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Medieval Times Entertainment, the holding company, is headquartered in Irving, Texas. [ 1 ] There are ten locations: the nine in the United States are built as replica 11th century castles; [ 2 ] the tenth, in Toronto , Ontario , Canada, is located inside the CNE Government Building .
Horses in Roman times were owned mostly by the wealthy but they were increasingly used as draft animals to replace oxen after about 1000 AD. Oxen were cheaper to own and maintain, but horses were faster. [50] Pigs were the most important animals raised for meat in medieval England and other parts of northern Europe.
A knight's fee could be created by the king himself or by one of his tenants-in-chief by separating off an area of land from his own demesne (land held in-hand), which process when performed by the latter was known as subinfeudation, and establishing therein a new manor for the use of a knight who would by the process of enfeoffment become his tenant by paying homage and fealty to his new ...
According to the Huffington Post, Medieval Times hired an anti-union consultant at $3,200 a day to persuade workers to leave the union, and gave raises to non-union workers.
A good destrier was very costly: at the times of the Crusades, a fine destrier was valued at seven or eight times the cost of an ordinary horse. In England, the specific sum of eighty pounds (in this context a pound was 240 silver pennies, which amounted to one pound of silver by weight [ 15 ] ) was noted at the end of the thirteenth century.
Taxation in medieval England was the system of raising money for royal and governmental expenses. During the Anglo-Saxon period , the main forms of taxation were land taxes, although custom duties and fees to mint coins were also imposed.
Many Gothic cathedrals, like Notre-Dame de Paris and Chartres, were built on the sites of Romanesque cathedrals, and often used the same foundations and crypt. In Romanesque times the crypt was used to keep sacred relics, and often had its own chapels and, as in the 11th-century crypt of the first Chartres Cathedral, a deep well. The Romanesque ...
Scutage was a medieval English tax levied on holders of a knight's fee under the feudal land tenure of knight-service. Under feudalism the king, through his vassals, provided land to knights for their support. The knights owed the king military service in return.