#6th century

[jstor]

Apropos of nothing, here is a baker's dozen images of bird-shaped brooches ca. 6th century, from Frankish, Vendel, and Anglo-Saxon artisans. They all come from the Metropolitan Museum of Art collection on JSTOR, which includes nearly half a million open access images for everyone!

#medieval art #6th century #brooch #jewelry #birds! #research #jstor #do people still say baker's dozen? #open access

[theancientwayoflife]

~ Nose Ornament.

Date: A.D. 2nd–6th century

Placeoforigin: Perú

Culture: Vicús

Medium: Gold

#ancient #ancient art #history #museum #archeology #archaeology #nose Ornament #south america #peruvian #peru #pre columbian #gold #vicús #feline #cat #2nd century #6th century

[boylerpf]

This lavishly decorated piece is a Byzantine bracelet dating from the 6th century. The Byzantines created complex and precious pieces, such as this bracelet, which is encrusted with expensive gemstones and pearls, demonstrating the wealth of the Byzantine empire.

The openwork technique, also called Opus interrasile (meaning ‘to scrape in between), is done by punching or piercing holes in the metal with a chisel or other sharp tool, resembling delicate, lace-like patterns.

Private Collection, North America

#jewelry #gold #jewellery #antique #antique jewelry #byzantine #gold bracelets #bracelet #jewerly #gemstone #ancient history #antiquity #6th century

[city-of-ladies]

Antonina: a powerful woman in the sixth-century Roman world

"Antonina was the most powerful uncrowned woman in the sixth-century Roman world. She deposed Pope Silverius, arranged for the sacking of John the Cappadocian, traveled across the Mediterranean with her husband, and even occasionally inserted herself into the running of his army. She knew soldiers, officers, the emperor, popes, bishops, and historians, and at various times commanded them, pleaded with them, and intimidated them. This is a remarkable resume, virtually unparalleled among Roman military wives, and certainly without parallel in the sixth century. She was a formidable woman and, like her friend and patron Theodora, one who was occasionally feared. If the reputation of Belisarius is sometimes inflated in modern evaluations, the reputation of Antonina has been chronically underappreciated. Historians have focused far too much on the Secret History story of Antonina’s affair and her supposed domination of Belisarius, and far too little on her exceptional career. She is evidence that elite women in the sixth century could take on public roles alongside their husbands."

Belisarius & Antonina: Love and war in the age of Justinian, David Alan Parnell

#antonina #leaders #powerful women #history #women in history #women's history #6th century #belisarius #byzantine empire #justinian I #empress theodora

[nancydrewwouldnever]

Early Byzantine, The Emperor Justinian and Empress Theodora with their Court Retinues, ca. 547, mosaic (San Vitale, Ravenna)

Mosaics in situ (flanking apse windows beneath Christ in Majesty mosaic), details of Emperor and Empress

#byzantine #mosaic #art #portrait #empress theodora #justinian #6th century #ravenna

[mapsontheweb]

The empire of Justinian (527-565).

by LegendesCarto

#maps #6th century #byzantine empire #LegendesCarto #twsourced

[gayangstandshakespeare]

Day 9: Celtic - Morgan le Fay; I realize that the runes are Germanic, but it’s a Green Knight reference 👀👀

#jenstober23 #morgan le fay #the green knight #arthuriana #arthurian legend #celtic mythology #roman britain #celtic #5th century #6th century #briton tag #traditional art #history art #inktober #inktober 2023 #drawtober #drawtober 2023 #artober #artober 2023 #witchtober #witchtober 2023 #day 9

[winterhalters]

(some) of the period dramas i'd love to see about french history

#historyedit #perioddramaedit #14th century #13th century #12th century #9th century #6th century #19th century #20th century #15th century #16th century #17th century #18th century #mine #*

[memoriae-lectoris]

Ireland, the last country in Western Europe to legalize divorce in the twentieth century, was also the last country to make it illegal in the Middle Ages. If an Irishman told secrets about his wife’s sexual performance, for example, this was considered good reason for her to leave him. Long after the Church was forbidding people elsewhere in Europe from divorcing, Irish husbands and wives were still going their own way at will.

Women were not necessarily impoverished by divorce in the medieval world. Because no one in the Middle Ages ever claimed that the man was the main breadwinner, a divorced wife was entitled to a percentage of the household estate in line with the labor she had contributed to it. Irish jurists ruled that divorcing women deserved a percentage of the farm’s lambs and calves since wives kept the animals, made the wool into cloth, and turned the milk into cheese and butter.

In tenth-century Wales the king declared that a divorced man could have the pigs because he normally kept them in the woods near home, but the wife got the sheep because she took them to the highlands during the summer. The husband got the drinking cups and the chickens; the wife got the milk and cheese-making equipment, along with the flax, linseed, wool, and butter.

#europe #wales #ireland #marriage #divorce #book : marriage a history #6th century #7th century #8th century #9th century #10th century

[medievalart]

Byzantine necklace and earrings

About AD 600

British Museum

London, June 2022

#byzantine #jewelry #necklace #earring #gold #7th century #6th century #medieval #British Museum #my photo

[dwellordream]

- Margot Lister, Costume

#greek #ancient #fashion #6th century #margot lister

[worldwide-blackfolk]

Let the saints say amen 🙏🏿 👍🏾✊🏾

#Jesus Christ #cairoegypt #black jesus #world history #6th century #we been knew

[theancientwayoflife]

~ Signet Ring with "of Mark" in Greek.

Culture: Byzantine

Date: A.D. 6th-7th century

Period: Late Antique

Medium: Silver

#6th century #7th century #signet ring #greek #mark #byzantium #byzantine #late antique

[paganimagevault]

Hestia Polyolbus ('Hestia full of blessings') 6th C. CE

"The Hestia tapestry is a Byzantine-era Pagan tapestry made in the Diocese of Egypt in the first half of the 6th century. It is now in the Dumbarton Oaks Collection in Washington DC, but generally not on display.

The Hestia tapestry, which is made of wool, is a late representation of the Goddess Hestia. It measures 114 x 136.5 cm (44.9 x 53.7 inches). It shows the Goddess enthroned with two attendants and six putti. The tapestry is identified in Greek as “Hestía Polýolbos" or "Hestia full of Blessings" (Greek: Ἑστία Πολύολβος) and is depicted mainly through the use of pomegranate fruit. Her headdress and earrings are made from pomegranates while the blessings that Hestia gives out are in the form of the fruit.

The tapestry's history and symbolism are discussed in Friedlander (1945). Scholars note that this Pagan artifact is often displayed in Christian households in Egypt."

-taken from wikipedia

#hestia #ancient greek #greek myth #egypt #pagan #egyptian art #byzantine #tapestry #history #art history #artifacts #antiquities #museums #byzantium #6th century

[wonder-worker]

In the Histories, Brunhild and Fredegund appear as political adversaries and moral opposites. Gregory encouraged his audience to compare the two queens by emphasising their differences. He said nothing bad of Brunhild, yet he accused Fredegund of a great many crimes, including murder, sacrilege, witchcraft, and treason.

…Looking beyond Gregory’s interpretation, Brunhild and Fredegund may not have been so different. Both queens reigned at the side of their husbands and then remained politically influential during their widowhood as mothers of their minor sons. Both formed close, politically useful relationships with some bishops and quarrelled with others. Both cared about the education of their children and made efforts to rescue daughters who fell into the hands of rival powers. They treated their inferiors in a manner befitting a ruler, defending honour and threatening violence much as did kings and other powerful men. Their skilful evocation of both fear and love would have made Machiavelli blush. They donated to the church, venerated the saints, and kept an eye on those who might use illegitimate sources of spiritual power, such as witchcraft or poison, with due attention. Other sources recognised this fundamental similarity: Venantius Fortunatus, ever the dutiful royal client, praised Fredegund and Brunhild alike, while the Chronicles of Fredegar, written from the safety of a later generation, criticised them equally. Yet Gregory insisted they were rivals and moral opposites. His task was not an easy one. Rumours of Fredegund’s misdeeds may have abounded, but stories of Brunhild’s virtues were rather more obscure. Thus, Gregory carefully arranged his material, encouraging his audience to compare the two and to find Brunhild to be the better. Why so complex a narrative strategy? Gregory laboured under burdensome constraints, coming into personal conflict with Fredegund, while finding Brunhild to be a powerful, if intimidating, patron.

-E.T. Dailey, “Queens, Consorts, Concubines: Gregory of Tours and the Women of the Merovingian Elite”

#historicwomendaily #merovingian period #fredegund #brunehilde #brunhild #gregory of tours #women in history #french history #fredegund regina #6th century #merovingian history #queue #my post

[mapsontheweb]

The kingdom of the Visigoths, 6th century.

by LegendesCarto

#maps #6th century #visigoths #LegendesCarto #twsourced