medieval period
Knights and castles
The medieval period is the era of European history between the fall of the Roman Empire and the Renaissance, roughly the 5th to 15th centuries.
Also called the Middle Ages, it encompasses feudalism, the rise of Christianity's dominance, castles, knights, and the Black Death.
Her dissertation covers literature of the medieval period.
The term applies loosely to similar eras in other cultures. (Capitalized Medieval Period appears in formal historical writing.)
- naveChurch's main interior
- fall of RomeAncient superpower's disintegration
- Catholic ChurchPope-led Christian denomination
- monastic lifeReligious community living
- Black DeathMedieval bubonic plague pandemic
bubonic plague · feudalism · Hundred Years' War · knight in armor · chivalric code · coat of arms · monarchy · Gothic architecture · Dante Alighieri · guilds · vassalage · feudal lord · Crusades · holy war · Thomas Aquinas · illuminated manuscripts · scholasticism · Magna Carta
- Historical periodsVictorian era, Victorian age, Renaissance, Enlightenment, Tudor period
- historyancient civilizations, past events, historian, epochs, era
- European HistoryFrench Revolution, Roman Empire, Byzantine Empire, Holy Roman Empire, Industrial Revolution
- Medieval Eraknights, Middle Ages, castles, feudal lords, kingdoms
- Middle AgesMiddle Ages, castles, knights, Dark Ages, feudal system
- erasera, epoch, age, bronze age, period
medieval periodmodern era
Current historical period
modernity · modern age · modern period · antiquity · ancient period
medieval periodAge of Enlightenment
Era prioritizing reason
Enlightenment · modern age · Age of Reason · digital age · atomic age