| Slappy | 28 Nov 2014 8:15 p.m. PST |
Where are Dark ages topics put – Roman Brits, Vikings etc? |
| Cyrus the Great | 28 Nov 2014 8:32 p.m. PST |
Apparently, medieval because we can't have a Dark Ages board. |
| Benvartok | 29 Nov 2014 12:12 a.m. PST |
No net in the dark ages but can you imagine the posts from the period? English – OMG, Vikings, 
Vikings – LOL Monks. |
 Yellow Admiral  | 29 Nov 2014 12:22 a.m. PST |
If it's any comfort, the Dark Ages is officially a sub-set of the Medieval period in scholarship. You can post Dark Ages discussions to the Medieval boards with a clean conscience. - Ix |
| WillieB | 29 Nov 2014 3:51 a.m. PST |
And yet , many of the Dark Ages topics can be found in Ancients. So I do understand your confusion.
If you're looking for some advice or want to make an announcement of any kind best crosspost to BOTH |
| Winston Smith | 29 Nov 2014 6:06 a.m. PST |
There have been proposals for a Dark Age board but were all shouted down by the "How do you define the boundaries?" crowd and the "We don't need more boards!" activists. |
| Griefbringer | 29 Nov 2014 6:44 a.m. PST |
Essentially it is quite simple: - Things that happened before 500 AD go to Ancients boards
- Things that happened after 500 AD go to the Medieval boards (unless they belong to some later era) |
| Bowman | 29 Nov 2014 1:38 p.m. PST |
For crying out loud. Can't this non-issue be put to bed? |
| Cyrus the Great | 30 Nov 2014 3:37 p.m. PST |
There are all sorts of first world problems debated and re-debated here on an almost daily basis. Why should this topic be any different? |
| Great War Ace | 01 Dec 2014 9:20 p.m. PST |
The confusion is totally the fault, now longstanding, of WRG publications placing "1066" as the cutoff year for ancients, where the "Middle Ages" begins. And this in spite of Charles Oman clearly placing Adrianople as the "official" beginning of the "Middle Ages". It's now a tangle and unresolvable…. |
| TKindred | 01 Dec 2014 10:09 p.m. PST |
At this stage of my life, I really don't accept such a thing as "the dark ages" and consider it to be something made up by historians to help put into a linear history, a history that is in no way linear. That's my opinion, and nothing more, but it's how I see things. The "ancient" periods come to an end around 500ad, though I'd prefer 700ad, maybe as late as 800ad, but again, that's just me. Everything after that is the Medieval period, until, say, 1600, though I'd likely continue it until the last of the pikes and longbows disappear as regular infantry weapons. |
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