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What would you say if the mom of one of the most notorious kings of the Middle Ages was actually an embalmer's daughter?
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The Bayeux tapestry has it that the last Anglo-Saxon king of England, Harold, was brutally hacked to death by four Norman knights, after being struck by an...
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Se inventó los pigaches, zapatos con la punta afilada y hacia arriba, un calzado que llegó a ser considerado diabólico sin que podamos...
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Dieser Schiffbruch hatte jahrhundertelange Folgen für die englische Geschichte: Am 25. November 1120 zerschellte das Schiff des einzigen...
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Czy wśród tysięcy wikingów, którzy zmierzali do Anglii, by kraść, łupić, gwałcić i przejmować w posiadanie, znaleźli się polscy wojowie?
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Buy The Ecclesiastical History of Orderic Vitalis: Volume IV: Books VII & VIII: Books 7 & 8: 4 (Oxford Medieval Texts) 4 by Orderic Vitalis, Chibnall,...
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In the article dedicated to the Varangian Guard, we explained that, following the Norman conquest of England in 1066, this unit came to be...
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ADDRESSED. TO THE REV. JAMES LAYTON, B.A.. OF. CATFIELD, NORFOLK. UNDERTAKEN CHIEFLY FOR THE PURPOSE OF INVESTIGATING THE ARCHITECTURAL ANTIQUITIES OF THE...
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