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1 giorno fa · e. The Reformation, also known as the Protestant Reformation and the European Reformation, [1] was a major theological movement in Western Christianity in 16th-century Europe that posed a religious and political challenge to the papacy and the authority of the Catholic Church. Towards the end of the Renaissance, the Reformation marked the ...
6 giorni fa · May be the oldest, extant wooden church in the world and the oldest, extant wooden building in Europe. Roykstovan in Kirkjubø: Faroe Islands: No clear date, middle of 11th century AD Farmhouse May be the oldest continuously inhabited wooden building in the world: Ditherington Flax Mill: United Kingdom (England, Shrewsbury) 1797 AD
3 giorni fa · It was only in the second half of the 20th century that the term came to be used with any frequency, now mostly referring to the cultural flourishing of science and mathematics under the caliphates during the 9th to 11th centuries (between the establishment of organised scholarship in the House of Wisdom and the beginning of the crusades), but often extended to include part of the late 8th or ...
5 giorni fa · Basingstoke, Palgrave MacMillan, 2013, ISBN: 9780230276468; 368pp.; Price: £20.00. Theresa Earenfight’s new book, Queenship in Medieval Europe, stresses that the medieval royal court could be a woman’s world as much as a man’s. Responding to historiography that has largely identified the concepts of ‘monarchy’ and ‘sovereignty ...
4 giorni fa · château. keep. motte-and-bailey castle. bailey. motte. castle, medieval stronghold, generally the residence of the king or lord of the territory in which it stands. Strongholds designed with the same functionality have been built throughout the world, including in Japan, India, and other countries. The word castle is sometimes applied to ...
1 giorno fa · Some branches of the Romani reached western Europe in the 15th century, fleeing from the Ottoman conquest of the Balkans as refugees. Although the Romani were refugees from the conflicts in southeastern Europe, they were often suspected of being associated with the Ottoman invasion by certain populations in the West because their physical appearance was exotic.
4 giorni fa · 9th–11th century: France, Italy: Fictitious medieval legend of a woman who disguised herself as a man and rose to the status of Pope in the Middle Ages. Pope Joan: 2009: 814–855: France, Italy: Fictitious medieval legend of a woman who disguised herself as a man and rose to the status of Pope in the Middle Ages. The Vikings: 1958: 860s: England
