The Fall of Rome: Disruption and Continuity
Alaric the Goth: 410
Attila the Hun, 451-452
271-275: The Aurelian Walls
The Salarian Gate
Arch of Constantine, reliefs c. 315
Sarcophagus of a Philosopher, c. 270
Sacrifice scene,
Right leaf of the diptych
of the Symmachi
and Nicomachi,
Ivory, c. 400
11 3/4 inches
The Sacrophagus of Junius Bassus, c. 359
Suicide of Judas and the Crucifixion of Christ, ivory,
Early 5th century, London: British Museum
Christ as the Good
Sheperd,
Marble, 3 1/4 high
Christ as the Good Sheperd, Galla Placidia,
Ravenna, c. 425
Parting of Lot and Abraham, Rome, Sta.Maria
Maggiore, 432-440
The wooden doors of
Sta. Sabina, Rome, c. 432
Merovingian looped fibulae from Jouy-le Comte,
France, c. 550, silver with
gem inlays
The Sutton Hoo Ship Burial,
England,
7th century
The Sutton Hoo
helmet
Purse cover, Sutton Hoo ship burial, ca. 625
Belt buckle, Celtic/ 7th century?
Oseberg, Norway: ship burial
c. 825
Animal head from the Oseberg
ship
Hrothgar's people lived in joy,
happy until that wanderer of the wasteland,
Grendel the demon, possessor of the moors,
began his crimes.
He was of a race of monsters
exiled from mankind by God-He was of the race of Cain,
that man punished for
murdering his brother.
From that family comes
all evil beings-monsters, elves, zombies
Ireland and England:
Hiberno-Saxon Art
The conversion of Ireland
by Saint Patrick, 432
563: St. Columba founds
Iona
Lindisfarne established
635
Monks and Monasticism