The Lindisfarne Gospels (In Our Time)
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Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Lindisfarne Gospels. In 597 Pope Gregory the Great ordered that a mission of monks be sent from Rome to convert Britain to its own brand of Christianity - lest it be submerged by the pagan beliefs of the Anglo-Saxon overlords. Just over 100 years later, the Lindisfarne Gospels were produced - lavish and ornate manuscripts,
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Around 715
- Hijra (622)
- Tang dynasty (618)
- Khmer Empire (Angkor) (802)
- Arab conquest of the Maghreb (647)
- Reign of Charlemagne (768)
- Death of Muhammad (632)
- Islamic Golden Age (750)
- Battle of Yarmouk (636)
- Abbasid Caliphate founded (750)
- Fall of the Sasanian Empire (651)