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Quintain (jousting)
The quintain (from Latin "fifth"), also known as pavo (Latin "peacock"), may have included a number of hastilude, lance games, often used as a training aid for jousting, where the competitor would attempt to strike a stationary object with a lance. The common object was a shield or board on a pole (usually referred to as 'the quintain'), although a mannequin was sometimes used. It was not unknown for a seated armoured knight to act as the target. Etymology The word ''quintain'' derives from Middle English , taken from Old French, derived from Latin , "fifth", in reference to a street between the fifth and sixth Maniple (military unit), maniples of a Roman camp, where warlike exercises took place. History Quintain was a game open to all, popular with young men of all social classes. While the use of horses aided in training for the joust, the game could be played on foot, using a wooden horse or on boats (popular in 12th-century London). As late as the 18th century running at t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tilting At Quintain
Tilting may refer to: * Tilt (camera), a cinematographic technique * Tilting at windmills, an English idiom * Tilting theory, an algebra theory * Exponential tilting, a probability distribution shifting technique * Tilting three-wheeler, a vehicle which leans when cornering while keeping all of its three wheels on the ground * Tilting train, a train with a mechanism enabling increased speed on regular railroad tracks * Tilting, Newfoundland and Labrador, a town on Fogo Island, Canada * Tilting, a synonym for jousting {{Disambiguation ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Carinthia
Carinthia ( ; ; ) is the southernmost and least densely populated States of Austria, Austrian state, in the Eastern Alps, and is noted for its mountains and lakes. The Lake Wolayer is a mountain lake on the Carinthian side of the Carnic Main Ridge, near the Plöcken Pass.The main language is Austrian German, with its non-standard dialects belonging to the Southern Bavarian group; Carinthian dialect group, Carinthian Slovene dialects, forms of a South Slavic languages, Slavic language that predominated in the southeastern part of the region up to the first half of the 20th century, are now spoken by Carinthian Slovenes, a small minority in the area. Carinthia's main Industry (economics), industries are tourism, electronics, engineering, forestry, and agriculture. Name The etymology of the name "Carinthia", similar to Carnia or Carniola, has not been conclusively established. The ''Ravenna Cosmography'' (about AD 700) referred to a Slavic settlement of the Eastern Alps, S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Juliet Barker
Juliet R. V. Barker (born 1958) is an English historian, specialising in the Middle Ages and literary biography. She is the author of works on the Brontës, William Wordsworth, and medieval tournaments. From 1983 to 1989 she was the curator and librarian of the Bronte Parsonage Museum. Barker was educated at Bradford Girls' Grammar School and St Anne's College, Oxford, where she gained her doctorate in medieval history. Selected works * ''Brontës: Selected Poems'' (1978) Everyman Poetry, editor * ''The Tournament in England: 1100–1400'' (1986) Woodbridge, England:The Boydell Press, * ''The Brontë Yearbook'' (1990) editor * ''The Brontës'' (1994) * ''Charlotte Brontë: Juvenilia 1829–35'' (1996) editor * ''The Brontës: A Life in Letters'' (1997) * ''Wordsworth: A Life'' (2000) * ''Wordsworth: A Life in Letters'' (2002) * ''Agincourt: The King, the Campaign, the Battle'' (2005), UK: Little, Brown * ''The Deafening Sound of Silent Tears: The Story of Caring For Li ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Images Of England
Images of England is an online photographic record of all the listed buildings in England at the date of February 2002. The archive gives access to over 323,000 colour images, each of which is matched with the item's listed designation architectural description. It is a snapshot rather than an up-to-date record: it does not include all listed buildings, only those listed at February 2001, and is not updated as listing details change. the Images of England content moved to the main Historic England website alongside the list entry. Purpose Images of England was a stand-alone project funded jointly by English Heritage and the Heritage Lottery Fund. The aim of the project was to photograph every listed building and object (some 370,000) in England and to make the images available online to create, what was at the time, one of the largest free-to-view picture libraries of buildings in the world. It is part of the Historic England Archive of England's historic environment. The pro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lord Lieutenant Of Kent
This is a list of people who have served as Lord-Lieutenant of Kent. Since 1746, all Lords Lieutenant have also been Custos Rotulorum of Kent. Lords Lieutenant of Kent * Sir Thomas Cheney 1551 – 1558 * William Brooke, 10th Baron Cobham 3 July 1585 – 6 March 1597 *Henry Brooke, 11th Baron Cobham 29 October 1597 – 24 March 1603 * Edward Wotton, 1st Baron Wotton 28 January 1604 – 31 May 1620 * George Villiers, 1st Marquess of Buckingham 31 May 1620 – 8 June 1620 * Ludovic Stuart, 2nd Duke of Lennox 8 June 1620 – 16 February 1624 *Philip Herbert, 4th Earl of Pembroke 20 March 1624 – 1642 *''Interregnum'' * Heneage Finch, 3rd Earl of Winchilsea 10 July 1660 – 16 January 1688 ''jointly with'' *Thomas Wriothesley, 4th Earl of Southampton 16 July 1662 – 16 May 1667 ''and'' *Charles Stewart, 3rd Duke of Richmond 13 May 1668 – 12 December 1672 * Christopher Roper, 5th Baron Teynham 16 January 1688 – 25 October 1688 *Louis de Duras, 2nd Earl of Feversham 25 October 1688 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wykeham Cornwallis, 2nd Baron Cornwallis
Colonel Wykeham Stanley Cornwallis, 2nd Baron Cornwallis (4 March 1892 – 4 January 1982), was a British peer, cavalry officer and amateur cricketer. He served during the First World War and was later prominent in public life in the county of Kent, holding a range of public offices. He played first-class cricket for Kent County Cricket Club, captaining the side between 1926 and 1928 and succeeded his father Fiennes Cornwallis, 1st Baron Cornwallis as Baron Cornwallis in 1935. Early life and education Cornwallis was born at Linton Park in Linton in Kent, the second son of Fiennes Cornwallis and his wife Mabel Leigh. He was educated at Ludgrove School, where he captained the cricket team, and at Eton College before going on to the Royal Military College, Sandhurst.Lewis P (2014) ''For Kent and Country'', pp. 136–141. Brighton: Reveille Press. His father was Member of Parliament for Maidstone and later became Chairman of Kent County Council. The hereditary title of Bar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
World War II
World War II or the Second World War (1 September 1939 – 2 September 1945) was a World war, global conflict between two coalitions: the Allies of World War II, Allies and the Axis powers. World War II by country, Nearly all of the world's countries participated, with many nations mobilising all resources in pursuit of total war. Tanks in World War II, Tanks and Air warfare of World War II, aircraft played major roles, enabling the strategic bombing of cities and delivery of the Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, first and only nuclear weapons ever used in war. World War II is the List of wars by death toll, deadliest conflict in history, causing World War II casualties, the death of 70 to 85 million people, more than half of whom were civilians. Millions died in genocides, including the Holocaust, and by massacres, starvation, and disease. After the Allied victory, Allied-occupied Germany, Germany, Allied-occupied Austria, Austria, Occupation of Japan, Japan, a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Quintain And Crocuses
Quintain may refer to: * Quintain (company), a British property investment and development business * Quintain (jousting), lance games * Quintain (poetry), a poetic form containing five lines * Slovene quintain Slovene quintain (, ) is a traditional Slovenes, Slovene mounted folk game, a form of jousting, that has been preserved in the southern Austrian state of Carinthia. It is held during Kirchweih festivals in the lower Gail (river), Gail Valley, wher ..., a traditional mounted folk game See also * * Quintaine Americana, a rock band {{disambig ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kent
Kent is a Ceremonial counties of England, ceremonial county in South East England. It is bordered by Essex across the Thames Estuary to the north, the Strait of Dover to the south-east, East Sussex to the south-west, Surrey to the west, and Greater London to the north-west. The county town is Maidstone. The county has an area of and had population of 1,875,893 in 2022, making it the Ceremonial counties of England#Lieutenancy areas since 1997, fifth most populous county in England. The north of the county contains a conurbation which includes the towns of Chatham, Kent, Chatham, Gillingham, Kent, Gillingham, and Rochester, Kent, Rochester. Other large towns are Maidstone and Ashford, Kent, Ashford, and the City of Canterbury, borough of Canterbury holds City status in the United Kingdom, city status. For local government purposes Kent consists of a non-metropolitan county, with twelve districts, and the unitary authority area of Medway. The county historically included south-ea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Offham, Kent
Offham is a village and civil parish in the local government district of Tonbridge and Malling in Kent, England, five miles to the west of Maidstone. Offham has a quintain on the village green that was reported in medieval times for use in jousting. It is reputed to be the last English quintain in its original position, though it was removed for safekeeping during the Second World War. The village gets its name from "Offa", the name of a Saxon landowner, and "ham", a village or homestead. History The village has been occupied since Roman times, and the major Roman road from London to the Weald ran through the parish. Offham grew in prominence in the early ninth century under the Saxons. The village has two entries in the Domesday Book. This shows that there were two separate estates. The first is: the second entry follows a little later: Jack Straw, the rebel during the reign of Richard II, is said to have been born at Pepingstraw Manor in the parish.''A Topographical D ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hasted Quintain Illustration 1798
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Hasted is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: *Edward Hasted (1732–1812), English antiquarian * John Hasted (1921–2002), British physicist and folk musician * Michael Hasted (born 1945), British artist, photographer, writer and theatre director * Sarah Hasted, American curator See also *Haste (other) Haste may refer to: * Haste, Germany, a municipality in the district of Schaumburg in Lower Saxony * USS Haste (PG-92), a Canadian corvette turned over to the United States Navy and manned by the Coast Guard * ''Haste'' (album), a 2012 album b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sava
The Sava, is a river in Central Europe, Central and Southeast Europe, a right-bank and the longest tributary of the Danube. From its source in Slovenia it flows through Croatia and along its border with Bosnia and Herzegovina, and finally reaches Serbia, feeding into the Danube in its capital, Belgrade. The Sava is long, including the Sava Dolinka headwater rising in Zelenci, Slovenia. It is the largest List of tributaries of the Danube, tributary of the Danube by volume of water, and the second-largest after the Tisza in terms of catchment area () and length. It drains a significant portion of the Dinaric Alps region, through the major tributaries of Drina, Bosna (river), Bosna, Kupa, Una (Sava), Una, Vrbas (river), Vrbas, Lonja, Kolubara, Bosut (river), Bosut and Krka (Sava), Krka. The Sava is one of the longest rivers in Europe and among the longest tributaries of another river. The population in the Sava River basin is estimated at 8,176,000, and is shared by three capit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
