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In the Middle East, the Muslims had past their peak, and while they continued to remain the most important scientific and intellectual area of the world, other areas were starting to catch up. China had always been advanced in its own ways, but its isolated and close-minded nature stopped it from achieving some of the advances that the Muslim world did. However, by the 1200s the two regions were nearly equal in technological development, and brutal wars against the European kingdoms were also devastating the Middle East. From this time, the Middle East would change. The political, intellectual, and cosmopolitan center of the Muslim World moved West away from Persia and Mesopotamia and closer to the Levant and Turkey. Eventually, the Ottoman Empire would crawl its way to dominance over the Muslim world.
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In the Middle East, the Muslims had past their peak, and while they continued to remain the most important scientific mathematical, astronomical, medicinal, and intellectual alchemical area of the world, other areas were starting to catch up. China had always been advanced in its own ways, but its isolated As the home of between a quarter and close-minded nature stopped it from achieving some a third of the advances that world's population at any one time since the Muslim world did. cultivation of wheat, the Chinese region was home to a respectable myriad of thinkers and tinkerers despite the relative isolation caused by the natural barriers of the Himalayas and the Indochinese peninsula [[note]] Getting past this in the name of religious devotion being the point of the famed Ming Empire-era novel Literature/JourneyToTheWest [[/note]]. However, by the 1200s the two regions (Southern) Song Empire and the Middle East were nearly about equal in technological development, terms of sophisticated academic knowledge, and brutal wars against the European kingdoms and Mongols were also devastating the Middle East.East and the Song respectively. From this time, the Middle East would change. The political, intellectual, and cosmopolitan center of the Muslim World moved West away from Persia and Mesopotamia and closer to the Levant and Turkey. Eventually, the Ottoman Empire would crawl its way to dominance over the Muslim world.
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The period also saw the final decline of Roman power from which there would not be a recovery. Although the Eastern Roman Empire had outlasted its counterpart for hundreds of years, the rise of Islam brought a real challenge to its doorstep. Muslim conquests of the Byzantine lands sparked the Crusades, which also marked a period of cooperation between the Eastern and Western churches. This all ended in 1204, when Constantinople was sacked by a group of rogue Crusaders. This became the point of no return for the Byzantine Empire. Although it would survive for 200 years more, they never regained their former glory.
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The period also saw the final decline of Roman power from which there would not be a recovery. Although the Eastern Roman Empire had outlasted its counterpart the Western half for hundreds of years, the rise of Islam brought a real challenge to its doorstep. Muslim conquests of the Byzantine Eastern Roman lands sparked the Crusades, which also marked a period of cooperation between the Eastern and Western churches. This all ended in 1204, when Constantinople was sacked by a group of rogue Crusaders. This became the point of no return for the Byzantine Roman Empire. Although it would survive for 200 years more, they it was never regained their able to regain it's former glory.
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* ''Literature/TheAccursedKings'' is about France (and England, to a lesser extent) from the last decades of the High Middle Ages to the beginning of the HundredYearsWar.
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* The beginning of the English campaign of ''EmpireEarth'' is set during the Norman Conquest. It then reenact the HundredYearsWar and the NapoleonicWars.
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* KnightInShiningArmor: This was about the time that plate armor has started to become numerous enough to actually be employed en masse on the battlefield, before then most people just wore mail.
* KnightInShiningArmor: This was about the time that plate armor has started to become numerous enough to actually be employed en masse on the battlefield, before then most people just wore mail.
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* The main campaign in ''[[MedievalIITotalWar Medieval II: Total War]]'' starts shortly after the Norman Conquest of England (in fact, the game tutorial ''is'' the Norman Conquest of England) and the bulk of the game takes place in the High Middle Ages.
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* The main campaign in ''[[MedievalIITotalWar Medieval II: Total War]]'' ''VideoGame/MedievalIITotalWar'' starts shortly after the Norman Conquest of England (in fact, the game tutorial ''is'' the Norman Conquest of England) and the bulk of the game takes place in the High Middle Ages.
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* The {{Stronghold}} series (minus ''Legends'' and ''Crusader'') is set in an non-historical realistic High Middle Age England. ''Crusader'' is an heavily historically-based reenactement of the Crusades.
* The bulk of ''KnightsOfHonor'' play in the High Middle Ages. There's 3 starting points in time, and confusingly they are named Early, Middle and Late Middle Ages, but the dates don't really match up with Historical convention (the game's Early Middle Ages start at 1000 AD for instance).
* The bulk of ''KnightsOfHonor'' play in the High Middle Ages. There's 3 starting points in time, and confusingly they are named Early, Middle and Late Middle Ages, but the dates don't really match up with Historical convention (the game's Early Middle Ages start at 1000 AD for instance).
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* The {{Stronghold}} ''VideoGame/{{Stronghold}}'' series (minus ''Legends'' and ''Crusader'') is set in an non-historical realistic High Middle Age England. ''Crusader'' is an heavily historically-based reenactement of the Crusades.
* The bulk of''KnightsOfHonor'' ''VideoGame/KnightsOfHonor'' play in the High Middle Ages. There's 3 starting points in time, and confusingly they are named Early, Middle and Late Middle Ages, but the dates don't really match up with Historical convention (the game's Early Middle Ages start at 1000 AD for instance).
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Our story picks up where it left off, in 1066. The Normans, a group of Frenchmen, conquered modern day England from the ruling Anglo-Saxons. England had erupted into a succession crisis largely divided between the Vikings, who conquered the isles in the 800s, and the Anglo-Saxons, a group of slightly less Viking-ish but still pretty Viking-like peoples from Northern Germany. Although the Anglo-Saxons won at the famous Battle of Stamford Bridge, William of Normady saw the opportunity to further expand his lands. He invaded and swiftly conquered England. The Normans would, for some time, find it hard to hold on to their new conquests, as they suffered internal strife for nearly 100 years before things finally settled down and the modern, still existing kingdom of England we know today started to take shape.
Elsewhere, in continental Europe, the superstates of the Carolingian Empire began to breakdown. Otto I's coronation by the Pope in 962 marked the end of East Francia and the birth of the HolyRomanEmpire, which at this time was at the peak of its power. From there, the Empire would enter into a complicated relationship with the church that would culminate in the issue of Investiture. Officially, the Pope was above all monarchs in Western Europe, but since Otto's reign the Emperors had taken it upon themselves to appoint the various religious offices within Germany. Obviously, this made the Pope angry, and for the next few years or so internal turmoil erupted between those members of the Empire who supported the Church and those who supported the Emperor. This dividing factor would later be a drive for Protestantism in Germany, as many of the more secular princes would choose to leave the Catholic church. In 1122, the Concordat of Worms was signed. It essentially admitted that the Pope held authority over the Emperor, and it also sparked the decline of the Emperor's power in favor of the princes. This was complete in the 1250's when Frederick II died and for years the Empire struggled to find an heir. Eventually, local loyalties to the church or to the princes replaced loyalties to the Emperor, and he became little more than a figurehead ruling over a collective confederacy of infighting states. Despite its weakness, the Empire would still remain a major force in Europe, and it would continue to be the largest of the European kingdoms.
Their neighbor, France, was shaping up a bit better. France hit a low point with the election of Hugh Capet, the first King of France from outside the Carolingian dynasty. At this point, France was extremely decentralized, and the King held little power. This began to change with the ascension of Louis IV, who started a trend of growing monarchical power that would continue in France all the way to the French Revolution.
In Scandinavia, the former Vikings settled into more rigid, defined kingdoms and eventually Christianized. The Poles formed their own kingdom after Slavs migrated into lands the Germans had abandoned in the Migration Period. Lithuania also formed as a duchy, and would remain one of the last pagan kingdoms in Europe, famously leading it to war with the Teutonic Order and the Livonian Order. Hungary formed much in the same way, uniting various Slavic tribes (although claiming decent from the Hunnic Empire of Attila, hence the name). The few remaining Christian Iberian kingdoms were starting to carve away slowly at Moorish Spain, but it wouldn't be until the Late Middle Ages that they managed to retake it all. Merchant republics like Venice and Genoa were growing in power. Although they owned very little land compared to their neighbors, they were immensely rich and powerful because they controlled the primary trade routes of Western Europe. The KievianRus also rose in prominence, but it dissolved into quarreling minor principalities and was later conquered by the Mongols.
The period also saw the final decline of Roman power from which there would not be a recovery. Although the Eastern Roman Empire had outlasted its counterpart for hundreds of years, the rise of Islam brought a real challenge to its doorstep. Muslim conquests of the Byzantine lands sparked the Crusades, which also marked a period of cooperation between the Eastern and Western churches. This all ended in 1204, when Constantinople was sacked by a group of rogue Crusaders. This became the point of no return for the Byzantine Empire. Although it would survive for 200 years more, they never regained their former glory.
In the Middle East, the Muslims had past their peak, and while they continued to remain the most important scientific and intellectual area of the world, other areas were starting to catch up. China had always been advanced in its own ways, but its isolated and close-minded nature stopped it from achieving some of the advances that the Muslim world did. However, by the 1200s the two regions were nearly equal in technological development, and brutal wars against the European kingdoms were also devastating the Middle East. From this time, the Middle East would change. The political, intellectual, and cosmopolitan center of the Muslim World moved West away from Persia and Mesopotamia and closer to the Levant and Turkey. Eventually, the Ottoman Empire would crawl its way to dominance over the Muslim world.
Speaking of TheCrusades, they lasted throughout this entire period, but particularly after the mid-1100's they start to draw a lot of attention away from continental Europe. Although some very important things happened during the Crusades (such as the always common succession wars or the signing of the Magna Carta in 1215) they tend to make up the popular fiction of the era. In truth, the Crusades were big, even involving several monarchs of the time, but there was always something going on back home. The High Middle Ages saw the rise of knights as a martial nobility, and it typically involved stereotypical knightly things such as chivalry and tournaments. The economy was also improving, mostly due to agricultural yields. This brought greater stability to Europe, and increased crop yields also meant more specialization for workers. Things like banks, corporations, and workers unions (guilds at the time) originated in this area, usually evolving from ideas gained from trade with the Muslim empires. It also meant more blacksmiths, carpenters, stonemasons, jewelers, and other non-subsistence based careers. This in turn meant more products to buy and sell, better building techniques and more organized construction efforts (such as proper castles and churches), and advances in agricultural tools. It also meant there was room for an intellectual revival, since people now had time to devote to studies and scholasticism. Secular studies were on the rise, particularly of ancient Greco-Roman works that were later immortalized in the Renaissance. Universities even sprang up during this time, and all in all the world was becoming a more connected, advanced place. Things were on a stable recovery from TheLowMiddleAges.
And then the [[TheBlackDeath plague]] came. The virulent disease spread in Europe from 1346 to 1353, and it definitely hit Europe the hardest. Before its spread, the world was engulfed by the Mongol Empire, whose conquest entered the High Middle Ages in the running for "shittiest historical period ever". They added an estimated 70,000,000 dead on top of the 200,000,000 possible dead from the Black Death. The Mongol's conquered an area spreading from the Sea of Japan to the Baltic Sea, sacking the city of Baghdad in one of the most destructive sieges in history and deliberating spreading the plague as a biological weapon. They even came close to conquering Europe, before being stopped for as of yet unknown reasons. It is rumored the Mongol's had to return home to elect a successor, but this idealized view is often discounted in favor of more realistic scenarios. What is known is that the Mongol Empire spread the plague, both on purpose and on accident. Their uniting of Asia allowed easier travel through the whole continent, which meant an easier chance for the disease to spread. Trade galleys from the Middle East carried infected individuals to the Italian cities, and from there the disease disseminated on various trade routes. Europe suffered greater than most to the plague, as their understanding of medicine was far more limited than the rest of the world. This resulted in possibly over half the population dying from the disease. Only isolated areas far from trade routes, such as the Polish heartlands, were spared from the disease. '''Agnolo di Tura''' recounts the Black Death:
->"The mortality in Siena began in May. It was a cruel and horrible thing. . . . It seemed that almost everyone became stupefied seeing the pain. It is impossible for the human tongue to recount the awful truth. Indeed, one who did not see such horribleness can be called blessed. The victims died almost immediately. They would swell beneath the armpits and in the groin, and fall over while talking. Father abandoned child, wife husband, one brother another; for this illness seemed to strike through breath and sight. And so they died. None could be found to bury the dead for money or friendship. Members of a household brought their dead to a ditch as best they could, without priest, without divine offices. In many places in Siena great pits were dug and piled deep with the multitude of dead. And they died by the hundreds, both day and night, and all were thrown in those ditches and covered with earth. And as soon as those ditches were filled, more were dug. I, Agnolo di Tura . . . buried my five children with my own hands. . . . And so many died that all believed it was the end of the world."
To add to this, the food surplus of before was strained due to global cooling, meaning famines erupted across Europe and elsewhere. Any attempts to halt the export of food or keep the economy from run-away inflation failed, and before long Europe's economy had completely collapsed. Many individuals turned to banditry to escape poverty and famine. Order gave way to chaos as the crown could no longer enforce its own laws. However, despite its far reaching effects, the Black Death did not completely reset the progress of the last two centuries. Europe would rise again, while the Mongol invasions had set the world back enough for Europe to catch up and even surpass them. But that is the story for [[TheLateMiddleAges another time.]] [[/folder]]
Our story picks up where it left off, in 1066. The Normans, a group of Frenchmen, conquered modern day England from the ruling Anglo-Saxons. England had erupted into a succession crisis largely divided between the Vikings, who conquered the isles in the 800s, and the Anglo-Saxons, a group of slightly less Viking-ish but still pretty Viking-like peoples from Northern Germany. Although the Anglo-Saxons won at the famous Battle of Stamford Bridge, William of Normady saw the opportunity to further expand his lands. He invaded and swiftly conquered England. The Normans would, for some time, find it hard to hold on to their new conquests, as they suffered internal strife for nearly 100 years before things finally settled down and the modern, still existing kingdom of England we know today started to take shape.
Elsewhere, in continental Europe, the superstates of the Carolingian Empire began to breakdown. Otto I's coronation by the Pope in 962 marked the end of East Francia and the birth of the HolyRomanEmpire, which at this time was at the peak of its power. From there, the Empire would enter into a complicated relationship with the church that would culminate in the issue of Investiture. Officially, the Pope was above all monarchs in Western Europe, but since Otto's reign the Emperors had taken it upon themselves to appoint the various religious offices within Germany. Obviously, this made the Pope angry, and for the next few years or so internal turmoil erupted between those members of the Empire who supported the Church and those who supported the Emperor. This dividing factor would later be a drive for Protestantism in Germany, as many of the more secular princes would choose to leave the Catholic church. In 1122, the Concordat of Worms was signed. It essentially admitted that the Pope held authority over the Emperor, and it also sparked the decline of the Emperor's power in favor of the princes. This was complete in the 1250's when Frederick II died and for years the Empire struggled to find an heir. Eventually, local loyalties to the church or to the princes replaced loyalties to the Emperor, and he became little more than a figurehead ruling over a collective confederacy of infighting states. Despite its weakness, the Empire would still remain a major force in Europe, and it would continue to be the largest of the European kingdoms.
Their neighbor, France, was shaping up a bit better. France hit a low point with the election of Hugh Capet, the first King of France from outside the Carolingian dynasty. At this point, France was extremely decentralized, and the King held little power. This began to change with the ascension of Louis IV, who started a trend of growing monarchical power that would continue in France all the way to the French Revolution.
In Scandinavia, the former Vikings settled into more rigid, defined kingdoms and eventually Christianized. The Poles formed their own kingdom after Slavs migrated into lands the Germans had abandoned in the Migration Period. Lithuania also formed as a duchy, and would remain one of the last pagan kingdoms in Europe, famously leading it to war with the Teutonic Order and the Livonian Order. Hungary formed much in the same way, uniting various Slavic tribes (although claiming decent from the Hunnic Empire of Attila, hence the name). The few remaining Christian Iberian kingdoms were starting to carve away slowly at Moorish Spain, but it wouldn't be until the Late Middle Ages that they managed to retake it all. Merchant republics like Venice and Genoa were growing in power. Although they owned very little land compared to their neighbors, they were immensely rich and powerful because they controlled the primary trade routes of Western Europe. The KievianRus also rose in prominence, but it dissolved into quarreling minor principalities and was later conquered by the Mongols.
The period also saw the final decline of Roman power from which there would not be a recovery. Although the Eastern Roman Empire had outlasted its counterpart for hundreds of years, the rise of Islam brought a real challenge to its doorstep. Muslim conquests of the Byzantine lands sparked the Crusades, which also marked a period of cooperation between the Eastern and Western churches. This all ended in 1204, when Constantinople was sacked by a group of rogue Crusaders. This became the point of no return for the Byzantine Empire. Although it would survive for 200 years more, they never regained their former glory.
In the Middle East, the Muslims had past their peak, and while they continued to remain the most important scientific and intellectual area of the world, other areas were starting to catch up. China had always been advanced in its own ways, but its isolated and close-minded nature stopped it from achieving some of the advances that the Muslim world did. However, by the 1200s the two regions were nearly equal in technological development, and brutal wars against the European kingdoms were also devastating the Middle East. From this time, the Middle East would change. The political, intellectual, and cosmopolitan center of the Muslim World moved West away from Persia and Mesopotamia and closer to the Levant and Turkey. Eventually, the Ottoman Empire would crawl its way to dominance over the Muslim world.
Speaking of TheCrusades, they lasted throughout this entire period, but particularly after the mid-1100's they start to draw a lot of attention away from continental Europe. Although some very important things happened during the Crusades (such as the always common succession wars or the signing of the Magna Carta in 1215) they tend to make up the popular fiction of the era. In truth, the Crusades were big, even involving several monarchs of the time, but there was always something going on back home. The High Middle Ages saw the rise of knights as a martial nobility, and it typically involved stereotypical knightly things such as chivalry and tournaments. The economy was also improving, mostly due to agricultural yields. This brought greater stability to Europe, and increased crop yields also meant more specialization for workers. Things like banks, corporations, and workers unions (guilds at the time) originated in this area, usually evolving from ideas gained from trade with the Muslim empires. It also meant more blacksmiths, carpenters, stonemasons, jewelers, and other non-subsistence based careers. This in turn meant more products to buy and sell, better building techniques and more organized construction efforts (such as proper castles and churches), and advances in agricultural tools. It also meant there was room for an intellectual revival, since people now had time to devote to studies and scholasticism. Secular studies were on the rise, particularly of ancient Greco-Roman works that were later immortalized in the Renaissance. Universities even sprang up during this time, and all in all the world was becoming a more connected, advanced place. Things were on a stable recovery from TheLowMiddleAges.
And then the [[TheBlackDeath plague]] came. The virulent disease spread in Europe from 1346 to 1353, and it definitely hit Europe the hardest. Before its spread, the world was engulfed by the Mongol Empire, whose conquest entered the High Middle Ages in the running for "shittiest historical period ever". They added an estimated 70,000,000 dead on top of the 200,000,000 possible dead from the Black Death. The Mongol's conquered an area spreading from the Sea of Japan to the Baltic Sea, sacking the city of Baghdad in one of the most destructive sieges in history and deliberating spreading the plague as a biological weapon. They even came close to conquering Europe, before being stopped for as of yet unknown reasons. It is rumored the Mongol's had to return home to elect a successor, but this idealized view is often discounted in favor of more realistic scenarios. What is known is that the Mongol Empire spread the plague, both on purpose and on accident. Their uniting of Asia allowed easier travel through the whole continent, which meant an easier chance for the disease to spread. Trade galleys from the Middle East carried infected individuals to the Italian cities, and from there the disease disseminated on various trade routes. Europe suffered greater than most to the plague, as their understanding of medicine was far more limited than the rest of the world. This resulted in possibly over half the population dying from the disease. Only isolated areas far from trade routes, such as the Polish heartlands, were spared from the disease. '''Agnolo di Tura''' recounts the Black Death:
->"The mortality in Siena began in May. It was a cruel and horrible thing. . . . It seemed that almost everyone became stupefied seeing the pain. It is impossible for the human tongue to recount the awful truth. Indeed, one who did not see such horribleness can be called blessed. The victims died almost immediately. They would swell beneath the armpits and in the groin, and fall over while talking. Father abandoned child, wife husband, one brother another; for this illness seemed to strike through breath and sight. And so they died. None could be found to bury the dead for money or friendship. Members of a household brought their dead to a ditch as best they could, without priest, without divine offices. In many places in Siena great pits were dug and piled deep with the multitude of dead. And they died by the hundreds, both day and night, and all were thrown in those ditches and covered with earth. And as soon as those ditches were filled, more were dug. I, Agnolo di Tura . . . buried my five children with my own hands. . . . And so many died that all believed it was the end of the world."
To add to this, the food surplus of before was strained due to global cooling, meaning famines erupted across Europe and elsewhere. Any attempts to halt the export of food or keep the economy from run-away inflation failed, and before long Europe's economy had completely collapsed. Many individuals turned to banditry to escape poverty and famine. Order gave way to chaos as the crown could no longer enforce its own laws. However, despite its far reaching effects, the Black Death did not completely reset the progress of the last two centuries. Europe would rise again, while the Mongol invasions had set the world back enough for Europe to catch up and even surpass them. But that is the story for [[TheLateMiddleAges another time.]] [[/folder]]
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* The High Middle Ages are probably the most popular era with the creative collective of the German magazin ''[[ComicBook/{{Mosaik}}'':
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** During the ''Digedags'' era, the protagonists travelled to the 13th century, where they met [[BreakoutCharacter Ritter Runkel]].
** The [[ComicBook/DieAbrafaxe Abrafaxe]] came to the 1270s during the final third of the Don Ferrando arc. After going through Palestine, Egypt and Mesopotamia the Don disappeared and the Abrafaxe continued their journey via India, Malaya and Japan before reaching [[DynastiesFromShangToQing Yuan Dynasty China]] in 1282 (January 1983-December 1991). Following that a leap in time brings them back to 1176, around the time of Emperor Frederick Barbarossa's defeat in the battle of Legnano (No. 193-207). Much later they return for the Templars arc (No. 358-381, set ca. 1118), which involves the beginnings of TheKnightsTemplar and a search for the treasure of Prester John. It is followed by the Johanna arc (No. 382-405, set ca. 1250), in which the Abrafaxe meet Albertus Magnus and encounter Nicolas Flamel (who had appeared under a different name in the Templars arc).
* The High Middle Ages are probably the most popular era with the creative collective of the German magazin ''[[ComicBook/{{Mosaik}}'':
** During the ''Digedags'' era, the protagonists travelled to the 13th century, where they met [[BreakoutCharacter Ritter Runkel]].
** The [[ComicBook/DieAbrafaxe Abrafaxe]] came to the 1270s during the final third of the Don Ferrando arc. After going through Palestine, Egypt and Mesopotamia the Don disappeared and the Abrafaxe continued their journey via India, Malaya and Japan before reaching [[DynastiesFromShangToQing Yuan Dynasty China]] in 1282 (January 1983-December 1991). Following that a leap in time brings them back to 1176, around the time of Emperor Frederick Barbarossa's defeat in the battle of Legnano (No. 193-207). Much later they return for the Templars arc (No. 358-381, set ca. 1118), which involves the beginnings of TheKnightsTemplar and a search for the treasure of Prester John. It is followed by the Johanna arc (No. 382-405, set ca. 1250), in which the Abrafaxe meet Albertus Magnus and encounter Nicolas Flamel (who had appeared under a different name in the Templars arc).
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In actual history, this is the high spot between the Vikings and the Black Death. The modern nations began to take shape, and with them the foundations of the legal system and government bureaucracy. The first great European universities were founded as a renaissance began flickering into life, and then disaster struck. A combination of internal strife and climatic disaster, capped by the Black Death, brought the brief golden age to an end. Whole villages were swallowed up by the advancing wilds as civilisation retreated.
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In actual history, this is the high spot between the Vikings and the Black Death.TheBlackDeath. The modern nations began to take shape, and with them the foundations of the legal system and government bureaucracy. The first great European universities were founded as a renaissance began flickering into life, and then disaster struck. A combination of internal strife and climatic disaster, capped by the Black Death, brought the brief golden age to an end. Whole villages were swallowed up by the advancing wilds as civilisation retreated.
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* HistoricalDomainCharacter: Henry II of England, Eleanor of Aquitaine, and RichardTheLionHeart appear in a number of works set in this period.
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* ''Literature/TheAccursedKings'' is about France (and England, in a lesser extend) from the last decades of the High Middle Ages to the beginning of the HundredYearsWar.
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In actual history, this is the high spot between the Vikings and the Black Death. The modern nations began to take shape, and with them the foundations of the legal system and government bureaucracy. The first great European universities were founded as a renaissance began flickering into life, and then disaster struck. A combination of internal strife and climactic disaster, capped by the Black Death, brought the brief golden age to an end. Whole villages were swallowed up by the advancing wilds as civilisation retreated.
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In actual history, this is the high spot between the Vikings and the Black Death. The modern nations began to take shape, and with them the foundations of the legal system and government bureaucracy. The first great European universities were founded as a renaissance began flickering into life, and then disaster struck. A combination of internal strife and climactic climatic disaster, capped by the Black Death, brought the brief golden age to an end. Whole villages were swallowed up by the advancing wilds as civilisation retreated.
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* ParadoxInteractive's ''VideoGame/CrusaderKings'' FourX games. The base games both start at the very beginning of the Norman Conquest and run up through 1453, the historical fall of Constantinople, though expansions to the sequel extend the timeline back into the DarkAges.
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* ParadoxInteractive's ''VideoGame/CrusaderKings'' FourX games. The base games both start at the very beginning of the Norman Conquest and run up through 1453, the historical fall of Constantinople, though expansions to the sequel extend the timeline back into the DarkAges.DarkAgeEurope.
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* ParadoxInteractive's ''CrusaderKings'' ''VideoGame/CrusaderKings'' FourX games. The base games both start at the very beginning of the Norman Conquest and run up through 1453, the historical fall of Constantinople, though expansions to the sequel extend the timeline back into the DarkAges.
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* ParadoxInteractive's ''CrusaderKings'' FourX games. The base games both start at the very beginning of the Norman Conquest and run up through 1453, the historical fall of Constantinople.
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* ParadoxInteractive's ''CrusaderKings'' FourX games. The base games both start at the very beginning of the Norman Conquest and run up through 1453, the historical fall of Constantinople.Constantinople, though expansions to the sequel extend the timeline back into the DarkAges.
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WARNING: Do not confuse with the French "Haut Moyen Age", which is a phrase literally meaning the same thing as "High Middle Ages" but refers to the period before (roughly from 450 AD to 1000 AD).
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WARNING: Do not confuse with the French "Haut Moyen Age", which is a phrase literally meaning the same thing as "High Middle Ages" but refers to the period before (roughly from 450 AD to 1000 AD).(TheLowMiddleAges).
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* The ''Literautre/{{Brother Cadfael}}'' series.
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* The standard start date for ''TabletopGame/ArsMagica'' is 1220, and the supernatural side of the setting (apart from the [[PlayerCharacter Hermetic magi]] themselves) is largely based on the folklore of the time.
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* ''FirstKnight''
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* ''FirstKnight''''Film/FirstKnight''
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The setting is likely to be a [[TheThemeParkVersion mythologized]] UsefulNotes/{{Britain}} or UsefulNotes/{{France}}, though there are examples from farther afield. [[UsefulNotes/{{Israel}} Jerusalem]], which had pretty much been ignored since BiblicalTimes will now also be used as the stage for all sorts of spectacular battles involving scimitar-wielding [[ArabianNightsDays Saracens]] and sinisterly handsome [[TheKnightsTemplar Knights Templar]].
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The setting is likely to be a [[TheThemeParkVersion mythologized]] UsefulNotes/{{Britain}} or UsefulNotes/{{France}}, though there are examples from farther afield. [[UsefulNotes/{{Israel}} Jerusalem]], which had pretty much been ignored since BiblicalTimes BiblicalTimes, will now also be used as the stage for all sorts of spectacular battles involving scimitar-wielding [[ArabianNightsDays Saracens]] and sinisterly handsome [[TheKnightsTemplar Knights Templar]].
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* WarriorMonk: Not only were there may militant churchmen like Bishop Turpin in ''The Song of Roland'', but this was the era of the military religious orders such as TheKnightsHospitallers, TheKnightsTemplar, and TheTeutonicKnights.
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* WarriorMonk: Not only were there may many militant churchmen like Bishop Turpin in ''The Song of Roland'', but this was the era of the military religious orders such as TheKnightsHospitallers, TheKnightsTemplar, and TheTeutonicKnights.
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* Creator/WhiteWolf's ''Dark Ages'' games, set in the 12th-13th centuries of the ''TabletopGame/OldWorldOfDarkness''.
* Creator/WhiteWolf's ''Dark Ages'' games, set in the 12th-13th centuries of the ''TabletopGame/OldWorldOfDarkness''.
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* Most of Sharon Kay Penman's historical fiction is set in this time period.
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* The ''Videogame/Europe1200'' and ''[[http://forums.taleworlds.com/index.php/board,167.0.html 1257 A.D.]]'' {{Game Mod}}s for ''Videogame/MountAndBlade''.
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* The ''Videogame/Europe1200'' ''Videogame/{{Europe1200}}'' and ''[[http://forums.taleworlds.com/index.php/board,167.0.html 1257 A.D.]]'' {{Game Mod}}s for ''Videogame/MountAndBlade''.
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* The ''Videogame/Europe1200'' and ''[[http://forums.taleworlds.com/index.php/board,167.0.html 1257 A.D.]]'' {{Game Mod}}s for ''Videogame/MountAndBlade''.
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* LandOfOneCity/MerchantCity : This was when the merchants were ariseing to form a third class to compete with the warriors and priesthood for power, often founding states of their own independant or semi-independant of the aristocracy, and even beating them on the battlefield.
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* LandOfOneCity/MerchantCity LandOfOneCity/ MerchantCity : This was when the merchants were ariseing to form a third class to compete with the warriors and priesthood for power, often founding states of their own independant or semi-independant of the aristocracy, and even beating them on the battlefield.
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* LandOfOneCity/MerchantCity : This was when the merchants were ariseing to form a third class to compete with the warriors and priesthood for power, often founding states of their own independant or semi-independant of the aristocracy, and even beating them on the battlefield.
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* ''Literature/TheAccursedKings'' is about France (and England, in a lesser extend) from the last decades of the High Middle Ages to the beginning of the HundredYearsWar.
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* ParadoxInteractive's ''CrusaderKings'' FourX games.
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* ParadoxInteractive's ''CrusaderKings'' FourX games. The base games both start at the very beginning of the Norman Conquest and run up through 1453, the historical fall of Constantinople.
