fatally injured when the stone fell on him whilst he was digging the hole in which it was to be buried in a mediaeval " rite of destruction ".

Although usually found in recensions of the later mediaeval period, these works are linguistically archaic, and thus throw light on pre-Christian Ireland.

In the mediaeval period, it thrived on iron workings and was also a site of glass manufacturing.

By the mediaeval period there was already a permanent settlement on the right bank of the Alforja Torrent.

According to one explanation, the badge is referred to as " Jimmy " because the image of Mercury was based on the late mediaeval bronze statue by the Italian sculptor Giambologna, and shortening over time reduced the name Giambologna to " Jimmy ".

The best-known examples appear on mediaeval buildings, where battlements were often used as much for decoration as for defensive purposes.

The two main mediaeval houses were Reddish Hall at ( demolished 1780, but visible on maps dated 1840 ) and Hulme Hall at, later known as Broadstone, then Broadstone Hall ( demolished 1945 ).

He came to love scholarly research, and wrote on the Celtic and mediaeval periods.

But, as in mediaeval philosophy, this gives rise to the problem of reconciling God's freedom with His supposed immutability.

The later mediaeval Chronicles of Jerahmeel gives these sons ' names as Fantonya and Atipa, and says they subdued " Pahath "; elsewhere these chronicles include information derived from Jerome, identifying Tubal's descendants with Iberia and Hispania.

A number of codes of mediaeval football allowed the carrying of the ball, as indeed do several other current football codes.

Its Norman west doorway remains intact, as do some mediaeval and later interior features including Jacobean tombs.

Contrary to the popular histories, the origins of the name " Bowland " have nothing to do with archery (“ the land of the bow ”) or with mediaeval cattle farms or vaccaries ( Old Norse, buu -, farmstead ).

The danse macabre combines both desires: in many ways similar to the mediaeval mystery plays, the dance-with-death allegory was originally a didactic dialogue poem to remind people of the inevitability of death and to advise them strongly to be prepared at all times for death ( see memento mori and Ars moriendi ).

In 1599, the Church published the Indexes of Prohibited Books in which many grimoires were listed as forbidden, including several mediaeval ones like the Key of Solomon which were still popular.

The word σκλάβος, in turn, comes from the ethnonym Slav, because in some wars in early mediaeval times many Slavs were captured and enslaved.

As was the case in many Mediterranean lands in mediaeval times, monks were the main practitioners of winemaking in La Rioja and great advocates of its virtues.

Unlike many other colleges, all of the architecture of the college proper is mediaeval stone and there is no modern accommodation annexe.

Like many of the mediaeval towns of England, Rochester had municipal Freemen whose civic duties were abolished by the Municipal Corporations Act 1835.

In 1613 and 1725 great fires destroyed large parts of the town, but some of the mediaeval buildings, including Judge Jeffreys ' lodgings, and the Tudor almshouse survive in the town centre, amongst the replacement Georgian buildings, many of which are built in Portland limestone.

The town walls and many Byzantine churches remain from the mediaeval period.

There are many mediaeval timber buildings in the town, one of which houses the Eden Valley Museum.

The surrounding area is characterized by fertile farmland and many, mostly wooded basalt peaks, many of which are topped by mediaeval castles or castle ruins.

In the mediaeval era, many great nobles employed their own officers of arms.

London water supply infrastructure developed over many centuries from early mediaeval conduits, through major 19th century treatment works built in response to cholera threats, to modern large scale reservoirs.

This unit became the prototype for many other units of the Polish cavalry, who started to arm themselves with equipment modelled after Uhlan regiment-and the mediaeval Tartars.

Unlike many of their progressive rock contemporaries, their " classical " influences ranged beyond the Romantic and incorporated mediaeval, baroque, and modernist chamber music elements.

According to many leading experts, the world famous frescoes in the Boyana Church played an important role in the development of mediaeval Bulgarian and European painting.

While in modern editions of ancient and modern Greek the trema is used only to prevent a digraph ( as < ευ > versus < εϋ > ), Slavonic kendema-usage still continues that of many mediaeval Greek manuscripts, where the " diaeresis " sign was often used simply to mark an ypsilon or iota as such, irrespective of any other vowels ( e. g. δϊαλϋτϊκά, which would not be correct by today's conventions ).

Nicholas was a very common mediaeval name and is found in many different forms as a surname.

Nicholas was a very common mediaeval name and is found in many different forms as a surname.

The house has undergone considerable change since it was built, almost every century seeing structural alterations, but it still retains many features of a mediaeval manor.

The Hagenhausen noble family, who after moving to the Taunus began styling themselves the Lords of Eppstein, and writing many a page in mediaeval German history, found themselves holding great importance and power from the 13th century onwards.

Baldauf's study of the " ancient " poetry in Volume 4 demonstrates that many " ancient " poets wrote rhymed verse resembling that of the mediaeval troubadours.

However, he is best known as a hymn writer and, especially, translator, having enriched English hymnody with many ancient and mediaeval hymns translated from Latin and Greek.

This contained many shards of pottery which were identified as mediaeval by the Royal Scottish Museum, Edinburgh.