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2 days ago · Anglo-Saxon England or Early Medieval England, existing from the 5th to the 11th centuries from soon after the end of Roman Britain until the Norman Conquest in 1066, consisted of various Anglo-Saxon kingdoms until 927, when it was united as the Kingdom of England by King Æthelstan (r. 927–939).
1 day ago · Renaissance (14th - 16th Century) • Renaissance Emergence: The Renaissance was an intellectual and cultural movement that occurred from the 14th to the 16th century. Originating in Italy, it quickly spread throughout Europe. Renaissance thinkers rediscovered classical culture and art, advocating humanism, individual expression, and free thought.
3 days ago · Fifteenth-century Cambridge saw no such major events in the long struggles between town and gown as either the 14th or the 16th century, but there is intermittent evidence of friction, which must be remembered as a background to the general story.
1 day ago · United Kingdom - Scandinavian Invasions, Britain, Anglo-Saxons: Small scattered Viking raids began in the last years of the 8th century; in the 9th century large-scale plundering incursions were made in Britain and in the Frankish empire as well.
4 days ago · The earliest was a map of northern Europe drawn at Rome in 1427 by Claudius Claussön Swart, a Danish geographer. Cardinal Nicholas Krebs drew the first modern map of Germany, engraved in 1491. Martin Waldseemüller of St. Dié prepared an edition with more than 20 modern maps in 1513.
2 days ago · A Topographical Dictionary of England. Edited by Samuel Lewis. Seventh edition. Contains detailed topographical accounts of places, parishes and counties in England. Originally published in four volumes, here given together. Topographical Dictionaries. Originally published by S Lewis, London, 1848.
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3 days ago · Slavery in medieval Europe was widespread. Europe and North Africa were part of a highly interconnected trade network across the Mediterranean Sea, and this included slave trading. During the medieval period (500–1500), wartime captives were commonly forced into slavery.
