Medieval Styles of Europe

The architecture of the Byzantine Empire (4th - 15th century CE) continued its early Roman traditions

The Gothic style originated in 12th-century CE France in a suburb north of Paris

Brick Gothic (German: Backsteingotik, Polish: Gotyk ceglany, Dutch: Baksteengotiek) is a specific style of Gothic architecture common in Northeast and Central Europe especially in the regions in and around the Baltic Sea, which do not have resources of standing rock (though glacial boulders are sometimes available).

Romanesque architecture is an architectural style of medieval Europe that was predominant in the 11th and 12th centuries.

Gothic architecture is an architectural style that was prevalent in Europe from the late 12th to the 16th century, during the High and Late Middle Ages, surviving into the 17th and 18th centuries in some areas.

The architecture of the Byzantine (Eastern Roman) Empire is usually dated from AD 330, when Constantine the Great established a new Roman capital in Byzantium, which became Constantinople, until the fall of the Byzantine Empire in 1453.

Carolingian architecture is the style of north European Pre-Romanesque architecture belonging to the period of the Carolingian Renaissance of the late 8th and 9th centuries, when the Carolingian dynasty dominated west European politics.

Ottonian architecture is an architectural style which evolved during the reign of Emperor Otto the Great, essentially surviving in churches.

Cistercian architecture is a style of architecture associated with the churches, monasteries and abbeys of the Roman Catholic Cistercian Order.

Armenian architecture comprises architectural works with an aesthetic or historical connection to the Armenian people.

The Visigoths entered Hispania (modern Spain and Portugal) in 415 and became the dominant people there until the Umayyad conquest of Hispania of 711 brought their kingdom to an end.

One of the first streams of Romanesque architecture in Europe from the 10th century and the beginning of 11th century is called First Romanesque, or Lombard Romanesque.

Merovingian art is the art of the Merovingian dynasty of the Franks, which lasted from the 5th century to the 8th century in present-day France, Benelux and a part of Germany.

Lombard architecture refers to the architecture of the Kingdom of the Lombards, which lasted from 568 to 774 (with residual permanence in southern Italy until the 10th-11th centuries) and which was commissioned by Lombard kings and dukes.

The Plantagenet style or Angevine Gothic is an architectural style of western France, mainly of the second half of 12th and the 13th century.

French Gothic architecture is an architectural style which emerged in France in 1140, and was dominant until the mid-16th century.

Cosmatesque, or Cosmati, is a style of geometric decorative inlay stonework typical of the architecture of Medieval Italy, and especially of Rome and its surroundings.

Southern French Gothic, or Meridional Gothic (French: gothique méridional; Occitan: gòtic meridional), is a specific and militant style of Gothic architecture developed in the South of France, especially in the Toulouse region.

The Romanesque style of architecture was introduced in Portugal between the end of the 11th and the beginning of the 12th century.

Moldavian architectural style is a type of architecture developed in Moldavia during the 14th through 19th centuries.

Brabantine Gothic, occasionally called Brabantian Gothic, is a significant variant of Gothic architecture that is typical for the Low Countries.

Pre-Romanesque architecture in Asturias is framed between the years 711 and 910, the period of the creation and expansion of the kingdom of Asturias.