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The recovery period after Rome's fall lasted from 500-900 C.E. The missionary work in northern Europe also started at this time.
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The Reconquista was a period of nearly 800 years in the Middle Ages during which several Christian kingdoms of the Iberian Peninsula succeeded in retaking (and repopulating) the Iberian Peninsula from the Muslim Al-Andalus Province.
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The Norman Conquest of England began in 1066 with the invasion of the Kingdom of England by the troops of William, Duke of Normandy, and his victory at the battle of hastings.
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Peter Abelard was a medieval French scholastic philosopher, theologian, and preeminant logician. The story of his affair with Heloise has become legendary.
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The Crusades were a series of religiously sanctioned military campaigns waged by much of Latin Christian Europe, particularly the Franks of France and the Holy Roman Empire.
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The University of Paris was founded in the mid 11th century, and officially recognized as a university likely between 1160 and 1180.
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The Magna Carta is an English Legal Charter, originally issued in the year 1215.
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Saint Louis worked with the Parliament of Paris in order to improve the professionalism of his administration in regards to legal actions.
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The Oxford Parliament assembled during the reign of Henry III of England. It was established by Simon de Montfort, 6th Earl of Leicester.
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The Hundred Years War was a series of seperate wars lasting from 1338 to 1453 between two royal houses for the French throne, which was vacant with the extinction of the senior Capetian line of French Kings.
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The outbreak of the Bubonic Plague started around 1348. The disease caused a huge epidemic and spread throughout most of the world.
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Charles the Great was King of the Franks from 768 and Emperor of the Romans from 800 to his death in 814.
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The spread of newly developed plows started around this time. Horses were also just starting to be used in agriculture and for transport.
