middle ages or (Latin) medium aevum or (French) moyen âge or (German) mittelalter or (Italian) medioevo..
The cultural model of a Renaissance implies a classical age followed by a period of decline which is then reversed by a rebirth of classical values. Eighteenth- and nineteenth-century historians were often content with a very precise time-frame: the Middle Ages began in ... ...
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