Insular period

The Insular Period may refer to:

• the period in which Insular art, Insular script and Early Insular Christianity occurred in the early medieval British Isles.
• Certain periods during the Miocene period when New Zealand was a single island.

More generally, the term is often used of periods of relative political or cultural isolation or insularity in the histories of:

• Japan, during most of the Tokugawa shogunate (1603-1868), when the Seclusion laws were in place.
• China, after 1422 until the 19th century.
• the Philippines, when it was a U.S. territory from 1902 to 1935.
• Berlin, when isolated by the Berlin Wall, from 1961 to 1989.
• South Africa, under the international sanctions caused by Apartheid, from about 1962 to 1994.