Medieval History
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 opening page of a special Mass celebrated during the Christmas season.
The two illustrations are from the unique medieval Bangor Pontifical Manuscript, or ?Bishops Book? copied and illustrated in around 1320, which contains the texts, music and services required for significant occasions when the bishop was present through the year. The Book once belonged to Anian II, Bishop of Bangor between 1309 and 1328.
Click here to read this article from Medievalists.net
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- Bangor University Commemorates Medieval Historian J. E. Lloyd
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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Medieval History
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 opening page of a special Mass celebrated during the Christmas season.
The two illustrations are from the unique medieval Bangor Pontifical Manuscript, or ?Bishops Book? copied and illustrated in around 1320, which contains the texts, music and services required for significant occasions when the bishop was present through the year. The Book once belonged to Anian II, Bishop of Bangor between 1309 and 1328.
Click here to read this article from Medievalists.net
- 400-year-old Playing Cards Reveal Royal Secret
Call it a card player's dream. A complete set of 52 silver playing cards gilded in gold and dating back 400 years has been discovered. Created in Germany around 1616, the cards were engraved by a man named Michael Frömmer, who created at least one...
- Did The Scots Visit Iceland? New Research Reveals Island Inhabited 70 Years Before Vikings
New archaeological discoveries show that Iceland was inhabited around AD 800 ? nearly 70 years before the traditional dating of its Viking settlement. One possibility is that these early inhabitants may have been related to Irish monastic communities...
- 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,...
- Bangor University Commemorates Medieval Historian J. E. Lloyd
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...
- Cfp: To Die Would Be An Awfully Big Adventure
?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...