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Also Known As media tempora • medium aevium • medieval period • le moyen âge
Date 500 - 1500
Location Europe
Context humanism

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calendar section of Les Très Riches Heures du duc de Berry
Petrarch
Illustration for the month of September from Les Très Riches Heures du duc de Berry, manuscript illuminated by the Limburg brothers, c. 1416; in the Musée Condé, Chantilly, France.
Chartres Cathedral
medieval sculpture
Middle Ages
Anglo-Saxon England
second pandemic of the Black Death in Europe
Carolingian empire
Frankish kingdom
The origin of the expression walk to Canossa
Christianity and superstition in the Middle Ages
The mysterious and dangerous nature of moors
Notice the themes from the Middles Ages that have survived though the development of Western civilization
View a demonstration of early and medieval Irish foods possibly eaten by Saint Patrick and his contemporaries
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