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<blockquote data-quote="Celebrim" data-source="post: 7807540" data-attributes="member: 4937"><p>Since the people living in the period didn't think of it as the Middle Ages, the whole question is highly subjective and is not and cannot be a settled question among historians. I was careful to define the Middle Ages as I define it. I'm happy to defend why I define it as that to anyone, and why I don't accept that the 'Early Middle Ages' or 'Dark Ages' really are not distinctive enough from the 'High/Late Middle Ages' that they should not be thought of as a separate period.</p><p></p><p>I mean, this whole demarcation ultimately comes down to us by way of Renaissance propaganda writers who were wanting to justify their break from the past, and so wanted to denigrate the whole period which came before them. They weren't really interested in actually analyzing that period as much as advocating for cultural revolution.</p><p></p><p>And my choice of 'The Black Death' is that is really what killed the culture. You'll note that some historians will date the start of the Renaissance much earlier than they date the end of the Middle Ages, which really doesn't make a lot of sense. The Renaissance, however you date the start, represents a 'clean break' - a deliberate cultural upheaval by a group of people asserting that they belong to a new historical era and very often saying just that.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Celebrim, post: 7807540, member: 4937"] Since the people living in the period didn't think of it as the Middle Ages, the whole question is highly subjective and is not and cannot be a settled question among historians. I was careful to define the Middle Ages as I define it. I'm happy to defend why I define it as that to anyone, and why I don't accept that the 'Early Middle Ages' or 'Dark Ages' really are not distinctive enough from the 'High/Late Middle Ages' that they should not be thought of as a separate period. I mean, this whole demarcation ultimately comes down to us by way of Renaissance propaganda writers who were wanting to justify their break from the past, and so wanted to denigrate the whole period which came before them. They weren't really interested in actually analyzing that period as much as advocating for cultural revolution. And my choice of 'The Black Death' is that is really what killed the culture. You'll note that some historians will date the start of the Renaissance much earlier than they date the end of the Middle Ages, which really doesn't make a lot of sense. The Renaissance, however you date the start, represents a 'clean break' - a deliberate cultural upheaval by a group of people asserting that they belong to a new historical era and very often saying just that. [/QUOTE]
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