Hedwig glass beaker
AD 1100-1200 · Resource
A thick-walled wheel-cut glass beaker associated by legend with Saint Hedwig of Silesia; probably made in Syria, though its origin is debated. Evidence of luxury craft moving between Islam and Christendom.
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Around 1150
- Anarchy in England (1135)
- 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)
- Reign of Frederick I Barbarossa (1155)
- Frederick I Barbarossa (1122)