Middle Ages

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era of European history historical period

The Middle Ages was a period of European history from roughly the 5th to the late 15th century, marked by feudalism, the rise of Christianity, and the formation of many modern European cultures and languages.

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Predicate	Object
instanceOf	era of European history → historical period →
alsoKnownAs	medieval era → medieval period →
characterizedBy	Gothic architecture → Romanesque architecture → castle building → chivalry → crusades → decentralized political authority → development of vernacular languages → feudalism → formation of European nations → growth of the Catholic Church → guild system → manorialism → monasticism → rise of Christianity → scholasticism →
dominantReligion	Eastern Orthodoxy → Roman Catholicism →
endTime	late 15th century →
fieldOfStudy	medieval studies →
followedBy	Early modern period → Renaissance →
follows	Classical antiquity → Western Roman Empire →
hasPart	Early Middle Ages → High Middle Ages → Late Middle Ages →
hasTheme	codification of customary law → conflict between secular and ecclesiastical power → development of canon law → formation of national monarchies → growth of towns and trade → rural agrarian economy → spread of Latin Christendom →
includesCulture	Byzantine Empire → Holy Roman Empire → Islamic Spain → Kingdom of England → Kingdom of France →
includesEvent	Avignon Papacy → Black Death → Carolingian Renaissance → Christianization of Europe → Crusades → Great Schism of 1054 → Hundred Years' War → Investiture Controversy → Mongol invasions of Europe → Reconquista → Viking Age → rise of universities →
mainLocation	Europe →
majorLanguageFamily	Germanic languages → Romance languages → Slavic languages →
precededByEvent	fall of the Western Roman Empire →
startTime	5th century →

Referenced by (430)

Subject (surface form when different)	Predicate
Albany, Scotland → Anglo-Scottish Wars → Aragonese florin → Arch-treasurer of the Holy Roman Empire → Aristotelian physics → Astorga → Battle of Halidon Hill → Bourbonnais → City of the Three Cultures → College of Electors → College of Princes → Collège de Navarre → Corts of Valencia → De Wallen → Diputació del General → Duke of Apulia and Calabria → East Syriac script → Edward Bruce → Etsi de statu → Ettrick Forest → Galloway → Gallura → German states → Great Hall at Shrewsbury Castle → Gregorian chant → Grotte de Lombrives → Gutes → Habsburg coat of arms → Hungarian Diet → Imperial Diet → Jerusalem cross → Kingdom of Seville → Kurfürsten → Kurfürstenkollegium → Lord High Admiral of England → Lord of the Isles → Lordship of Montpellier → Marshal of England → Montagne Sainte-Geneviève → Morea → Neapolitan ducat → Nuremberg City Walls → Nuskhuri → Old Town (historic city center) → Palazzo Madama → Palestinian Jews → Poitou → Prince-electors of the Holy Roman Empire → Principality of Catalonia → Queen of Bohemia → Queen of Scots → Redcliffe → Royal Salt Mines of the Polish Crown → Rue Mouffetard → Savoy → Scottish Estates → Scottish clans → Spanish law → Street of the Knights → Three Estates of Scotland → Tuscan florin → Valkhof hill and ruins → Velay → Vivarais → Wales (parts) → Warden of the Cinque Ports → Yola language → coat of arms of Lorraine → historical province of Champagne → tanka →	historicalPeriod
1185 Lincoln earthquake → Alba Regia → Apostolic Camera → Ascanian dynasty → Bishopric of Bruges → Byzantine chant → Byzantine navy → Capetian dynasty → Carmelite Rite → Castile → Church Slavonic → Cinque Ports → Classical Armenian → Coq gaulois ("Middle Ages (as heraldic symbol)") → Cortes of Castile → Council of Rome (1076) → County of Nassau-Beilstein → County of Nassau-Siegen → Danubian Principalities → De miseria conditionis humanae → Digenis Akritas → Earl of Fife → English Army → English barons ("High Middle Ages") → Gaelic Ireland → Gardar → Glagolitic script → Greek fire → Hospital of the Knights → House of Poitiers → House of Welf → House of Wittelsbach → Hvalsey → Iacomus → Inquisition → Iranian peoples → Judeo-Italian → Judeo-Roman → Kingdom of Jaén → Knights of the shire → Kristin Lavransdatter → Latin West → Law French → Lordship of Biscay → Margrave of Moravia → Norse sagas → Novgorod Republic → Old East Norse → Oversticht → Palatine lion → Prince-Bishopric of Hildesheim → Renovatio imperii Romanorum → Rex Scottorum → Scottish royal court → Spišská Kapitula → Suthen → Western Settlement →	timePeriod
Anjou → Archchancellor of Germany → Basilica Sancti Petri Vetus → Battle of Methven → Bishopric of Ghent → Cairo Citadel → Chagatai Khanate → Comtat Venaissin → Conti di Segni family → Count of Anjou → County of Artois → County of Mark → County of Nassau → County of Nassau-Idstein → County of Nassau-Weilburg → County of Roussillon → Crown of Aragon → Cumberland → Dadiani family → Duchy of Mecklenburg → Duchy of Swabia → Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg → Earl of Carrick → Earl of Menteith → Estates of Parliament → Grand Duchy of Vladimir → Hanseatic League → Hermitage Castle → House of Lippe → Kartli → King of Bohemia → King of Naples → Kingdom of Galicia → Kingdom of Hungary → Kingdom of Majorca → Lothian → Low Countries → Maine (historical province) → Parliament of England → Parliament of Scotland → Prince-Bishopric of Minden → Principality of Guria → Principality of Orange → Republic of Genoa → Serbian Empire → Siege of Kiev (1240) → Toledo → Venetian navy → Welf →	historicalEra
Abbasid Caliphate → Bagratid Armenia → Battle of Bannockburn → Battle of Loudoun Hill → Buyid dynasty → Chapter House, Westminster Abbey → County of Nassau-Dillenburg → Dante Alighieri → Duchy of Athens → Dunfermline Abbey → Edward of Windsor → Eleanor of Aquitaine → Greyfriars, Newgate, London → House of Plantagenet → Iona Abbey → John Gower → Kingdom of Murcia → Kingdom of Toledo → Lincoln Imp carving → Lubart’s Castle → Macedonian dynasty → Margaret Drummond, Queen of Scots → Marjorie Bruce → Michael I Cerularius → Middle Irish → Norn → Old East Slavic → Old Gutnish → Old Norwegian → Robert the Bruce → Rothesay Castle → Sir James Douglas → St. Peter of Damascus → Tre Kronor Castle → Tump Terret motte → University of Córdoba (medieval scholarly center) → Vsevolod I of Kiev →	era
Bertramus → Candes → Dom Square → Dumbartonshire → Earl of Huntingdon → Europe → Gutalagen → Kronenburgerpark ("Middle Ages (fortifications)") → Kuyavia → Oxford city walls → Palermo → Puente de Alcántara → Roccasecca → Western civilization →	hasHistoricalPeriod
Arch-marshal of the Holy Roman Empire → Catalan pound → Duke of Gascony → Hundred of Bucklow → King of Italy → Køpmannæhafn → Lord of Ahaus → Medieval Latin → Outremer → Prince of Scotland → Prince of the Cumbrians → Venetian lira (old) → Wilhelm →	usedInPeriod
Chronicles of Jean Froissart → Confessio Amantis → Mirour de l’Omme → Old Hungarian Lamentations of Mary → Parliament of Fowls → The Brus → The Canterbury Tales → The Legend of Good Women → The Travels of Marco Polo → William Langland →	literaryPeriod
Fishermen’s and Tanners’ Quarter ("Middle Ages (origin)") → Old Town Square → Republic of Florence → St. Symeon → Sudeten Germans → pontificate of Gregory XI →	locatedInTime
Coat of arms of Friesland → High Sheriff of Gloucestershire → Igreja de Santa Maria do Castelo → Nieuwegracht → Prince of Scotland →	inception
Arch-cupbearer of the Holy Roman Empire → Castro Marim Castle → Gori Fortress → Ponte Milvio → Steppe Road →	usedDuring
Consell de Cent of Barcelona → French Crown → Prince-Bishopric of Paderborn → Scottish monarch →	existedDuring
Baltic Germans → Genoa → Novgorod → Volkhov River →	historicalPeriodOfProminence
Byzantine Empire → Duke of Brittany ("medieval France") → High Middle Ages → Late Middle Ages →	partOf
Brünig Pass → Greater coat of arms of Sweden → Leigh → Triskelion of Mann →	usedSince
Christina → Cross of Saint George → Emma → Gregory →	usedSinceCentury
England–Wales border → Government of Catalonia → High Court of Justiciary →	establishedInPeriod
Finnish Karelians → Norwegians → Poles ("Early Middle Ages") →	ethnogenesisPeriod
Old Town (Kraków) → Tarifa → Église Saint-Nicolas de Strasbourg →	foundedInPeriod
Landsberg am Lech → Quakenbrück → York →	hasHistoricPeriod
Alfred ("medieval England") → Harold ("Anglo-Saxon England") → Spencer ("medieval England") →	historicalUsage
Aribert → Bertram → Eberhard →	historicalUsagePeriod
Monty Python and the Holy Grail → Robin Hood (2006 TV series) → Time Bandits →	setInPeriod
Aachen Town Hall → Castelo de Tavira → Ruins of the medieval coronation basilica →	significantPeriod
Heimskringla → History of the Inductive Sciences → The History of England →	timePeriodCovered
Marian antiphons → Saint Sava Day → Tuitio Fidei et Obsequium Pauperum →	timePeriodOfOrigin
Aspendos → Scetes →	declinePeriod
Piazza Duomo, Trento → Singel →	eraOfOrigin
Arch-chancellor of the Holy Roman Empire → Count Palatine of the Rhine →	existedInPeriod
Early Modern period → Renaissance →	follows
Baldwin → Dafydd ("Middle Ages in Wales") →	hasHistoricalUsage
Luise → Owen →	hasHistoricalUsageSince
Order of chivalry → double-barred cross →	hasOriginPeriod
Corts of Aragon → Count of Calabria →	hasTimePeriod
Cathedral Chapter of Münster → Poitiers →	historicalPeriodOfImportance
Clan Douglas → White →	originPeriod
Routes of Santiago de Compostela in France → Troilus and Criseyde →	period
Levoča historic centre → Old Town of Edinburgh →	periodOfSignificance
Blackadder → Jabberwocky →	settingPeriod
Angelus prayer → Lamentation of Christ →	timeOfOrigin
Latin Quarter → Red Light District (Amsterdam) →	timePeriodOfDevelopment
Barnsdale Forest → Graf (German-speaking countries) →	timePeriodOfProminence
Capitoline Hill → Głogów →	wasImportantInPeriod
Italica →	abandonedBy
Three Estates →	appliesToPeriod
Nationaal Archief, The Hague →	archivesFromPeriod
Székesfehérvár →	capitalStatusPeriod
Albrecht →	commonInHistoricalPeriod
Treaties of the Holy See →	concludedSince
Monument historique (France) →	coversPeriod
Regina Caeli →	dateOfOrigin
Bragan Rite →	developedIn
Way of Sorrows →	developedInCentury
Scholastic theology →	developedInPeriod
Coudenberg →	eraOfMajorDevelopment
Meierij van ’s-Hertogenbosch →	existedInCentury
Fieschi family →	floruit
Caffa →	flourishedInPeriod
History of England →	focusesOnPeriod
Late Antiquity →	followedBy
Ferrol →	foundInCentury
Richelieu Wing →	hasCollectionPeriod
Yurievichi →	hasHistoricalEra
Johnson →	hasHistoricalOriginPeriod
Isola Comacina →	hasHistoricalPeriodOfFlourishing
Aubert →	hasHistoricalPeriodOfProminence
Williams →	hasHistoricalUsageSinceCentury
Angus →	hasHistoricCountyStatusFrom
Ancona →	hasHistoricPeriodOfImportance
Tatar language →	hasLiteraryTraditionSince
Kendal →	hasMarketCharterFrom
Burford →	hasMarketTownStatusSince
Koło →	hasMunicipalRightsSince
Middle Ages ("Early Middle Ages") →	hasPart
Gothic Quarter →	hasPeriodOfDevelopment
Innis Choluim →	hasPeriodOfSignificance
Diocese of Münster →	hasReligiousInfluenceSince
Scottish Gaelic →	hasWritingTraditionSince
Madonna and Child →	highlyPopularInPeriod
Silves →	historicalEraOfImportance
Earl of Chester →	historicalEraOfOrigin
Royal Coat of Arms of Norway →	historicalOrigin
Conde (Spain, Portugal) →	historicalOriginPeriod
Mačva region →	historicalPeriodMentioned
Binnenstad →	historicalPeriodOfDevelopment
Serbian Orthodox Church →	historicalPeriodOfFlourishing
Mazovians →	historicalPeriodOfFormation
Guernsey Legal French →	historicalPeriodOfMainUse
Lord of Parliament →	historicalPeriodOfOrigin
Trellech →	historicalPeriodOfSignificance
arms of France →	historicalPeriodOfUse
Vienne →	historicalPeriodSignificance
Duchess of Limburg →	historicalUse
Fisherman’s Ring →	historicalUseSince
Tarascon →	historicPeriod
Battle of Covadonga →	inceptionAsSymbol
Papacy →	influencedEuropeanPolitics
Historical Studies of Church-Building in the Middle Ages →	mainSubject
Guild of Corpus Christi →	operatedIn
Diputación del General of Aragon →	operatesInPeriod
The Vision of Sir Launfal →	periodOfAction
Andechs Abbey →	pilgrimageTraditionSince
Margaret →	popularInCentury
Early Modern period →	precededBy
Milvian Bridge →	reconstructionPeriod
Aristotelianism →	revivedIn
Piers Plowman ("medieval England") →	setting
Saint George and the Dragon →	timeOfPopularization
West Building →	timePeriodCoverage
Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds →	timePeriodDescribed
Pillars of Hercules →	timePeriodOfConcept
Seal of Solomon →	timePeriodOfLegend
Volhynia →	timePeriodOfSignificance
Caput Mundi →	timePeriodOfUse
Earls of Angus →	titleCreationPeriod
Walk to Canossa →	tookPlaceDuring
Marcus →	usagePeriod
Overton →	usedFromPeriod
Old Spanish →	usedIn
Timotheus →	usedInHistoricalPeriod
Christian →	wasCommonInEuropeByCentury
Simplon Pass →	wasImportantSince
Agnes →	wasPopularIn