Bright lights in the Dark Ages : the Thaw collection of early medieval ornaments /
"Bright Lights of the Dark Ages is a major new volume on early Medieval art. It features over two hundred stunning and extremely rare early medieval gold and precious stonework objects, including brooches, buckles, shields, clasps, spoons and other 'grave goods,' that were interred as...
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New York :
The Morgan Library & Museum, in association with D Giles Limited, London,
[2014]
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| ISBN: | 9781907804250 (hardback : alkaline paper) 1907804250 (hardback : alkaline paper) |
Table of Contents:
- Director's Foreword / William M. Griswold
- Preface / Eugene V. Thaw
- Author's Acknowledgments
- Notes to the Reader
- Introduction
- Classical Traditions, Barbarian Styles
- New Enemies, New Allies : The Hunnic Period and Its Aftermath in the East
- Gothic Identity
- Merovingian Fashions
- Anglo-Saxon England and Scandinavia
- Barbarians and Byzantium
- Glossary
- Appendix: Provenance of Works in the Thaw Collection.