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1000 years whence
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
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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
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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
Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion
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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