Professor Joyce Hill, an international authority on the transmission of Christian culture in early medieval Europe - presents an online talk about one of the city’s greatest treasures, the 10th-Century Leeds Cross which stands proudly in Leeds Minster.

Professor Hill describes how, ‘It captures a moment in our history when Leeds lay at the heart of that part of England where the Vikings had by then settled and become an accepted part of local society.’This illustrated talk shows how the Cross reflects this Anglo-Scandinavian world and sets its production in the larger historical landscape. It also tells the remarkable story of how knowledge of it was lost for 500 years, and how it was later reassembled from the surviving fragments to become the monument that we know today.

This event is part of this year's Heritage Open Days festival. To find more information about similar events, please click here: https://www.heritageopendays.org.uk/

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