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I still haven't seen bedlam....really must give it a go.
Caught the first part of a documentary series about illuminated manuscripts and what they tell us about early medieval kings.
yeh, I know it doesn't sound overly exciting, but it turned out to be really good.
Britain has one of the most well-documented histories in the world. A near unbroken line of record keeping stretching back over a thousand years. Some of the early records were within bibles and psalters, and many if not most of the great illuminated texts were commissioned by kings and princes, and as such we can often see specific kings and other powerful people represented within them.
Some of them are truly beautiful, and steeped in dark age history.Here's the opening segment to part one. Illuminations: the Private Lives of Medieval Kings, episode 1: Ruling by the Book
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