Weirdly enough, the land system that we have today has its origins in a problem specific to medieval kings, which is ‘how do I fund military campaigns and defence, without paying to keep a standing army?’ And it was William the Conqueror who perfected the answer. It was a piece of ...
Here we present preliminary patterns for Neolithic (3000–1200BC), Iron Age (1200–300BC), Early Historic (300BC–AD500), and Medieval (AD500–1600) period materials in the region. The results of the survey so far have documented significant temporally sensitive changes in the size, location...
‘we are a medieval people,’ he writes at the end, ‘creating conditions in the country akin to those that prevailed in Akbar’s lifetime, always using past hurt to justify present hate, and therefore needing a medieval monarch to show us the way.’ As he told me over a long and i...
fancy cobbled streets, and intriguing canals, Strasbourg is one of the bestplaces to visit in France. It is a place of flourishing for art and learning and was also the richest city during the 13th century in Holy Roman Empire. Since the city lies at the conjuncture point of France...
in a revenue of HK$750 billion.29All of this relies on the successful manufacture of scarcity, which in turn relies on high demand for new real estate. But with the rise of Chinese mega-cities in the region, the concurrent delivery of other large new urban developments in the territory ...