In medieval England, peasants on some estates were entitled to a range of sick, annual and bereavement leave that could rival those of many workers in the UK today.

The text from the late 15th Century has words only, so music is specially composed for it.

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This article was originally published at The Conversation. The publication contributed the article to Space.com's Expert Voices: Op-Ed & Insights. During the 1240s, Richard Fishacre, a Dominican friar at Oxford University, used his knowledge of light and color to show that the stars and planets are made of the same elements found here on Earth. In so doing he challenged the scientific orthodoxy of his day and pre-empted the methods and discoveries of the 21st-century…

Ik las een algemene geschiedenis van El-Andalus ofwel het door islamitische heersers bestuurde deel van Spanje en Portugal.

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Abstract. Starting in the fifteenth century, European city governments began to respond to the threat of plague by introducing quarantine measures, which p