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Era of the crusades, [[Robin Hood]], and fat, lecherous (but good hearted) friars. Also home to [[Our Dragons Are Different|dragons]], [[Squishy Wizard|wizards]], [[Knight in Shining Armor|knights in shining armour]], [[Everything's Better with Princesses|beautiful princesses]] with big headdresses and tall, spirally gothic architecture. Expect to see a [[Corrupt Church]]man or two wandering the landscape [[Burn the Witch|burning witches]], heretics, and pretty much ''anyone'' who doesn't agree with [[Knight Templar|them]]. Also expect to see people comically dropping left and right from [[The Plague|the Black Death]]. ''("Bring out your deeeeaaaaa----" *Fall* *Splut!*'')
If the story does not take place in some unspecified kingdom, the setting is likely to be a [[You Fail History Forever|mythologized]] [[Britain]] or [[France]], though [[Israel|Jerusalem]], which had pretty much been ignored since [[Biblical Times]] will now also be used as the stage for all sorts of flashy battles involving cutlass-wielding [[Arabian Nights Days|Turks]] and ruggedly handsome [[The Knights Templar|Knights Templar]].
For the (slightly) more historically accurate version of this trope, check out its constituent periods:
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* [[The Knights Hospitallers]]
* [[The Knights Templar]]: The original [[Knight Templar]] characters came from this era.
* [[Medieval Morons]]
* [[Nice Hat]]: When the tall headdresses, including the famous steeple headdress (or ''hennin''), were in vogue.
* [[Pimped-Out Dress]]: Lots of [[Pretty in Mink|fur]], silk, and velvet for the nobility (though the last was not actually invented until very late in the period).
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** It also should be noted that it took several centuries after the fall of the Roman Empire for the general population to accept that the Empire was really gone. This applies to both the eastern and western empires.
* [[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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* ''[[Doomsday Book]]''
* Michel Pagel ''Le roi d'août'' (''The King of August''), a novelized version of the life of Philip II Augustus with fantastical elements (dryads especially). Quite historically accurate (except for the obvious Fantasy).
* ''[[
* ''[[Catherine, Called Birdy]]'' and ''The Midwife's Apprentice'', both by Karen Cushman.
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== [[Tabletop Games]] ==
* ''[[Dungeons
== [[Video Games]] ==
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