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October 23, 2018
The third installment of Medieval Materiality tracks Italian materials on their journey away from Italy as they become reappropriated into artworks in other medieval cultural milieus.

December 10, 2017
10 December: An Important Date in Eleventh-Century Byzantium.

April 2, 2017
Charlemagne was born 2 April 742 in what was then the Frankish Kingdom and died there in January 814.

March 26, 2017
Eastern Roman Emperor Maurice proclaimed his son, Theodosius, co-emperor on 26 March 590.

January 14, 2017
The British Museum first opened to the public on 15 January 1759.

December 10, 2016
On 11 December 361, Julian Arrived in Constantinople as Sole Emperor of the Roman Empire.

November 27, 2016
On This Day in History (27 November 180) Commodus became Emperor of Rome.

October 9, 2016
On 9 October 768 Pope Stephen II saw Charlegmagne and Carloman I named kings of the Franks, paving the way for Charlegmagne’s eventual rise to emperor in 800.

September 18, 2016
Fortuna seemed to have a special interest in the fates of the imperial dynasties on 18 September.

July 10, 2016
Roman Emperor Hadrian (Publius Aelius Hādriānus), whose far-flung adventures inspired the commission of some of the Rome’s most enduring and storied monuments, died on 10 July in 138.