The Medieval Period
The Medieval Period
The Medieval Period
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People use the phrase “Middle Ages” to describe
Europe between the fall of Rome in 476 CE and
the beginning of the Renaissance in the 14th
century. Many scholars call the era the “medieval
period” instead; “Middle Ages,” they say,
incorrectly implies that the period is an
insignificant blip sandwiched between two much
more important epochs.
(In 800 CE, for example, Pope Leo III named the Frankish
king Charlemagne the “Emperor of the Romans”–the first
since that empire’s fall more than 300 years before. Over
time, Charlemagne’s realm became the Holy Roman
Empire, one of several political entities in Europe whose
interests tended to align with those of the Church.)