thirteenth century
Magna Carta era
The thirteenth century spans the years 1201 to 1300.
In European history, it saw the height of medieval cathedral building, the Crusades, and the Mongol conquests across Asia.
Like other century terms, it functions as a noun or adjective: thirteenth-century architecture, the philosophy of the thirteenth century.
- stained glass artColored-pane window work
- Albigensian CrusadeChurch war on Cathars
- Holy LandSacred ground, three faiths
- Magna CartaCharter curbing royal authority
- feudal lordsMedieval landowning nobility
windmills · Gothic architecture · flying buttresses · Holy Roman Empire · Mongol Empire · Mamluk Sultanate · mechanical clocks · Scholasticism · medieval universities · Islamic Golden Age · Mongol invasions · Marco Polo · Reconquista · chain mail · crusades · illuminated manuscripts · cathedrals · walled cities
- DanteDivine Comedy, Inferno, Dante, Paradiso, Beatrice
thirteenth centurytwenty-first century
Years 2001 through 2100
modern era · modern times · twentieth century · the present · digital age
thirteenth centurymodern period
Recent centuries onward
Enlightenment · Renaissance · Age of Reason · atomic age · Victorian era
thirteenth centuryancient times
Long-ago historical era
antiquity · prehistoric era · Bronze Age · Stone Age · dawn of civilization