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476 and All That: The Fall of Rome, Revisited
Wait… Did we forget the fall of Rome?
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Hilary White
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The Sixth Seal, the last persecution: Reading Beatus of Liébana
A Visigoth monk tells us about the end of the world
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Hilary White
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Kingdom of Asturias; the Christian Art of Early Medieval Spain
Asturian Pre-Romanesque, a unique Christian artform
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Hilary White
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The Only Way Out Is Through: Two Early Medieval Last Judgments
Torcello and Formis: Walking inside Christian Eschatology
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Hilary White
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The "thirst for God" that accidentally built a civilisation
A Benedictine response: what is it for?
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Hilary White
4
The Mysterious Frescoes of Castelseprio
A lost ancient treasure of Christian Art
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Hilary White
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Putting together the big, complex picture: Italo-Byzantine, Carolingian, Romanesque
Sacred art in the West was never a straight line
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Hilary White
3
Icons Through the Ages: The Changing Face of Byzantine Sacred Art
It's not a single monolithic style
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Hilary White
4
Off Topic: What is "Modernia" and why is it Bad?
Bentham's World: How we all became Utilitarians
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Hilary White
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The Eastern Monastic Origins of Italo-Byzantine and Romanesque Art
Refugees from Iconoclasm and Islam brought the art of the east into the west
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Hilary White
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The greatest story ever told in pictures; iconographic programmes
Why did churches have a standard ordering of frescos and icons?
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Hilary White
4
Byzantium to Italy: The Roots of Italo-Byzantine Art
The crises in Constantinople was a boon to western art
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Hilary White
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A Quick Update - calling in sick
Dear friends,
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West vs East: Iconoclasm, Charlemagne, and the Birth of a New Sacred Art
Defence of icons and the start of "western civilisation"
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Christian life, thought, history and culture through the lens of the first 1200 years of sacred art.
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