the Middle Ages

noun

: the period of European history from about A.D. 500 to about 1500

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Recent Examples on the Web Set in a castle in the Middle Ages, the epic details a lord and his family living in a haunted mansion. Katherine McLaughlin, Architectural Digest, 24 Oct. 2024 The area remained a stronghold of Pontic Greeks throughout the Middle Ages and Ottoman Empire, until the advent of modern Turkey after World War One. Joe Yogerst, Forbes, 24 Oct. 2024 In the Middle Ages, poor, ill-resourced regions such as the Alpine canton of Schwyz could press their peasantry into mercenary armies and market coercion as a service. Gideon Lewis-Kraus, The New Yorker, 21 Oct. 2024 But by the Middle Ages, Greek philosophical texts had become largely unavailable to European Christians, who believed that humans were too wretched to find the good without a supernatural deity. Sigal Samuel, Vox, 20 Oct. 2024 See all Example Sentences for the Middle Ages 

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“The Middle Ages.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/the%20Middle%20Ages. Accessed 5 Nov. 2024.

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