The Late Middle Ages: Difference between revisions

[[File:TheLateMiddleAges.jpg|frame|[[Richard III|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 [[Niccolo Machiavelli|Macchiavellian]] nobles are killing off kings, queens, peasants, and each other with gusto (especially if they happen to be [[Big Screwed-Up Family|relatives]]), with recurrences of [[The Plague]] generally finishing off any survivors. This is the age of the [[wikipedia:Danse macabre|Dance of Death]], the Hundred Years War, the Wars of the Roses, [[The Spanish Inquisition]], the early [[Burn the Witch|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. [[Wide-Eyed Idealist|(This character often is killed.)]]