What Is Mediaeval?

There's an awful lot that happened in those 500 years between us and henry the eighth. You might think about a kind of pivotal moment that exemplifies bigger changes tha been going on in the background. But there are plenty of other changes that are just as important, but much less easily tied to particular moments. And those are some of the themes that bring us to that last question about about mediaeval. Did people know they were mediaeval? Did they think they were mo more modern than classical peoples? Well, mediaeval is a term that was not used in the middle ages. It was created in the renaissance. Mediaeval meant the time between antiquity and a now, which is implied