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Historical Archive: Persons


Historical Rulers
up to 350 CE
350 to Charles the Bald (king 843, emperor 875-77)
Lothar II (reg. 855-69) to Duchess Agnes von Landsberg (d.1266)
Louis IX of France (d. 1270) to Elizabeth II (reg. 1952-2022)

Personifications (alphabetical): Abundance to Lust, Mercy to Wisdom

Angels: 5th to 9th c., 10th c. through c.1240, c.1250 through 14th c., 15th c.-present

Demons, Devil

Apostles: grouped or unidentified;
Andrew
Bartholemew
James the Greater
James the Less
John the Evangelist
Judas
Jude (Judas the Zealot, Thaddaeus)
Matthew
Matthias
Paul
Peter
Philip
Simon
Thomas

Evangelists: grouped or unidentified, Matthew, Mark, Luke, John

Saints (alphabetical):
Adalbert to Blaise
Boethius to Dorothy
Edmund to James the Greater
James the Less to Menas
Mercurius of Caesarea to Sigismund
Simeon Nemanja to Yaroslav Vsevolodovich

Religious officials: Priests/priestesses of various religions;
Christian popes, cardinals, bishops, deacons, rectors; Jewish high priests, mohel
Manichaean presbyter: through 13th c., 14th c. to present

Monks, Nuns, Regular Canons, Hermits, Friars, Abbesses, and Abbots

Ordinary People
through 1st c. CE and 'Roman period'
2nd to 3rd c.
4th to 7th c.
8th to undifferentiated 12th, dated to c.1150
c.1150 through 13th c.
14th to 15th c.
1500 to present

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Modesty: crown of Constantine IX (emperor 1042-55), enamel, HNM.
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portrait of a youth, Greek island marble, c.14-38 CE, IMA 59.45
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Gudea dedicated to Ningishzida from Tello (Girsu), diorite, c.2120 BCE, Louvre AO 3293, AO 4108
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demon: Harrowing of Hell, Passion ivory, Paris, 1st half of 14th c., MAAB.

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priestess at altar of Cybele (Nicomachorum ivory), early 5th c., Cluny Cl.17048
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Abbess Julie de Jésus, wax and cloth, 18th c. Carmelite abbey of Saint-Denis, MAHSD