The mirror is circular, it's about the size of a saucer, and it sits comfortably in my hand. There isn't a handle, but it would have had a loop fixed to it, so that you could hang it from a hook. But it's not a mirror as you or I would think of it -...
I am a plain old-fashioned mirror from a bygone age, made of good white metal that stays clear without being polished. I am going to discuss serious matters now. Pay close attention, everyone. You should think, as you listen to me, that you are heari...
058:EPISODE 58 - Japanese Bronze mirror 日本铜镜 Bronze mirror (made twelfth century), from Japan I am listening to the sound of the famous Trevi fountain in Rome, where every day tourists throw coins worth about 3,000 euros to secure good luck...
The hoard pitches us into a key moment in the history of England, when an Anglo-Saxon King-Athelstan-at last defeated the Viking invaders and built the beginnings of the kingdom of England. Above all, it shows us the range of contacts enjoyed by the...
The re-conquest of the Viking territories by the Anglo-Saxons was the great event of tenth-century Britain, and our treasure both pinpoints one tiny part of this national epic, and connects it to the immense world of Viking trade. 这百年间英格兰...
This week we're sweeping across the vast expanse of Europe and Asia between the ninth and the thirteenth centuries. 本周的我们将横跨九世纪至十三世纪欧亚大陆的广阔区域。 And once again we're not going to be focussed on the Me...
056:EPISODE 56 - Vale of York Hoard约克郡河谷宝藏 Vale of York Hoard (buried around 927 AD). Viking objects; found near Harrogate, Yorkshire On the surface, everything is idyllic...imagine a broad green field in Yorkshire. In the distance ro...
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,...
Liu's obituary tablet is a model of colourful self-praise, and he aims a great deal higher than Anthony Howard's man of unusual charm. He tells us that his behaviour set a standard which was destined to cause a revolution in popular manners. In publi...
I used, oddly enough, to get lots of letters-in the almost decade I ran The Times obituaries-saying,Oh, I do not seem to be getting any younger, and I thought it might be helpful to let you have a few notes on my life'. And they were unbelievable. Pe...