merchants to obtain considerable wealth and exert a strong political influence. they contributed a great deal to the architectural flavor of the city. fortifications around the city were erected and continually expanded, with several towers maintained by different craftsmen's guilds, according to the medieval...
to old faroese, whereas old icelandic remained rather archaic compared to other medieval varieties of old west norse. the most crucial aspects of the development of faroese are diphthongisation and palatalisation. [ ] there is not enough data available to establish an accurate chronology of faroese,...
iii appropriated lands that had been granted to the papacy in southern italy and the eastern roman (byzantine) empire continued to govern the area in the form of the catapanate of italy through the middle ages, well after northern italy fell to the lombards. [ ] at the time of the normans ' late medieval...
pesos and reales , eight reales being worth one peso; / reales was equivalent to about one ( ) u.s. dollar. the colonists were provided for from head to toe. clothing for the men consisted of: good linen shirts, pairs of underdrawers of puebla cloth, cloth jackets with lining and trimming, pairs of breeches...
understand. [ ] though elements of koine greek took shape in classical greece , the post-classical period of greek is defined as beginning with the death of alexander the great in bc, when cultures under greek sway in turn began to influence the language. the passage into the next period, known as medieval...