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mediaeval & renaissance This page is dedicated to a long and in many ways disjunct period of time. From the fall of Rome to the Age of Discovery, the story of mankind in the period of the so-called Middle Ages is one of violence and struggle, yet curiously also a tale of stability and preservation. In Europe, it is a period dominated by the Christian church and its efforts to create what was then seen as a perfect society, as indicated by the writings of (for instance) St. Augustine. The religious life and its imagery spilled over into the secular world, and very little was done without proper reference to God. In the later part of the period, the intellectual life of the church gave rise to a new group of erudite people, whose reappraisal of the ways of the world was to change them far beyond anything the Church had imagined or sanctioned. In this period, my interests lie chiefly with the time of Charlemagne, the spread of Christianity, the Nordic countries of the 9th to 13th centuries, and the Italian Renaissance.
Wallpaintings in Danish churches is a project of the University of Copenhagen History Institute, in the capable hands of Axel Bolvig. The project is an ambitious attempt to catalogue all Danish church frescos in a comprehensive database.
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Book recommendations: Medieval Europe 400-1500 (History of Europe) by Helmut Koenigsberger The New Penguin Atlas of Medieval History by Colin McEvedy The Black Death by Philip Ziegler ...in association with Amazon.com |
This page is the work of Peter Ravn Rasmussen.
Updated: August 27, 1998.