Rashi: A Light After The Dark Ages

00:00:08 So far, on this artistic journey through the Dark Ages

00:03:40 Also the Vikings, who, despite their terrible reputation for raping

00:06:23 and became thoroughly Italianate, the Vikings stayed in the harsh

00:09:11 Two days later, Professor Gustafson arrived at the farm

00:11:53 the steady hand, the computer brain.

00:15:01 It's actually quite a simple alphabet.

00:17:55 It is two and a half metres tall and, as you can see

00:20:30 imported from abroad and is now being misunderstood so confidently.

00:23:15 Look at all the intricate Celtic decoration around it.

00:25:44 Yes, with just a generic long-tache beard with

00:27:42 defeated an invading Muslim army

00:30:06 This is the chapel that Charlemagne built, here in Aachen

00:32:24 sense the doomy and cold atmospheres of the mausoleum in here.

00:35:18 It's basically about 82% silver, a bit of copper

00:37:18 so it's just a matter of us now repeating the process

00:39:36 There's something splendidly basic about these Anglo-Saxon crosses.

00:42:37 two dots.

00:45:12 of the Four Evangelists round the edges of his silver brooch.

00:47:21 cos just touching them, the surface tension tends to glue them

00:49:25 Can I have a look at that? Yeah. I see, yes.

00:51:40 from the sea, then Lindisfarne wasn't cut off at all.

00:54:08 it wasn't just to grab all this fabulous Christian loot

00:57:05 This is a uniquely British contribution

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