There are contemporary passing allusions to the Battle of Trees elsewhere in the mediaeval Welsh collections: The Welsh Triads record it as a " frivolous " battle, while in another poem of the Book of Taliesin the poet claims to have been present at the battle.

The date of the current cross is unknown, although a plaque beside it claims it to be mediaeval.

The legal claims concerning the Duchy, they argue, are without merit except as relics of mediaeval feudalism, and they contend that Stannary law applied not to Cornwall as a ' nation ', but merely to the guild of tin miners.

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.

The Graces used in St John's have been in continuous use for some centuries and it is known that the Ante Prandium is based upon mediaeval monastic models.

These and the other towers have overhanging parapets just like the mediaeval machicolations, and are finished at top with battlements, remains of which have been found at Nimroud and Kouyunjik, and at Kale Shortage, the supposed capital of Assyria before Nineveh.

Historical raids and alien contacts also feature in several stories, such as the Jon Pertwee episode The Time Warrior, in which a lone alien makes a forced landing in mediaeval England, the Tom Baker episode Pyramids of Mars ( in which the culture of ancient Egypt is shown to have been the result of the infuence of visiting aliens ), and the Peter Davison episode The Visitation in which crashed alien criminals are revealed to be indirectly responsible for the Great Fire of London.

The two centres still, however, have separate characters, with the village green, parade of shops and mediaeval church giving a ' village ' feel to Old Coulsdon, while the Brighton Road and the railway give the old Smitham Bottom a bustling, busier atmosphere.

Like other broads, it is believed to have been formed by the flooding of mediaeval peat workings.

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.

There was widespread conflation of the two in mediaeval tradition, but scholars have contested the traditional identification with the Welsh Saint Garmon, commemorated in the North Welsh placename Llanarmon.

The " Dean Road " still visible at Soudley is believed to be a mediaeval rebuilding of the Roman road, and would have been an important route for the transport of iron ore and finished metal products.

* Raglan Lodge-a Regency building in the town centre, Beaufort Square, built above a vaulted stone cellar which may have been a town hall or administrative centre for the mediaeval lordship

Almost all monarchs and popes after mediaeval times have used ordinals.

A church is known to have existed in the area in 1100 although it has been rebuilt at least once and the chapel still stands, in the churchyard of the Victorian St Andrew's and is the oldest ecclesiastical building in Merseyside still in regular use for worship but in 1756 the mediaeval nave of Maghull Chapel was pulled down with a Roman Catholic dual-purpose school-chapel opening in 1890 near Massey's Barn.

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 word mercero still used in Spanish has a meaning similar to haberdasher, although the mediaeval mercers would not have recognised any relationship to that trade which was covered by a separate company.

As a walled garden, Knole's is very large, at 26 acres ( 30 including the ' footprint ' of the house ), and indeed is large enough to have the very unusual — and essentially mediaeval — feature of a smaller walled garden inside itself.

Historians Mark Oxbrow, Ian Robertson, Karen Ralls and Louise Yeoman have each made it clear that the Sinclair family had no connection with the mediaeval Knights Templar.

The ruins remaining there in the time of Fazello seem to have been only those of the mediaeval town and its Saracenic castle.

In the foreground in the mediaeval stone bridge and in the background is the National Wallace Monument, standing on the Abbey Craig on which Wallace is reputed to have stood before the battle.

The programme highlighted mediaeval masonry blocks in the foundation wall of the north Wing as evidence that the west end of the church may have been incorporated into the current house built by Protector Somerset.

Because Cadaqués has remained relatively isolated from the surrounding region ( owing to its geography ), the mediaeval speech patterns have been preserved.

The mediaeval chronicler Roger of Wendover dated Tytila's reign from 578, but his source of information is unknown and the accession date may have been a guess on the part of the chronicler.

Gerald Gardner did not mention any such thing as a " Book of Shadows " in his 1949 ( though written three years earlier ), novel about mediaeval witchcraft, High Magic's Aid.

They are called thus from their Latin name litterae patentes long used by mediaeval and later scribes when such documents were written in Latin, expressed in the plural, in the ancient sense of a collection of letters of the alphabet arranged to be read rather than in the modern sense of the word as an " epistle " or item of correspondence ; thus no singular form exists.

Doubles ( gemination | Geminated consonants ) during the Roman Republican era were written as a sicilicus, during the mediaeval era several conventions existed, mostly Diacritic | diacritic marks, but in Nordic texts a particular type of ligature appeared for ll and tt, referred to as broken l and broken t

The roots of written Gallo literature are traced back to Le Livre des Manières written in 1178 by Etienne de Fougères, a poetical text of 336 quatrains and the earliest known Romance text from Brittany, and to Le Roman d ' Aquin, an anonymous 12th century chanson de geste transcribed in the 15th century but which nevertheless retains features typical of the mediaeval Romance of Brittany.

The Dialogus de Scaccario, or Dialogue concerning the Exchequer, is a mediaeval treatise on the practice of the English Exchequer written in the late 12th century by Richard FitzNeal.

It is used with a similar purpose in mediaeval manuscripts of other Slavonic languages written with the Cyrillic alphabet.

The Book of the Wars of the LORD is cited in the mediaeval as being a collaborative record written by Moses, Joshua, and the children of Israel.

The origin of the monasteries is explained in a mediaeval hagiography written by Simeon Metaphrastes, in Vita Sancti Theodosii Coenobiarchae in which he wrote that Saint Theodosius founded on the shore of the Dead Sea a monastery with four churches, in each being spoken a different language, among which Bessan was found.

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 only surviving lists of the kings of East Anglia are those written by mediaeval sources, such as William of Malmesbury.

The opening verses of Origo Mundi, the first play of the Ordinalia ( the magnum opus of mediaeval Cornish literature ), written by an unknown monk in the late 14th century

" 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 legend of Genevieve of Brabant connected her to Treves.

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 ).

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.

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.