In France, a peasant named Jacques led a revolt against the authorities in the 14th century.
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Others refused to stay silent when they saw evil in the church's ranks: In the 14th century, St.
Its provenance has been confirmed by Islamic scholars throughout the centuries, including Hassan bin Sadid-Aldin (Allameh Helli) in the 14th Century.
When Brown announced he was writing a new book last month, he said he was heavily influenced by Dante's Inferno, written in the 14th Century.
The Monastery of the Great Meteoron, founded in the 14th Century by Saint Athanasios, is the highest, largest and oldest of the six.
With origins in the 14th century, it is thought to refer to the "off-fall" from the butcher's block, meaning the less desirable parts.
The 109-page text known as the Sarajevo Haggadah was presented as a wedding gift in the 14th century to a young couple in Barcelona, Spain.
The conversion is rejuvenating China's ancient Silk Road to the west, immortalised by Marco Polo in the 14th century but rarely used since sea routes made the camel trains redundant.
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Suspicions are that the dig has revealed a "plague pit" -- one of many mass graves used to dispose of the bodies of those who succumbed to the Black Death, or bubonic plague, in the 14th century.
The opera is in three acts and is loosely based on the historic conflict between Bajazet, a Turkish sultan, and the Tartar conqueror Timur, or Tamerlano, who ruled much of western and central Asia in the 14th century.
The English of Geoffrey Chaucer (born in the 14th century), for example, is incomprehensible to modern laymen, whereas that of William Shakespeare (born in the 16th) is not only comprehensible but held by some to be a model.
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Since the beginning of the commercial revolution in the 14th century executives have built or lead their businesses in what scientists call the Holocene climatic epoch, a geologic time period that began at the end of the last ice age around 12, 000 years ago.
The current wave of viral panic is of course the most recent chapter in a very long history of epidemics: Ebola in the 1990s, mad cow disease in the 1980s, polio in the 1930s and 1940s, the black death in the 14th century, and so on.
Brown is a New Hampshire resident spending the week in New York to promote "Inferno, " a return to his beloved continent and a chance, he hopes, to interest readers in the classic 14th century journey in verse by Dante that provides the title for his new novel.
The latter, Timbuktu's oldest, was built in the early 14th century, while the Sankore, during its heyday, was said to have the largest collection of books in Africa since the Library of Alexandria of antiquity.
Illuminated manuscripts provided the ideal portable art form for a peripatetic court that moved regularly from its base in Dijon up through the Low Countries it had absorbed by marriage and conquest in the late 14th century.
At the height of its fortunes in the early 14th century, Ravenser Odd was a town of national importance, regularly supplying the king with two fully equipped ships and armed men for his war with the Scots.
The exhibition begins in the late 14th century with a single plain, dark sword.
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Do not miss the Arms Museum, located in the 14th-century keep.
Although it was rebuilt in the late 14th Century, with an impressive hammerbeam roof (b), the walls contain much of the original material.
To orient yourself, start out in the Zocalo, the main square and heart of the city since the Aztecs first staked their claim to it in the early 14th century.
The British Library also holds younger copies of the Koran, among them a richly ornate one written entirely in gold, which was commissioned by Sultan Baybars in Cairo in the early 14th Century.
Work has been taking place after a crack appeared in part of the 14th Century ruins, in September 2011.
The original St Stythians church was built in the 6th Century AD, with the current building dating from the 14th Century.
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"Timbuktu in the 14th to the 16th century was an important university city where many manuscripts referring to knowledge of astronomy, economy, religion, mathematics, physics, and medicine were produced, " said Lazare Eloundou, chief of the Africa unit for UNESCO's World Heritage Center.
After all, the master mason in 14th-century Florence or 15th-century Nuremberg had it made.
"In records dating back to the 14th Century it's known variously as star jelly, astral jelly or astromyxin, " Mr Whitehead said.
In 14th century Europe, the bubonic plague temporarily boosted wages and reduced agricultural rents.
Wack's last years were spent at his home, a 14th century chateau, in the Dordogne region of France.
Drawing his figures in earthtones, Malskat took up the spare 14th century style with preternatural ease and an utter lack of inhibition.
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