Word: medievales
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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As the Met's collection shows, the warriors of the Middle Ages accepted nothing but the best-and the best was cold hammered steel. Messire Olivier de la Marche, Captain of the Guards to Charles the Bold, wrote in its praise: "Steel is the most noble metal-of it...
Plumes for the Joust. "A homogeneous suit of medieval armor is much rarer than a medieval castle or cathedral," says the Met's Arms and Armor Curator Stephen V. Grancsay. But the few suits that have survived show that by the mid-15th century, armorers had achieved near perfection...
D'Entreves, a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society, has specialized mainly in political history of Italy, and has written such books as Dante as a Political Thinker, Reflections on the History of Italy, The Medieval Contribution to Political Thought: Thomas Aquinas, Masilus of Padua, Richard Hooker, and Aquinas--Selected...
The committee withheld many of its findings (which will become court evidence), and made only partial reports in most cases. But taken together, the reports told a murky story of top-to-bottom official corruption that got its cue from Perón and extended down to such lowly posts...
Brawling his way to power in 1935, Zachariades (who toughened himself by bathing in freezing water after the ancient Spartan custom) knifed a policeman to death in an Athens street fight. Next year Greek Dictator John Metaxas locked him away in a medieval prison on the island of Corfu. In...