Images (p. 954)

Image by James Blake Wiener

Water Conduit at Augusta Raurica

Via a subterranean masonry, an ancient Roman water conduit brought Augusta Raurica water from the River Ergolz. Just outside the town wall the conduit merged into an aqueduct, which in turn funneled the water into a water tower where it was...

Image by Людмила Ф-С

St. Sophia's Cathedral, Novgorod

St. Sophia's Cathedral, Novgorod, Russia. It was first built c. 1037 CE by the Kievan Rus king Yaroslav I (c. 1019-1054 CE)

Image by Viktor Mikhailovich Vasnetsov

Vladimir I Converting to Christianity

A 19th century CE fresco by Viktor Mikhailovich Vasnetsov in kieve depicting the baptism of the Kievan Rus leader Saint Prince Vladimir (r. 980-1015 CE)

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Princess Olga's Revenge on the Drevlians

A 15th century CE manuscript illustration showing the revenge of Princess Olga (d. c. 969 CE) of the Kievan Rus on the Drevlians, who had killed her husband, Igor of Kiev (912-945 CE)

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Rus Burial Mounds, Staraja Ladoga

Rus burial mounds dating to the 8-1oth century CE near Straraja Ladoga, Russia.

Image by James Blake Wiener

Zurich's Grossmunster and Fraumunster

This woodcut print showing the skyline of late medieval and early modern Zürich, Switzerland comes from Sebastian Münster's Latin edition of "Cosmographia," which was issued in c. 1552 CE. Münster was a famed German printmaker whose "Cosmographia"...

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William of Jumièges

William of Jumièges, who wrote his work the Gesta Normannorum Ducum (Deeds of the Norman Dukes) c. 1070 CE, is here seen handing over his completed work to William the Conqueror (r. 1066-1087 CE). Mainly writing on the Norman conquest of...