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Immediate dispatch from Somerset. Book in excellent unread/unused condition. See images. Fantastic book.

About the book >.>.> Bright Lights in the Dark Ages is a major new volume focused on Early Medieval personal ornaments. It features over one hundred magnificent objects many crafted in gold and silver and inlaid with sparkling garnet stones. These splendid brooches buckles and pendants created to advertise power and wealth in the barbarian kingdoms were later interred with their owners to be used in the afterlife. The exceptionally broad scope of the Thaw collection spanning over a millennium illustrates the continuity and evolution of fine metalworking traditions. It also reveals the profound influence of the classical world on the new political alliances formed during the Early Medieval period that united people from diverse cultural and ethnic backgrounds. Groups of Iranian Sarmatians and Alans Turkic tribes from the east and Germanic and Slavic barbarians in western Europe were all shaped by their interaction with the Roman and Byzantine empires. Highlights of this volume replete with sumptuous images include stunning Sarmatian-period jewelry rare examples of Hunnic and Gothic garnet cloisonn? and exceptional brooches from the Merovingian period as well as superb Early Byzantine gold belt fittings. (OS)