Maria is a witch who uses magic to try and save people's lives during France's Hundred Years' War. Her involvement is frowned upon by heaven, so an angel named Michael tells her that she will lose her powers if she loses her virginity. ...
Endless Legend 2, the sequel to Amplitude's sublime 4X, is finally coming, and it's fully leaning into the joy of exploration: 'It is a feeling that will stick with you until the end' Mindwave is the story-driven spiritual successor to WarioWare that is ...
9 RegisterLog in Sign up with one click: Facebook Twitter Google Share on Facebook Chivalric Romance (redirected fromMedieval romances) The following article is fromThe Great Soviet Encyclopedia(1979). It might be outdated or ideologically biased. ...
King Arthur, the “once and future king”, is one of the most enduring figures of British myth and legend. Most commonly known as a fifth-century warrior who supposedly led the fight against Saxon invaders, King Arthur is a composite of layers of different legends, written by different autho...
St Michael For a part of my life I lived in the west of Cornwall, looking out over St Michael’s Mount (above). Back in the 5th century, the Archangel himself appeared to fishermen on that rock. Legend has it that the Mount was constructed by giants and, also, King Arthur battled ...
The Tipperary stories feature environmental Heritage of Tipperary with Gearoid O Foighil from Cloughjordan telling the story of Schohoboy bog restoration, social history of Mining in Slieveardagh area by former miner Michael Cleere. I was very honoured that my research on the Tipperary Folk Art ...
painted in the north transept behind the altar of Saint Michael in Cremona Cathedral, Italy, 1400. (As with all images, click for a larger view.) The Capirola lute book, a manuscript written in Venice 1515–20, states that a player should “make it so that the first fret almost touche...
The object of the study is the didactic booklet "Curious tale of the villainous and bloody life of Judas Iscariot" of Michael Tashev (1907), which is actually a modern Bulgarian version of the apocryphal story about the life of Judas before his meeting with Jesus known through the Latin ...
Reading this today summons images of girls screaming louder than the Beatles’ amplifiers in the 1960s or fans passing out at Michael Jackson concerts in the 1980s. One could almost imagine the wall of this maiden’s room covered with pictures of the Knights of the Round Table clipped from ...
of the most evocative. For me, it captures the saint in a moment of serious reflection, perhaps when his mind was lingering on a matter of sorrow or regret. The image was created in stained glass by Karl Parsons (1884-1934) for a window in St Michael’s Church at Sulhamstead, ...