EARLY MEDIEVAL

PERIOD

MEDIEVAL ARCHITECTURE
EXPRESSED THE ARTISTIC IDEALS OF A COMMUNITY RATHER THAN
THE GENIUS OF THE INDIVIDUAL ARCHITECT. THE ECCLESIASTICAL
ARCHITECTURE WAS PREDOMINANT. HOWEVER THE MEDIEVAL
SECULAR ARCHITECTURE WAS NOT NEGLECTED, AND THERE ARE
MANY EXAMPLES OF SUCH WORKS WHICH CAN ALSO BE
CONSIDERED REPRESENTATIVE FOR THE MIDDLE AGES.

MEDIEVAL ARCHITECTURE
10TH CENTURY
13TH CENTURY
ROMANESQUE
ARCHITECTURE
TO GOTHIC
ARCHITECTURE

LATE MEDIEVAL PERIOD

5TH CENTURY
10TH CENTURY
EARLY
CHRISTIAN
ARCHITECTURE,
PREROMANESQUE,
ARCHITECTURE
AND
ROMANESQUE

MIDDLE MEDIEVAL
PERIOD

EARLY MEDIEVAL PERIOD

WAS DIVIDED IN THREE DIFFERENT PERIODS:

13TH CENTURY
15TH CENTURY
GOTHIC
ARCHITECTURE
TO
RENAISSANCE

EARLY MEDIEVAL PERIOD

GENERAL INFLUENCES
GEOGRAPHICAL
GEOLOGICAL
CLIMATIC
HISTORICAL, SOCIAL AND POLITICAL
RELIGIONARCHITECTURAL CHARACTER

GEOLOGICAL

CLIMATIC

HISTORICAL, SOCIAL AND POLITICAL

VIKING RAIDS SETTLED IN THE WEST

FEUDALISM DEVELOPED

CHARLES MARTEL- GREAT LEADER, MILITARY GENIUS, HE ALSO CREATED THE

FIRST ARMY OF THE WEST

PIPPIN THE SHORT- FIRST CAROLINGIAN KING, HE EXPANDED THE FRANKISH

BORDERS

CHARLEMAGNE-(MARTELS GRANDSON), CROWNED EMPEROR IN ROME,800. HIS

RULE UNITED MOST OF MODERN FRANCE, NORTHERN ITALY, AND WESTERN
GERMANY

RELIGION

CHRISTIAN CHURCH WAS THE ONLY REAL CENTRALIZED INSTITUTION THAT

SURVIVED THE FALL OF THE EMPIRE, BISHOPS IS THE IMPORTANT IN THIS
CREATED SOCIETY. THIS LED TO A VERY POWERFUL CHURCH THAT WAS NOT AS
DEVOTED TO RELIGION AS IT WAS TO POLITICS.

CATHOLIC CHURCH IS THEIR OFFICIAL RELIGION.

TO THE EAST, ISLAM BECAME A VERY POWERFUL RELIGION.

ARCHITECTURAL CHARACTER
PURPOSED OF CASTLES:
-INTIMIDATION
-MILITARY DEFENSE
-RESIDENCE
FORTIFIED WALLS
BASILICAN CHURCH PLAN
TIMBERROOF
AISLED WITH ARCADES IN COLUMNS OR IN PIERS
SMOOTH AND UNARTICULATED WALL SURFACE
SIMPLE ARCH WINDOWS
COLORFUL PAINTED DECORATIONS