Slide Images — Divine Power and Statecraft

Seventeen images used by ../index.md: public domain, CC0, CC BY-SA 4.0, and two CC BY-NC 4.0. The CC BY-SA and CC BY-NC items require attribution, which is carried in the <figcaption> on their slides — don’t strip it.

On the NC pair: the two paschal-table-* files are CC BY-NC 4.0 (e-codices). NonCommercial turns on the use, not the user — a course site hosting lecture slides is squarely non-commercial, and stays so even though the site is public. Don’t roll these into anything sold (a paid course pack, a book) without clearing it. Everything else here is free of that restriction.

If you change a filename, update the matching <img src="…"> in ../index.html.

Credits

File	What it is	Source	License
`paschal-table-annals.jpg`	Paschal table for AD 950–968, one ruled line per year, with 10th-c. annal entries added in the right margin	St. Gallen, Stiftsbibliothek, Cod. Sang. 459, p. 21 (e-codices)	CC BY-NC 4.0
`paschal-table-annals-detail.jpg`	Derived from the above: crop of rows 956–963, gold box added around the marginal entries	derivative	CC BY-NC 4.0
`codex-amiatinus-ezra.jpg`	Ezra the scribe, with an open book cupboard behind him; made at Wearmouth–Jarrow c. 700–716	Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana, MS Amiatino 1, fol. 5r	Public domain
`acton-portrait.jpg`	John Dalberg-Acton, 1st Baron Acton, Regius Professor of Modern History at Cambridge	Allen & Co., before 1902	Public domain
`lindisfarne-stone-raiders.jpg`	Grave marker, face 1: seven armed figures; Lindisfarne, 1st quarter 9th c.	Lindisfarne Priory (English Heritage), inv. 81077057; photo Schillerwein	CC0
`lindisfarne-stone-judgement.jpg`	The same stone, face 2: cross between sun and moon, praying hands	Lindisfarne Priory (English Heritage), inv. 81077057; photo Schillerwein	CC0
`asc-msa-parker.jpg`	Anglo-Saxon Chronicle MS A, first page (the Parker Chronicle), genealogical preface	Cambridge, Corpus Christi College MS 173	Public domain
`asc-mse-peterborough.jpg`	Anglo-Saxon Chronicle MS E, first page (the Peterborough Chronicle)	Bodleian Library, MS Laud Misc. 636	Public domain
`asc-msd-tiberius-b-iv.jpg`	Anglo-Saxon Chronicle MS D, fol. 20r — annals 711–718, three of them empty	British Library, Cotton MS Tiberius B.iv	Public domain
`bede-hatton-43-f129r.jpg`	Bede, Historia ecclesiastica IV.24 (Cædmon), with Cædmon’s Hymn added in Old English in the lower margin	Bodleian Libraries, Oxford, MS Hatton 43, fol. 129r	CC BY-SA 4.0
`al-biruni-athar-f230.jpg`	al-Biruni, al-Āthār al-bāqiya, fol. 230 — the prophet Bihāfrīd	Bibliothèque nationale de France (via Gallica); later illustrated copy	Public domain
`mahmud-ghazna-india.jpg`	Mahmud of Ghazna storming a fortress, from Rashīd al-Dīn’s Jāmiʿ al-tawārīkh, Tabriz c. 1314	BL Or. 20, f. 108v	Public domain
`donation-of-constantine.jpg`	The Donation of Constantine, Italian fresco, 13th c.	Unknown Italian master, via the Web Gallery of Art	Public domain
`valla-latin-1471.jpg`	Opening page of Valla’s In errores Antonii Raudensis, printed with the Elegantiae, Paris 1471	Prädikantenbibliothek Isny, Phil. 22	Public domain
`lorenzo-valla.jpg`	Engraved portrait of Lorenzo Valla	Rijksmuseum, RP-P-1909-4359	CC0
`machiavelli-santi-di-tito.jpg`	Niccolò Machiavelli, by Santi di Tito	Palazzo Vecchio, Florence	Public domain

Retrieved 2026-09-02/03 — all via Wikimedia Commons except the two paschal-table-* files, taken from the e-codices IIIF endpoint.

Notes

Sourced at width 2000, then capped at 1800 px on the long edge and recompressed to JPEG. Manuscript pages are saved at q88 and the Lindisfarne stone at q82 — they carry fine script or low-relief carving that q78 smears. Everything else is q78. The folder totals ~8.7 MB.
The CSS caps images at the slide height, so portrait and landscape both work. Each <figure> carries a portrait or landscape class — portrait puts the caption to the right of the image, landscape puts it underneath. Keep them matched to the actual aspect ratio or the layout goes strange.
Inside a <figcaption>, <em> is the block-level note/credit line and <i> is inline italics (titles, quoted phrases). Don’t nest an <em> inside the note — use <i>.
Two captions deliberately undercut their own image, which is the point of the week:
- The two lindisfarne-stone-*.jpg files are the two faces of one object, shown side by side on a figure.pair slide: raiders on one, a Last Judgement on the other. That ambiguity is the point of the slide — keep them together.
- The manuscript-variety pair is A + E on purpose: asc-msd-tiberius-b-iv.jpg carries the empty-annal-years slide on its own immediately afterwards, and reusing it in the pair would blunt that. A and E also happen to open the same work in two different ways, which is the point the caption makes. moon, praying figures around a cross), so whether the armed men are raiders or the end of the world is genuinely unsettled. The caption says so. Don’t “fix” it into a picture of the 793 raid.
- mahmud-ghazna-india.jpg was painted about three centuries after Mahmud, in Mongol Tabriz. It is an imagining, not a witness, and the caption says so — the same move the Greeks deck makes with the Herodotus and Thucydides busts.
The two paschal-table-* files are the evidence for the Easter-table claim in the annals section, and the deck states plainly that the gold box is ours, not the scribe’s — same disclosure the Greeks deck makes for its Shiji crops. The boxed marginalia read Liutolfus Ottonis regis filius in Italia migravit (Liudolf, son of Otto the Great, died in Italy), then Ruodolfus et Engil[bertus] ob[ierunt] and a third entry. The Liudolf note sits against the row for DCCCCLVIII, but he died 6 September 957 — the deck points that out rather than hiding it, because the annalist being a year out inside a ruled table is the same lesson as the 1239 Tartar error earlier in the deck. Regenerate the detail with:
```
magick p21.jpg -crop 1920x660+60+1140 +repage \
  -stroke '#d9b26a' -strokewidth 6 -fill none \
  -draw "rectangle 1355,110 1875,565" \
  -resize 1800x -quality 88 paschal-table-annals-detail.jpg
```
where p21.jpg is Cod. Sang. 459 p. 21 at width 2000 from the e-codices IIIF endpoint: https://www.e-codices.unifr.ch/loris/csg/csg-0459/csg-0459_021.jp2/full/,3000/0/default.jpg A public-domain alternative would be better, but there isn’t one: Commons has no paschal tables at all (no Computus or Easter tables categories exist), and the textbook English example — BL Cotton MS Caligula A XV, the Christ Church Easter-table annals — is behind the British Library’s Digitised Manuscripts service, which still redirects after the 2023 cyberattack.
donation-of-constantine.jpg is catalogued by the Web Gallery of Art only as “Unknown Master, Italian, 13th century.” It closely matches the San Silvestro cycle at Santi Quattro Coronati in Rome (1246), but the caption stops at what the source actually asserts. If you confirm the attribution, the caption can name the building.

Re-fetch any of these with:

curl -L -H 'User-Agent: your-name (your-email)' \
  'https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/<FILE>?width=2000' -o raw
sips -Z 1800 raw --out out.jpg -s format jpeg -s formatOptions 88