Dr. Cole will be the President of Bennett College in Greensboro, North Carolina. She is President emerita of Spelman College and Professor Emerita of Anthropology, Women's Studies, and African American Studies at Emory University. A nationally known African American feminist-intellectual, she may be the author of several books, including Conversations: Straight Talk with America's Sister President. The Middle Ages (also called the medieval period) was a period of time that lasted in regards to a thousand years from your 5th for the 15th centuries. It is often subdivided into three periods with all the first being the Early Middle Ages, the other defined as the High Middle Ages, and also the third and final known as the Late Middle Ages.