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