Medieval History
It looks like something Jake and Dinos Chapman might do if they turned their hand to the creative defacement of illuminated manuscripts: the Viz-style gargoyle just to the left of the plainchant notation on page 77 of the nearly 700-year-old Bangor Pontifical, one of the treasures of the Welsh medieval world. On a road trip through the country to create a Welsh Christmas for this Saturday's Music Matters, I saw, handled and turned the pages of this book at Bangor University.
Click here to read this article from The Guardian
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Medieval History
Bangor Pontifical doodles show us the middle ages were juvenile, too
It looks like something Jake and Dinos Chapman might do if they turned their hand to the creative defacement of illuminated manuscripts: the Viz-style gargoyle just to the left of the plainchant notation on page 77 of the nearly 700-year-old Bangor Pontifical, one of the treasures of the Welsh medieval world. On a road trip through the country to create a Welsh Christmas for this Saturday's Music Matters, I saw, handled and turned the pages of this book at Bangor University.
Click here to read this article from The Guardian
- Christmas Cards With Medieval Images On Sale From Bangor University
Those interested in sending Christmas Cards with a medieval theme might want to contact Bangor University. The Bangor Pontifical Project and Bangor Cathedral are selling the cards, which show a miniature of a bishop consecrating a church, and the decorated...
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A historian who changed the face of modern Welsh history is to be commemorated with a biennial Public Lecture in his name at Bangor University. The inaugural J. E. Lloyd Lecture will discuss J.E. Lloyd?s own reinterpretation of Welsh history. The Lecture...
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The illustrations of University of Gloucestershire graduate Jake Sharpe are part of a British Library exhibit on Beowulf. Having graduated from the University of Gloucestershire this year, the 22-year-old illustrator has turned his childhood dreams...
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?To Die Would be an Awfully Big Adventure?: The Glory and the Gore of Death and Horror Through the Ages10th Annual Medievalism Transformed Conference Friday 6 June 2014 University of Wales, Bangor Abstracts are now being invited for the 10th annual Medievalism...
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*Trésors Carolingiens / Carolingian Treasures* > "The Carolingian book, a political tool put to work in > the unification of an empire, was at the heart of a vast > intellectual and artistic movement... > > "Charlemagne used religious reform to seal...