In the Fifteenth century, the Italian historian Flavio Biondo regarded the sack of Rome by the Visogoths as the end of ancient civilization. He also believed that this marked the beginning of the Middle Ages (Erickson 72). Within the thousand years of the Middle Ages, historians have recognized subperiods. These subperiods include the Early Middle Ages (900 to 1000), the High Middle Ages (1000 to 1300), and the Later Middle Ages (the 14th and 15th centuries) (Grolier 1).
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