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''Cf.'' [[Ye Goode Olde Days]] for the highly romanticized version, and [[The Dung Ages]] for the depressingly bleak version. When history has been abandoned altogether, you have probably made the epic voyage to [[The Time of Myths]].
 
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=== Popular tropes associated with this time period are ===
* [[Black Knight]]
* [[Christianity Is Catholic]]: Though it would eventually be throughout most of Central and Western Europe, in Eastern Europe and the Near East, Orthodoxy was more prevalent; yet is much less common in fictional works. (And officially, the final split came in 1054, and reunification was seen as a viable possibility until 1204.)
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* [[Ye Goode Olde Days]]
* [[Ye Olde Butcherede Englishe]]: Though actually rarer than one might expect in most serious modern works, 'tis more common in older ones. ([[Ivanhoe|"'˜By the light of Heaven!' said Prince John to Hubert, 'an thou suffer that runagate knave to overcome thee, thou art worthy of the gallows!'"]])
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=== Works set in this time period include ===
 
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== [[Comic Books]] ==
* ''[[Demon Knights]]''