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Jesus had sacrificed his life for them so, the monks of Lindisfarne would sacrifice their comforts.
This is Lindisfarne, high up on the north coast of Britain. Holy Island they call it. This monastery you see there was founded early in the seventh century by an Irish monk called Aidan.
Waldemar Januszczak concludes his journey of Islamic Wonder of the Cordoba Mosque. The building has world famous arches from an earlier visigoth church.
This is the Guadalquivir in Andalusia, the largest navigable river in Spain. The name is Islamic. It comes from al-wadi al-kabir, which means “the great Valley”.
Waldemar Januszczak wonders at the fantastic achievements of the great Islamic scholars and architects. He visits Cordoba and the Dome on the Rock.
This location, Temple Mount, is the holiest spot in Jerusalem. This is where King Solomon built the first Jewish Temple, the one destroyed by Nebuchadnezzar.
The mosaics in the Damascus Mosque evoke the pleasures that await the righteous in Paradise. The Qusayr Amra Bathhouse is a wealthy oasis of indulgence.
This is the earliest known Islamic star chart, painted onto the Dome at Qusayr Amra. Around the edge are the 12 signs of the Zodiac. And in the middle, frescoed representations of the constellations.
The Huns were a fierce warrior-like nomadic people, probably, from the Asian steppe. They had a great love of gold and gold art.
They practised ritual deformation, and their skulls were deliberately misshapen at birth. Infant Huns would have their heads tightly bound so the grew into these uncanny and elongated Mekon shapes.
Waldemar Januszczak discusses, barbarians, the misrepresentation of some of the most creative peoples of our past; Vandals, Goths and the Huns.
It isn’t just this word barbarian that has been demonised and distorted. You open your dictionary and start looking for words with bad, Dark Ages connotations, you’ll find lots of them. Take this word here. Vandal.
Waldemar Januszczak explores the fantastic art, created by hugely misaligned groups of peoples during the inappropriately named Dark Ages.
The Dark Ages go roughly from the fourth century to roughly the 11th. They begin when the Roman Empire starts to crumble, and they end when William the Conqueror invades England.
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