Madonna's wedding meal was a truly mediaeval feast with a roast pig on a spit. |
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It may be the flute, the mediaeval lute, or the viola or rebab of Jordi Savall himself, one of the acknowledged masters of his instrument. |
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The new building resembled a mediaeval cathedral with its pointed arches, ribbed vaulting and flying buttresses. |
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The rules have been around since the mediaeval laws about champerty and barratry. |
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I'm not a great fan of stuffed moose and mediaeval knights in full fig, but Kelvingrove's got the lot. |
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This year there will also be a continental market with stallholders keeping to the theme of the weekend by dressing in mediaeval costume. |
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The bridge spans the Lot river and offers a suggestion of French mediaeval military design. |
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A narrow mediaeval passageway, known as a slype, issues into to a paved court by the Checker Hall. |
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Large quantities of billon coins were produced in the Roman era, many with a silver wash, and in mediaeval times throughout Europe. |
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It was mainly garrisoned by British troops, who dug more tunnels here to add to the mediaeval ones which already existed there. |
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Probably not, just as technical or industrial progress would not have been furthered by mediaeval religious fundamentalism. |
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Our tour guide could have lectured on mediaeval Scottish history at any seat of learning you care to mention. |
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At more than seven feet long, the coffin seemed to have been made for someone immensely tall, a giant by mediaeval standards. |
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But the original paint and gilding are deteriorating and a replacement roof over the chapel has sagged and is resting on the mediaeval ceiling. |
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It's just the kind of logic employed by mediaeval pardoners flogging pigs' bones as holy relics. |
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Berckmans is still on board, and his oboe, bassoon and English horn remain a major part of the group's mediaeval chamber music sound. |
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Local archives house valuable deeds documenting the glory of the mediaeval city, which has witnessed the coronation of 11 Hungarian kings and eight regal wives. |
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The Pope's decision against the inclusion of women in church choirs is likely to cause the Austrian village church to return to the plainsong of the mediaeval monks. |
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This beautiful mediaeval structure is rumoured to have served as a trysting place for Charlemagne's daughter and her noble lover. |
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First of all, it is still typically European: on the other side of the Atlantic this instrument is seen as obscurantist and even mediaeval. |
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Since this is the only surviving inkwell from the mediaeval age in Tunis, it is difficult to trace its origin. |
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On this originally mediaeval country estate there is an eighteenth-century country house, where the lord of the manor stayed. |
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The ruins of the mediaeval castles that used to guard the river are still numerous, perched improbably on the cliffs, like that of Ram. |
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The city is a colourful potpourri of mediaeval and modern, chaos and order, art and kitsch. |
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For three weeks in July, year after year, its mediaeval open air stage irresistibly draws tens of thousands of visitors. |
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Herisson is an ancient town with an impressive mediaeval castle at its centre. |
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Somehow, the town itself, retains its air of mystery, and mediaeval ambience, despite the cell phone shops, supermarket, and mini shopping mall opposite the car park. |
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The collection contains works on doctrinal theology, patristic and mediaeval dogmatics, and liturgics. |
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Its mediaeval villages are worth visiting, with their peaceful life and street markets that are reminiscent of the past. |
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In this year, the Austro-Hungarian universities shifted from the outdated mediaeval model to the modern German model of higher education. |
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He was young like the young people before the Pope when Francis roamed the streets of a mediaeval Assisi with his friends, making merry. |
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Slant group had little sympathy from brethren who had been nourished by the rural and mediaeval idylls of a Bede Jarrett or Vincent McNabb. |
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Its flavour was not lost on our mediaeval ancestors, nor were they loth to ascribe healing properties unto the hop. |
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And all this against the rather mediaeval backdrop of territorial dispute between two Member States, a dispute which is far from being settled. |
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In 1998 mediaeval Runneburg in Thuringian WeiĂensee delivered up a hitherto unknown document on the subject of beer purity. |
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The Dean's Eye Rose window in the North Transept is one of the most important pieces of mediaeval stained glass in Europe. |
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Historical monuments and mediaeval cities are preserved on numerous islands, and new archaeological finds are constantly unearthed. |
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Evidence of this spread can be seen in numerous documents from the mediaeval period. |
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Must-See: not far away, make sure you visit the Castle of Castelnaud, an impressive mediaeval fortress with a museum of war in the Middle Ages. |
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Walk to the mediaeval town of Aubonne along the banks of the lake, through fields and meadows and past castles and villas. |
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Those picturesque Eastern European capitals with their glistening waterfronts and their pretty mediaeval old towns and their flat taxes are the new centre. |
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One is not bound to regard torture as only present in a mediaeval dungeon where the appliances of rack and thumbscrew or similar devices were employed. |
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The embrasures that are dotted along the lower part remind us of the defensive use of the mediaeval towers that were commonly found in the area. |
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By adding copper to the silver, the mediaeval craftsmen were hardening and lowering the melting point of silver, although it still remained silvery in colour. |
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The mortal remains of King Richard II of England may be interred in a Scots mediaeval church and not in Westminster Abbey, as has been presumed for the past 600 years. |
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Similarly the Greek and Roman gods were more like mythical heroes and heroines than like the omnipotent, omniscient and good God postulated in mediaeval and modern philosophy. |
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With its winding alleys, carefully restored mediaeval squares and burghers' houses, the small town of St. Wendel on the border between Saarland and Rheinland-Pfalz is a place of discovery and enchantment. |
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A great hall becomes a mediaeval cathedral. |
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Ancient Rome and Greece were no longer the great fountains of inspiration: they were replaced by such mediaeval legends as the epic of King Arthur. |
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Cheap cures Too much of a good thing Reprints Related items Reforming corporate governance: In search of honestyAug 15th 2002An oath, with its touch of mediaeval mysticism, certainly concentrates the mind. |
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In this respect he differed from his English counterpart Ruskin, as he often replaced the work of mediaeval stonemasons. |
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The area is characterized by fertile farmland and mostly wooded basalt peaks, many of which are topped by mediaeval castles or castle ruins. |
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Gifted with an amazing memory he answered promptly and with courtesy to the greatest variety of questions related to the 800 years of mediaeval history. |
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The mediaeval dormitory, therefore, and the present museum are structurally situated above the atrium of the church and occupy the space that was originally its façade. |
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The church tower dates from mediaeval times, making it the oldest surviving building in Inverness. |
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Rock from this period is called old red sandstone and was the main stone used in the mediaeval buildings of north Warwickshire. |
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The Border ballads of the region have been famous since late mediaeval times. |
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The tenth century used to be reckoned by mediaeval historians as the darkest part of this intellectual night. |
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It is a fine illustration of an aristocratic residence built during mediaeval Renaissance times, with later developments under the influence of new styles. |
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The winner is a mediaeval town nestling within a historic fortified port, Kinsale is a striking example of how to turn an urban architectural heritage into a tourist attraction. |
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The brace is a positively mediaeval contraption, reminiscent of the gothic gynecological instruments that Cronenberg devised for Dead Ringers. |
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At variance with the all-embracing worldviews typical of Greek and mediaeval philosophers, this conviction is probably linked to the principles of modern scientific method established during the Enlightenment. |
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With the end of the Taliban's reign of terror and its mediaeval regime in sight, the brutal suppression of women's rights will also come to an end. |
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During mediaeval times, England and Wales were part of western Christendom. |
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The mediaeval authorities were more interested in ensuring adequate quality and strength of the beer than discouraging drinking. |
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This mediaeval chair has a cavity in the base into which the Stone of Scone is fitted for the ceremony. |
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The Coronation Spoon is the only part of the mediaeval Crown Jewels which survived the Commonwealth of England. |
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The high part surrounding Sant RomĂ church houses a fascinating mediaeval complex comprising a defence tower, two dovecots, the remains of dwellings and a water deposit. |
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Hawkshead has a timeless atmosphere and consists of a characterful warren of alleys, overhanging gables and a series of mediaeval squares. |
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The date of the current cross is unknown, although a plaque beside it claims it to be mediaeval. |
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It also contains a simulation of the mediaeval scriptorium and the three architectural phases of the monastery: Visigoth, Mozarabic and Romanesque. |
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For there, upon the narrow new-made road, between the stripling pines, was a mediaeval friar, fighting with a barrowful of turfs. |
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Some will say that it is the end of modernity and a regression towards a pre-modern mediaeval era, others will tell you that we are in the middle of a deconstructed post-modernity. |
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A mass, dynamic, grass-roots movement needs to develop against these policies to grab public assets and impose a mediaeval working regime and slave wages. |
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In mediaeval universities, firstly Bologna and Padua, Paris and Prague also, natio referred to a community of students from a particular religion. |
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Ventadorn will offer a repertoire of mediaeval music in the peerless setting of the sanctuary, which is located on the upper slopes of the Randa mountain. |
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Berwick had a mediaeval hospital for the sick and poor which was administered by the Church. |
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It is now generally agreed that this one instance was a mediaeval scribal error which assumed 'mabinogion' was the plural of 'mabinogi. |
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The main administrative divisions of mediaeval Wales were the cantrefs, each of which was divided into several commotes. |
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The Royal House, which stands on the corner of the Garsiwn, is another of the mediaeval houses that can still be seen today. |
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When the tomb of a mediaeval King disappears, with its costumes and clothing, or when we lose track of a wrecked ship at the bottom of the sea, new technologies have to be used to recover these relics. |
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Wilhelm Tell, in mediaeval appearing war clothing and with the crossbow on his shoulders, his arm around his son who holds the hand of his father and looks at him adoringly. |
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In the small town of Litomy¨l, the aristocratic family of Pern¨tejn had a mediaeval castle remodeled into a Renaissance chateau in the second half of the 16th century. |
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It is ceremonially opened at 8 pm on the Thursday evening with the freeing of the bear from the Käfigturm, one of the city's mediaeval towers, where he has allegedly been hibernating. |
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The mediaeval dynamics of public shaming, of gross but partial community condemnation, and of crudely emotive responses instead of considered reactions, do not seem too far away. |
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She translated several mediaeval songs and poems, then in 1837 she began on the Mabinogion. |
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Little is known about mediaeval farming methods, but much arable land was continuously cropped and only occasionally ploughed. |
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The area where they are spoken often correspond with former mediaeval counties and duchies. |
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The beautiful mediaeval town of Souvigny is just 6km from Autry-Issards. |
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It is a way of commemorating the splendour of the town's mediaeval past, when it was the main town and focal point of the extensive viscountcy of Cabrera. |
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He greatly enjoyed a long career in the world of finance, as well as his on-going studies of mediaeval paleography. |
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For use at weekends and during school holidays, Holst and his wife bought a cottage in Thaxted, Essex, surrounded by mediaeval buildings and ample rambling opportunities. |
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It was paid for by its supporters and advocates of its ideal, and embraced a mediaeval tradition of music, dance, poetry, theatre, lights, and spontaneous entertainment. |
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The economy of mediaeval Dundee centred on the export of raw wool, with the production of finished textiles being a reaction to recession in the 15th century. |
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Almost all monarchs and popes after mediaeval times have used ordinals. |
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The title Guest used derived from a mediaeval copyist error already established in the 18th century by William Owen Pughe and the London Welsh societies. |
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The mediaeval Overgate was demolished in the early 1960s to make way for a shopping centre, followed by construction of the inner ring road and the Wellgate Shopping Centre. |
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In the mediaeval days when monks inhabited the island, it was thought that if the soul was in God's keeping, the body must be fortified with Lindisfarne mead. |
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Originally farmland outside the old Cardiff Castle, the northern limit of mediaeval Cardiff was marked by the cross where Fairoak Road and Crwys Road now meet. |
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The city of Salisbury is notable for its mediaeval cathedral. |
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