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Great Kimble, Buckinghamshire

to all blog readers. May the light and peace of Christ be with you all this Christmas. Thank you for all your support this year.

Allan




- Newly Rediscovered Da Vinci Painting To Go On Display At The National Gallery
he National Gallery in England will be having the first public showing of a long-lost Leonardo da Vinci work, Salvator Mundi, which was created in the late 15th or early 16th century. It will be featured during the Leonardo da Vinci: Painter at the Court...

- The Painting Once Sold For £45 'is A Long-lost Leonardo Worth £120million'
A painting once sold for £45 at auction has been identified as a work by Leonardo Da Vinci and is estimated to be worth a world record £120 million. The oil on wood panel painting, Salvator Mundi, or Saviour of the World, depicts Christ with his right...

- More Religion And Less Sentiment At Christmas In Medieval Wales
Our assumptions about the celebration of Christmas are shattered when we turn back the clock to medieval Wales, argues Dr Madeleine Gray, reader in history at the University of Wales, Newport You would expect a traditional medieval Welsh Christmas to...

- A Little Help And Discussion......
Over on another blog, in response to a list of journals in various fields by the AHRC, an early medievalist commented about not knowing where to publish: "EME (Early Medieval Europe)" was given an "A", but all else was "B" or less in that author's...

- Merry Christmas From Medieval Hungary!
Merry Christmas to all my readers! The photo above shows the Nativity fresco from the sanctuary vault of the church of Almakerék (Malmkrog/M?lâncrav), in Transylvania (present-day Romania), dating from around 1400. Befitting the holiday spirit, I...



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