Thank you so much for these wonderful videos. Absolutely love them

This is one of the crown jewels of western art and lucky to have survived to this day. Thanks for another illuminating mini-lecture.

Superb video and words for a gorgeous book! Really a masterpiece of western culture.

If only "Normal" television included programmes as stimulating as yours. Many many thanks. Warren "

The Carpet Page introducing the Gospel of Matthew is the most beautiful piece of art ever made.

@avikrishna5029

4 жыл бұрын

out of everything ever you choose the carpet page

Wonderful video! Illuminated manuscripts are some of the greatest treasures of western civilization, and I wish there were many more videos like this around!

cramming for my ap art history exam :') this is definitely one of the most beautiful artworks in the curriculum

Another superb informative video, as always. Keep up the great work.

One of my absolute favorites - both art work and smarthistory video!

Amazing artwork for the glory of God by unknown men who labored together in friendship and scholarship. It’s amazing this survived the violence of the Vikings

A wonderful piece of early medieval art. Aside from all the aspects mentioned in the video, I’m especially taken by the writing. It’s almost austere compared to later medieval “Gothic” script, but its clear, rounded shapes and patterns make it very aesthetically pleasing. The scribes also made very effective use of empty space, leaving wide gaps between the lines, as well as big margins on the edge of the page. Considering how expensive parchment is, they must have really fought the temptation to make the text as dense as possible.

The portrait and cover pages are amazing - Luke's cross carpet page being my favorite. I was wondering how much the Codex Amiatinus weighed in the previous video.. I'm still amazed by its dimensions!

Another point about the writing: It’s around this period that we start seeing spaces between words. Roman era texts are hell to read because there are no spaces (maybe a dot if you’re lucky).

@cindy4628

5 жыл бұрын

dangcanyouimaginetryingtoreadthisallthetime?

@servus_incognitus

2 жыл бұрын

@@cindy4628 no question marks either until Carolingian era

Wonderful!

Thank you so very much - what an amazing video!

This exhibition was amazing, I was awestruck. The only thing was it was so big, I didn't even finish seeing everything after 2 trips and each trip of about 4 hours, as you have to queue to see so many items, and it's very slow, especially since photography is not allowed, you can't take a photo and look at things later. I think one thing could have been better which is to tell people how many objects and queueing is expected, and it could take 10+ hours to see the exhibition. I would have planned my time better if I saw something like that on the website.

Magnificent! 🎨

Wondering if this was overlooked during the Viking invasion or was it transported elsewhere before then?

Very well done!

Are there any remakes of this book for sale? In modern English.

I recall reading Tacitus, I think, that the Romans imported carpets from the province. It's a bit annoying that many scholars put forth the proposition that these 'carpet pages' were inspired by rugs from the middle east, when clearly they are a residual of the domestic art.

I like it!

Awesome work 👏 👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏 Thank you 😊 👍🏻💖🦘🦘🦘🦘🦘

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That's amazing. Gotta figure they had time on their hands. Sure they could turn these out pretty quick though. I draw with detail and it doesn't take long once you've been doing it 15 years +. Still incredible though. They were eating mushrooms or something for sure. Cause I've seen that shit and it isn't from going to church...

Have these ancient texts been digitized? Are they available for downloading? If not, they should be immediately. Yes, they've been around for over 1200 years, but things happen...

@smarthistory-art-history

2 ай бұрын

Visit the British Library website for access to their digitized material.

@NepticFathers

Ай бұрын

There are a couple facsimiles available too. I got one for $60 off ebay.

@fritzwilhelm8258

Ай бұрын

@@NepticFathers Wow. Food for thought...

all a can say is its coming back home, maybe bedes world jarrow, r holy island, like neffitti bust and rosetta stone ,elgin marbles etc etc

Dr. Zucker barely had a chance to get a word in edgewise.

Wonder how many gospels they destroyed in Britain!

@smarthistory-art-history

Жыл бұрын

The destruction of manuscripts and books of all sorts books as well as works of art has a very long and shameful history, and sadly one that continues to this day. You cited Britain but this has been a terrible problem throughout Europe, Asia, Africa, and the Americas. The justifications are varied but the reason is often the same, intolerance. Learn more with Smarthistory's project, ARCHES (At Risk Cultural Heritage Education Series): smarthistory.org/arches-at-risk-cultural-heritage-education-series/

@IamKingCraig

Жыл бұрын

@@smarthistory-art-history how long has it been happening in britain for? Britain in particular wales has one of the richest christian histories. Its not what gets taught though