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Jun 25, 2021 · OVERVIEW. During the 1460s the differences between the fashions of Italy and those of northern Europe deepened. At the courts of Burgundy and France, men and women’s silhouettes were elongated and angular, from the tops of women’s conical headdresses to the points of men’s poulaine shoes. In Italy, inspired by the art and dress of ...
Apr 5, 2023 · The Black Death was a plague pandemic that devastated medieval Europe from 1347 to 1352. The Black Death killed an estimated 25-30 million people. The disease originated in central Asia and was taken to the Crimea by Mongol warriors and traders. The plague then entered Europe via Italy, perhaps carried by rats or human parasites via Genoese ...
Gem cutting wasn’t invented until the 15th century, so most stones weren’t particularly shiny. By the 14th century, diamonds became popular in Europe, and by the middle of the same century there were laws about who could wear what kinds of jewellery. Knights, for instance, were banned from wearing rings.
Sep 7, 2023 · The term “Dark Ages” traditionally refers to the period in European history that followed the fall of the Western Roman Empire in the 5th century AD and lasted until the beginning of the Renaissance in the 14th century. It is characterized by a lack of centralized political authority, economic decline, cultural stagnation, and limited ...
The expression "crisis of the late Middle Ages" is commonly used in western historiography, [3] especially in English and German, and somewhat less in other western European scholarship, to refer to the array of crises besetting Europe in the 14th and 15th centuries. The expression often carries a modifier to specify it, such as the urban [4 ...
Nov 21, 2023 · The 14th century was surely a golden period for the Delhi sultanate, but the 15th century brought more invaders from the north. In 1398, Tamerlane invaded with an army from Central Asia, and a ...
Dec 18, 2017 · 1520 (11th – 22nd June) Field of the Cloth of Gold. This was the name given to the summit meeting between Henry VIII of England and Francis I of France. It gained its name because a large number of cloth of gold tents had been erected in the no man’s land between English Guisnes and French Ardres. Henry stayed in a temporary palace which ...
