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As it relates to the Goths (Gothos, Getas), a Germanic tribe: Invasion of the Goths: a late 19th century painting by O. Fritsche portrays the Goths as cavalrymen. ...

• Gothic language
• Gothic alphabet

From a Renaissance perspective (originally Italian, gotico, with connotations of "rough, barbarous"), it conveyed the opposite of 'classical' or 'Roman', hence: The Gothic language (*gutiska razda, *𐌲𐌿𐍄𐌹𐍃𐌺𐌰 𐍂𐌰𐌶𐌳𐌰) is an extinct Germanic language that was spoken by the Goths and specifically by the Visigoths. ... Representation of the Gothic alphabet surrounding its inventor Ulfilas The Gothic alphabet is an alphabetic writing system attributed to Wulfila used exclusively for writing the ancient Gothic language. ... In the traditional view, the Renaissance is understood as an historical age that was preceded by the Middle Ages and followed by the Reformation. ... It has been suggested that Greco-Roman be merged into this article or section. ... The Roman Forum was the central area around which ancient Rome developed. ...

• High Medieval northern European art, especially architecture:
  • Gothic art
  • Gothic architecture
  • International Gothic
  • Gothic Revival architecture originating in the 18th century
  • Gothic (moth), a species of noctuid moth named after its patterns reminiscent of Gothic architecture
• Another name for Blackletter, a script developed in the Middle Ages

From the 18th century, the word came to mean Germanic in general (synonymously with Teutonic), with grim overtones (e.g. from the contrast of Germanic mythology with classical Greek mythology): The cathedral Notre Dame de Paris, a significant architectural contribution of the High Middle Ages. ... The Western (Royal) Portal at Chartres Cathedral ( 1145). ... See also Gothic art. ... International Gothic is a subset of Gothic art developed in Burgundy, Bohemia and northern Italy in the late 1300s and early 1400s. ... Victoria Tower at the Palace of Westminster, London: Gothic details provided by A.W.N. Pugin Gothic Revival was an architectural movement with its origins in mid-18th century England. ... Binomial name Naenia typica Linnaeus, 1758 The Gothic (Naenia typica) is a moth of the family Noctuidae. ... Blackletter in a Latin Bible of AD 1407, on display in Malmesbury Abbey, Wiltshire, England. ... The term Germanic peoples may refer to: the Germanic tribes that in the first millennium were seen as a barbarian threat by the Roman Empire and its successors; the Germanic Christianity that in the second millennium came to dominate much of Northern Europe, politically organized in the Holy Roman Empire... Thor, god of thunder, one of the major figures in Germanic mythology. ... Ę Greek mythology consists of a large collection of narratives that explain the origins of the world and detail the lives and adventures of a wide variety of gods, goddesses, heroes, and heroines. ...

• Gothic novel, a British literary genre from the late 18th and early 19th century, with a Victorian revival a hundred years later

From its use in Romanticism, the word in the 20th century came to refer to anything dark or gloomy: Strawberry Hill, an English villa in the Gothic revival style, built by seminal Gothic writer Horace Walpole The gothic novel was a literary genre that belonged to Romanticism and began in the United Kingdom with The Castle of Otranto (1764) by Horace Walpole. ... Romanticism was a secular and intellectual movement in the history of ideas that originated in late 18th century Western Europe. ...

• Gothic horror
• Gothic or Goth subculture
• Gothic rock
• Gothic-Doom
• Gothic fashion
• Gothic (computer game), a roleplaying computer game
• Gothic (movie), a 1986 film by Ken Russell
• Gothic (album), a 1992 album by the heavy metal band Paradise Lost

More recent uses: The gothic novel is an English literary genre, which can be said to have been born with The Castle of Otranto (1764) by Horace Walpole. ... Gothic woman, traditional style, with big hair, spikes and piercings This article is about the contemporary goth/gothic subculture. ... Gothic rock (also called goth rock or simply goth) evolved out of post-punk during the late 1970s. ... This article needs a complete rewrite for the reasons listed on the talk page. ... Gothic fashion is a style of dress of individuals who identify themselves as goths. ... Gothic is a series of computer role-playing games by Piranha Bytes, a German developer. ... Gothic is a 1986 motion picture directed by Ken Russell. ... Gothic is the second full-length album released by seminal British Doom metal band Paradise Lost. ...

• Another name for sans-serif typefaces
• Japanese gothic typeface, a common printing style in Japanese printing
• Gothic Chess, a chess variant

In typography, serifs are the small features at the end of strokes within letters. ... Gothic Gothic typeface (ゴシック体, goshikku-tai) is the second most commonly used style of printed Japanese characters, after Mincho. ... Gothic Chess. ...

See also

• Gothicismus
• Germanic