Late Middle Ages
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The late Middle Ages or late medieval period was the period of European history lasting from 1300 to 1500 AD. The late Middle Ages followed the High Middle Ages and preceded Early modern Europe.
Europe and the Mediterranean region, c. 1354
From the Apocalypse in a Biblia Pauperum illuminated at Erfurt around the time of the Great Famine. Death sits astride a lion whose long tail ends in a ball of flame (Hell). Famine points to her hungry mouth.
The Battle of Agincourt, 15th-century miniature, Enguerrand de Monstrelet
Silver mining and processing in Kutná Hora, Bohemia, 15th century
Early modern Europe
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Early modern Europe, also referred to as the post-medieval period, is the period of European history between the end of the Middle Ages and the beginning of the Industrial Revolution, roughly the mid
Late Middle Ages
…late medieval period was the period of European history lasting from 1300 to 1500 AD. The late Middle Ages followed the High Middle Ages and preceded Early modern Europe (and in much of Europe, the Renaissance). Around 1350, centuries of prosperity and growth in Europe came to a halt. A series of famines and plagues…
Europe about 1560, as in the 1923 William Shepherd Atlas
Henry VIII broke England's ties with the Catholic Church, becoming the sole head of the English Church.
A Philosopher Lecturing on the Orrery, c. 1766
Treaty of Westphalia allowed Calvinism to be freely exercised.