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Early Medieval Europe
The medieval period = the Middle Ages = ca. 500-1500
Merovingian Kings: ca. 480-750Carolingian Empire: ca. 750-880Ottonian Empire: ca. 920-1020
Sutton Hoo ship burial
Sutton Hoo, reconstruction of burial
Sutton Hoo, finds from the ship burial
Sutton Hoo, purse cover from the ship burial showing cloisonné plaques. England, ca. 625.
Viking ship from Oseberg, Norway
Animal-head post from the Viking ship burial. Oseberg, Norway, ca. 834
Hiberno-Saxon art: art of the British isles (Ireland, Scotland, England)
Christianization of the Celts began in the 5th century
Carpet page showing a cross, Lindisfarne Gospels. England, 8th cent.
Carpet page showing a cross, Lindisfarne Gospels. England, 8th cent.
Koran page, beginning of surah (verse) 18, “Al-Kahf”, (The Cave), 9th cent.
St. Matthew, Book of Durrow. Scotland, ca. 660
St. Matthew, Book of Durrow. Scotland, ca. 660 Chi-Rho, Book of Kells. Scotland, ca. 800
Saint Matthew, Lindisfarne Gospels. England, 8th cent.
Tower and scriptorium of San Salvador de Tabara. Painted by Emeterius. Image from a Commentary on the Apocalypse by Beatus. Mozarabic Spain, 970
Tower and scriptorium of San Salvador de Tabara. Painted by Emeterius. Image from a Commentary on the Apocalypse by Beatus. Mozarabic Spain, 970
Cordoba, Spain, Great Mosque. Prayer hall begun 784.
Tower and scriptorium of San Salvador de Tabara. Painted by Emeterius. Image from a Commentary on the Apocalypse by Beatus. Mozarabic Spain, 970
Cordoba, Spain, Great Mosque. Prayer hall begun 784.
St. Matthew, Book of Durrow. Scotland, ca. 660
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