Tag Archives: Abbot of Cluny Magilo

1000 years whence

Posted on November 17, 2012 by Dave

One thousand years ago our forebears lived in a “dark age.” They themselves did not think it was dark, and they were only half wrong… …Science as we know it, did not exist. The idea of experiment and discovery did … Continue reading →

Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion | Tagged Abbot Notker Balbulus, Abbot of Cluny Magilo, Bishop Adalberon of Reims, George Macaulay Trevelyan, Harley Psalter, Hatto I Archbishop of Mainz, Hucbald monk of St.-Amand, Limbourg Brothers, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Madrid Skylitzes, Raoul Glaber chronicler, Saint Gall Switzerland, The Dark Ages, Utrech Psalter | Leave a comment

cluny and the gall chatter

Posted on November 13, 2012 by Dave

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 | Leave a comment

but a 1000 years ago

Posted on November 11, 2012 by Dave

One thousand years ago our forebears lived in a “Dark Age.” They themselves did not think it was dark, and truth be said, they were only half wrong. …Arab physicians were famed throughout the West. Poets, and poetesses, too,abounded. Their … Continue reading →