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The Footnote June 27, 2026 · Bayeux Tapestry Museum, Normandy

The 70-Metre Embroidered Cloth That Tells the Story of the 1066 Norman Conquest of England in 58 Scenes Stitched in the Decade After the Battle

The Bayeux Tapestry is a 70-metre embroidered cloth strip, approximately 50 cm tall, depicting the 1066 Norman conquest of England in 58 narrative scenes. It was almost certainly produced in southern England in the 1070s for the Norman bishop Odo of Bayeux. It has been displayed at Bayeux Cathedral or its successor museum since at least 1476. It is one of the most important surviving 11th-century European narrative artworks.

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The Cabinet June 27, 2026 · Canossa, Emilia-Romagna

The Holy Roman Emperor Who Walked Through Three Days of Snow Barefoot in a Hairshirt to Beg Pope Gregory VII's Forgiveness in January 1077

Emperor Henry IV stood outside the gates of Canossa Castle in the northern Italian Apennines in a hairshirt, barefoot, in deep snow, for three days from 25 to 27 January 1077. He was begging Pope Gregory VII to lift the excommunication that had threatened his control of the Holy Roman Empire. The Pope eventually admitted him and lifted the ban. The political conflict — the Investiture Controversy — continued for another 45 years.

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The Footnote June 27, 2026 · Isfahan

The 1025 CE Persian Medical Textbook That Was the Standard Reference in European Universities From 1180 to Roughly 1650

Ibn Sina's *Canon of Medicine*, compiled at Isfahan around 1025, synthesised Greek, Roman, Persian, and Arabic medical traditions into a five-volume systematic treatise. Translated into Latin in Toledo by Gerard of Cremona around 1180, it became the standard medical-school textbook at Paris, Padua, Montpellier, and Bologna for almost five centuries. The first English translation appeared in 1930.

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The Cabinet June 27, 2026 · Jerusalem

The First Crusade Army That Took Jerusalem on 15 July 1099 and Killed Most of the City's Population in Two Days

The First Crusade reached Jerusalem on 7 June 1099 with approximately 12,000-15,000 surviving soldiers. The city of approximately 20,000-30,000 mostly Muslim and Jewish residents fell on 15 July 1099 after a five-week siege. The two-day massacre that followed killed an estimated 10,000-30,000 inhabitants. The Latin Kingdom of Jerusalem was established within the month and lasted until 1187.

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The Cabinet June 25, 2026 · Flonheim, Rhineland-Palatinate

The German Crusading Lord Whose Army Murdered Thousands of Rhineland Jews and Was Destroyed in Hungary Before It Ever Reached the Holy Land

Count Emicho of Flonheim led the unofficial 'German Crusade' of 1096 — the substantial armed band that conducted the Mainz, Worms, and Cologne massacres of Rhineland Jews. The army never reached Constantinople. King Coloman of Hungary destroyed it in a series of military engagements in late summer 1096. Emicho himself survived and returned home in disgrace.

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The Cabinet June 24, 2026 · Flonheim, Rhineland

The German Crusader Army That Massacred the Rhineland Jews and Was Then Destroyed in Hungary Before Reaching Jerusalem

Count Emicho of Flonheim led the largest of the 1096 German crusading bands that massacred substantial Jewish communities in the Rhineland on the way east. His army was destroyed by King Coloman of Hungary in three engagements that summer. Emicho survived and returned home in disgrace, where he reportedly went mad.

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The Cabinet June 24, 2026 · Wieselburg (Moson), Hungary

The German Count Whose Rhineland Crusading Pogroms Got His Army Destroyed by the King of Hungary

Count Emicho of Flonheim led the largest of the unofficial German crusading armies of 1096. He conducted the substantial Mainz and Worms massacres in May and June, then marched east toward the Holy Land. The Hungarian king Coloman destroyed his army at the Wieselburg bridge in late June. Emicho himself returned home in disgrace.

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