by Jonas Schaefer | Oct 4, 2025 | 800 - 900 AD, 99 Heroes on the Wall, Documents, Roman Chant, Timeline
ROMAN CHANT (“https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Arch.Cap.S.Pietro.B.79”) Composed: 1100 CE, Medieval Europe Notable Founder of Gregorian Chant Notation: Developed early forms of neumatic notation and the four-line staff, enabling the precise transmission of...
by Jonas Schaefer | Oct 4, 2025 | 1700 - 1800 AD, 99 Heroes on the Wall, Authors, Rigveda, Timeline
RIGVEDA (“https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Rigveda_MS2097.jpg”) Born: ca. 1500 BCE, Northwest India (Punjab region, near the Indus River Valley) Died: ca. 1200 BCE, Northwest India (early Vedic civilization) Notable Ancient Scripture: One of the...
by Jonas Schaefer | Oct 4, 2025 | 1500 - 1600 AD, 99 Heroes on the Wall, Documents, Reformation Chorale, Timeline
REFORMATION CHORALE (“https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/79/Walter_Ein_feste_manuscript_folio_154v.jpg/960px-Walter_Ein_feste_manuscript_folio_154v.jpg?20230114183533”) Composition began: 1520 Notable Protestant Worship: Shaped...
by Jonas Schaefer | Oct 3, 2025 | 1200 - 1300 AD, 99 Heroes on the Wall, Documents, Magna Carta, Timeline
MAGNA CARTA...
by Jonas Schaefer | Oct 1, 2025 | 1200 - 1300 AD, 99 Heroes on the Wall, Documents, Heimskringla, Timeline
HEIMSKRINGLA (“https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/73/Lbs_fragm_82%2C_0001v_-_1.jpg/330px-Lbs_fragm_82%2C_0001v_-_1.jpg”) Composed c. 1225–1235 CE by Snorri Sturluson. Survives in ~50 manuscripts/fragments; ~700 pages in modern editions....
by Jonas Schaefer | Oct 1, 2025 | 1700 - 1800 AD, 99 Heroes on the Wall, Documents, Timeline
BLACKSTONE (Unknown. Sir William Blackstone. Oil on canvas; ca. 1770. Wikimedia Commons. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:SirWilliamBlackstone.jpg.) Born: 10 July 1723, in a middle-class family in London Died: 14 February 1780 (at the age of 56) in Wallingford,...
