Introduction to the Middle Ages, where did the Middle Ages begin?

The term Middle Ages is generally more common in European history.

Middle Ages (Middle Ages; 476 A.D. 1453) The Middle Ages (c. 476 A.D. 1453 A.D.) was an era in European history (mainly Western Europe) that began with the fall of the Western Roman Empire (476 A.D.) and ended with the rise of capitalism after the Renaissance (1453 A.D.). The term "Middle Ages" was used by humanists in the late 15th century. Europe during this period did not have a strong regime to rule.

The Middle Ages or the early Middle Ages are generally called the "Dark Ages" in Europe and the United States, and it is traditionally considered to be a period of relatively slow development in the history of European civilization.

Medieval history, also known as medieval history, refers to the period from the fall of the Western Roman Empire in 476 to the outbreak of the bourgeois revolution in England in 1640. The formation, development and dissolution of feudalism was the main thread of European history during this period. However, the development of feudal society in various countries in the world is uneven, when Western Europe just entered the feudal society in the 5th century, China has completed the course of about 1,000 years of feudal society.

Another view is that until the 9th century A.D., the vast majority of late antiquity scholars, according to St. Augustine's view, believed that mankind was in the sixth and final stage of history, that is, the "end times" predicted in the book of Revelation in the Bible, so it meant darkness. One commonly accepted version by historians is that the term "Medieval Dark Ages" was coined by Petrarch, a fourteenth-century Italian Renaissance humanist scholar. He traveled extensively in Europe to rediscover and publish classic Latin and Greek texts, with the aim of reviving the classical Latin language, art, and culture of Rome, and considered the changes and events that had taken place since the fall of Rome in 410 AD to be unworthy of study.

Humanists look at history not in Augustine's religious terms, but in sociological terms, that is, through classical culture, literature, and art; Therefore, humanists call this 900-year period of stagnation in the development of classical culture a "dark period".

Hehe, the landlord is very ignorant of the concept of the Middle Ages, which just shows the mystery of the Middle Ages. Recently, people have been reading books about the Middle Ages, and in terms of time, the Middle Ages refers to Europe before the 14th century, not a few years to a few years. The Middle Ages was the name that the humanists of the Renaissance began to call out.

One of the characteristics of the Middle Ages was that the power of the church was dominant, and all the great things of man from birth to death were to obey the arrangement of the church, so people had no ego. This is, of course, a general abstract generalization.

Specifically, the Middle Ages were not static, it also gave birth to rational thought and humanistic spirit, and the religion of the Middle Ages was not useless, and it was the religious culture of the Middle Ages that deeply influenced the culture of Europe. The influence of medieval Catholic theology on the Renaissance and the Enlightenment is significant, especially on the scholasticism, among which religious theologians contributed greatly to the development and transformation of Western European culture at that time.

Many people think that the Middle Ages is a dark age, but in fact, I am a graduate student in world history, and one of my teachers is a researcher of the Middle Ages, if you need to understand the Middle Ages, I can recommend to you the books that my teacher showed me, the list of books is as follows:

The History of Daily Life in the Medieval West and Its Late Civilization and Its Civilization Education.

1. Norbert Elias, The Process of Civilization, Life Reading, New Knowledge, Joint Books, 1998, Vol.).

2. Liu Xincheng, "The History of Everyday Life and the Daily Life of Medieval Western Europe", Theoretical Studies in History, No. 1, 2004.

3. Liu Xincheng,"On the Civilization of Behavior in the Late Middle Ages",World History,No.3,1997.

4. Hans-Wilner Götz, Medieval Life in Europe, Oriental Publishing House, 2002.

5. Henry Stanley Bennett, "Life on the English Manor: A Study of the Living Conditions of Peasants from 1150 to 1400", Shanghai People's Publishing House, 2005.

This is only part of it, but the Middle Ages is one of the more difficult parts of world history to learn. Hehe, I wish you happiness in your study of history.

The Middle Ages, which refers to the period from the late 5th century AD to the mid-15th century AD, was an intermediate period in which the three major traditions of European history were divided (classical, medieval, and modern times). It began with the fall of the Western Roman Empire in 476 AD and ended with the fall of the Eastern Roman Empire in 1453 AD, and finally merged into the Renaissance movement and the Age of Discovery.

Western European Middle Ages:From the late classical period to the early Middle Ages, population decline, anti-urbanization, invasions and migrations continued. People migrate en masse.

The 1,000 years from the fall of the Western Roman Empire in 476 AD to 1500 AD in Europe are known as the Middle Ages, and the feudal system in Western Europe emerged and developed from the ruins of the fall of Rome. The knightly system also arose in medieval Europe, and it was a feudal vassal system that was gradually produced and established in the process of feudalization in Europe. The European states of the early Middle Ages were a kind of lax territorial ensemble.

The word "Middle Ages" is translated from the English word "middle ages", which can be understood as an era that dwells in the middle of a historical period. In fact, I think it is better to translate "age" as "era", the word "century" in English is generally used as "century", the century is from the perspective of time, it is a hundred years, and age is from a historical point of view, which refers to a period of time, and the length of time is not fixed.

The Middle Ages does not refer to a specific century, but to a period in European history that lasted about a thousand years (c. 476 A.D. 1453 A.D.).

The Middle Ages was an era in the history of Europe (mainly in Western Europe), a period in which feudalism reigned in the world, hundreds of years after the fall of the Western Roman Empire (476 AD), until the period after the Renaissance (1453 AD), when capitalism was on its rise. The term "Middle Ages" was first used by humanists in the late 15th century. Europe during this period did not have a strong regime to rule.

Feudal secession brought frequent wars, resulting in the stagnation of the development of science and technology and productive forces, and the people lived in hopeless suffering, so the Middle Ages or the early Middle Ages in Europe and the United States were called the "Black Celery Dark Age", and the traditional He Spine believed that this was a period of relatively slow development in the history of European civilization.