National Geographic History - USA (2022-03 & 2022-04)
SEEN FROM THE SKY An aerial view of Angkor Wat offers a fresh perspective on the 900-year-old complex, showcasing its intricate ...
This city is on the banks of the River Meccon, 170 leagues from the sea; the floodwaters and tides of the river lap the city as ...
L EXPLORERS AND PHOTOGRAPHERS In 1866 Ernest Doudart de Lagrée led an expedition on the Mekong River. Under the pretext of scien ...
42 MARCH/APRIL 2022 of the Royal Geographical Society of London. Mouhot had set sail for Bangkok in April 1858, accompanied by h ...
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built around the year 1200, the Bayon temple in Angkor Thom comprises a central tower a hundred feet high with 54 other towers d ...
GILDED AGE This re-creation shows the third level of the Bayon temple, with access to the central sanctuary (right) and several ...
FULL METAL JACKET A knight’s plate armor consisted of riveted sections, which offered greater freedom of movement than rigid arm ...
Chivalry, faith, and honor were embodied by the lives of medieval knights, who fought for church and crown. The lives of these m ...
48 MARCH/APRIL 2022 Becoming a knight meant not only developing combat skills but also hunting, learning to read, and playing ga ...
FINE ART/ALBUM he Knights of the Round Table were heroes of the realm in Britain’s Arthurian legend. Dedicated to ensuring peace ...
50 MARCH/APRIL 2022 became popular and would have a profound in- fluence on the origins of the European novel. The importance of ...
he spread of chivalric ideals led to notable historical figures being framed as great knights in the medieval tradition. In west ...
52 MARCH/APRIL 2022 around the figure of one of the most recognized knights of Christendom. This mixture of lit- erary evocation ...
erman composer Richard Wagner’s 19th-century opera Lohengrin was inspired by the Swan Knight myth, first told in a late 12th-cen ...
54 MARCH/APRIL 2022 During the late 1100s, tournaments were enjoying their heyday, and Marshal excelled at the jousts. For more ...
FERNS CASTLE This fort was erected in the early 1200s by William Marshal in the Irish county of Wexford, one of his domains as E ...
56 MARCH/APRIL 2022 illustration developed around the chivalric way of life. The most notable case is perhaps that of Ulrich von ...
TIME FOR A TOURNAMENT A 15th-century Flemish miniature of a jousting scene appears in an edition of Jean Froissart’s Chronicles, ...
58 MARCH/APRIL 2022 The Second Boucicaut Later in the 14th century, the chivalric ideals of heroes on horseback were increasingl ...
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