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These medieval land terms include the following: a burgage , a plot of land rented from a lord or king a hide : the hide, from the Anglo-Saxon word meaning "family", was, in the early medieval period, a land-holding that was considered sufficient to support a family.
Late medieval gothic plate armour with list of elements. The slot in the helmet is called an occularium. The slot in the helmet is called an occularium. This list identifies various pieces of body armour worn from the medieval to early modern period in the Western world , mostly plate but some mail armour , arranged by the part of body that is ...
Hold (or Hauld) was a title of nobility, used in early medieval Scandinavia and the English Danelaw. History Holds ...
The abbreviation is not always a short form of the word used in the clue. For example: "Knight" for N (the symbol used in chess notation) Taking this one stage further, the clue word can hint at the word or words to be abbreviated rather than giving the word itself. For example: "About" for C or CA (for "circa"), or RE.
The medieval settlement found near Rimavská Sobota was occupied from the 11th to 13th centuries, archaeologists said. Photos show some of the wells and pottery vessels dating back at least 700 years.
Old School RuneScape is a massively multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG), developed and published by Jagex.The game was released on 16 February 2013. When Old School RuneScape launched, it began as an August 2007 version of the game RuneScape, which was highly popular prior to the launch of RuneScape 3.
While exploring a 500-year-old shipwreck off the coast of Sweden, divers discovered “surprising” cargo and weapons that may have helped repel pirates.
The revenues from the traditional sources of taxation declined in later medieval England, and a series of experiments in poll taxes began: [15] in 1377 a flat-rate tax, in 1379 a graduated tax. [16] By 1381, the unpopularity of these taxes had contributed to the Peasants' Revolt. Later experiments in income taxes during the 15th century did not ...