Family and I went to the Cluny museum which has things from the Middle Ages. This is part of a pillar from Norway, it had stuff to do with the Vikings.
The following books are from the 9th and 10th century. WHEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!!!!
I mean, monks wrote this stuff out by hand.
I wanted to look at them forever.
How many people have handled these books?
Ugh, so cool.
Un chapiteau from St. Etienne du Mont before it was St. Etienne. Which means it's really really old.
Okay so funny story. During the French Revolution in 1789 people went a bit crazy. Anything that resembled the monarchy went against their ideas, therefore it had to go (this form of thinknig was fueled by Rousseau). Relics from churches were removed, and these were statues that were at Notre Dame.
The statues were beheaded because the revolutionaries thought they were kings. Yes, they were kings, but they were religious kings as well as saints. They were in no way their historical French kings. Umm, oops.
One of the tapestries of the Lady and the Unicorn. There are five other tapestries which represent the five senses.
Ceiling somewhere in the Cluny. Looks like the ceiling at St. Severin!
This was on the wall outside the Cluny. Cool.
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