early medieval
Post-Roman European period
Early medieval describes the period of European history from roughly the 5th to 10th centuries, following the fall of the Western Roman Empire.
Scholars use it to distinguish this era from the high and late medieval periods that followed.
The term appears in discussions of art, architecture, and manuscripts: early medieval illuminated texts, early medieval Britain.
- ChristianizationConverting societies to Christianity
- pagan ritesNon-Abrahamic ceremonial traditions
- Dark AgesPost-Roman European decline
- serfdomFeudal bound labor
- Migration PeriodPost-Roman tribal relocations era
Viking Age · runestones · stone crosses · Treaty of Verdun · Gregorian chant · longships · oral traditions · illuminated manuscripts · penitentials · Byzantine Empire · manorialism · monastic orders · Feudalism · thatched roof · 7th century · epic poetry · great hall · barbarian
- Medieval erasdark ages, feudal era, Gothic period, Hundred Years War
- Germanic TribesGermanic tribes, Burgundians, Franks, Goths, Bavarians
- Insular ChristianityIona, St. Patrick, Lindisfarne Gospels, illuminated manuscripts, monasticism
early medievalmodern
Of recent times
contemporary · Renaissance · Industrial Age · 21st century · digital age
early medievalHigh Renaissance
Italian art's zenith period
Enlightenment · Golden Age · classical · age of reason · belle époque
early medievallate medieval
14th century · 15th century · Gothic period · fifteenth century · fourteenth century