Liu Tingxun was a loyal servant of the Dynasty, and his tomb figures, both human and animal, sum up many aspects of Tang China at its zenith. 刘廷荀是朝廷忠心耿耿的服务者,他的墓葬规格、人俑、兽俑和墓志从一个侧面体现...
Liu Tingxun, as a very high-ranking official in that state, brought two ceramic bureaucrats with him into his tomb, presumably to take care of the everlasting admin. Oliver Moore has studied this elite bureaucratic class, which has become so synonymo...
Ceramic figures like these were made in huge numbers for about 50 years, around 700. Their sole purpose was to be placed in high-status tombs. They have been found all around the great Tang cities of north-west China, where Liu Tingxun held office. T...
They're arranged in six pairs, and all of them are just three colours: amber-yellow, green and brown. It's a two-by-two procession, and at the front are a pair of monsters, dramatic half-human creatures with clownish grimaces, spikes on their heads,...
These ideals, articulated over a thousand years ago, are still central to European political life today. Here's Lord Bingham again: 这一早在一千多年前便提出的政治理想,如今仍是欧洲政治生活的核心。宾厄姆勋爵告诉我...
This was a huge dynastic setback for Lothair, but he seems to have accepted the Pope's decision. 这对洛泰尔来说是沉重的打击,但他不得不接受教皇的判决。 Although he continued to try to find another way of divorcing her, he s...
We know almost nothing about the court of Lothair II simply because most of our sources devoted to him are in two particular categories. Onenarrative sources describing the vulnerability of his own little kingdom in the middle of the west and the eas...
This desirable treasure was made at the request of the famed King of the Franks. A beryl stone placed in the middle contains a depiction of how, in Daniel, Susannah was evilly condemned by the old judges.The stone... shows the skill of its art by the...
Daniel did what Rumpole at the Old Bailey would do if he thought he was cross-examining witnesses who were telling lies. One has to say that in real life Daniel would have been extremely lucky to have been thought to have demolished the witnesses, an...
I'm with the Susannah Crystal now. It's a flat disc about four and a half inches (11 cm) in diameter, and carved into it is a Biblical story in eight separate scenes, so if you think of a crystal cartoon, you're pretty close to what we're looking at....