Historical Dictionary of Renaissance

Middle Ages

Middle Ages: Historical term used in all Western languages to des-ignate the thousand-year period from the disintegration of the ancient Roman political and social system in the fourth and fifth centuries to the beginning of the Renaissance. The term was totally unknown to medieval people themselves, who conceived themselves as still liv-ing at the latter end of the ancient Roman world. It was coined in the 14th and 15th centuries by the humanists of the Renaissance, begin-ning with the most famous early humanist, Petrarch, to characterize an age of decay, barbarism, and inferior civilization lying between two happy ages of high civilization, the ancient classical world and the new world of cultural rebirth (the "Renaissance") which they thought they were bringing into being in their own time. Although the pejorative implication of the term (implying an inferior age lying be-tween two good ones) is totally unjust to the creative and dynamic so-ciety of the actual Middle Ages, the term itself has endured, now used mainly as a neutral label for the whole period of history but still oc-casionally used with pejorative implications in popular discourse.

Middle Ages — noun /ˌmɪd.l̩ ˈeɪ.dʒɪz/ The period of time in Europe between the decline of the Roman Empire and the revival of letters (the Renaissance) or, according to , the period beginning with the sixth and ending with the fifteenth century. She… … Wiktionary
Middle Ages — • A term commonly used to designate that period of European history between the Fall of the Roman Empire and about the middle of the fifteenth century Catholic Encyclopedia. Kevin Knight. 2006. Middle Ages Middle Ages … Catholic encyclopedia
Middle Ages — Middle Mid dle (m[i^]d d l), a. [OE. middel, AS. middel; akin to D. middel, OHG. muttil, G. mittel. [root]271. See {Mid}, a.] [1913 Webster] 1. Equally distant from the extreme either of a number of things or of one thing; mean; medial; as, the… … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
Middle Ages — noun; pl. средние века; средневековье … Англо-русский словарь Мюллера
middle ages — 1> средние века; средневековье … Новый большой англо-русский словарь

Middle Ages — For other uses, see Middle Ages (disambiguation). Medieval and Mediaeval redirect here. For other uses, see Medieval (disambiguation) … Wikipedia
Middle Ages — the time in European history between classical antiquity and the Italian Renaissance (from about 500 A.D. to about 1350): sometimes restricted to the later part of this period (after 1100) and sometimes extended to 1450 or 1500. [1715 25; pl. of… … Universalium
Middle Ages — средние века, средневековье средние века; средневековье … Большой англо-русский и русско-английский словарь
Middle Ages — noun plural Date: 1616 the period of European history from about A.D. 500 to about 1500 … New Collegiate Dictionary
Middle Ages — 1) Общая лексика: средневековье, средние века 2) Религия: (The period of European history from about 500 to about 1500) средние века … Универсальный англо-русский словарь

The War's Voices, 1974 — Every year, on May 9 in Moscow, in the Sverdlov Square at the Bolshoi Theater Great Patriotic War (Soviet people's participation in World War II in 1941-1945) veterans gather. 20-year-old young people also come to that place, they want to imagine..to hear the war's voices.
Lenin And Time., 1980 — A documentary film about bringing Lenin's ideas into life.
Road To People., 1983 — A film about leisure-time of Moscow citizens, about industrial enterprises of the capital, about the aid to supported collective farms, about activity of Moscow educational institutions and about Communist Party district committees and first committee secretaries who take part in the above-mentioned activities.