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Early Medieval - 1. Anglo Saxon/Celtic 5 th -9th Sutton Hoo purse cover 630 Cloisonné Tipperary Cross 8 th Book of Durrow 7 th Book of Kells 9 th Tetramorph Viking 800-1000 Thor, Odin, Frigg, Valhalla Oseberg Ship Burial & post 9 th Rune stones 9 th Jelling Stone 10 th.
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Early Medieval - 1 • Anglo Saxon/Celtic 5th-9th • Sutton Hoo purse cover 630 • Cloisonné • Tipperary Cross 8th • Book of Durrow 7th • Book of Kells 9th • Tetramorph • Viking 800-1000 • Thor, Odin, Frigg, Valhalla • Oseberg Ship Burial & post 9th • Rune stones 9th • Jelling Stone 10th
Early Medieval 2 • Carolingian 8th-9th • Charlemagne • Roland • Aachen, Palace Chapel 9th • Odo of Metz • monasticism • St. Gall, Monastery 9th, • Coronation Gospels 8th • Ebbo Gospels 9th • Linadau Gospels Book cover • Tetra morphs • Ottonian 10-11th • St. Michaels of Hildesheim 1015 • Alternating support system • westwork • Bishop Bernward, Bronze doors • Gero Crucifix, Hitda Gospels • Gospel Book Otto III c. 1000
Beowulf ! epic 9th in Old English
Gummersmark BroochDenmark 6th centurysilver giltheight 5.75 “
Purse cover Sutton Hoo burial ship c.615-30 length 8” Detail of millefiore →
Muiredach cross 10th century
XPI Chi Rho Iota
THE GERONA BEATUS Spain, 975 ce • Illuminator : ENDE • scribe: EMERITIUS
Scandinavia: The Vikings
Denmark- Sweden c. 600AD
Burial ship c. 815 – 20 Oseberg, Norway wood length : 75 ½ ‘
Animal Post c. 815 – 20 Oseberg, Norway wood
Dynna Stone 9-10th Gunnv�r, �XX?’s daughter, made a bridge in memory of her daughter xx? She was the most skilful girl in Ha�aland
a picture stone Warrior Entering Valhalla, Gotland Sweden 8-9th century (repainted)
Urnes “animal style”11th century wood carvingon Christian Church
B O O K S Charlemagne 8-9th centuries • Charlemagneordered simple, uniform, legible Latin script • Majuscules or CAPITALS were used for very formal text • Minuscules or lower casewere used for everyday writings • Easy to read but no punctuation marks or spaces between words
Charlemagne 9th century left, 14th century right
Charlemagne & the Song of Roland Chartres Cathedral, 12th century
interior Aachen, Palace Chapel of Charlemagne By Odo of Metz 805 ce