Middle Ages in Europe

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The event that I have selected to study and present is the middle ages in Europe. This event was basically when Europe started to advance from the dark ages to the Renaissance, and then progressed to the present age, thus being entitled the Middle Ages. Before actually looking into what types of events happened during the Middle Ages, it would be best if we actually defined, and gave a period of time from which they spanned, for this helps for us to get a better picture of what was actually going on in our minds. The Middle Ages was a period of time that occurred between the Dark Ages, and the Renaissance, specifically tied to Europe. The Middle Ages themselves actually occurred roughly between the 5th Century, to the 15th Century, roughly, however, the Middle Ages themselves actually started ending in various places about 150 years before that, and just started transforming in progressive stages. Some of the most important events that occurred, were the transformation in art, the innovations in architecture, the Crusades, Joan of Arcadia, the spread of the Roman Catholic Church, and the growth and spread of towns. In the dark ages, art was dull, flat, and two-dimensional. The images emphasized figures of importance by increasing the size of them, or placing them in a location that would allow the viewer to know of their importance, such as in the middle of the image. The images would have little or no sense of direction, depth, or time, and pictures could even be so confusing that a single picture could literally tell a story. As the Middle Ages progressed, art started to change, but it didn’t change in and of itself, its change was directly linked to the progress of science, and scientific discoveries of influential people. Art changed, from having only a religious viewpoint, and impact, and began to encompass a wider spectrum, that included science, and
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