Books and Literature

Troubadours composed lyrics about the fights and deeds of a particular ruling family.

knights

Italy

Enlightenment Age

Humanism and the Reformation were two distinctive experiences of the renaissance period.

All Romance languages developed from Latin

emotional expression and heightened imagination

Mortality

Encyclopedie

Gargantua and Pantagruel

reformation

The simple answer is that the medieval period is also called the Middle Ages.

There is some complexity, however. The period from the 5th through 10th centuries was called the Dark Ages, but the term Early Middle Ages is more common now. What used to be called the Middle Ages, a time from the 11th to 15th centuries, is now often counted as the High Middle Ages (1000 to 1300) and Late Middle Ages (1300 to some time in the 15th century).

harp

the common people

the baroque period

James the first

Edwardian

Ernst Theodor Amadeus Wilhelm Hoffman

The Caroline era.