A Knight’s Tale In the movie “A Knight’s Tale” there are a lot of things that differ from the movie and the real Middle Ages. Medieval times are generally believed to have started with the fall of the Roman Empire in 476 and to have lasted about a thousand years, from the fifth to the fifteenth century. The Middle Ages are called “The Middle Ages” because they were the time period between the fall of Imperial Rome and the beginning of the early modern Europe. There were three social classes in the Middle Ages. They were the kings and their vassals, the priests, monks, nuns, friars, and the rest were the peasants, who were called the Commons. All the young boys that were born into nobility were trained at an early age to become warriors.