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Monasteries arose from the need of the cenobites or monks to find a place to share and lead a life of isolation and prayer, both in Christianity and in other religions. The architectural solution was these buildings where they could organize themselves and lead the life they had chosen.
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The Middle Ages began with the disintegration of the Western Roman Empire. -
In the Iberian Peninsula between the years 722 and 1492, the Muslim Invasion of the Iberian Peninsula took place in the 8th century, the result was the end of the Muslim political presence in the Peninsula
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Feudalism was a social system that emerged in the Frankish kingdom in the Early Middle Ages and spread throughout Western Europe during the Middle Ages (between the 11th and 13th centuries). From an economic point of view, it was a land tenure regime that favored the rural nobility and encouraged serfdom.
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The word 'schism' means 'separation'. The Schism of East and West, also known as the Great Schism, is, therefore, the separation of the pope and Christianity of the West, of the Christianity of the East and its patriarchs, especially the Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople. -
These measures aimed at the renewal of the Church and the affirmation of the authority of the Roman pontiff. Gregory VII, by calling councils and sending legates, attempted to eradicate simony (purchase and sale of spiritual goods and offices) and Nicolaism (marriage or concubinage of clerics).
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Ended with the fall of the Byzantine Empire at the hands of the Ottoman Turks in the 15th century. -
This is the most widespread temporal division, but it is also dated as the final year of the Middle Ages, in the same year the Byzantine Empire fell, Gutenberg invented the printing press, and the Hundred Years' War ended. -
The capture of Constantinople by the Ottomans puts an end to the Byzantine Empire. After centuries of decline, the fall of Constantinople marked the end of the Byzantine Empire. The city, renamed Istanbul, became the new capital of the powerful Ottoman dominion. -
In the 15th century, single-hand clocks were invented to mark the hours. the German blacksmith Peter Henlein managed to build mechanical clocks so small that they could be carried in a pocket.