Tuesday, May 13, 2008

Freedmen

Here's an example of art during the era of Early Medieval Art.
The Scribe Ezra Rewriting the Sacred Records, from the codex Amiainus, Jarrow, early 8th century. Biblioteca Medicea-Laurenziana, Florence.


In ancient and medieval society, the class which had been freed from servitude as opposed to having been born free. (Gardner)

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