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Niccolò di Pietro Gerini (c. 1340 – 1414) was an Italian painter of the late Gothic period, active mainly in his native Florence although he also carried out commissions in Pisa and Prato. He was not an innovative painter but relied on traditional compositions in which he placed his figures in a stiff and dramatic movement.
Damietta (Egyptian Arabic: Dumyaṭ , also known as Damiata, or Domyat), is a port and the capital of the Damietta Governorate in Egypt, a former bishopric and present multiple Catholic titular see. It is located at the Damietta branch, a distributary of the Nile, 15 kilometres (9.3 mi) from the Mediterranean Sea, about 200 kilometres (120 mi) north of Cairo.<br/><br/> Damietta was also the object of the Seventh Crusade, led by Louis IX of France. His fleet arrived there in 1249 and quickly captured the fort, which he refused to hand over to the nominal king of Jerusalem, to whom it had been promised during the Fifth Crusade. However, having been taken prisoner with his army in April 1250, Louis was obliged to surrender Damietta as ransom.
Some monks apparently added lighthearted touches to the marginalia of their manuscripts by doodling murderous beasts, penis monsters, and assorted bizarre and vulgar images.<br/><br/> The <i>Decretum Gratiani</i>, also known as the <i>Concordia discordantium canonum</i> or <i>Concordantia discordantium canonum</i>, is a collection of Canon law compiled and written in the 12th century as a legal textbook by the jurist known as Gratian.
Alfred the Great (849 – 26 October 899), was King of Wessex from 871 to 899.<br/><br/> Alfred successfully defended his kingdom against the Viking attempt at conquest, and by the time of his death had become the dominant ruler in England. He is one of only two English monarchs to be given the epithet 'the Great', the other being the Scandinavian Cnut the Great. He was also the first King of the West Saxons to style himself 'King of the Anglo-Saxons'. Details of Alfred's life are described in a work by the 10th-century Welsh scholar and bishop Asser.