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Abu Simbel Panorama
Abu Simbel is a temple complex, originally cut into a solid rock cliff in southern Egypt at the second cataract of the Nile River. The two temples that comprise the site (The Great Temple and The Small...
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November 13, 2025 at 5:04 PM
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➡️ Read more about a Peasant Life in a Medieval Manor here: https://www.worldhistory.org/article/2826/peasant-life-in-a-medieval-manor/
📝 Article by Ruisen Zheng.
🖼️Images by Mark Cartwright, Simeon Netchev, Limbourg Brothers and Bibliothèque nationale de France. Département des Manuscrits.
📝 Article by Ruisen Zheng.
🖼️Images by Mark Cartwright, Simeon Netchev, Limbourg Brothers and Bibliothèque nationale de France. Département des Manuscrits.
What secrets did a 9th-century peasant’s daily life hold?
Bodo was a early 9th-century Frankish farmer. He and his family hailed from a manor owned by the monastery of St.-Germain-des-Prés near Paris and worked as its tenants. He ploughed the farmlands while...
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November 13, 2025 at 1:30 PM
➡️ Read more about a Peasant Life in a Medieval Manor here: https://www.worldhistory.org/article/2826/peasant-life-in-a-medieval-manor/
📝 Article by Ruisen Zheng.
🖼️Images by Mark Cartwright, Simeon Netchev, Limbourg Brothers and Bibliothèque nationale de France. Département des Manuscrits.
📝 Article by Ruisen Zheng.
🖼️Images by Mark Cartwright, Simeon Netchev, Limbourg Brothers and Bibliothèque nationale de France. Département des Manuscrits.
To manage their large estate, the then abbot of the monastery, Irminon (c. 820s), compiled this list, and the text is now preserved in a 9th-century manuscript in Paris (Bibliothèque nationale de France, Ms Latin 12832).
November 13, 2025 at 1:30 PM
To manage their large estate, the then abbot of the monastery, Irminon (c. 820s), compiled this list, and the text is now preserved in a 9th-century manuscript in Paris (Bibliothèque nationale de France, Ms Latin 12832).
He ploughed the farmlands while his wife, Ermentrude, took care of their household. Their lives give us a lively image of what daily life was like as peasants living in a manor in the Carolingian world of the early Middle Ages.
November 13, 2025 at 1:30 PM
He ploughed the farmlands while his wife, Ermentrude, took care of their household. Their lives give us a lively image of what daily life was like as peasants living in a manor in the Carolingian world of the early Middle Ages.
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Gunpowder Plot: Guy Fawkes & the Plan to Blow up Parliament
The 1605 Gunpowder Plot was a failed attempt by pro-Catholic conspirators to blow up the English Parliament on 5 November and kill King James I of England (r. 1603-1625) and the entire nobility along...
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November 5, 2025 at 3:31 PM
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Bonfires were lit on the night of 5 November to celebrate the failure of the plot, and this tradition continues today in an occasion on that date variously known as ‘Bonfire Night’, ‘Guy Fawkes’ Night’ or ‘Fireworks Night’.
November 5, 2025 at 3:31 PM
Bonfires were lit on the night of 5 November to celebrate the failure of the plot, and this tradition continues today in an occasion on that date variously known as ‘Bonfire Night’, ‘Guy Fawkes’ Night’ or ‘Fireworks Night’.