What time period was the middle ages?

Answer 1

Traditionally the Middle Ages in Europe covered the millennium from the 5th-15th centuries (often from 410 or 476, to 1453 or 1492). Some have excluded the less well-documented "Dark Ages" (a term since fallen largely into disuse) of the 5th-8th centuries. A still narrower though now less common usage in English historiography reserves "medieval" for the Norman and Plantagenet dynasties of 1066-1485, considering the 5th-11th centuries "Anglo-Saxon". A more modern variant differentiates the 5th and 6th centuries as "Sub-Roman", borrowing from Archaeology. Scholars of western and southern Europe have proposed also a separate "Late Antiquity" period of transition from Classical to Medieval, spanning roughly the 3rd to 7th centuries.

Subdivisions widely accepted for the later period include High Middle Ages (11th-13th centuries), a period when medieval society is considered to have risen to its most developed form (though historians have also identified the first signs of its disintegration in the latter part of this period) and Late Middle Ages (14th-15th centuries), generally seen as a time of demographic and socio-economic crisis (though paradoxically also perhaps of rising living standards): adherents of a "long" medieval era in these terms view the 5th-10th centuries as the Early Middle Ages.

It should be borne in mind that this periodisation strictly relates only to Europe (and not necessarily its whole), though the label has been applied to sub-Saharan Africa in the centuries before the advent of European trade, and to the Middle East, Iran and India from the 7th or 8th centuries to the early 16th: the fifth century has little significance as an epochal dividing-line outside Europe and the western Mediterranean, and the centuries-long Ming dynasty gives the period 1368-1644 a distinct unity in Chinese history.

Answer 2

The most commonly used dates for the Early Middle ages are 476 to 1000. I have also seen 476 to 1066 and 500 to 1066.

I have seen a number of dates for the beginning of the Middle Ages and, hence, the Early Middle Ages. These include the following: 395, when the Roman Empire was divided

400, a convenient century date

410, when Rome was sacked by Visigoths

476, when Romulus Augustulus was deposed

496, when Emperor Anastasius I reformed the coinage

500, another convenient century date

518, when Justin I became emperor

The dates for the end of the Early Middle Ages I have seen are these:

1000, a date of convenience

1066, the date of the Norman Invasion

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Answer 3

From the fall of the Western Roman Empire in the 5th century to the beginning of the Early Modern Period in the 16th century. (Wikipedia)

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The most commonly given dates are probably 476 to 1453.
In Britain, the medieval period spans the time from the departure of the Romans in the mid-5th century to the mid-15th century. The Battle of Agincourt, the Great Schism and the fall of Constantinople all contribute to a viable ending date for the period.

Answer 4

In England the dates of the 'high' Middle Ages are often given as between 1066, the date of the Norman Conquest and 1485 when Henry VII beat Richard III at the battle of Bosworth Field to install the Tudor dynasty. Some people put the end date to 1540 at the height of the dissolution of the monasteries by Henry VIII when the great religious institutions which characterise the Middle Ages were abolished.

Answer 5

Although the dates are not always agreed up, the dates most widely accepted are 1066-1500. The middle ages spans a period of 500 years.

Answer 6

Early Middle Ages 400 - 700, High Middle Ages 700 - 1300, Late Middle Ages 1300 -1500.

Answer 7

the middle ages began around the tenth century snd ended around the sixteenth century