The room in a monastery where writing and copying manuscripts took place.
What is a Scriptorium (or Scriptoria-plural)?
100
Prior to movable type, books were written this way.
What is by hand?
100
Symbol for Christ.
What is fish?
100
They conquered Spain in 711 CE.
What is Islamic invaders?
100
Also known as Noremen.
What are Vikings?
200
Produced by Irish monks, this is the first book in which the mention of Christ takes place and is elaborately decorated with tangled patterns and stylized animals for ornamentation.
What is the "Book of Kells"?
200
The Lindisfarne Gospels took this many calfskins to create the vellum.
What is 300?
200
moths
What is rebirth?
200
They shared the Iberian peninsula for 800 years.
What is Christian, Jews and Muslims?
200
The year Leif Eriksson reach America.
What is 1000 CE?
300
These were main centers of art and education in Europe during the Middle Ages.
What is a monastery?
300
Early Medieval artists of the were influenced by this culture.
What is Roman or Greco-Roman?
300
This fairly new manufacturing process influenced sculpture (as in the Irish High Crosses) as well as manuscript design.
What is Metalwork?
300
The term given to Christians in Muslim territories, meaning "would-be Arab". (Stokstad and Cothren)
What is Mosarab?
300
What women created during the Viking Era.
What is fiber arts?
400
The material or surface that books were written on during the Middle Ages.
What is vellum and/or parchment?
400
Instead of putting The Lindisfarne Gospel away for safekeeping, how did it get used?
What is used for processionals and on display at the altar?
400
Snake
What is Satan?
400
Christian artists were influenced by Islamic art and called the new style this.
What is Mozarabic?
400
Viking large memorial stones.
What are rune stones?
500
The place in the medieval book where the scribe and artist often signed.
What is the colophon?
500
The Lindisfarne Gospels represent the earliest known text of which language?
What is English?
500
The circular shapes surrounding people's heads, or found on crosses in Ireland.
What is a halo?
500
The first female artist identified by name.
What is "Ende" or "En"?
500
In Norway, the type of church that uses four huge timbers to form the base structure.