At what priod did the Middle ages start and end?

Question

Only in England

Answer 1

Regarding England: the exact dates are still debated. Generally, 1066 is regarded as the beginning of the Middle Ages or Mediaeval period. The end comes with the Battle of Bosworth and the fall of the last Plantagenet king, Richard III, in 1485. Thereafter the Tudor dynasty begins, and the early Modern period.

Oops, forgot to give a source:
http://www.pearsonpublishing.co.uk/education/samples/S_493346.pdf (see under "Background Information")

Answer 2

There is no exact agreement on this. However, the Primeval ages are generally considered to have ended with the fall of the Roman Empire, and the Modern Age began with the enlightenment which started in the mid to late 17th Century.
So everything in between is the Medieval Period or Middle Ages.

Usually, the period from the end of the Roman Empire until the first millenium is called "The Dark Ages," or Early Medieval period; and 1500-1650 is considered the Later Middle Ages. I consider myself a medievalist and mostly (but not exclusively) study the period from 500 AD to about 1600

Answer 3

I like Lodi TX's brief answer, but 409 - 410 CE is when the Roman legions deserted Britannia. The fall of Constantinople to the Turks in 1453 is often considered the end of the middle ages in Europe. So for English history (which I love), I'd say 410 AD or CE to begin the "middle ages in England. !453 was the time of Henry VI and about the time when the Wars of the Roses were causing chaos among the nobles of England, so it isn't really a pivotal year in England alone.
You ask a good question for English historians. Hmmm. Might have to go to Henry VII after the Battle of Bosworth field August 22, 1485. How about that for a precise answer? Of course the Julian calendar was about ten days fast in 1485 before Pope Gregory XIII updated it in October 1582. Henry VII brought strong finance to England (oversimplified). But money would equal power in the centuries to come. Navies cost money as do armies. Military power equates with political influence on the world stage which Britain achieved marvelously in the latter 1800s.

Answer 4

If it's only England, the Middle Ages began with the fall of Rome and the Roman withdrawal and ended with the English Renaissance (which occurred later in England than it did in mainland Europe) in the early-to-mid 1600s.

However, there is still debate as to whether the Renaissance was a distinct period or just another part of the Middle Ages.

Given that the French Revolution (1789) seems to be accepted as the beginning of modern times, the Middle Ages would have to have ended somewhere between the 1600s and the 1700s, depending on whether the Renaissance is considered a separate period or not.

Answer 5

The Middle Ages in Europe began after The Dark Ages circa 1000 AD - 1400 AD.or in a wider sense circa 600AD - 1500AD

Answer 6

Looks like the Middle Ages started in the ninth century with Vikings taking eastern England, (later pushed out by King Alfred the Great), and ended approximately in the 1300s for England. To read all the details, try this link, my source, for English chapters in particular, and I'll see if there's another useful link:

http://www.msn.encarta.com/ my source.

Yes, try this for history, bios, maps, sources...
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/

Answer 7

You can't just take England because the entire medieval period is concerned with Europe, but I'll try and make it specific to Britain.

Roughly the dates are likes this:

-- The Fall of Rome in 476AD until the battle of Hastings in 1066AD is known as the "Dark Ages"

-- After the Norman conquest in 1066AD until the fall of Constantinople around 1453AD is known "The Middle Ages"

-- From around 1453AD until around the English civil war in 1640'sAD was known as "The Renaisance"

These are just rough dates because some historians put different emphasis on different events.

Answer 8

Why limit it to England only, one member in the committee of nations. Why not take the entire world as a community and spell out for man kind as a whole.

Answer 9

It started with the withdrawal of Romans from Britain in about 500 CE, and ended with the arrival of the Renaissance, also from Italy, in the 13th or 14th century.

Answer 10

about 1200 to 1650