| NOUN | time | Middle Ages, Dark Ages | the period of history between classical antiquity and the Italian Renaissance |
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| Meaning | The period of history between classical antiquity and the Italian Renaissance. | |
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| Synonym | Dark Ages | |
| Category of | Cockaigne | (Middle Ages) an imaginary land of luxury and idleness |
| Iseult, Isolde | (Middle Ages) the bride of the king of Cornwall who (according to legend) fell in love with the king's nephew (Tristan) after they mistakenly drank a love potion that left them eternally in love with each other | |
| Oberson | (Middle Ages) the king of the fairies and husband of Titania in medieval folklore | |
| Titania | (Middle Ages) the queen of the fairies in medieval folklore | |
| Tristan, Tristram | (Middle Ages) the nephew of the king of Cornwall who (according to legend) fell in love with his uncle's bride (Iseult) after they mistakenly drank a love potion that left them eternally in love with each other | |
| bloodletting | formerly used as a treatment to reduce excess blood (one of the four humors of medieval medicine) | |
| cannon | (Middle Ages) a cylindrical piece of armor plate to protect the arm | |
| chain mail, ring mail, mail, chain armor, chain armour, ring armor, ring armour | (Middle Ages) flexible armor made of interlinked metal rings | |
| courtly love | (Middle Ages) a highly conventionalized code of conduct for lovers | |
| esquire | (Middle Ages) an attendant and shield bearer to a knight | |
| habergeon | (Middle Ages) a light sleeveless coat of chain mail worn under the hauberk | |
| humor, humour | (Middle Ages) one of the four fluids in the body whose balance was believed to determine your emotional and physical state | |
| knight errantry | (Middle Ages) the code of conduct observed by a knight errant who is wandering in search of deeds of chivalry | |
| miniature, illumination | painting or drawing included in a book (especially in illuminated medieval manuscripts) | |
| palatine, palsgrave | (Middle Ages) the lord of a palatinate who exercised sovereign powers over his lands | |
| pavis, pavise | (Middle Ages) a large heavy oblong shield protecting the whole body | |
| quadrivium | (Middle Ages) a higher division of the curriculum in a medieval university / university involving arithmetic and music and geometry and astronomy | |
| serf, helot, villein | (Middle Ages) a person who is bound to the land and owned by the feudal lord | |
| trivium | (Middle Ages) an introductory curriculum at a medieval university / university involving grammar and logic and rhetoric | |
| Instance of | historic period, age | An era of history having some distinctive feature |
| Part of | history | The aggregate of past events |
| Spanish | edad media, Edad Media, medievo, medioevo | |
| Catalan | edat mitjana, Edat Mitjana | |
| Adjectives | medieval, mediaeval | relating to or belonging to the Middle Ages |
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