A 2-inch wide reliquary casket of champlevé enamel on copper in the British Museum was made about 1180-1190 and depicts scenes from the martyrdom of Saint Valerie set against a background decorated ...
During the twelfth and thirteenth centuries, small towns in south-west- central France merged, flourished, and became known as the diocese and county of Limoges. To demonstrate their piety, monarchs ...