The middle ages is actually a part of European History that spanned from the 5th century all the way to the 15th century. It is the middle period of a three-part division in history – “classic”, “medieval” and “modern”.
The term “middle ages” wasn’t actually coined until the end of its period in the 15th century. Being such a large period of time, the middle ages was very eventful to say the least with massive amounts of invasions and violence. This period of history saw civilization deviate from classical learning and is blamed to have put modernization of the world back by many centuries.
The early part of the middle ages saw depopulation, DE urbanization and a massive increase in the famous barbarian invasions. Islam conquered North Africa and the Middle East as well during the early stages of the middle ages. Later on during the period we saw the take over of England from Harold Hadrada by William The Conqueror in 1066 and the implementation of the notorious “feudal system”.
We also saw during the mid stages of the middle ages a shift back to urbanization especially in the north and western parts of Europe. During this period we saw Christians try to recapture the Holy Land but largely be unsuccessful at first. We saw the codes of “chivalry” be properly set to give proper etiquette in battle for one of the first times in history.
The famous hundred years war was last 116 years between England and France from 1337 to 1453 marked close to the end of Middle ages. The fight was mainly over claims by English Kings that they were the true airs to the French throne. Most famously we saw Joan of Arcs death mark the end of this war.
The late middle ages also saw a surge forward in philosophers and maths. One of the most incredible things to come out to the period was the code of Justinian, Dante and Chaucer and the mathematicians named Fibonacci and Oresme. We also saw the Notre Dame de Paris get built.
A very brief summary of what went on can be found on this page, however we are putting together a full brief of exactly what went on during the middle ages so make sure you check back to middleages.org.uk soon!
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