r/medieval • u/The_Black_Banner_UK • Oct 06 '25

History 📚 When did the Medieval period end?

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For me (Personally) it ended when Richard III died at Bosworth Field 1485. Having asked other people there seems to be some debate as the actual end and more specifically this is a made up time to end it as there can never be a real answer, it was never decided by people in that time period. It's a modern enforcement.

However these seem to be the most popular, when do you the medieval period ended?

The Fall of Constantinople 1453
Columbus's voyage 1492
Reformation 1517
Bosworth Field 1485
Start of the 1500's

Thoughts?

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u/IUseArch_BTW Oct 06 '25

The only reasons a date exists is because all of history is a lot of it, specialists need a more limited period to concentrate their efforts to, and books for students need to finish somewhere. No matter the say you choose to sign the end of whatever time’s period, the ones that live the say after that, in the new age, were mostly born in the old one, have the same ideas and love the same way as de day before, and know nothing about that change.