Classical 1250 BC - 5 c AD Early Middle Ages 5th - 9th Century AD High Middle Ages 10th - 13th Century AD Late Middle Ages 14th - 15th Century AD -> Early Modern 16th - 18th Century AD Modern 19th - 20th Century

Eras Classes/Coalitions of Women Women In History Traditional History ->

1305-1378 Avignon Papacy - strong French influence 1337-1453 Hundred Year's War 1347-1350 Black Death (Bubonic Plague) 40% loss of population 13-15C Beguines-spiritual women 13C Southern France - Albigensians/Cathari sect rejected church equality by baptism 1390 Geoffrey Chaucer - Canterbury Tales 1378-1417 Great Schism of papacy 1400 The Fifteen Joys of Marriage satirical anti-feminist writings 1404-72 Leon Battista Alberti "On the family" 1435-44 1452-1519 Leonardo da Vinci 1453-1455 Johannes Gutenberg (printed 1st bible) 1453 Capture of Constantinople by Turks - end of Byzantine Empire 1455-1485 War of Roses in England 1460-Modern Spain created with the marriage of Ferdinand and Isabella 1480-1521 Ferdinand Magellan 1485-1603 Strong Tudor dynasty in England 1483-1546 Martin Luther 1486 The Witch Hammer instructions for methods of torture used on witches 1492 Columbus "discovered America"