HISTORY OF

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INTRODUCTION

 The Late Middle Ages or Late Medieval Period was the period of European history
lasting from 1250-1500 AD.

 The Late Middle Ages followed the High Middle Ages and preceded the onset of the
early modern era

 Around 1300, centuries of prosperity and growth in Europe came to a halt.

 A series of famines and plagues, including the Great Famine of 1315–1317 and the
Black Death, reduced the population to around half of what it was before the
calamities.
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HISTORY

 The limits of Christian Europe were still being defined in the 14th and 15th centuries.

 While the Grand Duchy of Moscow was beginning to repel the Mongols, and the Iberian kingdoms
completed the Reconquista of the peninsula and turned their attention outwards, the Balkans fell under the
dominance of the Ottoman Empire.

 Meanwhile, the remaining nations of the continent were locked in almost constant international or internal
conflict.

 The situation gradually led to the consolidation of central authority and the emergence of the nation state.

 The financial demands of war necessitated higher levels of taxation, resulting in the emergence of
representative bodies – most notably the English Parliament.

 The growth of secular authority was further aided by the decline of the papacy with the Western Schism
and the coming of the Protestant Reformation.
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RELIGIOUS

 The Latin cross plan, common in medieval ecclesiastical

architecture, takes the Roman basilica as its primary model with
subsequent developments.

 It consists of a nave, transepts, and the altar stands at the east

end.

 Also, cathedrals influenced by Justinian employed the Byzantine

style of domes and a Greek cross (resembling a plus sign), with
the altar located in the sanctuary on the east side of the church.