Hedwig glass beaker
AD 1100-1200 · Resource
A thick-walled wheel-cut glass beaker associated by legend with Saint Hedwig of Silesia, likely made in the Islamic Middle East or Norman Sicily. Evidence of luxury craft moving between Islam and Christendom.
On these timelines: British Museum, Resources: Combined
Around 1150
- Angkor Wat built (1113)
- Kamakura shogunate established (1192)
- Genghis Khan (1162)
- Norman invasion of Ireland (1169)
- Saladin retakes Jerusalem (1187)
- Reign of Henry II (1154)
- Kamakura shogunate (1185)
- Frederick I Barbarossa (1122)
- Almohad Caliphate (1121)
- Third Crusade (1189)