If Chaucer, with his ever memorable Canterbury Pilgrims, did much to immortalise the Southwark of mediaeval times, Dickens, the child of a later era, has done at least as much for the Southwark of his day.
Yet the Tower, even in mediaeval times, was not all tragedy; for here, from Henry III.
This Carthusian monastery, so powerful in mediaeval times, and founded by Sir Walter Manny as early as 1321, was suppressed by the rapacity of Henry VIII.
The Sanctuary" in mediaeval times was a square Norman tower, containing two cruciform chapels.
History supplies many examples of strange mental epidemics which sped through towns and provinces in mediaeval times.
But we may pass from this and such-like tales of the ancients to the grim realities of the belief in mediaeval times.
So in mediaeval times it was said that the wolf's skin was under the human, and the unhappy suspects were hacked and tortured for signs of such hairy growth.
There are fairly numerous accounts of such malformities in mediaeval times, and it was a function of mediaeval humour to make capital out of unfortunate deformity.
There is considerable evidence that religious service was scarcely a solemn thing in mediaeval times.
Hell's Mouth was one of the most popular conceptions of mediaeval times.
It serves to show that a modern use of the word harpy was well understood in mediaeval times.
At the entrance is an out-house, or patipura, which must have served as a kind of guardroom in mediaeval times.
But, in mediaeval times, any Nayar could get himself recognised as belonging to the Illam division, provided that a certain sum of money, called adiyara, was paid to the Government.
The Nanchinad Vellalas were not originally different from their Pandyan analogues, but settled in the taluks above mentioned, over which the Pandyans held sway during several periods in mediaeval times.
A higher title, Chempakaraman, corresponds to the knighthood of mediaeval times, and was first instituted by Maharaja Marthanda Varma in memory, it is said, of his great Prime Minister Rama Aiyyan Dalawa.
The ancient nations of antiquity possessed such machines, and the knowledge of them descended to mediaeval times.
It is, perhaps, no wonder that we hear little of the use of the ram in mediaeval times; though it might be useful occasionally to drive in some ill-defended postern.
The whole region was dotted with towns of importance in mediaeval times, and the fame of its beauty and wealth had passed down the ages from the days of Assyria and Greece to those of the destroying Mongol hordes.
The daily crowd of pilgrims who visited the scene of the martyrdom in mediaeval times used to pass on to the shrine of St. Thomas by the north choir aisle, on their way to his shrine, and we will follow in their steps.
There was a great resort of pilgrims to this shrine in mediaeval times.
As we see our cathedrals now, the view that meets us differs much from that which would have greeted us in mediaeval times.
Sidenote: No scarcity of the means of grace in Mediaeval times.
Before proceeding to the consideration of the different European Churches in Mediaeval times, it may be well to remark that from the year 500 the Christian history of Asia and Africa is almost a blank.
Ever since Rohrbach's time the mountain has been worked for its salt, and until recent years, when blasting came into common use, much in the same way as in mediaeval times, viz.
In former times this precious relic, we are told, has worked many miracles, and is venerated almost as much to-day as in mediaeval times.
The fighting-platforms were not, apparently, raised above the bows, as later on in mediaeval times.
Lead was also used for ship armour in mediaeval times.
Old maps of these parts show that the baths and waters of the region were widely known in mediaeval times.
The great mass of the nation came consequently then, even legally, under the law of mediaeval times, which surrendered the decision of such cases into the hands of the Roman Pontiff.
How many millions of human beings lived happily during several centuries under these great institutions of mediaeval times!
With the witchcraft practised largely by women in mediaeval times, we have not much to do; although belief in its influence was widespread during the middle ages.
It was customary in Germany in mediaeval times to form or carve small figures out of the mandrake root, which were called abrunes.
Chiromancy, the art of divining or foretelling future events from marks on the palm of the hand, was also practised in antiquity, but in mediaeval times it was strongly opposed by the Church.
A great amount of superstition was associated with various ferns in mediaeval times, and fern seed was supposed to possess the wonderful property of rendering those who swallowed it invisible.
The bridge between Chinon and its faubourg is typical of the art of bridge-building, at which, in mediaeval times, the French were excelled by no other nation.
Not so the French bridges of mediaeval times, of the type of those at Blois on the Loire; at Chinon on the Vienne; at Avignon on the Rhone; or at Cahors on the Lot.
Every parish, it must be remembered, was bound by law in mediaeval times to have such a stretch of ground, and every yeoman was bound to constant practice upon it.
Both the mill and the bridge are amongst the oldest features of Cambridge, and the tolls payable at both were in mediaeval times a Royal monopoly.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "mediaeval times" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
