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The Beulé Gate is a fortified gate leading to the Propylaia of the Acropolis of Athens, Greece.It was constructed largely of repurposed material taken from the 4th-century BCE Choragic Monument of Nikias and integrated into the Post-Herulian Wall, a late Roman fortification built around the Acropolis in the years following the city's sack by the Germanic Heruli people in 267 or early 268 CE.
The Albigensian Crusade (French: Croisade des albigeois) or Cathar Crusade (1209–1229) was a military and ideological campaign initiated by Pope Innocent III to eliminate Catharism in Languedoc, what is now southern France. The Crusade was prosecuted primarily by the French crown and promptly took on a political aspect.
Ertuğrul. Ertuğrul or Ertuğrul Ghazi ( Ottoman Turkish: ارطغرل, romanized : Erṭoġrıl; Turkmen: Ärtogrul Gazy; died c. 1280/1281) [8] was a 13th-century bey, who was the father of Osman I. [9] Little is known about Ertuğrul's life. According to Ottoman tradition, he was the son of Suleyman Shah, the leader of the Kayı tribe (a ...
13th century clothing featured long, belted tunics with various styles of surcoats or mantle in various styles. The man on the right wears a gardcorps, and the one on the left a Jewish hat. Women wore linen headdresses or wimples and veils, c. 1250. Costume during the thirteenth century in Europe was relatively simple in its shapes, rich in ...
13th century in the Abbasid Caliphate (1 C, 1 P) 13th century in al-Andalus (2 C, 26 P) 13th century in the Kingdom of Albania (1 C, 2 P) 13th century in Andorra (1 C, 2 P) 13th century in Aragon (3 C, 23 P) 13th century in Armenia (2 C, 7 P) 13th century in Austria (2 C, 5 P) 13th century in the Ayyubid Sultanate ...
late 13th century. Amir Khusrow – The Tale of the Four Dervishes ( Persian: قصه چهار درویش, Ghesseh-ye Chahār Darvīsh) Njáls saga. c. 1280. Bernard of Besse – Liber de Laudibus Beati Francisci. Heinrich der Vogler – Dietrichs Flucht. c. 1280s. Havelok the Dane. The Owl and the Nightingale.
Courtly love ( Occitan: fin'amor [finaˈmuɾ]; French: amour courtois [amuʁ kuʁtwa]) was a medieval European literary conception of love that emphasized nobility and chivalry. Medieval literature is filled with examples of knights setting out on adventures and performing various deeds or services for ladies because of their "courtly love".
