Why Did We Choose the Fourteenth Century?

We, as a family have always been self-proclaimed "history fanatics."  Each of us has our favourite time period.  Most of us have worked at various renaissance faires; some of us are in the SCA, or the Society for Creative Anachronisms.  Oddly enough, none of us have cited the fourteenth century as our favourite historical time period.  We have interests in twelfth century crusades, sixteenth century German Landsknechts, the Napoleonic Era, etc.  The fourteenth century is so often seen as quintessentially "medieval."