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knighthood

(Encyclopedia)knighthood: see chivalry; courtly love; knight. ...

Krzyzewski, Mike

(Encyclopedia)Krzyzewski, Mike (Michael William Krzyzewski) shəshĕvˈskē [key], 1947–, American basketball coach, b. Chicago. He attended West Point (grad. 1969), where he played basketball under Bobby Knight....

serjeanty

(Encyclopedia)serjeanty or sergeanty both: särˈjĕntē [key], a type of tenure in English feudalism in which the tenant held his lands from the king or overlord in return for the performance of some personal, oft...

Phiz

(Encyclopedia)Phiz: see Browne, Hablot Knight.

Grail, Holy

(Encyclopedia)Grail, Holy, a feature of medieval legend and literature. It appears variously as a chalice, a cup, or a dish and sometimes as a stone or a caldron into which a bleeding lance drips. It was identified...

Hurd, Richard

(Encyclopedia)Hurd, Richard, 1720–1808, English theologian, editor, and critic. From 1781 until his death he was bishop of Worcester. His best-known works are Moral and Political Dialogues (1757) and Letters on C...

primogeniture

(Encyclopedia)primogeniture, in law, the rule of inheritance whereby land descends to the oldest son. Under the feudal system of medieval Europe, primogeniture generally governed the inheritance of land held in mil...

Tamm, Igor Yevgenyevich

(Encyclopedia)Tamm, Igor Yevgenyevich, 1895–1971, Soviet physicist, Ph.D. Moscow State Univ., 1933. He was a researcher at the P. N. Lebedev Physical Institute in Moscow from 1934 until his death in 1971. Tamm an...

Bergen, town, Lower Saxony, Germany

(Encyclopedia)Bergen, town, Lower Saxony, N Germany, 13 mi (21 km) NW of Celle. Building materials are manufactured. A North Atlantic Treaty Organization base is outs...

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