In the Middle Ages, Glagolitsa was also known as " St. Jerome's script " due to popular mediaeval legend ( created by Croatian scribes in 13th century ) ascribing its invention to St Jerome ( 342-429 ).

The word " legend " appeared in the English language circa 1340, transmitted from mediaeval Latin language through French.

In the painting of Lady Godiva by Jules Joseph Lefebvre, the authentic historical person is fully submerged in the legend, presented in an anachronistic high mediaeval setting.

Local legend has it that the curative benefit of the spring water was known in mediaeval times.

In mediaeval times Lathar, daughter / son &# 91 ;?&# 93 ; of Hugony the Great ( according to legend, High King of Ireland and reputed ruler of much of the British Isles ), was reputedly given a small territory by her / his father which stretched along the Antrim coast roughly from Glenarm to the Inver River-this territory was thus called Latharna ( the lands of Lathar ).

Amongst modern " folkies " and neo-pagans the Jack in the Green has become identified with the mysterious Green Man depicted in mediaeval church carvings and is widely felt to be an embodiment of natural fertility, a spirit of the primeval greenwood and a trickster ; by extension he is linked to such mythological characters as Puck, Robin Goodfellow, Robin Hood, the wild man, and the Green Knight, among others such as the folklore behind the legend of Robin Hood.

" In 2 Maccabees, a deuterocanonical book of the Bible, the grim martyrdom of a mother and her seven sons is described, and was a well-known mediaeval subject.

The speech contains the first record of her adoption of the mediaeval political theology of the sovereign's " two bodies ": the body natural and the body politic:

The mediaeval playwright Hroswitha of Gandersheim claims to have written her plays so that learned men had a Christian alternative to reading the pagan plays of Terence, while the reformer Martin Luther not only quoted Terence frequently to tap into his insights into all things human but also recommended his comedies for the instruction of children in school.

She writes detective fiction, and is noted for her series of mediaeval mysteries featuring Matthew Bartholomew, a teacher of medicine and investigator of murders in 14th-century Cambridge.

Ballads for Orchestra of 1968, written for the National Eisteddfod, held that year in her home town, has all the colourfulness and swagger of a mediaeval court.

The early mediaeval writer Goscelin reported that thirteen years later she appeared in visions to Dunstan and others, to inform them that her body was uncorrupted in the grave.

Historic Swabia was eventually replaced by today's Baden-Württemberg, but it had been the most significant territory of mediaeval Alamannia, comprising all Germania Superior and territory east to Bavaria.

Aeneas is the subject of the French mediaeval romance Roman d ' Enéas.

The late Roman cavalry tradition and the mounted nobility of the Germanic invaders both contributed to the development of mediaeval knightly cavalry.

As late as mediaeval era, the Kamboja cavalry had also formed part of the Gurjara-Pratihara armed forces in 8th / 10th centuries AD.

From the highest ranks of the mediaeval hierarchy ( usually pope and emperor ) descending to its lowest ( beggar, peasant, and child ), each mortal ’ s hand is taken by a skeleton or an extremely decayed body.

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.

In possible connection with the Book of Enoch, the idea of Enoch and his great-grandson Noah having some involvement with books of magic given to them by angels continued in various forms through to the mediaeval period.

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.

Influential critics, above all John Ruskin, far from denouncing mediaeval obscurantism, praised the imagination and fantasy exemplified by its Gothic architecture, influencing the Pre-Raphaelites.

Once in an area of great wealth, the demise of the mediaeval wool trade was indirectly the saving of the village, ( as we know it today ), since the locals were unable to afford the expense of upgrading their houses with the latest architectural fashions.

In the 14th century Lübeck became the " Queen of the Hanseatic League ", being by far the largest and most powerful member of this mediaeval trade organization.

The ruling class among the mediaeval townsfolk were rich merchant families whose houses stood right near the castle tower and were surrounded by the first town wall once it was built.

Louis most likely ordered the production of the Morgan Bible, a masterpiece of mediaeval painting.

The Middle Ages ( adjectival forms: medieval, mediaeval, and mediæval ) is the period of European history encompassing the 5th to the 15th centuries, normally marked from the collapse of the Western Roman Empire ( the end of Classical Antiquity ) until the beginning of the Renaissance and the Age of Discovery, the periods which ushered in the Modern Era.

The mediaeval period thus is the mid-time of the traditional division of Western history into Classical, Medieval, and Modern periods ; moreover, the Middle Ages usually is divided into the Early Middle Ages, the High Middle Ages, and the Late Middle Ages.

Establishing the end of the mediaeval era and the beginning of the Renaissance is difficult ; the usage in this article is the one usually adopted by musicologists.

One of the flute's predecessors, the pan flute, was popular in mediaeval times, and is possibly of Hellenic origin.

During the earlier mediaeval period, the liturgical genre, predominantly Gregorian chant, was monophonic.

Polyphonic genres began to develop during the high mediaeval era, becoming prevalent by the later 13th and early 14th century.

Of greater sophistication was the motet, which developed from the clausula genre of mediaeval plainchant and would become the most popular form of mediaeval polyphony.

The secular Ballata, which became very popular in Trecento Italy, had its origins, for instance, in mediaeval instrumental dance music.

One of the prime issues confronting mediaeval miners ( and one which Agricola explains in detail ) was the removal of water from mining shafts.

It was retold in the Spanish romance Olivia, the chanson de geste Doon l ' Alemanz, as part of the English romance Sir Triamour, and in the legend of Genevieve of Brabant.

" The third story, and the most contested source of the town's name, stems from a local legend which tells of a man named Brabant who, in the mid-1700s, " slaughtered " several indigenous inhabitants by cannon in order to prevent an impending massacre.

In the 8th Century the legend of Genoveva of Brabant, names Mayen as the seat of government of Duke Siegfried of the Pfalz.

The legend connected with its foundation is given by Peter Damiani in his Life of St Odilo: a pilgrim returning from the Holy Land was cast by a storm on a desolate island.

The epithet is connected with dolphins ( Greek δελφίς ,- ῖνος ) in the Homeric Hymn to Apollo ( line 400 ), recounting the legend of how Apollo first came to Delphi in the shape of a dolphin, carrying Cretan priests on his back.

Conventional wisdom holds that Hamlet is too obviously connected to legend, and the name Hamnet was quite popular at the time.

It is also connected to the legend according to which St. John was handed a cup of poisoned wine, from which, at his blessing, the poison rose in the shape of a serpent.

A problem sometimes connected to the Pope Joan legend is the fact that there is no Pope John XX in any list.

The belief in the existence of authentic images of Christ is connected with the old legend of King Abgar of Edessa and the apocryphal writing known as the " Mors Pilati " (" the Death of Pilate ").

The origin of the name is uncertain: it has naturally been connected with the legend of Circe, and Victor Bérard ( in Les Phéniciens et l ' Odyssée, ii.

An unconfirmed legend wants the Castle to be connected by a secret underground tunnel to the Certosa.

Many people connected with the film met unfortunate fates after the film wrapped, giving rise to an urban legend that Incubus was a cursed production:

Vigilantism in literature, folklore and legend is connected to the fundamental issues of dissatisfied morality, injustice, the failures of authority and the ethical adequacy of legitimate governance.

The name's origin, means hawk in Polish language and is connected with the legend of the black knight.

The most famous legend connected with the castle is that of the Monster of Glamis, a hideously deformed child born to the family.

He was counted among the Calydonian hunters and the Argonauts, and was connected with the legend of the foundation of Cyrene.

The " grave " mound is ascribed to David Prichard, landlord of the Goat Hotel in Beddgelert in the late eighteenth century, who connected the legend to the village in order to encourage tourism.

The " grave " mound is ascribed to the activities of a late 18th-century landlord of the Goat Hotel in Beddgelert, David Pritchard, who connected the legend to the village in order to encourage tourism.

Several themes of myth converged on the chariot, as Robin Lane Fox remarks: Midas was connected in legend with Alexander's native Macedonia, where the lowland " Gardens of Midas " still bore his name, and the Phrygian tribes were rightly remembered as having once dwelt in Macedonia.

The best-known legend with which the Lapiths are connected is their battle with the Centaurs at the wedding feast of Pirithous, the Centauromachy.

The author of the legend doubtless connected in his invention three saints who apparently suffered death in Lucania, and were first venerated there.

The legend of the Pahana seems intimately connected with the Aztec story of Quetzalcoatl, and other legends of Central America.

The character of Gawain is connected by familial ties to specific characters in much of the literature concerning Arthurian legend.

This cycle connected his ancestors to the legend of the Knight of the Swan, most famous today as the storyline of Wagner's opera Lohengrin.

A popular legend of Ladislaus connected to this battle tells of Ladislaus pursuing and overcoming a Pecheneg warrior, who had tried to abduct a Hungarian girl, thus freeing the girl was.

The first three Dragon Quest games, all connected to the legend of Erdrick, comprise the " Erdrick trilogy ".

* Merlin's Apprentice, a loose 2006 sequel to the 1998 film mini-series, one which was much more connected with traditional Arthurian legend.