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"Dark Ages„(Early Middle Ages)
a characterization highlighting the relative scarcity
of literary and cultural output from this time,
especially in Western Europe.
The Last Judgement
• Christus, Petrus, 1452, Berlin – hierarchy
• Next slide: Hans Memling – a triptych (altarpiece) – The Last Judgement (Gdansk)
Thomas Celano, 13th c. Latin Hymn:
Dies Irae• Day of wrath! O day of mourning!
See fulfilled the prophets' warning,Heaven and earth in ashes burning!
• Oh, what fear man's bosom rendeth,when from heaven the Judge descendeth,on whose sentence all dependeth
• Death is struck, and nature quaking,all creation is awaking,to its Judge an answer making.
Arthur (top centre) in an illustration to the Middle English poem Sir Gawain
and the Green Knight, late 14th century
• King Arthur• Queen Guinevre• Sir Launcelot• Merlin, the wizard• Sir Gawain• Sir Galahad• Mordred• Morgan Le Fay• Welsh, French, English
and Latin works
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