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6 days ago · The parish of Chalfont St. Giles covers an area of 3,725 acres, of which 1,503 acres are arable land, 1,523 acres permanent grass and 502 woods and plantations. (fn. 1) The soil is gravel, loam and chalk, and the subsoil chalk and gravel. The surface of the land is very undulating, the higher ground, rising to 421 ft., being in the north.
1 day ago · The only direct evidence of the impact of the Black Death on Gloucester concerns the canons of Llanthony Priory who (in a record of a century later) were said to have lost two thirds of their number, 19 out of 30, at the first outbreak of the plague in 1349. Gloucester Abbey appears to have lost about a quarter of its complement of monks.
4 days ago · Nolan goes on to document the impact of other epidemics including Hansen’s disease, polio and AIDS. ... of the 1665 bubonic plague in London; Boccaccio’s 14th-century epic "The Decameron ...
3 days ago · England 14th century. Plague and attacks threaten remote communities and the forests that surround them add nameless terrors. The people labor under the yoke of two oppressive powers -- the Church laying claim to their souls and the Knights, the feudal warlords, who command life or death.
1 day ago · v. t. e. The Mamluk Sultanate ( Arabic: سلطنة المماليك, romanized : Salṭanat al-Mamālīk ), also known as Mamluk Egypt or the Mamluk Empire, was a state that ruled Egypt, the Levant and the Hejaz from the mid-13th to early 16th centuries. It was ruled by a military caste of mamluks (freed slave soldiers) headed by a sultan.
2 days ago · The outbreak of plague in the following year may have resulted from the overcrowding of the town, but as the 15th century advanced such visitations are noted more and more frequently. Henry VI, probably in September 1444, sent the Marquess of Suffolk to Cambridge instead of coming himself to lay the foundation stone of the first chapel of King ...
3 days ago · Transylvania is a historical region in central and northwestern Romania. It was under the rule of the Agathyrsi, part of the Dacian Kingdom (168 BC–106 AD), Roman Dacia (106–271), the Goths, the Hunnic Empire (4th–5th centuries), the Kingdom of the Gepids (5th–6th centuries), the Avar Khaganate (6th–9th centuries), the Slavs, and the ...
