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We didn’t have a roundup last month, as a lot of work during December was odd jobs, internal bits and pieces, instead of project work as a lot of us had time off during the holiday period. Since we all came back into the office, we’ve hit the ground running and here are some...
The English Bastard sword is known as the épée bâtarde sword in France, it became popular at the end of the medieval period at the start of the 15th century. Claymore Sword Claymore Sword Description The Claymore Sword is a Scottish variant two-handed longsword that appeared in the lat...
Based on archaeological and historical data, the medieval period of the 11th through 16th centuries AD was the heyday of Swahili Coast trading communities. But that data has also shown that the African merchants and sailors of the Swahili Coast began totradein international goods at least 300-50...
which broke the power of the Muslims in Spain forever. Soon only the emirate of Granada was left, but as a vassal of Castile. Throughout the period there was also frequent fighting between states of the same religion, and Muslim and Christian warriors often had few qualms about serving princ...
Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences (2021) 13: 191 https://doi.org/10.1007/s12520-021-01410-4 ORIGINAL PAPER Wall paintings through the ages: the medieval period (Italy, twelfth to fifteenth century) Zuleika Murat1 Received: 11 May 2021 / Accepted: 30 June 2021 / ...
Historian:My presentation today is on how the science of genetics is being used to shed light on theorigin of manuscripts - anything written by hand - produced in the medieval period ... that is ... the period between the fifth and fifteenth centuries AD. ...
epicentre of one of the most disruptive episodes from those times and indeed, it could be said, the catalyst for the fall of the House of York. Who was she exactly, this widowed lady some of the chroniclers from the period and even modern historians have tried to brush under the carpet?
One of the most fundamental and most common marks is the punctus, which functioned much like the modern comma, semicolon and period. It could be fat or small and could be placed at the baseline, the middle or the headline. In simpler terms, the punctus is a dot which can take on a ...
2/ Being so long, the text is thought to have been composed over a long period. It is thought that the earliest parts were composed no earlier than about 750 BCE, and the later parts could have been written as recently as the 3rd century CE. 3/ Some non-academic sources of info abou...