The Middle Ages or Medieval Period lasted from the 5th to the late 15th century. It began with the fall of the Western Roman Empire and merged into the Renaissance and the Age of Discovery. The term ‘Middle Ages’ is now used to refer to a period in the history of the 21st century when it is thought to have been the beginning of the modern era.
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The Middle Ages or Medieval Period lasted from the 5th to the late 15th century. It began with the fall of the Western Roman Empire and merged into the Renaissance and the Age of Discovery. Population decline, counterurbanisation, collapse of centralized authority, invasions, and mass migrations of tribes, which had begun in Late Antiquity, continued in the Early Middle Ages. The Late Middle Ages was marked by difficulties and calamities including famine, plague, and war, which significantly diminished the population of Europe. The Middle Ages is one of the three major periods in the most enduring scheme for analysing European history: classical civilisation, the Middle Ages and the Modern Period. In the 1330s, the Italian historian Leonardo Bruni was the first to use the tripartite periodisation in his History of the People of the Florentine People, with a period of revival between the fall and rise of the Roman Empire, and the renaissance of the 14th and 15th centuries. The term Middle Ages first appears in Latin in 1469 as media tempestas or \”middle season\”. In early usage, there were many variants, including medium aevum, or medium age, first recorded in 1604, and media saecula, or middle centuries. In 1625, writers divided history into the \”Six Ages” or the Medieval periods such as the ‘Six Ages’ or the ‘Four Ages’, and considered their time to be the last before the end of the world.
When they spoke of their own time, they spoke to their own times, referring to their last times as being’modern’ or ‘post-Roman’ When they referred to pre-Christian times as’antiqua antiqua, they meant the post-Romanva… period as no longer being the middle of the Christian times. The medieval period is itself subdivided into the Early, High, and Late Middle ages, with the High Middle Ages being the period between 1000 and 1500. The ‘Medieval period’ is considered to be no longer the middle period of the classical antiquity or the medieval period, but the modern period, which began in the 16th century and lasted until the early 20th century, when it was replaced by the’modern period’ The term ‘Middle Ages’ is now used to refer to a period in the history of the 21st century when it is thought to have been the beginning of the modern era. It is also the name given to the period in which the rise of science and technology took place in Europe, including the development of the printing press and the invention of the computer. It also refers to the time of the Renaissance, which was dominated by the work of the Italian painter Giotto and the poet Dante and the travels of Dante and Chaucer. It was also the period during which the art of Thomas Aquinas, the paintings of Giotto, the poetry of Dante, Marco Polo, and Gothic architecture of cathedrals such as Chartres were created.
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