FACTOID #53: If you thought Antarctica was inhospitable, think again - its land area is only ninety-eight percent ice. Reassuringly, the other 2% is categorised as "barren rock".
Pericopes of HenryII Folio 117r of the Pericopes of HenryII, Reichenau, c.
The Pericopes of HenryII (Munich, Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, Clm 4452) is a luxurious medieval illuminated manuscript made for HenryII, the last Ottonian Holy Roman Emperor, made c.
The manuscript, which is lavishly illuminated, is a product of the Liuthar circle of illuminators, who were working in the Benedictine Abbey of Reichenau, which housed a scriptorium and artists' workshop that has a claim to having been the largest and artistically most influential in Europe during the late 10th and early 11th centuries.
Minted in Metz by Thierry II, brother in law of HenryII and archbishop of Metz.
Henry died in 1024 and was succeeded by Conrad II, first of the Franconian line and new HRE.
Pope Leo IX, Henrys cousin and former bishop of Toul, was a sincere reformer of the church leading to such changes as the forbidding of carrying arms by the clergy and enforcing the rule of celibacy.
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