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The Newsletter for the Medieval History Site at the Mining Co. Vol. I, No.7 July 31, 1998

This Week's Feature

Conflagration: The Peasants' Revolt, Part 3

In Part 2: A Spark Ignites the Blaze, we looked at what triggered the revolt and its immediate effects. This week we'll follow the actions of the rebels in the capital.

Part 3: The Flames Consume Reason

 

 

In the News

Norway Plans Bridge Based on da Vinci Design

The Norwegian highway department is planning a 190-foot version of the bridge Leonardo da Vinci designed for Sultan Bajazet II in 1502. The original plan of the bridge was 1,155 feet long and intended to cross the Golden Horn inlet in Istanbul, but the Sultan didn't believe it would work. Now the design will be realized in Aas Township, more than a thousand miles away from the Golden Horn.

 

 

Medieval Minutia

The term "a cappella" originally referred only to church music composed for unaccompanied voices. The phrase is Italian for "as in a chapel."

Source: The Encyclopedia Americana

You can find out more about Medieval Music at our page of net links.

 

 

Site Update

Armor & Weaponry

DiGrassi, His True Arte of Defence

The Rapier and Dagger Fight of Di Grassi and Saviolo

Vincent Saviolo, His Practice

 

Art

Medieval English Visual Arts

 

Book, Manuscript and Printing History

Cyber Journal of Heraldic Bookplates

 

Daily Life

Coffee in Seventeenth Century England

Elizabethan Hunting

The Game of Colf

Money Maketh the World go Around

Uses and Availability of Cotton...

 

Health & Medicine

The Pestilence Tyme

 

Journals

The Moderne Aviso (also added to Living History)

 

Knights of the Teutonic Order

The Teutonic Knights' Castle and the Thirteen Years' War

(also added to Castles)

 

Maps

Internet Sourcebook: Maps and Images

 

Medieval Britain

King John's Castle (also added to Castles )

Middle Age Ireland

 

Military History

Bannockburn

 

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Quote of the Knight Everything that is done in the world is done by hope. Martin Luther

 

 

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Melissa Snell
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