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Medieval Ecclesiastical Taxation - This is a database of the assessment for taxation carried out on the orders of Pope Nicholas IV in 1291-1292. For nearly 250 years virtually all ecclesiastical taxation of England and Wales was based on this extremely thorough and detailed assessment.
The Medieval World - An encyclopaedia of British history 1066-1500.
The Domesday Book Online - Searchable, browsable by region, database of all 13,418 records from the original 1086 survey as well as background information on the book itself and on life at the time.
The Magna Carta - Translation from the Latin of the first version of the Magna Carta, signed by King John at Runnymede in 1215. Links to glossary and Latin original text.
Medieval History Reference - A reference site for British medieval history, including timelines, medieval places, medieval people, virtual reconstructions of abbeys and castles.
Medieval England - History - Medieval England. History, culture, and daily life in Great Britain during the Middle Ages.
Essays on the British Isles 1042-1330 - Personal website of Donald Stark, including essays written as part of a BA in Modern History at Oxford University.
The Domesday Book and Beyond - Three essays on post-conquest England, by WF Maitland.
Medieval Britain - Comprehensive series of original articles and contemporary accounts.
The Bayeux Tapestry - View the entire tapestry in full color in thumbnails or larger pictures and read the epic on which it is based, the Norman Conquest of England.
Medieval Timeline Reference - Reference site for Medieval history concentrating on England, Scotland and Wales. Included details on people, places, maps and events.
Early Medieval Britain and Ireland - Explores the 'Dark Age' history of Britain, Ireland and their offshore islands between 350AD and 800AD.
A doctor can bury his mistakes but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines. - Frank Lloyd Wright "I've just had eighteen straight whiskies. I think that's the record." (Dylan Thomas, final words) Neither fire nor wind, birth nor death can erase our good deeds. -- Buddha "I am a part of all that I have met." (Alfred Lord Tennyson, 1809-1892, English poet) There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in his home. -- Kenneth H. Olson, President of DEC, Convention of the World Future Society, 1977 Medieval Marriage is very much like a violin; after the sweet music is over, the strings are attached. It is not because it is difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that things are difficult. -- Lucius Anneaus Seneca Doctors are the same as lawyers; the only difference is that lawyers merely rob you, whereas doctors rob you and kill you too. -- Anton Chekhov Medieval "To forget one's purpose is the commonest form of stupidity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Your life and my life flow into each other as wave flows into wave, and unless there is peace and joy and freedom for you, there can be no real peace or joy or freedom for me. To see reality--not as "The great aim of education is not knowledge but action." (Herbert Spencer) I would rather live and love where death is king than have eternal life where love is not. -- Robert G. Ingersoll It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both. -- Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince Medieval "The intellect is always fooled by the heart." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) Sleep is an excellent way of listening to an opera. - James Stephens Grove giveth and Gates taketh away. - Bob Metcalfe (inventor of Ethernet) on the trend of hardware speedups not being able to keep up with software demands Medieval Don't be afraid your life will end; be afraid that it will never begin. -- Grace Hansen "The biggest argument against democracy is a five minute discussion with the average voter." (Sir Winston Churchill, 1874-1965) Skepticism is the chastity of the intellect, and it is shameful to surrender it too soon or to the first comer: there is nobility in preserving it coolly and proudly through long youth, until at last "Some people must go to extremes to get the world in balance for themselves. Some can't bear bright lights, so wherever they go they search for the dark; they turn the lights down, anything to sustain Marriage is the only war in which you sleep with the enemy. -- Anonymous Medieval The true spirit of conversation consists in building on another man's observation, not overturning it. -- Edward Bulwer-Lytton Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over. -- F. Scott Fitzgerald Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it. Medieval Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do. -- Dr. Benjamin Spock, American pediatrician, address to new parents Researchers have discovered that chocolate produces some of the same reactions in the brain as marijuana...The researchers also discovered other similarities between the two, but can't remember what We in the industry know that behind every successful screenwriter stands a woman. And behind her stands his wife. -- Groucho Marx It is because modern education is so seldom inspired by a great hope that it so seldom achieves great results. The wish to preserve the past rather that the hope of creating the future dominates the "The face is the soul of the body." (Ludwig Wittgenstein) Medieval Don't look back -- something might be gaining on you. -- Satchel Paige Criticism is prejudice made plausible. -- H. L. Mencken Weaseling out of things is good. It's what separates us from the other animals....except weasels. -- Homer Simpson, character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated television show Medieval "All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream." (Edger Allen Poe) "Jesus died too soon. If he had lived to my age he would have repudiated his doctrine." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) People need loving the most when they deserve it the least. -- John Harrigan The planting of trees is the least self-centered of all that we can do. It is a purer act of faith than the procreation of children. -- Thornton Wilder The time is always right to do what is right. -- Martin Luther King, Jr. Medieval It is better to be looked over than overlooked. -- Mae West Friends need not agree in everything or go always together, or have no comparable other friendships of the same intimacy. On the contrary, in friendship union is more about ideal things: and in that "The only thing we have to fear is fear itself." (Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1882 - 1945, 32nd U.S. President) Medieval Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it. -- George Bernard Shaw Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is most important that you do it. -- Gandhi When Michelangelo finished the painting of the Sistine Chapel's ceiling, he spent the rest of his life trying to remove the paint that had poured into his sleeve. -- Francois Cavanna It was just him and me. He fought with honor. If it weren't for his honor, he and the others would have beaten me together. They might have killed me, then. His sense of honor saved my life. I didn' How could they tell? -- Dorothy Parker, upon hearing that President Coolidge had died Medieval Usenet is like a herd of performing elephants with diarrhea -- massive, difficult to redirect, awe- inspiring, entertaining, and a source of mind-boggling amounts of excrement when you least expect i Computers will not be perfected until they can compute how much more than the estimate the job will cost. -- Anon Fanaticism consists of redoubling your efforts when you have forgotten your aim. -- George Santayana Medieval "I heard the old, old, men say 'all that's beautiful drifts away, like the waters.'" (William Butler Yeats) 'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart. -- ee cummings "Crime like death is not confined to the old and withered alone. The youngest and fairest are too often its chosen victims." (Charles Dickens, 1812-70, Oliver Twist) "Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it." (George Bernard Shaw) Women's liberationists spread the word that...the only peaceful family is one in which either the wife is enslaved or the husband is androgynous. -- R. Emmett Tyell, The Liberal Crack-Up, 1984 Medieval "The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) I do not have much patience with a thing of beauty that must be explained to be understood. If it does need additional interpretation by someone other than the creator, then I question whether it ha If we let people see that kind of thing, there would never again be any war. -- Pentagon official, on why US military censored graphic footage from the Gulf War Medieval Until the day of his death, no man can be sure of his courage. -- Jean Anouilh We are not in a position in which we have nothing to work with. We already have capacities, talents, direction, missions, callings. -- Abraham Maslow Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time. -- E. B. White Elegance of language may not be in the power of all of us; but simplicity and straight forwardness are. Write much as you would speak; speak as you think. If with your inferior, speak no coarser tha Whenever I date a guy, I think, is this the man I want my children to spend their weekends with? -- Rita Rudner Medieval The brain is a wonderful organ. It starts working the moment you get up in the morning, and does not stop until you get into the office. -- Robert Frost A man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties; no religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of If you can count your money, you don't have a billion dollars. - J. Paul Getty Medieval "Great indebtedness does not make men grateful, but vengeful; and if a little charity is not forgotten, it turns into a gnawing worm." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Thus Spake Zarathustra) "If I could drop dead right now, I'd be the happiest man alive." (Samuel Goldwyn) I have spread my dreams under your feet; Tread softly because you tread on my dreams. -- William Butler Yeats, from "He wishes for the cloths of heaven" Gentlemen, it is better to have died a small boy than to fumble this football. -- John Heisman Behind every great fortune there is a crime. - Honore de Balzac Medieval It was the experience of mystery -- even if mixed with fear -- that engendered religion. - Albert Einstein We come to love not by finding a perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly. -- Anonymous Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a man's last romance. -- Oscar Wilde Medieval Great ability develops and reveals itself increasingly with every new assignment. Baltasar Gracian A straight line is the shortest in morals as in mathematics. -- Maria Edgeworth Love is the delusion that one man or woman differs from another. -- H. L. Mencken And I shall love thee still my dear, Until my wife is wise. Every St. Patrick's Day every Irishman goes out to find another Irishman to make a speech to. -- Shane Leslie Medieval If you find it in your heart to care for somebody else, you will have succeeded. -- Maya Angelou The world has suffered more from the ravages of ill-advised marriages than from virginity. -- Ambrose Bierce Love me or hate me, but spare me your indifference. -- Libbie Fudim Medieval Twenty years fron now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your Inanimate objects are classified scientifically into three categories-- those that don't work, those that break down, and those that get lost. -- Russell Baker Everyone believes very easily whatever they fear or desire. -- Jean de La Fontaine The first half of our life is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children. -- Clarence Darrow Many a wife thinks her husband is the world's greatest lover. But she can never catch him at it. Medieval We would often be sorry if our wishes were gratified. -- Aesop Great Spirit, help me never to judge another until I have walked in his moccasins. -- Sioux Indian Prayer A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend upon the support of Paul. -- George Bernard Shaw Medieval
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