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when we were dark
The Dark Ages. At the time, our forebears did not think it was all that dark, and they were only half wrong… …The world of a thousand years ago, then, had its centers of devotion and learning, islands in an … Continue reading
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Tagged Bishop Adalberon of Reims, Carolingian book production, Edward Gibbon, England Winchester School, First Romanesque architecture, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Ottonian architectural style, Pre-Romanesque architecture, The Dark Ages, The utrecht Psalter
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cluny and the gall chatter
It was the best of times, it was the worst of times. Look at two of the monasteries. First, Saint Gall in Switzerland, founded in the seventh century, and the home of a long line of learned and virtuous men. … Continue reading
Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion
Tagged Abbot of Cluny, Abbot of Cluny Magilo, Book of Maccabees I, Edward Gibbon, Limbourg Brothers, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Opus Dei, Pope Gregory VII, Saint Gall monastery, Saint Gall Switzerland, St. Odo Cluny, The Dark Ages, The utrecht Psalter
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