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Illustrated World History Europe |
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Menu Forw'd Next Backw'd |  Stilicho the Vandal hero. The Vandal general Stilicho used to be in the service of Rome like most of all the leaders of the invading nations. The image shows how he was portrayed in an ivory diptych carved in about 400 AD. |
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 A possible seal of Alaric A seal labeled `Alaric', king of the Goths is contemporary with the Visigothic ruler's sack of Rome in 410 AD. It reads, "ALARICVSREX GO THEORVM". |
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Menu Forw'd Next Backw'd |  The relief is of a German warrior from a funerary stele of about 700 AD, Karlsruhe Museum. |
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 A bronze probable of Gothic/ German origin from about the 6th century AD. |
 An Ostrogothic eagle brooch made of gold inlaid with garnets and quartz of the 6th century AD. |
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 Description: The Visigoth Alaric II codified Roman law for his subject peoples; this is an illustration from an early manuscript copy. At upper left, with a bishop, is a barbarian king; below are nobles. The writing reads as best as I can tell (Upper - left to right; Lower - left to righ): *LOOH ANRI REX OUX VAN?? VORM DUCES* / *EPIQUI FUERU EICON CREGXPI ... XXXIY / NUR* / *FUERUNT XXXNJ CONCRE CATI* / *CETERE AULCO MULRI TUDO MAGNA . . . HOSLE GETU LECTOR*. |
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 The Irish monk `Columba', head of the Scottish monastery of Iona, as depicted in a manuscript drawing. |
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