800 Text

The Book of Kells

Name: The Book of Kells
Start: 0800

A masterpiece of insular illumination, symbol of Ireland’s role in transmitting texts.

Meanwhile, elsewhere

Within twenty-five years of 800 — the context national timelines leave out.

same year Charlemagne crowned Emperor Germany
7 years earlier Raid on Lindisfarne Norway

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Which long period

Periods overlap: they are landmarks, not boxes.

Early Middle Ages 476 – 1000 Post-Roman kingdoms, Christianisation, invasions.

Countries involved

Ireland

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What was written of it

Owing to the morbid estrangement which the madness of nationality has set between the peoples of Europe, the clearest signs are overlooked: Europe wants to become one.

Friedrich Nietzsche 1886

Beyond Good and Evil

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