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Definition: Middle Ages from The Macquarie Dictionary
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the time in European history between classical antiquity and the Italian Renaissance (from the late 5th century to about AD 1350); sometimes restricted to the later part of this period (after 1100); sometimes extended to 1450 or 1500.


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From The Hutchinson Unabridged Encyclopedia with Atlas and Weather Guide
Term used by Europeans to describe the period between ancient history and the Renaissance. It is not a precise term, but is often taken to cover the time from the fall of the western Roman Empire in AD 476 to the fall of Constantinople (Istanbul) and the end of the Eastern Roman Empire in 1453, or alternatively Columbus's voyage to the Americas in 1492. The term Dark Ages is sometimes used to cover the period from AD 476 to AD 1000, because it was a time when learning and the rule of law were at a low ebb in Europe. During this period Germanic and Scandinavian tribes overran Europe, bringing with them changes in language and culture. The High Middle Ages The period 1066–1500 is sometimes called the High Middle Ages. The period saw the development of nation states in Europe, particularly England, Scotland, France, Norway, Sweden, Hungary, and Poland, and development of the role of the monarchy . At the heart of Europe was the Holy Roman Empire , associated territorially with a loose…
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From Encyclopedia of Intelligence & Counterintelligence
The span of the Middle Ages, dating roughly from the fall of the Roman Empire to the beginning of the modern age, featured numerous intelligence issues that grew especially critical in the renaissance diplomacy inaugurating the diplomatic structures of the modern age. After Rome's fall under the…
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From Encyclopedia of the Romantic Era, 1760-1850
The Romantic evocation of the Middle Ages performed different functions in different countries. For Joseph-Marie de Maistre and François-Auguste-René, Vicomte de Chateaubriand it was an antidote to restless Enlightenment questioning and Romantic yearning. For Victor Hugo it was aligned with…
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From Philip's Encyclopedia
Period in European history covering roughly 1000 years between the disintegration of the Roman Empire in the Dark Ages of the 5th century and the period of the Renaissance in the 15th century. The Middle Ages are sometimes divided into Early (up to the 10th century), High (10th-14th centuries) and…
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From Encyclopedia of World Religions: Encyclopedia of Catholicism
In the 15th century, Renaissance intellectuals in Europe began referring to the many centuries between the fall of Rome in 476 and their own day as a single era, which they called the “Middle Ages.” In their parochial view, it had been a lost era sunk in superstition, ignorance, and cultural…
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From Britannica Concise Encyclopedia
Period in European history traditionally dated from the fall of the Roman Empire to the dawn of the Renaissance . In the 5th century the Western Roman Empire endured declines in population, economic vitality, and the size and prominence of cities. It also was greatly affected by a dramatic migration…
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From The Columbia Encyclopedia
period in Western European history that followed the disintegration of the West Roman Empire in the 4th and 5th cent. and lasted into the 15th cent., i.e., into the period of the Renaissance. The ideas and institutions of western civilization derive largely from the turbulent events of the Early…
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From The Hutchinson Unabridged Encyclopedia with Atlas and Weather Guide
Term used by Europeans to describe the period between ancient history and the Renaissance. It is not a precise term, but is often taken to cover the time from the fall of the western Roman Empire in AD 476 to the fall of Constantinople (Istanbul) and the end of the Eastern Roman Empire in 1453, or…
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Yet, as we shall see, most, if not all, witches were innocent of consorting with the Devil. True Satanism involves those who knowingly do his biddings and works and celebrate him as their patriarchal deity, rather than God. For those wrongly accused, the Middle Ages (500–1500 C.E .) were a time of…
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From Encyclopedia of World Trade: From Ancient Times to the Present Full text Article A-Z Entries
In the 1400s, with growing Ottoman dominance of...
A period in Western history, between the classical world and the emergence of the modern world, that began with the disintegration of the Roman empire in the West and closed with Europe having recovered its political stability, urban life, and local and long-distance trade, poised to begin its…
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From The Harvard Dictionary of Music
Music of the period from about 500 until about 1430. Like most ideas traditionally employed in the periodization of the history of music, the idea of the Middle Ages was borrowed from other branches of historical study. Hence, both of the traditional boundaries cited above are problematical and…
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