Midwifery, Nursing, and Obstetrics Manuscript Collections at NLM: A Subject Guide. Click the numbered link(s) and be directed to the collection description associated with each term.
the middle ages- the time in European history between classical antiquity and the Italian Renaissance (from about 500 a.d. to about 1350): sometimes restricted to the later part of this period (after 1100) and sometimes extended to 1450 or 1500.
1 Dark Ages (historiography), the period in Europe following the collapse of the Western Roman Empire. 2  European Middle Ages (5th to 15th centuries AD), particularly: 3  European Early Middle Ages.  Migration Period of c. 400 to 800 AD.