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16th century: Soviet horror film set in 16th century Ukraine, based on the story of the same name by Nikolai Gogol. Ever After: 1998: early 1500s: A modern interpretation of the Cinderella story, involving several historical figures like Francis I, King Henry (later Henry II of France) and Leonardo da Vinci: The Man Who Laughs: 1966: 1500–1502
Ashmole Bestiary; folio 21r: Monoceros and bear. The Ashmole Bestiary, an English illuminated manuscript bestiary, is from the late 12th or early 13th century.Under 90 such manuscripts survive and they were studied and categorized into families by M.R. James in 1928. [1]
"The Leopard" from the 13th-century bestiary known as the "Rochester Bestiary" The Peridexion Tree. A bestiary (Latin: bestiarium vocabulum) is a compendium of beasts. Originating in the ancient world, bestiaries were made popular in the Middle Ages in illustrated volumes that described various animals and even rocks. The natural history and ...
In legal history, an animal trial is a trial of a non-human animal. These trials were conducted in both secular or ecclesiastic courts. Records of such trials show that they took place in Europe from the thirteenth to the eighteenth century.
A nature documentary or wildlife documentary is a genre of documentary film or series about animals, plants, or other non-human living creatures. Nature documentaries usually concentrate on video taken in the subject's natural habitat , but often including footage of trained and captive animals, too.
The Animals Film presents a survey of the uses of animals in factory farming, as pets, for entertainment, in scientific and military research, hunting, etc. The film also profiles the international animal rights movement. The film incorporates secret government footage, cartoons, newsreels, and excerpts from propaganda films.
Guinefort's story is a variation on the well-travelled "faithful hound" motif, similar to the Welsh story of the dog Gelert.. In one of the earliest versions of the story, described by Dominican friar Stephen of Bourbon in 1250, Guinefort the greyhound belonged to a knight who lived in a castle near Lyon. [4]
Films set in 13th-century Song dynasty (2 C, 1 P) Pages in category "Films set in the 13th century" The following 70 pages are in this category, out of 70 total.