Post on 24-Jul-2015
Pre-modern European Migrations: Germanic MigrationsMap from Peter Hunter Blair, Roman Britain and Early England.
• Angles, Saxons, and Britain• Conquest of Britain from the 420s to
590s• Conflict with the British• Ethelbert of Kent converts c. 597• Ethelbert’s law code, c. 600 • Redwald of East Anglia and Sutton
Hoo, c. 625• Edwin of Northumbria converts c.
627• Bede’s History of the English Church
and People, c. 735• Anglo-Saxon dialect retained for laws
and poetry; Latin the language of the church
Left—reconstruction of the Sutton Hoo mound 1 burial. Right—photo of the remains of the ship burial c. 1939. Images from Wikipedia.
Gandersheim casket, made in eastern England, 7th century, Herzog Anton-Ulrich Museum, Braunschweig, Germany.
Left—a Kentish brooch, late 6th to early 7th centuries AD, Liverpool, Merseyside Country Museum; right—the Franks Casket, made in Northumbria, c. 700, British Museum (top—front panel detail of Wayland the Smith (l) and the Adoration of the Magi (r); bottom left—left panel, depicting Romulus and Remus; bottom right—rear panel, depicting the First Jewish Revolt).
Left—Tassilo Chalice, found in Austria but artistic style is Anglo-Saxon, c. 780 AD, Kremsmünster Cathedral; right—manuscript page from Bede’s History of the English Church and People, c. 735 AD, British Library.
Anglo-Saxon versus Latin and modern English• Gospel of St. Matthew, 7:24.• Ælċ þāra þe þās mīn word ġe-hīerþ, and þā wyrcþ, biþ ġe-līċ þæm
wīsan were, sē his hūs ofer stān ġe-timbrode.• Omnis ergo qui audit verba mea haec, et facit ea, assimilabitur viro
sapienti, qui aedificavit domum suam supra petram.• Whoever, then, hears these commandments of mine and carries
them out, is like a wise man who built his house on rock.
Pre-modern European Migrations: Germanic MigrationsLeft map from Lynn Hunt, The Making of the West, Volume 1, 3rd edition; right map from Barbara Rosenwein, A Short History of the Middle Ages, 3rd edition.
• Visigothic Spain, 507-714• Visigoths settle in southern Gaul, 418• Battle of Vouille, 507
• Visigoths pushed into Spain by the Franks
• Morbus Gothorum—the sickness of the Goths
• Muslims invade from North Africa in 711• Kingdom of Asturias• Al-Andalus