It is the historical period of Western civilization between the fifth and the fifteenth century. Conventionally, its beginning is located in the year 476 with the fall of the Roman Empire of the West and its end in 1492 with the discovery of America, 1 or in 1453 with the fall of the Byzantine Empire, date that has the singularity of coinciding with the invention of the printing press - publication of the Gutenberg Bible - and with the end of the Hundred Years' War.