Europeans in the Middle Ages also developed a taste for trade with China and the Indies.
She could picture him as a king in the Middle Ages: Cal the Seriously Off.
Bookworms were a problem in the Middle Ages, but a decent vellum parchment could last 300 years.
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In the Middle Ages the nail fungus, Poronia punctata, which grows on horse droppings, was extremely common.
The role was created in the middle ages and then, as now, reports directly to the Commons Speaker.
Founded by the Romans as a thermal spa, Bath became an important centre of the wool industry in the Middle Ages.
The rise of universities in the Middle Ages also stimulated several technical innovations.
In the Middle Ages the area was a magnet for hermits, who came there to devote themselves to penance and prayer.
For historians, the Paston Letters have long been a fascinating insight into the soap opera lives of gentry in the Middle Ages.
They are essential for the study of medieval attitudes towards piety, and the spiritual needs and wellbeing of an urban population in the middle ages.
In the middle ages, philandering, theologian wanna-be Augstine of Hippo, as he would come to be known, was into wine, women and song.
In the Middle Ages, European craftsmen refined the design, improving the efficiency and allowing pack animals to do more work with less strain.
They say neither Asian flu after the first world war nor the Black Death in the Middle Ages did much economic damage either.
When it comes to teaching, the productivity of a professor in the Middle Ages and that of a professor today are not very different.
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In the Middle Ages, Swiss farmers fighting the imperial Hapsburgs were particularly fond of the weapon, using it to toss noble knights off their horses.
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These kind of papal indulgences were sold in the Middle Ages.
The name of the county translates from Irish as men of the monks, with numerous monastic settlements on the islands of Lough Erne in the middle ages.
In the middle ages, for example, a biting plague another socially contagious behavior spread among nuns in convents and all the way to the mother house in Rome.
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In the Middle Ages it was discovered to be a rich source of aluminium sulphate - a crucial raw material used as a fixing agent in dyeing cloth.
The excavations have found that after the Romans left it was occupied in the Middle Ages, then by the Tudors and it was the home of the Governor of Alderney.
Trade in relics arose in the Middle Ages, when Catholic pilgrims returned home from the Holy Land with tokens of the burial places of martyrs or of the martyrs themselves.
In the Middle Ages, for example, city-states in present-day Italy or Spain traded from a position of strength with north European suppliers of textiles and north African sellers of gold.
Arguments about the connections between creativity and culture on the one hand and political unity and fragmentation on the other are reassuringly abstract particularly when safely placed in the Middle Ages.
This system arose as a solution to a problem: As business expanded in the Middle Ages, Masters of various crafts could no longer depend on family members to work in the shop.
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It is reputed to be haunted by more than 20 ghosts - including a choir of nuns and Sir Roderick of Portchester who was murdered outside the manor in the Middle Ages.
While it can be a difficult role to fulfil today, in years gone by it was downright dangerous - five Speakers were beheaded by order of the King in the Middle Ages and Tudor period.
The Tanzverbot was first established by the church and was later adopted by many city governments starting in the Middle Ages, said Wolfgang Kaschuba, director of the Institute for European Ethnology at Humboldt University in Berlin.
Created by A-lister Kasper Holten, the Dane known for his Copenhagen Ring cycle and now director of opera of London's Royal Opera House, this "Lohengrin, " which is set in the Middle Ages, actually has principals dressed in medieval-looking costumes.
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There have been several books published recently touting the historical contributions of Islamic scholars to the early history of science (in the Middle Ages), but fewer assessing the relationship between Muslim tradition and the challenges that modern science presents to it today.
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