On a section of Theodulf of Orléans' poem Contra iudices, and the ivories depicting scenes from the life of Hercules on the Chair of St. Peter.

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"Brings together the disciplines of art, music, and history to explore the importance of the past to conceptions of the present in the central Middle Ages"--Pro