History Main / TheMiddleAges

* GratuitousPrincess: There weren't ''really'' many more then than now. Except a lot of small kingdoms have been eaten up since then and a number of states have changed from kingdoms to republics, so there were a lot more reigning princesses. There may be girls today who, if you assumed the continuance of feudal law, would in fact qualify as princesses, but who work as waitresses and don't know they are titular princesses. (To be pedantic, many of the smaller states (especially the ones in the UsefulNotes/HolyRomanEmpire) were neither kingdoms nor principalities, so their "princesses" would technically have been "duchesses," "palatine countesses", "electresses" and possibly "marchionesses." Still, [[IncrediblyLamePun it's close enough for government work.]])

Era of the crusades, Myth/RobinHood, and fat, wine-loving, and lecherous (but good-hearted) friars. Also home to [[OurDragonsAreDifferent dragons]], [[SquishyWizard wizards]], [[KnightInShiningArmor knights in shining armour]], CourtlyLove, [[PrincessClassic beautiful princesses]] with big headdresses, and tall, spirally gothic architecture. Expect to see a {{Corrupt Church}}man or two wandering the landscape [[BurnTheWitch burning witches]], heretics, and pretty much ''anyone'' who doesn't agree with [[KnightTemplar them]]. Also expect to see people comically dropping left and right from [[ThePlague the Black Death]]. ''("Bring out your deeeeaaaaa----" *Fall* *Splut!*''). Hear the OminousLatinChanting of [[{{UsefulNotes/Medieval Music}} monks singing Mass]].

* The opening of the Series/GhostsUK episode “About Last Night” takes place during the outbreak of TheBlackDeath

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** The ''WesternAnimation/HowToTrainYourDragon'' movie series.

Era of the crusades, Myth/RobinHood, and fat, wine-loving, and lecherous (but good-hearted) friars. Also home to [[OurDragonsAreDifferent dragons]], [[SquishyWizard wizards]], [[KnightInShiningArmor knights in shining armour]], CourtlyLove, [[PrincessClassic beautiful princesses]] with big headdresses, and tall, spirally gothic architecture. Expect to see a {{Corrupt Church}}man or two wandering the landscape [[BurnTheWitch burning witches]], heretics, and pretty much ''anyone'' who doesn't agree with [[KnightTemplar them]]. Also expect to see people comically dropping left and right from [[ThePlague the Black Death]]. ''("Bring out your deeeeaaaaa----" *Fall* *Splut!*''). Hear the OminousLatinChanting of [[{{Useful Notes /Medieval Music}} monks singing Mass]].

Era of the crusades, Myth/RobinHood, and fat, lecherous (but good-hearted) friars. Also home to [[OurDragonsAreDifferent dragons]], [[SquishyWizard wizards]], [[KnightInShiningArmor knights in shining armour]], [[PrincessClassic beautiful princesses]] with big headdresses, and tall, spirally gothic architecture. Expect to see a {{Corrupt Church}}man or two wandering the landscape [[BurnTheWitch burning witches]], heretics, and pretty much ''anyone'' who doesn't agree with [[KnightTemplar them]]. Also expect to see people comically dropping left and right from [[ThePlague the Black Death]]. ''("Bring out your deeeeaaaaa----" *Fall* *Splut!*'')

-> ''The Middle Ages designates the time span roughly from the collapse of the Roman Empire to the Renaissance and Reformation. The adjective "medieval," coined from Latin medium (middle) and aevum (age), refers to whatever was made, written, or thought during the Middle Ages...Medieval authors, of course , did not think of themselves as living in the "middle"; they sometimes expressed the idea that the world was growing old and that theirs was a declining age, close to the end of time.''