Category:Medieval

The Medieval world comes between the classical world and the modern world. In Britain that can be taken as from the "departure" of the Romans until the advent of gunpowder and movable type. The period is sometimes subdivided into the Early, High, and Late Middle Ages, and the Early Medieval period is alternatively referred to as the Dark Ages. Renaissance scholars saw the Middle Ages as a period of decline from the high culture and civilisation of the classical world. Enlightenment scholars saw reason as superior to faith, and viewed the Middle Ages as a time of ignorance and superstition.