History Main / TheMiddleAges

* ''VideoGame/KnightsOfRound''

* VestigialEmpire: TheRomanEmpire was still around, based in Constantinople. In fact, historians often define the Middle Ages as the period from the fall of the Roman Empire in the west (476) to the fall of the Roman Empire in the east (1453). Restoring TheEmpire is a popular scenario, especially in [[StrategyGame Strategy Games]].

* ''Literature/{{Wolfbreed}}'' takes place during this time period and deals with TheTeutonicKnights' conquest of Prussia...[[OurWerewolvesAreDifferent and werewolves.]]

** 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 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.]])

It should be noted that though the Middle Ages lasted for roughly a thousand years, virtually all of the classic medieval tropes mentioned above really only derive from the last three or four hundred. Overall, the Middle Ages has suffered more than usual cliche-making tendencies, because it was unfortuanately cast as the embodiment of {{Romanticism}} in the RomanticismVersusEnlightenment (with AncientGreece suffering the opposite fate as its {{foil}}).

For the (slightly) more historically accurate version of this trope, check out its constituent periods:

* TheHighMiddleAges, and

''Cf.'' YeGoodeOldeDays for the highly romanticized version, and TheDungAges for the depressingly bleak version. When history has been abandoned altogether, you have probably made the epic voyage to TheTimeOfMyths. Also check out DarkAgeEurope, the transition between the Ancient World (Greece, Rome, etc.) and the Middle Ages proper.

If the story does not take place in some unspecified kingdom, the setting is likely to be a [[YouFailHistoryForever mythologized]] UsefulNotes/{{Britain}} or UsefulNotes/{{France}}, though [[UsefulNotes/{{Israel}} Jerusalem]], which had pretty much been ignored since BiblicalTimes will now also be used as the stage for all sorts of flashy battles involving cutlass-wielding [[ArabianNightsDays Turks]] and ruggedly handsome [[UsefulNotes/TheKnightsTemplar Knights Templar]].

If the story does not take place in some unspecified kingdom, the setting is likely to be a [[YouFailHistoryForever mythologized]] UsefulNotes/{{Britain}} or UsefulNotes/{{France}}, though [[UsefulNotes/{{Israel}} Jerusalem]], which had pretty much been ignored since BiblicalTimes will now also be used as the stage for all sorts of flashy battles involving cutlass-wielding [[ArabianNightsDays Turks]] and ruggedly handsome [[TheKnightsTemplar Knights Templar]].

* TheKnightsHospitallers
* TheKnightsTemplar: The original KnightTemplar characters came from this era.

It should Be noted that though the Middle Ages lasted for roughly a thousand years, virtually all of the classic medieval tropes mentioned above really only derive from the last three or four hundred. Overall, the Middle Ages has suffered more than usual cliche-making tendencies, because it was unfortuanately cast as the embodiment of {{Romanticism}} in the RomanticismVersusEnlightenment (with AncientGreece suffering the opposite fate as its {{foil}}).

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* ''Creator/{{Disney}}'s [[GummiBears Adventures of the Gummi Bears]]''
* Disney's ''Disney/SleepingBeauty'': "After all, this ''is'' the fourteenth century."

* TheCrusades

* ''Series/WordWithoutEnd''

* ''ComicBook/PrinceValiant''

* The first ''BlackAdder'' series.

* ''{{Disney}}'s [[GummiBears Adventures of the Gummi Bears]]''

* ''DemonKnights''

* ''PrinceValiant''

The Middle Ages has suffered more than usual cliche-making tendencies, because it was unfortuanately cast as the embodiment of {{Romanticism}} in the RomanticismVersusEnlightenment (with AncientGreece suffering the opposite fate as its {{foil}}).

Era of the crusades, RobinHood, and fat, lecherous (but good hearted) friars. Also home to [[OurDragonsAreDifferent dragons]], [[SquishyWizard wizards]], [[KnightInShiningArmor knights in shining armour]], [[EverythingsBetterWithPrincesses 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!*'')

* ''KnightsOfHonor''

* ''[[CovingtonCross Beverly Hills 902 A.D.]]''

* ''CrusaderKings''

* ''[[Franchise/EvilDead Army Of Darkness]]''

* ''FirstKnight''

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