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This schema explains the book's subtitle. While the phrase 'the Sword, the Plough, and the Book' represents a tip of the hat to E. Gellner's Plough, Sword, and Book: The Structure of Human History (1988; rev. ante, cvii [1992], 421), it also evokes the idea of the three ...
It is also an inescapable conclusion that, at some point between AD874 and AD1262, those people living on the island of Iceland began to think of themselves as “Icelandic” and it is this feature of that society which renders it particular within a medieval European context. There is no s...
Pastimes in the Middle Ages Despite disapproval from the church, many forms of play continued during the Middle Ages: Medieval society was marked by rigid class stratification; below the nobility and clergy were the peasants, who were divided into such ranks as freemen, villeins, serfs, and ...
These tensions can be viewed as ways in which early medieval narratives seek to characterise those aspects of individual behaviour which can be said to fit in to a modern world view and, in so doing, to reinforce the values which that world view presents. This tendency becomes p...
NetflixDisenchantmentMatt Groening, creator of animation giants The Simpsons and Futurama, brought his unique sensibilities to Netflix with Disenchantment. The five-season series takes viewers back to medieval Europe and a fictional kingdom named Dreamland. The show fol...
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making the diatonic octave needed for Pythagorean tuning. These natural notes plus Bbare known in medieval music asmusica rectaormusica vera, meaning right or true music. Altered notes, those made sharp or flat (except Bb), weremusica fictaormusica falsa, meaning feigned or false music. Despite...
Reign of Kings is a Medieval-themed survival game that washes you up on a beach, nearly naked clutching only a wooden stick, and asks you to travel through its forested world whilst attempting to not die of thirst, hunger, dog bite, or sword-to-the-face. If this sounds strikingly famili...
as we know from English court records of livery ordered for both artificial and natural fools in the medieval and renaissance periods, which make no mention of this paraphernalia. Since artificial fools outside of France, Germany and the Low Countries did not, in reality, dress this way, why...