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för 4 dagar sedan · Sir Gawain, The Green Knight/Bertilak de Hautdesert, Lady Bertilak, Morgan le Fay, King Arthur, Knights of the Round Table. Text. Sir Gawain and the Green Knight at Wikisource. Sir Gawain and the Green Knight is a late 14th-century chivalric romance in Middle English alliterative verse. The author is unknown; the title was given centuries later.
23 apr. 2024 · Geoffrey Chaucer (born c. 1342/43, London?, England—died October 25, 1400, London) was the outstanding English poet before Shakespeare and “the first finder of our language.”. His The Canterbury Tales ranks as one of the greatest poetic works in English. He also contributed importantly in the second half of the 14th century to the ...
för 2 dagar sedan · Europe experienced a period of dreadful calamities from the early 14th century. These culminated in a devastating pandemic known as the Black Death hit Europe, killing about one third of the population. Around 1500, the population of Europe was about 60–85 million people—no more than 75 per cent of the mid-14th-century demographic maximum.
7 maj 2024 · c. 14th century c. 14th century K'aissape–Hvalsey war: Inuit under K'aissape Norsemen under Ungortoq 1303 1303 Conquest of Sylhet: Independent Bengal (Delhi Sultanate breakaway) Gaur Kingdom of Srihatta 1308 1308 Teutonic takeover of Danzig (Gdańsk) Teutonic Knights: Margraviate of Brandenburg: 1309 1309 Crusade of the Poor: Duchy of Brabant ...
för 4 dagar sedan · Ottoman 17th century tile depicting the Kaaba, in Mecca. In the early spring of 1326, after a journey of over 3,500 km (2,200 mi), Ibn Battuta arrived at the port of Alexandria, at the time part of the Bahri Mamluk empire. He met two ascetic pious men in Alexandria.
För 1 dag sedan · 13th century - 14th century: Worm gear cotton gin in India. [341] 1277: Land mine in Song dynasty China : Textual evidence suggests that the first use of a land mine in history is by a Song Dynasty brigadier general known as Lou Qianxia, who uses an 'enormous bomb' ( huo pao ) to kill Mongol soldiers invading Guangxi in 1277.
För 1 dag sedan · The Mob Quad of Merton College, University of Oxford, 13th–14th century The reign of Edward I (reigned 1272–1307) was rather more successful. Edward enacted numerous laws strengthening the powers of his government, and he summoned the first officially sanctioned Parliaments of England (such as his Model Parliament ). [69]
