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'Bright Lights of the Dark Ages' is a stunning survey of magnificent early Medieval art objects. Many were found in burial mounds, interred as status symbols with their owners in the new barbarian kingdoms that developed in Europe after the fall of the Roman Empire. It features over two hundred extremely rare gold and precious stonework objects, dating from the second to tenth centuries AD that reveal the dramatic and surprising relationship between the so-called Dark Ages and later medieval art. Illustrated highlights include Gothic and Visigothic imperial style brooches from modern-day Slovakia and Crimea and enamelled domed brooches and buckles from Northern Europe and Britain. AUTHOR: Dr. Noel Adams has been a Special Assistant in the Department of Prehistory and Europe at the British Museum since 1991. She publishes widely on material culture of the first millennium AD, and has co-edited and contributed papers to the British Museum Research Publication series. Dr Adams has organized exhibitions at the National Trust Visitor Centre at Sutton Hoo, the British Museum and the Morgan Library and Museum in New York. 210 colour illustrations

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-Major look at a New York jewelry collection---Eve Kahn, The New York Times

Major look at a New York jewelry collection --Eve Kahn, The New York Times

Major look at a New York jewelry collection Eve Kahn, The New York Times

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Noel Adams is currently Administrator and Deputy Curator of the Furusiyya Art Foundation. She publishes widely on material culture of the first millennium A.D. and has co-edited and contributed papers to the British Museum Research Publication series, most recently:Recent Research on Byzantine Jewellery(2010)and Gems of Heaven: Recent Research on Engraved Gemstones in Late Antiquity, AD 200 600 (2011)Dr.Adams has organised exhibitions at the National Trust Visitor Centre at Sutton Hoo, the British Museum, and the Morgan Library & Museum in New York.

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