Historians generally consider
the Middle Ages to have lasted from the fall of Rome to the
Renaissance, approximately 400-1400
ce. Furthermore, the "Middle Ages" can be subdivided into early
(the Dark Ages), middle (the High Middle Ages) and
late periods. This was a span of time in which the fortunes of
the church--There was only one single, Christian church in Western
Europe--reached their peak in the West, as the church dominated almost
every aspect of everyday life. By the fifteenth century, that
church control had begun to wane. Feudalism was the prevailing
political system throughout most of this period. But by the
fourteenth century the growth of monarchies had begun to displace the
feudal system.
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