For this Palm Sunday entry, I continue the focus on the contributions to Christianity of the Blessed Alcuin of Y0rk, the brilliant English deacon chosen as spiritual advisor by the Frankish king Charles, who become the first H0ly Roman Emperor since the sack of Rome in the 5th C. on Christmas Day, 800 A.D. Although images of Alcuin are very rare, there is ample proof of the impact he had upon the spread of Christianity across Western Europe. I found a reminder in my notes for the Excel database of images in the AIC archive concerning the Moutier-Grandval Bible, made under Alcuin’s supervision when he was Abbot of the Abbey of St. Martin of Tours, Tours, France (then part of Charlemagne’s Frankish kingdom). Scholars credit Alcuin with establishing the Scriptorium at Tours where this work was produced. It is named after places where copies of the volume were kept in later years.
Next week’s posting will be focused the Deesis mosaic of Christ Pantokrator in the South Gallery at the Hagia Sophia, Constantinople/Istanbul, with some more recent commentary and research by experts on how this very special mosaic was made.
As always, thank you for your interest and support. Glory be to God for all things! Amen!
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