The tortures inflicted on victims of the Holy Inquisition for heresy from the Middle Ages onwards are legendary.
The first billionaire of Wales, he has made his mark next to Roman ruins and castles from the Middle Ages.
Around 8, 000 works of art are being reorganised to tell the story of the Netherlands from the Middle Ages to the present day.
The old bazaars in Kandahar are like a scene from the Middle Ages with men and young boys running tiny shops or working as jewellers or tinsmiths.
Ubisoft has proven its technological prowess in bringing history alive, as each new game has brought more realistic time periods from the Middle Ages to Renaissance Italy to Colonial America to life.
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"This unique instance of a hospital and its records surviving from the Middle Ages is exceptionally rare in this country, " said Derrick Murphy, Leader of Norfolk County Council and Chairman of the Norfolk Records Committee.
Since he replaced Pope John Paul II, Benedict has made repeated calls for religious tolerance and freedom in Islamic countries - most notably in his 2006 speech at Regensberg where he quoted a Byzantine emperor from the Middle Ages criticizing Islam for seeking to spread its message by the sword.
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It is a simple velvet shift with long sleeves, its silhouette taken from the Spanish Middle Ages.
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Throughout the Middle Ages, from the barons forcing King John to sign the Magna Carta, to the Wars of the Roses, rebellion was a game played almost exclusively by the rich and powerful.
Trade in relics arose in the Middle Ages, when Catholic pilgrims returned home from the Holy Land with tokens of the burial places of martyrs or of the martyrs themselves.
The first ones, in the late Middle Ages, specialised in commercial news, mainly from abroad.
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Many scholars contest the shroud's authenticity, saying it dates to the Middle Ages, when many purported biblical relics -- like splinters from Jesus' cross -- surfaced across Europe.
This connection also has historic roots -- during the Middle Ages, extravagant meals or banquets hosted by the wealthy often featured sculptures made from edible ingredients like pastry dough, sugar and ice, according to the book Ice: The Nature, the History, and the Uses of an Astonishing Substance.
In the Middle Ages, for example, city-states in present-day Italy or Spain traded from a position of strength with north European suppliers of textiles and north African sellers of gold.
The name of the county translates from Irish as men of the monks, with numerous monastic settlements on the islands of Lough Erne in the middle ages.
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