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Medieval Conquest is a fantasy-themed real-time strategy personal computer game developed by Cat Daddy Games and published by Global Star Software for Windows in 2004. The game involves managing a kingdom by hiring units and building and upgrading structures.
The English kings had also developed the system of issuing writs to their officials, in addition to the normal medieval practice of issuing charters. [113] Writs were either instructions to an official or group of officials, or notifications of royal actions such as appointments to office or a grant of some sort.
English continued to be used on a modest scale to write local religious works and some poems in the north of England, but most major works were produced in Latin or French. [168] Music and singing were important in England during the medieval period, being used in religious ceremonies, court occasions and to accompany theatrical works. [169]
The Constitutional History of Medieval England from the English Settlement to 1485 (4th ed.). Adams and Charles Black. Keynes, Simon (1998). "Alfred and the Mercians". In Blackburn, Mark A.S.; Dumville, David N. (eds.). Kings, currency, and alliances: history and coinage of southern England in the ninth century.
Wales in the late Middle Ages spanned the years 1282–1542, beginning with conquest and ending in union. [1] Those years covered the period involving the closure of Welsh medieval royal houses during the late 13th century, and Wales' final ruler of the House of Aberffraw, the Welsh Prince Llywelyn II, [2] also the era of the House of Plantagenet from England, specifically the male line ...
John was the first English king since the Conquest to spend large amounts of time in England; however, his tyrannical behavior turned the barons against him. They forced John to agree to Magna Carta, which would have critical constitutional implications for England's late medieval government.
English medieval music was revived from the 1950s, with choral and musical groups attempting to authentically reproduce the original sounds. [374] Medieval living history events were first held during the 19th and early 20th centuries, and the period has inspired a considerable community of historical re-enactors , part of England's growing ...
The Crusades were a series of religious wars initiated, supported, and sometimes directed by the Christian Latin Church in the medieval period.The best known of these military expeditions are those to the Holy Land between 1095 and 1291 that had the objective of reconquering Jerusalem and its surrounding area from Muslim rule after the region had been conquered by the Rashidun Caliphate ...