Bacterial infections of the spine are rare but can include infection of: 1  The discs (discitis). 2  The spinal cord (usually an infection of the tissue covering the spinal cord, called an epidural abscess). 3  One or more vertebrae (osteomyelitis).
This important year (550) is what we consider to be the beginning of âthe Early Middle Agesâ and lasted until 1000. When you think about it, the Middle Ages were a very, very long period of time, and so itâs easier to break up these periods of time into the Early, High, and Late Middle Ages. But for now, letâs focus on what was happening during the Early Middle Ages.
The term Late Middle Ages refers to one of the three periods of the Middle Ages, along with the Early Middle Ages and the High Middle Ages. Leonardo Bruni was the first historian to use tripartite periodization in his History of the Florentine People (1442).