An Introduction to the Astonishing E book of Kells, the Iconic Illuminated Manuscript

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What­ev­er set of reli­gious or cul­tur­al tra­di­tions you come from, you’ve prob­a­bly seen a Celtic cross earlier than. Not like a con­ven­tion­al cross, it has a cir­cu­lar ring, or “nim­bus,” the place its arms and stem inter­sect. The only addi­tion of that ele­ment offers it a excessive­ly dis­tinc­tive look, and certainly makes it one of…

The Medieval Masterpiece, the Guide of Kells, Is Now Digitized and Out there On-line

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If you already know noth­ing else about medieval Euro­pean illu­mi­nat­ed man­u­scripts, you positive­ly know the Guide of Kells. “Certainly one of Eire’s nice­est cul­tur­al trea­sures” com­ments Medievalists.internet, “it’s set other than oth­er man­u­scripts of the identical peri­od by the qual­i­ty of its artwork­work and the sheer num­ber of illus­tra­tions that run via­out the 680 pages of…