Source: The Battle of Aljubarrota, featured in the Chronique d'Angleterre. (D'Wavrin, J, 1479).
Traditionally the Middle Ages is seen as the period in Europe between the fall of the Roman Empire in the west in 476, and the fall of Constantinople in the east in 1453, together with the discovery of the Americas by Europeans in 1492, and the start of the Protestant Reformation in 1517.
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