History

History

The branch of knowledge dealing with past events.

21Categories 73511Terms

Add a new term

Contributors in History

Become a Contributors

History > Medieval

barb

History; Medieval

A breed of horse from "Barbary", or Berber, coast of the Mediterranean (Libya, Tunisia, Algeria and Morocco), and rather smaller than the Arabian. The term equus de Barbaria ...

angle buttress

History; Medieval

A pair meeting (or nearly) at right angles on the corner of a building.

chambres des comptes

History; Medieval

Accounting office for French royal finances at Paris or for Norman ducal finances at Caen.

borre

History; Medieval

A Scandinavian art style named from objects found in the ship burial in a great barrow at Boore in Vestfold in Norway and datable to the late ninth and early tenth centuries. It ...

barbican

History; Medieval

# An outwork or forward extension of a castle gateway. # Outerwork of a castle, providing additional defence for the gatehouse. Also used to describe the strategy developed by ...