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    Beatus of Liébana (Spanish: Beato; c. 750 – c. 800) was a monk, theologian, and author of the Commentary on the Apocalypse, an influential compendium...
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    written in the eighth century by the Spanish monk and theologian Beatus of Liébana (730–785) and copied and illustrated in manuscript in works called...
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  • (i.e. Book of Revelation), especially in illuminated manuscript form, written by Saint Beatus of Liébana Beatus initial, the B of "Beatus vir..." ("Blessed...
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    the Apocalypse by Beatus of Liébana, a late eighth-century manuscript popular in medieval Spain and Jerome's commentary on the Book of Daniel. It includes...
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    of adoptionism. However, the adoptionist theology was opposed strongly by Beatus from his abbey in Santo Toribio de Liébana. At the same time, Beatus...
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    Saint Beatus of Liébana became one of the most important religious texts of the Middle Ages, and was often illustrated very fully. The Morgan Beatus contains...
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    made up of the municipalities of: Cabezón de Liébana, Camaleño, Cillorigo de Liébana, Pesaguero, Potes, Tresviso and Vega de Liébana. Liébana is a closed...
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  • Spanish Adoptionism (category History of Catholicism in Spain)
    adoptive Son of God. Another leading advocate of this Christology was Felix of Urgel. In Spain, Adoptionism was opposed by Beatus of Liebana, and in the...
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    each of the three continents (see Biblical terminology for race). A later variation with more detail is the Beatus map drawn by Beatus of Liébana, an 8th-century...
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    Mappa mundi (category Historic maps of the world)
    illustrating different manuscripts of Beatus of Liébana's popular Commentary on the Apocalypse of St John. These "Beatus maps" are believed to derive from...
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    the Apocalypse of Beatus of Liébana, a commentary on Daniel by Saint Jerome and a treatise on the Virgin Mary by Saint Ildefonsus. Parts of it are displayed...
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    Tábara Beatus or Beatus of Tábara is a 10th-century illuminated manuscript, containing the Commentary on the Apocalypse by Beatus of Liébana. It originated...
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    It was originally drawn by the Spanish monk Beatus of Liébana, based on the accounts given by Isidore of Seville, Ptolemy and the Hebrew Bible. Although...
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  • was raging between Elipandus, Archbishop of Toledo, and Beatus of Liébana and even occasioned the intervention of Charlemagne. Mauregatus also repulsed an...
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    Compostellana, lit. 'Pilgrimage of Compostela'; Galician: O Camiño de Santiago), or in English the Way of St. James, is a network of pilgrims' ways or pilgrimages...
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  • number of the sealed, 144,000, sealed from every tribe of the sons of Israel: 12,000 from the tribe of Judah were sealed, 12,000 from the tribe of Reuben...
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  • Berowulf, bishop of Würzburg Ailill mac Fergusa, king of South Brega (Ireland) Alkelda, Anglo-Saxon princess (approximate date) Beatus of Liébana, monk and theologian...
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    Escorial Beatus (Escorial, Biblioteca Monasterio, Cod. & II. 5) is a 10th-century illuminated manuscript of the Commentary on the Apocalypse by Beatus of Liébana...
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    size of their foot. The Hereford Mappa Mundi, drawn c. 1300, shows a sciapod on one side of the world, as does a world map drawn by Beatus of Liébana (c...
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    of the Cappadocian desert. Al-Rabi' ibn Yunus, Arab minister (approximate date) Autpert Ambrose, Frankish Benedictine monk (d. 784) Beatus of Liébana...
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    Apocalypse of Lorvão is an illuminated manuscript from Lorvão, Portugal containing the Commentary on the Apocalypse of Beatus of Liébana Monastery, Spain...
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    The Monastery of Santo Toribio de Liébana is a Roman Catholic monastery located in the district of Liébana, near Potes in Cantabria, Spain. Located in...
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    abbot, Sempronio, of the commentary by Saint Beatus of the Santo Toribio de Liébana monastery between 765 and 775 AD. The Valcavado Beatus is among the 32...
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    Baghdad, upon the death of his brother Al-Hadi. He appoints Salim Yunisi as governor of Sindh and the Indus Valley. Beatus of Liébana, monk and theologian...
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    The Works of art in The Aesthetics of Resistance are those included in Peter Weiss' novel The Aesthetics of Resistance. They form a kind of musée imaginaire...
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  • of the map with place and name annotations is included among the thirteen medieval maps of the world edited in the Virtual Mappa project. Beatus of Liébana...
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    Ende (artist) (category Year of birth unknown)
    through inscription: ENDE PINTRIX ET D(E)I AIUTRIX in the colophon of the Gerona Beatus. Most information about her comes down to the inscription in her...
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    Gallaecia (category History of Galicia (Spain))
    annexation of much of Hispania by the Moors, a group of Visigothic states survived in the northern mountains, including Gallaecia. In Beatus of Liébana (d. 798)...
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    relation to Visigothic culture. It is in this kingdom that the monk Beatus of Liébana writes a commentary on the Apocalypse in a manuscript already richly...
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    Hereford Mappa Mundi (category History of Herefordshire)
    based on traditional accounts and earlier maps such as the one of the Beatus of Liébana codex, and is very similar to the Ebstorf Map, the Psalter world...
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