History Main / TheMiddleAges

* All permutations of Myth/ArthurianLegend.
* All permutations of Myth/RobinHood.

* The ''Franchise/{{Shrek}}'' films, though they give an AnachronismStew compared to the others
* The ''WesternAnimation/HowToTrainYourDragon'' movie series.

* Creator/{[Dreamworks}}:
* The ''Franchise/{{Shrek}} films, though they give an AnachronismStew compared to the others

* ''Literature/ThePillarsOfTheEarth'' MiniSeries adaptation.

* All permutations of Myth/KingArthur.

* Most TV and movie adaptations of Myth/KingArthur, despite the "correct" setting being immediately post-Roman Britain. This is because the earliest written versions of the legend were written in the Middle Ages and given a [[AnachronismStew "contemporary" makeover]].

* NiceHat: When the tall headdresses, including the famous steeple headdress (or ''hennin''), were in vogue.

* HistoricalDomainCharacter: Even when they happen to be [[WesternAnimation/RobinHood talking lions]].

* Most TV and movie incarnations of ''RobinHood''.

** ''WesternAnimation/TheHunchbackOfNotreDame''

* All [[Film/{{Excalibur}} permutations]] [[Film/FirstKnight of]] Myth/KingArthur.
* All permutations of RobinHood.

* Most TV and movie adaptations of KingArthur, despite the "correct" setting being immediately post-Roman Britain. This is because the earliest written versions of the legend were written in the Middle Ages and given a [[AnachronismStew "contemporary" makeover]].

* All [[Film/{{Excalibur}} permutations]] [[Film/FirstKnight of]] KingArthur.

-> ''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.''

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'' Literature/CantarDelMioCid''

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]], [[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!*'')

* EverythingsBetterWithPrincesses: 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.]])

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* HistoricalDomainCharacter: Even when they happen to be [[Disney/RobinHood talking lions]].

** ''Disney/SleepingBeauty'': "After all, this ''is'' the fourteenth century."
** ''Disney/TheSwordInTheStone''
** ''Disney/TheHunchbackOfNotreDame''