When were medieval times?

Answer 1

The medieval times also known as the middle ages started in 476 as a result of the fall of the western Roman Empire.

410 AD with the fall of the Roman empire.

476 AD might be the best date to use.

There are different views on this. Nearly all historians use dates ranging from 400 AD to 500 AD. These two are convenient dates for the beginning, that are picked as approximation.

Some historians use the date 395, which was the date of the last division of the Roman Empire.

Some use 410, which was a date the city or Rome was sacked for the first time in 800 years. It was also sacked in 455.

Most use 476, which is the date the last Emperor of the West Roman Empire abdicated in favor of the Emperor of the East Roman Emperor, but it is referred to as the date of the "fall of Rome." This is a doubly convenient date because the East Roman Empire lasted nearly another thousand years, and finally fell in 1453, a date used commonly for the end of the Middle Ages. Current Historians refer to it as the Byzantine Empire during this time, but I have no doubt the people of that time would have been puzzled by the name.

But the important thing is that the middle ages began with the collapse of the authority of the government of the West Roman Empire. And the problem is that this was a long, drawn out process that began about 235 AD and was still underway in about 550 AD.

An alternate view

There are places where the term Middle Ages has historically been used to name the time between the Dark Ages (also called Early Middle Ages) and the Renaissance, and that usage continues. I was raised with the idea that the Dark Ages ran from 476 to 1000, and the Middle Ages were from 1000 to 1453. The immediately above reflects the newer usage I learned later, when I was in college in the 1960s.

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As to when the Middle Ages began in some particular place, such as Rome, or Cardiff, or Scotland, the Middle Ages are thought of as being more a range of dates in European history, rather than a set of conditions. So the date for the beginning of the Middle Ages applies to the whole of Europe; it is just a convenient date for purposes of studying history, and not a date when everything changed from one situation to another.

We can talk of the Middle Ages as beginning with the fall of the Roman Empire, and say the Byzantine Empire was medieval. But the Byzantine Empire was legally the same as the East Roman Empire; its laws were changed over time but it did not finally fall until 1453, a date conveniently used for the end of the Middle Ages.

On the other hand, for such things as the Japanese Middle Ages or the Aztec Middle Ages, the dates are entirely different as they apply to times in those cultures when they had some specific similarity to the European Middle Ages.

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The Medieal era started with the Norman Conquest in 1066

Answer 2

The Middle Ages, or medieval times, are given different dates by different historians.

In the UK, many people use the dates 1066 to 1500, or something like similar, and called the preceding 500 years or so the Dark Ages.

In many other parts of the world, the term Dark Ages has gone out of fashion, and that period is called the Early Middle Ages. By this thinking, the Middle Ages lasted about a thousand years, from 476 to 1492, or 400 to 1400, or 500 to 1500.

Answer 3

Early Medieval is around the 6th Century until 1066

The later medieval period is 1066 to 1485 - Norman Conquest to end of Wars of the Roses.

Answer 4

The middle Ages were from about 500 AD to about 1500 AD.

Answer 5

Generally defined as the years between the Norman Conquest of 1066 and the end of the Wars of the Roses in 1485.

Answer 6

The usual answer is that the Middle Ages lasted from 476 to 1453.

Answer 7

almost 500 years ago

Answer 8

500-1500 about