History Main / TheMiddleAges

* ''VideoGame/ChivalryMedievalWarfare''

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* ''Series/WorldWithoutEnd''

The TropeCodifier for the High Middle Ages was the 19th century, when the Middle Ages were celebrated as the embodiment of {{Romanticism}} in the RomanticismVersusEnlightenment debate. AncientGreece, meanwhile, had been cast as the embodiment of [[UsefulNotes/TheEnlightenment Enlightenment]] in the 18th century. In reality, Ancient Greece and the High Middle Ages were very similar societies: both valued philosophy, science, and engineering, but feared and used magic and loved to fight. Both also had slaves, and a de facto caste system; both had a mix of slave/serf and free farmers as the basis of society. The Greeks valued city living more, though, and were a mix of petty kingdoms, democracies ("democracy" meant "mob rule" for a very long time thanks to their example), and lawless autocracies; but Persia was feudal (and most of medieval material culture -- knights, castles, tunics, pointy shoes, roses, rhyming poetry, princesses in towers wearing conical hats with veils, wizards with robes covered in holy symbols -- is originally Persian). It's fair to say that the High Middle Ages and classical Greece would've understood each other well, if they'd interacted -- while contemporary Romantics and Enlightenment-ists would both have reasons to dislike both societies.

* RenaissanceFair: The ThemParkVersion of the Middle Ages in modern times

* ''Literature/ASongOfIceAndFire'' by George R. R. Martin

* ''Series/GameOfThrones''

* ''Film/TheCourtJester'' (Stated to be in the reign of [[YouFailHistoryForever King Roderick I.]] of England.)

* ''Knights of the Temple: Infernal Crusade''

* ''VideoGame/Stronghold''

* ''First Templar''

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Beowulf}}''

* ''WesternAnimation/Beowulf''

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* ''A Knight's Tale''