History Forum / General / Medieval Period / July 2009

Universal free and compulsory education for all children to
the age of 14 is the aim of a new bill to be introduced into
the Indian parliament.
This may wipe out the caste system and debt slavery now

Hello everyone, I just joined today, and I am looking forward to
reading what you all have to say each day.
Stacy

Contrary to what had been said by various obsolete historians [1] the
medievals [2] DID like battles [3]. An obsolete argument that the
medieval battles rarely decided anything is, well, just an obsolete
argument because the newer argument is that if losing the battle meant

Well?

THe discussion about the invention of sail has been had on here before,
and honestly I didn't pay much attention.  Now I am curious and so
thought I'd reopen the question with a query:
In early medieval boats, (pre-1100, and even as early as 800 if we have

Archaeologists search for tomb of Suleiman I in Hungary:
http://www.caboodle.hu/nc/news/news_archive/single_page/?tx_ttnews[tt_news]=6737
Vinland Map of America no forgery, expert says:
http://www.reuters.com/article/scienceNews/idUSTRE56G58320090717

Dear Newsgroup ~
Yesterday I checked the article by C.D. Ross entitled "The Household
Accounts of Elizabeth Berkeley, Countess
of Warwick, 1420-1," which was published in Transactions of the

With all due modesty re the youngest listed (Thomas, Lord
Despenser)! ... see http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/8160081.stm
Surreyman

1.    Introduction and general background
There are certain aspects of a medieval military history that are so
conspicuous by their absence from the numerous books on a medieval
warfare that one may suspect a conspiracy of silence among so-called

The warfare of Tsardom of Russia starts from the time when Russia
became Tsardom [1]. As almost everybody [2] knows, the 1st Russian
Tsar was Ivan with a somewhat surprising number “IV” [3]. To avoid
possible misunderstandings [4], he got himself a nickname

Document dating back to 1216 found at Brock:
http://media.www.brockpress.com/media/storage/paper384/news/2009/06/09/News/Docu
ment.Dating.Back.To.1216.Found.At.Brock-3746866.shtml:
8th century Islamic vase found in Japan :
http://www.newstrackindia.com/newsdetails/110433

There are numerous definitions of the “Mongols”: (a) “the Mongols
proper” [1], (b) “all people who speak a Mongolic language” [2], (c)
if you belong to one of the ethnic groups in Russia or China which,
correspondingly, Russians or Chinese decided to consider as the

Castle bones may belong to knight :
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/scotland/tayside_and_central/8124109.stm
Scots fought 'in bright yellow war shirts not Braveheart kilts:
http://www.telegraph.co ...

I have finally gotten a copy of "A Pore Helpe" and its Printers.
Record the differences and similarities in the type fonts for the
three extant copies of the tract that cheers up "sely souls That
hereth messe in paules"

[Ken kept insisting on this subject so here we go....]
According to a historical tradition, the Hussites had been named after
Jan Hus [1] who was named after a goose. However, as with many other
historical traditions, these naming relations actually could go other