SynopsisWere the centuries from c. 1300 to c. 1500 - an age that has come to be know as the Late Middle Ages-an era of calamity or an era of rebirth? Should we look on this time as still clearly medieval or as one in which humanity took its first decisive steps into modernity? Students of history are still trying, even after so many centuries, to reach anything approaching a consensus on the answers to these questions.