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.
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Around 1150
- Genghis Khan (1162)
- Saladin retakes Jerusalem (1187)
- Reign of Henry II (1154)
- Angkor Wat built (1113)
- Zhu Xi's Four Books canon (1190)
- Third Crusade (1189)
- Kamakura shogunate established (1192)
- Omar Khayyam's Rubaiyat (1100)
- Reign of Philip II Augustus of France (1180)
- Chartres Cathedral built (1194)