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TheLateMiddleAges

Unfit for any place but hell...

Pretty much the entire Fourteenth and Fifteenth Centuries, though in southern Europe this overlaps with The Renaissance. This is the period where chivalry is dying, and Macchiavellian nobles are killing off kings, queens, peasants, and each other with gusto (especially if they happen to be relatives), with recurrences of The Plague generally finishing off any survivors. This is the age of the Dance of Death, the Hundred Years War, the Wars of the Roses, The Spanish Inquisition, the early witchcraft trials, and Hieronymus Bosch. It just got as dark and edgy as Dark Age Europe again. Still, a common feature of fictions will be an idealistic character who looks forward to a day when society has left all this mediaeval darkness behind. (This character often is killed.)

The typical clothing will include Nice Hats, often of disturbingly complicated structure, and surprisingly low necklines among the women; among the men, yards and yards of cloth in the sleeves and disturbingly high hemlines. Both generously include lots of fur and velvet, at least among the nobility — and lots of dirt, at least among the peasants. Splotches of blood are a not infrequent addition for both.

Outside certain aspects of The Renaissance, this is generally not regarded as a happy time — and even that period tends to be darkened by poisoning Popes, manipulating courtesans, and murderous feuds among the noble clans.


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  • Assassin's Creed II
  • Europa Universalis games typically begin in this timeframe.
  • Medieval: Total War and its remake deal with this period (as well as the rest of the middle ages). The late period is characterized by combat with heavily armored units, but also with gunpowder and early cannons - and prompts some factions to begin thinking of crossing the Atlantic Ocean.