The Georgian Chronicle, a 13th century compilation drawing from earlier sources, reports a marriage of Vakhtang I of Iberia to Princess Helena of Byzantium, identifying her as a daughter of the predecessor of Zeno.

The Georgian Chronicle, a 13th century compilation drawing from earlier sources, reports a marriage of Vakhtang I of Iberia to Princess Helena of Byzantium, identifying her as a daughter of the predecessor of Zeno.

The crossbow is portrayed as a hunting weapon on four Pictish stones from early medieval Scotland ( 6th to 9th centuries ): St. Vigeans no.

The clàrsach or harp was the most popular musical instrument in later medieval Scotland and Ireland and Gaelic poets portrayed their Pictish counterparts as very much like themselves.

The chronicles of medieval England had always portrayed them as rapacious ' wolves among sheep '.

The blending of sexual and spiritual is portrayed in Hindu iconography, as seen in ubiquitous phallic and vaginal iconography in Hindu temples and for instance in the Kharjuraho and Konarak medieval temples, where thousands of couples having sex in endless positions, and with the gods, are carved in deep bas-relief.

In medieval and later versions of the myth, Calchas is portrayed as a Trojan defector and the father of Chryseis, now called Cressida.

In Homer's Iliad he is portrayed as an energetic and impetuous warrior, but in medieval literature he becomes a witty and licentious figure who facilitates the affair between Troilus and Cressida.

However, the medieval Denmark portrayed in this movie includes creative anachronisms.

The symbols are shown with, or in place of, the Evangelists in early medieval Gospel Books, and are the usual accompaniment to Christ in Majesty when portrayed during the same period, reflecting the vision in Revelations.

The mortal human characters are also largely portrayed as bisexual, both in the medieval and modern day periods covered in the novel.

Jerome calls him Pythagoricus et magus, a " Pythagorean and mage ," and in the medieval and Renaissance tradition he is portrayed as a magician, diviner, or occultist.

In some medieval art, the Beloved Disciple is portrayed with his head in Christ's lap.

The only horror film actor who ever portrayed Dracula, The Mummy, Frankenstein, Fu Manchu, the Hunchback, Rasputin, a Warlock, a Zombie, a medieval Inquisitor and a Serial Killer ( not to mention a Werewolf in 15 different films!

Notably, the Madonna is still portrayed larger in size than the human figures, a tradition in medieval painting.

But since God is portrayed as using speech during creation, and as addressing Adam before Gen 2: 19, some authorities assumed that the language of God was different from the language of Paradise invented by Adam, while most medieval Jewish authorities maintained that the Hebrew language was the language of God, which was accepted in Western Europe since at least the 16th century and until the early 20th century.

Hence the European medieval stereotypes of the people of the Byzantine Empire portrayed them as perfidious, treacherous, servile, effeminate and unwarlike.

Aristotle portrayed in the 1493 Nuremberg Chronicle as a 15th-century-A. D. scholar

Christopher Syn is portrayed as a brilliant scholar from Queen's College, Oxford, possessing swashbuckling skills such as riding, fencing, and seamanship.

In Voltaire's Candide, Dr. Pangloss is portrayed as a clueless scholar who, despite the evidence, says that " all is for the best in this best of all possible worlds.

Aristotle, a 4th-century BC philosopher, portrayed in 1493 Nuremberg Chronicle appearing like an AD 15th-century scholar

Song Jiang is versed in literary arts and usually portrayed as a scholar.

Now the question is out .” David M. Potter, whose own credentials as a Lincoln scholar gave his words authority, said Donald's biography of Charles Sumner portrayed, " Sumner as a man with acute psychological inadequacies ” and exposed Sumner's " facade of pompous rectitude.

As scholar Surian Yee describes, " the attitude of the Buddha as portrayed in the Nikayas is more anti-speculative than specifically atheistic ", although Gautama regarded some aspects of the belief in God as unhealthy.

He was accused of keeping Jewish property seized after Kristallnacht in November 1938 ; he was charged with spreading untrue stories about Göring – such as alleging that his daughter Edda was conceived by artificial insemination, and he was confronted with his excessive personal behaviour, including unconcealed adultery, several furious verbal attacks on other Gauleiters and striding through the streets of Nuremberg cracking a bullwhip ( this last is portrayed in the 1944 Hollywood film ' The Hitler Gang '.

Another is portrayed in a woodcut from the Nuremberg Chronicle of 1493, depicting the Red Sea drowning Pharaoh's army which is shown carrying a variety of staff weapons including halberds, flails and military forks as well as an ahlspiess.

Stephen King and Stewart O ' Nan's 2004 book Faithful: Two Diehard Boston Red Sox Fans Chronicle the Historic 2004 Season where the Tigers are often portrayed as the Japanese Red Sox.

* Benkei is a central character in Sogo Ishii's 2000 film Gojoe: Spirit War Chronicle, portrayed by Daisuke Ryu.

In 1992, Kurt Kreuger was quoted by the San Francisco Chronicle on the emotions inherent in making the film, in which he portrayed a stereotypical Nazi:

Eric's life was portrayed in a positive light in Eric's Chronicle ( Erikskrönikan ) created by his supporters.

Another candidate for one of the first scholars to carry out comparative ethnographic-type studies in person was the medieval Persian scholar Abū Rayhān Bīrūnī in the eleventh century, who wrote about the peoples, customs, and religions of the Indian subcontinent.

Anacharsis, depicted as a medieval scholar in the Nuremberg Chronicle

Anaxagoras, depicted as a medieval scholar in the Nuremberg Chronicle

* Constantine of Preslav, a medieval Bulgarian scholar

During what is often referred to as the Islamic Golden Age, in order for a scholar to be qualified to issue a fatwā, it was required that he obtained an ijazat attadris wa ' l-ifta (" license to teach and issue legal opinions ") from a Madrassah in the medieval Islamic legal education system, which was developed by the 9th century during the formation of the Madh ' hab legal schools.

In a commentary of the hadith Sahih Muslim, entitled al-Minhaj, the medieval Islamic scholar Yahya ibn Sharaf al-Nawawi stated that " one of the collective duties of the community as a whole ( fard kifaya ) is to lodge a valid protest, to solve problems of religion, to have knowledge of Divine Law, to command what is right and forbid wrong conduct ".

Thomas Aquinas was the most important Western medieval legal scholar

So, for example, the 16th-century humanist scholar Polydore Vergil famously rejected the claim that Arthur was the ruler of a post-Roman empire, found throughout the post-Galfridian medieval " chronicle tradition ", to the horror of Welsh and English antiquarians.

Also, contrary to common belief, David Lindberg writes, " the late medieval scholar rarely experienced the coercive power of the church and would have regarded himself as free ( particularly in the natural sciences ) to follow reason and observation wherever they led ".

* 1929 – Norman Cantor, Canadian medieval scholar ( d. 2004 )

According to medieval scholar Richard Zeikowitz, the Green Knight represents a threat to homosocial friendship in his medieval world.

Solon, depicted as a medieval scholar in the Nuremberg Chronicle

Another famous victim of castration was the medieval French philosopher, scholar, teacher, and ( later ) monk Pierre Abélard.

Muhammad ibn Zakariyā Rāzī ( Mohammad-e Zakariā-ye Rāzi ), known as Rhazes or Rasis after medieval Latinists ( August 26, 865 – 925 ), was a Persian polymath, a prominent figure in Islamic Golden Age, physician, alchemist and chemist, philosopher, and scholar.

The medieval scholar Abu al-Hasan Ali ibn al-Husayn Masudi ( d. 956 ) wrote that Allah commanded the Earth to absorb the water, and certain portions which were slow in obeying received salt water in punishment and so became dry and arid.

His annotations give a good idea of the wide variety of works available to a medieval scholar.

Posidonius, depicted as a medieval scholar in the Nuremberg Chronicle

* Saint Naum, medieval Bulgarian scholar

Theophrastus, depicted as a medieval scholar in the Nuremberg Chronicle

Sowa combines ideas from numerous disciplines and eras modern and ancient, for example, applying ideas from Aristotle, the medieval Scholastics to Alfred North Whitehead and including database schema theory, and incorporating the model of analogy of Islamic scholar Ibn Taymiyyah in his works.

* Makhir of Narbonne, medieval Jewish scholar

An alternate etymology, proposed by the Dutch scholar Lauran Toorians, would derive the name Gawain not from the Middle Welsh Gwalchmei, but rather from the medieval Dutch name Walewein ( attested in Flanders and Northern France c. 1100 AD ).

His description of Avalon here, which is heavily indebted to the early medieval Spanish scholar Isidore of Seville ( being mostly derived from the section on famous islands in Isidore's famous work Etymologiae, XIV. 6. 8 " Fortunatae Insulae "), shows the magical nature of the island: