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a thousand years too often blamed for a darkness it didn't actually live in
means Relating to the Middle Ages, the era of European history roughly between the fall of Rome and the start of the Renaissance — and, loosely, anything that feels old-fashioned, brutal, or backward.
from From the Latin 'medium aevum,' meaning 'the middle age' — 'medius' (middle) plus 'aevum' (age, lifetime, era). The term is younger than the period it names: scholars looking back coined 'medieval' in the 19th century to label the centuries they saw as a 'middle' span sandwiched between classical antiquity and their own enlightened times. 'Aevum,' incidentally, is a distant cousin of English 'aye' (ever) and 'eon.'
- flat earth myth
- Medieval scholars knew Earth was round
- hygiene
- They bathed more than you'd guess
- university born
- Bologna's still-running school opened in 1088
- average lifespan
- Survive childhood and 60-plus was common
- the word
- Coined later by people feeling superior
middle ages — period from 5th to 15th century in europe, spanning 1000 years
feudal system — hierarchical land and power structure dominant in medieval europe from 9th-15th centuries
crusades — series of religious wars from 1096-1291 between christian and muslim forces for control of holy land