HIST-308 Lecture Notes - Lecture 25: Scholasticism, Romulus Augustulus, Late Bronze Age Collapse
15 Sep 2020
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Relative absence of science thought to be coupled with knights and warfare as stereotypes. People living in the middle ages did not call themselves medieval or assume they were: candidates for antiquity"s beginning. 150 bce = rise of rome: hard to pinpoint antiquity"s origins. It is just as difficult to point to antiquity"s end. Periodization is a problem historians must face as all periods are arbitrary. Though periodization cannot be avoided and we must start and end somewhere. For arbitrary purposes, we can set the date range as 500 ce to 1500 ce. Instead, byzantine and constantine is focused as the centre of power: a century later, islam will arrive. The merovingian franks came to prominence in 500-1000. Next came the high middle ages in 1000-1300. The late middle ages were 1300-1500 which played upon humanism and the renaissance, then the reformation: the renaissance is too fuzzy a term in relation to era.
