We Love Early Medieval History

living-history:

If anybody is interested in how far the artists in board weaving can go with their reconstructions, here´s a picture of how Heidi Stolte from the Museum in Düppel reconstructed the manipel of St.Ulrich from Augburg from the 10th century. She redeveloped the piece and pattern from the fragmented original.

She told me once that it´s done with about 120 boards and just setting the boards right and passing the thread through once took her 15 minutes. The brocade manipel is quite broad, I´d say about 10-12 cm from memory and it took her a whole year to do it.

(via wyrdsister)

weirdolovesyou:

Lazarus Saturday and Entry into Jerusalem, Palm Sunday. 

Aght’amar, Lake Van (formerly Armenia, now Turkey): Church of the Holy Cross, 10th century fresco.

mediumaevum:

late 5th-early 6th century (Early Medieval)

This ornament may have formed part of an earring or necklace. The polyhedral shape was a favorite among the Ostrogoths.

mediumaevum:

The Visigothic Code (Latin, Forum Iudicum or Liber Judiciorum; Spanish, Libro de los Juicios) comprises a set of laws promulgated by the Visigothic king of Hispania, Chindasuinth in his second year (642/643). They were enlarged by the novel legislation of Recceswinth (for which reason it is sometimes called the Code of Recceswinth), Wamba, Erwig, Egica, and perhaps Wittiza. In 654 Recceswinth promulgated the code anew after a project of editing by Braulio of Zaragoza, since Chindasuinth’s original code had been quickly commissioned and enacted in rough.

high-rez for amazing details of the figures engraved in the leather cover (note: this link will not always work due to viewing time-outs on the source site)

The Oseberg ship burial tapestry (dating no later than 834 AD, when the ship was buried with its two ladies in Vestfold, Norway). The tapestry shows a scene of apparent human sacrifice – or initiation – where nine males are hanging from a large tree in a grove of serpents.

(via wyrdsister)

fuckyeahnorsemen:

replica 9th century Viking penannular brooch

(via mythpictures)

freyatlast:

In principio erat Verbum et Verbum erat apud Deum et Deus.

the OE gloss reads: in prima fryma vaes uord & uord that is godes sunu vaes mid god fader

The Lindisfarne Gospels, one of the most magnificent manuscripts of the early Middle Ages, was written and decorated at the end of the 7th century by the monk Eadfrith, who became Bishop of Lindisfarne in 698 and died in 721. The Latin text of the Gospels is translated word by word in an Old English gloss, the earliest surviving example of the Gospel text in any form of the English language, it was added between the lines in the mid 10th century by Aldred, Provost of Chester-le-Street.

http://betterbibles.com/2007/02/28/lindisfarne-gospels-1/