17 Facts About Middle Ages

The Middle Ages is the middle period of the three traditional divisions of Western history: classical antiquity, the medieval period, and the modern period.

Middle Ages is one of the three major periods in the most enduring scheme for analysing European history: classical civilisation or Antiquity, the Middle Ages and the Modern Period.

The "Middle Ages" first appears in Latin in 1469 as media tempestas or "middle season".

Middle Ages set up a kingdom marked by its co-operation between the Italians and the Ostrogoths, at least until the last years of his reign.

Middle Ages covered the lack of military personnel by developing an extensive system of border forts.

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Middle Ages triumphed and the empire recovered all of its lost territories in the east in a new peace treaty.

Middle Ages created an alphabet, likely the Glagolitic script, for it.

Middle Ages came to persuade Pepin to attack the Lombards whose expansion menaced the city of Rome.

High Middle Ages was a period of tremendous expansion of population.

Women in the Middle Ages were officially required to be subordinate to some male, whether their father, husband, or other kinsman.

High Middle Ages was the formative period in the history of the modern Western state.

Middle Ages's successors continued to struggle against the papacy as well as the German nobility.

Middle Ages's court was famous for its scholars and he was often accused of heresy.

High Middle Ages was a period of great religious movements.

Papacy further refined the practice in the Mass in the Late Middle Ages, holding that the clergy alone was allowed to partake of the wine in the Eucharist.

One of the major developments in the military sphere during the Late Middle Ages was the increased use of infantry and light cavalry.

Lindberg and Ronald Numbers, another scholar of the period, state that there "was scarcely a Christian scholar of the Middle Ages who did not acknowledge [Earth's] sphericity and even know its approximate circumference".