Visual History of the World

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HISTORY OF CIVILIZATION & CULTURE From Prehistoric to Romanesque  Art Gothic Art Renaissance  Art Baroque and Rococo Art The Art of Asia Neoclassicism, Romanticism  Art Art Styles in 19th century Art of the 20th century Artists that Changed the World Design and Posters Photography Classical Music Literature and Philosophy Visual History of the World Prehistory First Empires The Ancient World The Middle Ages The Early Modern Period The Modern Era The World Wars and Interwar Period The Contemporary World Dictionary of Art and Artists

The Middle Ages

5th - 15th century


 

The upheaval that accompanied the migration of European peoples of late antiquity shattered the power of the Roman Empire and consequently the entire political order of Europe. Although Germanic kingdoms replaced Rome, the culture of late antiquity, especially Christianity, continued to have an effect and defined the early Middle Ages. Concurrent to the developments in the Christian West, in Arabia the Prophet Muhammad in the seventh century founded Islam, a new religion with immense political and military effectiveness. Within a very short time, great Islamic empires developed from the Iberian Peninsula and the Maghreb to India and Central Asia, with centers such as Cordoba, Cairo, Baghdad, and Samarkand.
 

The Cathedral Notre Dame de Reims, built in the 13th—14th century in the Gothic style;
the cathedral served for many centuries as the location for the ceremonial coronation of the French king.

The Cathedral of Reims, by Domenico Quaglio

The Germanic Empires
 

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