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In the history of Europe, the period between the political downfall of the Western Roman Empire in 576 and the discovery of America in 1492 is usually called the Middle Ages. The concept of ‘ages lying in between’ arose in the Renaissance, which strove to imitate a strongly idealized antiquity.
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De Moulin, D. (1983). The Middle Ages. In: A short history of breast cancer. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-0601-8_2
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