Sentences with phrase «mediaeval times»

The platforms» cognitive modelling is based on principles that go back to Mediaeval times when craft guilds created systems to classify different levels of expertise (novice, expert and master) in ways which have never really been improved upon.

The walled gardens (kitchen gardens) from Mediaeval times — through Tudor times up to the era of heated greenhouses — used the warmth of the sun, held in the masonry, to grow exotic crops against the south - facing walls.

First Past the Post (or «FPTP» for short)-- the current system in use in the UK since mediaeval times to elect MPs and since the late nineteenth century to choose local councillors.

The castles of mediaeval times were sometimes captured by another lord, so — perhaps it may happen to your castle.

Mark Elvins points out that in mediaeval times it was clear that almsgiving required compassion for the person in need as much as bodily help.

Extreme and persistent drought in California and Patagonia during mediaeval time.

Not exact matches

But I am not constrained by any creed in the matter, and looking impartially into certain miracles of mediaeval and modern times, I have come to the conclusion that they occurred.

This approach assumes we can not learn from ancient or mediaeval dramas the way educated audiences of the 1600s and 1800s did, taking the particularity of the time straight, and as a key thematic element of the play.

He was a ferocious fanatic, whose object was to destroy all the improvements of modern times, and force society back to the government, customs, and ideas of mediaeval days.

Putting the time - machine into reverse, we may find our first stopping place at the great upheaval of the sixteenth century which changed mediaeval Europe into the Europe that we know — or did know until the great wars once again moved the old landmarks.

Heidegger's radical link between — up to an identification of — Being and Time would have been unthinkable in a mediaeval and even a modern context: to talk about Being and Time would have been something like talking about God and the world, or about the (eternal) Infinite and the (temporal) finite.

On another subject, now that we know from Al Gore's researches, that our SUVs, which keep raising the CO2 levels at Mauna Loa, are the direct cause of the Mediaeval Warm Period (remember that was just 800 years before the present rising CO2 event); we can predict with near certainty, that when everybody who signed on to the Kyoto accords, meets their obligations, resulting in a coming dearth of atmospheric CO2, that is going to directly cause an event which will become known as the little ice age which happened in the 1600 to 1840 time range.

There is only one MWP [Medieval warming Period] as there is only one Medieval time period: «The Middle Ages (adjectival forms: medieval, mediaeval, and mediæval) is the period of European history.