Estates system in the Middle Ages
Emergence, development and central events
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Early Middle Ages
High Middle Ages
Late Middle Ages
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Middle Ages
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Carolingians / Emergence of the {{class society}}
Donation of Pepin
Coronation of Charlemagne as Emperor
Capitularies of Charlemagne
Investiture Controversy, Walk to Canossa
Concordat of Worms
Crusades
Magna Carta
Black Death in Europe
English Peasants' Revolt
Prague Compacts and end of the Hussite Wars
Imperial reform under Maximilian I
Foundation of the first Benedictine monastery
Carolina
Division of the empire after the Treaty of Verdun
Reformation
Thirty Years' War
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