The Migration Period
Vocabulary
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Filigree
Cloisonné enamel
Fibula
Insular
Manuscript
Illumination
Codex
Interlace
Tonsure
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Vellum
Parchment
Scriptorium
Choir
Piers
Nave arcade
Alternating Support
System
The Early Middle Ages in the West
• Romans leave Northern Europe
• Migration Period- Different Barbarian tribes
move in from the East
• Angles and Saxons move across the channel to
Britain forcing the Britons and Celts westward
• Gothic Tribes moved westward within Europe
and converted to Christianity
• Art: Stuck between two periods of naturalismClassical Antiquity and the Renaissance
• Familiar with Roman influence
• Created a visual imagery of their own political
claim to the land
Visigothic,
Eagle Brooch,
6th century,
Spain
•Cloisonné enamel
•Filigree
•Visigoths
Norse,
Gummersmark
Brooch,
Denmark, 6th
century
Anglo-Saxon, Purse Cover,
Sutton Hoo Ship Burial, England, 625
•King Raedwald
Celtic
Christian,
South Cross of
Ahenny, Co.
Tipperary
Ireland,
8th century
High Cross of
Muiredach,
Celtic Christian,
Co. Louth, 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
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
Saint Matthew,
Coronation
Gospels of
Charlemagne,
Aachen,
Germany,
ca. 800-810
Carolingian,
St. Matthew, Ebbo
Gospels,
816-35, France
•Charlemagne
•Monastery
•Scriptorium
•Hiberno-Saxon, Lindisfarne
Gospels, St. Matthew, 698-72,
Britain
•Hiberno-Saxon, Codex
Amiatinus, The Scribe Ezra,
689-716, Britain
Crucifixion,
cover of the
Lindau Gospels
from Saint Gall,
Switzerland, ca.
870
Carolingian,
Equestrian
Statue of
Charlemagne,
9th century,
France
•Renovatio Romani
Imperii
•Holy Roman Empire
800-843
Carolingian, Lorsch Torhalle, 9th century,
Germany
Norse, Lion Head Post,
Oseberg Ship Burial, 825
Ottonian, Gospel
Book of Otto III,
Otto Enthroned,
Germany,
997-1000
•Holy Roman Empire 963-1002
St. Michael’s Church, Hildesheim,
Germany, 1001-31
St. Michael’s plan
Ottonian,
St. Michael’s,
1001-1031,
Germany
•Choir
•Piers
•Nave arcade
•Alternating Support System
Bronze doors, St.
Michael’s,
Hildesheim,
Germany, 1015
Ottonian,
Bronze Column,
St. Michael’s,
1022