LECTURE FOR MARCH 29 -- THE POST-ROMAN WEST

Maps:  Europe in 500                             In 600

A page from Ulfila's Gothic Bible:

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Theodoric's Mausoleum in Ravenna:

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Crown belonging to the Visigothic King Recceswinth:

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A consequence of instability:  buried coin hoards

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Pope Gregory the Great:

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Christianity in the North:  the Irish coast

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The power of the written word:  an eighth-century psalter

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A page from the Book of Kells:

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