Medieval age - when ?

[Hurin_Rules]

What then would you people call the period from the fall of Rome to 1000/1066/1014? This would mean that St. Benedict, Charlemagne, Roland, Otto and Alfred the Great and most of the Vikings were not medieval figures.

Historians no longer use the term 'Dark Ages' because of the pejorative connotations. In fact, they were not as 'Dark' as once thought.