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Claiming his right to the English throne, William, duke of Normandy, invades England at Pevensey on Britain’s southeast coast. His subsequent defeat of King Harold II at the Battle of Hastings marked the beginning of a new era in British history.
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Spain and Italy claim to be the first to manufacture paper in Europe. Muslim conquest of Spain brought paper making to Europe.
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Magna Carta as a symbol of freedom from oppression, as would the Founding Fathers of the United States of America, who in 1776 looked to the charter as a historical precedent for asserting their liberty from the English crown.
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There is controversy over the last crusade. “Traditionalists” would end the crusades in 1291 with the fall of the last crusader castle of the Latin Kingdom, the city of Acre.
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The bubonic plague mainly affects rodents, but fleas can transmit the disease to people. Once people are infected, they infect others very rapidly. Plague causes fever and a painful swelling of the lymph glands.
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These pages were prepared as guide to an exhibit in Robbins Library. They present, in broad strokes, the development of Robin Hood from his origins in medieval literature through his modern depictions.
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Geoffrey Chaucer wrote The Canterbury Tales, a collection of stories in a frame story. It is the story of a group of thirty people who travel as pilgrims to Canterbury . The pilgrims, who come from all layers of society, tell stories to each other to kill time while they travel to Canterbury.
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Kingmaker is a team based third person action game set in 15th century England. Two rival branches of the Royal House of Plantagenet the house of Lancaster and the house of York fight over the throne, and the player is thrown into the fray
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Thomas Malory’s version of the legends of King Arthur and his knights was made within a decade of the author’s death in 1471. Malory wrote ‘The Death of Arthur’ during 1469 while imprisoned for a series of violent crimes.
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Henry won the throne when his forces defeated the forces of Richard III at the Battle of Bosworth Field, the Wars of the Roses. Henry was the last king of England to win his throne on the field of battle.
