My friend Robin Chapman Stacey, professor emerita at the University of Washington, is giving an online lecture at 17:00 GMT (= 12 noon ET, 9 am PT), sponsored by the Welsh Department at Aberystwyth, on ‘Thinking in pairs: law and language in medieval Wales’.
Merciful in the face of death: #otd 1075 Anno II of Cologne died. Shortly before his death, he lifted the ban on the rebels in his city. His bones can be found today in the Anno shrine in the Michaelsberg Abbey Church. #medievaldeath#medieval@medievodons Pic.: Wikipedia Commons
#otd 794 died Solus, a missionary who was later venerated as a saint. Today, the church of St. Sola (Solnhofen) houses this reliquary with some of his remains. #medievaldeath#medieval@medievodons Pic: Wikipedia Commons
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