Vocabulary
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Cloisone enamel
Hiberno-Saxon
Illuminated Manuscript
Codex
Barrel vault
Groin vault
Transept
Ambulatory
Radiating chapels
Tribunes
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Compound piers
Springing
Transverse arches
Tripartite division
Quadrant arches
Buttress
Portal
Mandorla
Tympanum
The Early Middle Ages in the West
• Period of time between the Classical Roman
empire and the Renaissance
• Migration Period- Different tribes settle western
Europe, carving out many of today’s countries
and regions.
• Western European cultures convert to
Christianity and monastic culture grows
• Familiar with Roman influence; Romanesque
refers to the Roman style of architecture
• Period of Crusades and Pilgrimages; 4 crusades
in 1090, 1147, 1190, 1204
• Beginning of Holy Roman Empire, 800 CE
Anglo-Saxon, Purse Cover,
Sutton Hoo Ship Burial, England, 625
•King Raedwald
Norse, Lion Head Post,
Oseberg Ship Burial, 825
Celtic
Christian,
High
Cross of
Muiredach
Ireland,
923
Hiberno-Saxon,
Book of Durrow,
St. Matthew,
Britain, 660-680
•Insular
•Codex
•Manuscript Illumination
•Author page
•tonsure
Book of Durrow, St.
Mark
•Author Page
Hiberno-Saxon,
Lindisfarne
Gospels, CrossCarpet Page,
Britain, 689-721
•Carpet page
Hiberno-Saxon,
The Book of
Kells, Chi-Rho
page, Iona,
Britain, ca. 800
•Initial page
•Christi autem generatio
Detail of Chi Rho
Book of Kells
Carolingian,
Equestrian
Statue of
Charlemagne,
9th century,
France
•Renovatio Romani
Imperii
•Holy Roman Empire
800-843
Saint Matthew,
Coronation
Gospels of
Charlemagne,
Aachen,
Germany,
ca. 800-810
Carolingian,
St. Matthew, Ebbo
Gospels,
816-35, France
•Charlemagne
•Monastery
•Scriptorium
Crucifixion,
cover of the
Lindau Gospels
from Saint Gall,
Switzerland, ca.
870
Palatine Chapel of Charlemagne,
Aachen, Germany, 792-805
Palatine Chapel of Charlemagne
San Vitale, Ravenna, 547
Plan of Saint Gall monastery,
Switzerland, ca. 819
Plan of Saint Gall monastery,
Switzerland, ca. 819
•Hiberno-Saxon, Lindisfarne
Gospels, St. Matthew, 698-72,
Britain
•Hiberno-Saxon, Codex
Amiatinus, The Scribe Ezra,
689-716, Britain
St. Michael’s Church, Hildesheim,
Germany, 1001-31
Ottonian,
St. Michael’s,
1001-1031,
Germany
•Choir
•Piers
•Nave arcade
•Alternating Support System
St. Michael’s plan
Ottonian,
Bronze Column,
St. Michael’s,
1022
Bronze Doors, St. Michael’s
Hildesheim, Germany, 1015
Colum of
Trajan, Rome,
113 AD
Bronze doors, St.
Michael’s,
Hildesheim,
Germany, 1015
•Pilgrimage Type
•Transept
Basilica of St. Sernin, Toulouse, France,
1070-1120
St. Sernin, Plan
Ambulatory
Radiating chapels
Basilica of St. Sernin
Basilica of St.
Sernin, Interior
Nave
•Tribunes
•Compound piers
•Springing
•Transverse arches
Abbey Church of
St.-Etiénne,
Caen, France,
1067-1120
•Tripartite division
•Buttresses
Abbey Church of
St.-Etiénne,
Interior Nave
•Groin Vault
•Ribs
•Sexpartite vault
Cathedral at
Durham,
England, begun
1093
•Quadrant arches
•Alternate Support system
•Ribbed groin vault
Tuscan Romanesque
Pisa Cathedral Complex, Italy, Begun
1063
•Arcaded Galleries
•Cornice
Master Giselbertus, Tympanum,
Cathedral of Saint-Lazare,1120-1146
Weighing of the
Souls, Tympanum
detail, SaintLazare, 1120-1146
St. Alexander
reliquary,
Belgium,
1145
The Bayeux Tapestry, Romanesque,
English, 1066-86
Burial of King Edward
King