Texts in Context:Timeline of the Highand Late Middle Ages By Gabriel Blanchard This timeline covers the High and Late Mediævum, defined for our purposes as falling more or
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In fourteen hundred and ninety-two, the globe was changed irrevocably, forever.
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As the fifteenth century proceeded, a new wind was blowing out of the east, for both evil and good at once.
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At the same time as a high tide of mysticism in England, the synthesis of Christendom was collapsing, thanks in part to its founder, the papacy.
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The Hundred Years’ War and the Wars of the Roses are infamously complex, so here’s an inattentive summary.
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The sophisticated, prosperous world of the High Middle Ages was brought down almost singlehandedly by one of the smallest things in existence.
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Like every other time, the High Middle Ages were doomed to pass; but as they did, a certain kind of civilizational innocence seems to have gone with them.
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The thirteenth century was the high noon of Christendom; which also means it is when its light began to decline.
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Both the origin and the ultimate development of courtly love are to be found in far stranger places than we might predict.
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Romantic love certainly existed before the eleventh century. What the troubadours invented was the idea that it was a good thing.
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