Middle+Ages+Artifacts


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 * The longbow was created during the 100 Years War, along with the Cannon. The longbow was six feet long, and made of yew wood which was imported from Spain. Which the English perfected the employment. The strength of the longbow was powerful enough that it could pierce metal of the knights. Which meant the castles and knights were doomed, since they were so evolved in new technologies. Socially the longbow made an increase in victory towards wars, and economically the longbow showed that knights had enough money to get the materials for them.

//Crossbow//. 2010. //ABC-CLIO//. N.p., 2010. Web. 25 Feb. 2010. The flying buttresses made a important change in the medieval/gothic cathedrals. The buttresses are exposed arches that supported roofs which made the cathedrals walls higher. Which higher walls meant more stained glass for the cathedral. Along with the higher walls the exposed buttresses were independent from the interior walls. Which this meant that they can be placed above horizontal levels of a building.

//Flying Buttresses//. 2010. //ABC-CLIO//. N.p., 2010. Web. 25 Feb. 2010. The remaining of the rainbow arch, which was the original monastery of Lindisfarne, where it is located right off the island coast of the northeastern part of Europe also the Holy Islands in the North Sea. Where Lindisfarne was one England's oldest missionary center. Since Oswald gave Saint Aidan the Island of Lindisfarne where Aidan ruled as both a abbot and a bishop. Aidan was known as one of the greatest missionary saints of the Irish Churches, until 651 which was when he died .

//Ruins of Lindisfarne monastery//. N.d. //ABC-CLIO//. N.p., 2010. Web. 18 Feb. 2010. . ||