T North German Illumination Tenth Century HIS design is typical of the work of the Monks of Northern Europe during the Tenth and Eleventh Centuries. This style is directly descended from the English, but runs to gayer and more brilliant colouring. St. Boniface, the Saxon missionary who went to convert the Germans at the beginning of the Eighth Century, wrote to the Abbess Eadburga for some missals illuminated in bright colours which should be "even as a glittering lamp and an illumination for the hearts of the Gentiles," hoping that the bright colours would attract the uncultivated minds of those among whom he laboured. From these gayer English missals this school was developed. |