Monday, June 11, 2007

Medieval News of Last Week

THE HEPHTHALITES

14th-century observatory wows scientists



Medieval Graves found at Czech building site


Anglo-Saxon Church reopens


Medieval wall investigation


English manuscript unveiled in LA


Everyone's Joan Of Arc



Lost documents shed light on Black Death



DON'T BLAME THE RATS... A HUMAN DISEASE CAUSED THE BLACK DEATH


Abbey to undergo £3m revamp


Medieval window at Minster restored

Cho's violent crusade ripped from the Middle Ages


6/6

Birthday:
1436 Regiomontanus [Johannes Mller], preparer of astronomical tables

Death:
1134 St. Norbert

Events:
1178 Some monks at Canterbury report an explosion on the moon
1249 The 7th Crusade enters Damietta, Egypt
1288 Sa'd ad-Daula becomes Supreme Inspector of Taxes in Persia
1484 The Inquisition of Toledo writes for instructions in dealing with
cases of sorcery

6/7

Death:
555 Pope Vigilius
604 St. Augustine
1159 St. Robert of Newminister
1329 Robert I "the Bruce," King of Scotland, of leprosy
1394 Anne of Bohemia, Queen to Richard II of England

Events:
1002 Henry II elected King of Germany
1099 First Crusade reaches the walls of Jerusalem
1304 Pope Benedict XI excommunicates William de Nogaret for his part in
leading the attack on Pope Boniface
1424 MALESOV (Jan Ziska defeats Ultraquists)
1494 Treaty of Tordesillas: the Pope divides the New World between
Spain and Portugal

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