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Visigothic fibulas – from
Tierra de Barros, Spain (500s)
Walters Art Gallery - Baltimore
(Bridgeman Art Library, Paris)
Coloisonné purse lid from a Saxon ship burial site in eastern England - c. 600
Belt buckle (left) and shoulder clasp (right) from a Saxon ship burial site in eastern England - c. 600
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The Lindisfarne Gospel:
The beginning of the Gospel of John - c. 700
The British Library
Page from the Lindisfarne
Gospels (c. 698-700)
London, British Museum
Silver and gold-plated bronze
chalice from Ardagh (700s)
Dublin, National Museum
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The Lorsch Gospels (ca. 780–820)
Lorsch Gospels (Codex Aureus
of Lorsch) 778–820 - Charlemagne's Court School
Ivory front book cover
Vatican, Bibliotheca Apostolica
Lorsch Gospels
Ivory back book cover
London, Victoria and Albert
Museum
The Evangelist composing
his gospel
The Königshalle (Kingshall)
of Lorsch Abbey (c. 800)
photo: Tobias Helfrich
The Four Evangelicals (Matthew,
Mark, Luke and John) from the Aachen Gospels (c. 820)
Aachen Cathedral
Page from "Ebbo's Gospels"
(St. Matthew) (816-835)
Épernay, Bibliothèque
Municipale
Carolingian Manuscript:
manuscriptum Fuldense ca. 831/40
Raban Maur (left), supported
by Alcuin (middle), dedicates his work to Archbishop Otgar of Mainz (Right)
Vienna, Österreichische
Nationalbibliothek
Charlemagne (or is
it Charles the Bald?) with Popes Gelasius I and Gregory I
-- from the sacramentary
of Charles the Bald (ca. 870)
Ivory plaque, probably from
a book cover - Reims, late 800s
top: St. Remy reviving
a girl
middle: the hand of God fills two jugs
below: the
Baptism of Clovis by St. Remy
Equestrian bronze statuette
of Charlemagne (900s)
From the Treasury of the
Metz Cathedral (France)
Paris, Musée du Louvre
Charlemagne
Cathedral Treasury, Aachen.
Photo by Ann Münchow
Charlemagne
The octagonal interior of
Charlemagne's Cathedral at Aachen (completed in 805)
Tobias Helfrich
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Oseberg vikingship head post
Oslo, Universitets Oldsaksamling
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Pope Gregory I dictating
the Gregorian chants (c. 1000)
From the Antiphonary of
Hartker of the monastery of Saint Gallen (Cod. Sang. 390, p. 13)
"The Presentation at the
Temple" (c. 1015)
detail in bronze from the
gate of the abbey church of St. Michael, Hildesheim (Saxony, Germany)
The Bayeux Tapestry (1070
- 1080)
depicting the victory of
the Norman Duke William over the Saxon or English King Harold at Hastings
(1066)
Detail from the Bayeux tapestry
– William, Duke of Normandy, haranguing his troops
Bayeux, Musée de
la Tapisserie
Saxon King Harold
Harold's soldiers
The Assault on Dinant
For
a complete pictoral on the Bayeux Tapestries
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Miles
H. Hodges - 2018
