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Tobias Emanuel ("Toby") Capwell FSA (born c. 1973) is an American historian who lives and works in London.His principal interest is in European arms and armour of the medieval and Renaissance periods (roughly, the 12th century to the 16th).
Continental Europe at one time favoured the rectangular coffin or casket, although variations exist in size and shape. The rectangular form, and also the trapezoidal form, is still regularly used in Germany, Austria, Hungary and other parts of Eastern and Central Europe, with the lid sometimes made to slope gently from the head down towards the ...
By the sixth century CE, when the practice of building burial mounds is first adopted by the Anglo-Saxons, it was also being practiced by other Germanic-speaking peoples on continental Europe. In the German region of Thuringia , several important chamber burial barrows have been excavated, including at a cemetery in Trossingen which dates to c ...
The art-historian Ernst Kitzinger, then with the British Museum, made a reconstruction of the carved oak sections in 1939, which has subsequently been slightly re-arranged. [8] The reconstructed coffin and most of the contents are on now view in the Cathedral Museum; the St Cuthbert Gospel has been often on display in London since the 1970s.
During the Anglo-Saxon migration, which began in the fifth century CE, Germanic-speaking tribes from continental northern Europe, such as the Angles, Jutes and Saxons, arrived in Britain, where their own culture—with its accompanying language and pagan religion—became dominant across much of eastern Britain. Those Romano-British peoples ...
Shoulder-clasps from Sutton Hoo, early 7th century 11th century walrus ivory cross reliquary (Victoria & Albert Museum). Anglo-Saxon art covers art produced within the Anglo-Saxon period of English history, beginning with the Migration period style that the Anglo-Saxons brought with them from the continent in the 5th century, and ending in 1066 with the Norman Conquest of England, whose ...
Kudjoe Affutu (born 1985) is a Ghanaian artist and figurative coffin and palanquin builder. He was born and still lives in Awutu Bawyiase , Central Region , Ghana. Affutu has made a name for himself in Europe by participating in various art projects and exhibitions.
Britain's periods of iconoclasm were not as severe or extensive as those in northern continental Europe, and so the surviving number of examples exceeds even that of France. [37] However a great number were destroyed during iconoclasm waves from the 14th century and the Cromwellian Wars of the Three Kingdoms in the 17th century. [32]