Transition from antiquity to the Middle Ages?

Hello, Timey!

I am always happy when someone is interested in the Middle Ages and I can understand your question well. I don’t want to take you off with a wiki entry and try to answer.

Chapter 1 – The term “medium age”

The Middle Ages is a quite new word to simply describe an era which was just after ancient times and before the new time, modern times. People in the Middle Ages did not say that of course. For her time was the modern, new time.

The historians have described the Middle Ages roughly from 500 to 1500. They simply took historical events. At the beginning the collapse of Rome. At the end of the current, e.g. with the book printing.

Chapter 2 – Change

The Roman world empire broke into two parts, the Weströmian empire ended just before 500. With that, people say, the antiquity ended. Point. Simpel, right? But it’s not that easy, because for the people at that time they didn’t ring an alarm clock to New Year’s Eve, and the people didn’t say, “Hey, guys! Throw your sandals away – now we are medieval!”

In reality, life has only changed very slowly, and for the people it was perhaps not that easy to remember.

But the “loss” of current marks the end of antiquity.