the Middle Ages

noun

: the period of European history from about A.D. 500 to about 1500

Examples of the Middle Ages in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

According to legends that circulated in the Middle Ages, the Codex Gigas was created by a monk in Podlažice who sinned and was sentenced to death by immurement—live entombment in a walled enclosure. — Laura Payne, Encyclopedia Britannica, 30 Oct. 2026

With its roots in the Middle Ages, a four-poster bed is a good place to start—and the one in interior designer Hollie Bowden’s project in Winchester, England is truly spellbinding. — Francesca Perry, Vogue, 29 Oct. 2026

In this world, the cast—theater kids, high school athletes, and fantasy nerds—treats each performance as a live-action time machine to the Middle Ages. — Alessandra Schade, Vanity Fair, 28 Oct. 2026

Even Plato, Aristotle, Aquinas, and the other great thinkers of antiquity and the Middle Ages never developed anything resembling our modern understanding of intellectual property. — Coke Morgan Stewart, Fortune, 27 Oct. 2026

Rhymes for the Middle Ages

• bacteriophages
• cages
• gages
• gauges
• mages
• pages
• phages
• sages
• stages
• wages
• disengages
• macrophages