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<p>[QUOTE="ancient coin hunter, post: 5140316, member: 87200"]Don't really have a specific year in time when the ancient world ended. I will refer to the writings of historian Peter Brown, who coined the term "Late Antiquity." So sometime after the end of the reign of Constans II, perhaps...</p><p><br /></p><p><i>In his second book The World of Late Antiquity (1971), Brown offered a radically new interpretation of the entire period between the second and eighth centuries AD. The traditional interpretation of this period was centered around the idea of decadence from a 'golden age', classical civilisation, after the famous work of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Gibbon" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Gibbon" rel="nofollow">Edward Gibbon</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_History_of_the_Decline_and_Fall_of_the_Roman_Empire" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_History_of_the_Decline_and_Fall_of_the_Roman_Empire" rel="nofollow">The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire</a> (1779). On the contrary, Brown proposed to look at this period in positive terms, arguing that Late Antiquity was a period of immense cultural innovation.... </i>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="ancient coin hunter, post: 5140316, member: 87200"]Don't really have a specific year in time when the ancient world ended. I will refer to the writings of historian Peter Brown, who coined the term "Late Antiquity." So sometime after the end of the reign of Constans II, perhaps... [I]In his second book The World of Late Antiquity (1971), Brown offered a radically new interpretation of the entire period between the second and eighth centuries AD. The traditional interpretation of this period was centered around the idea of decadence from a 'golden age', classical civilisation, after the famous work of [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Gibbon']Edward Gibbon[/URL] [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_History_of_the_Decline_and_Fall_of_the_Roman_Empire']The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire[/URL] (1779). On the contrary, Brown proposed to look at this period in positive terms, arguing that Late Antiquity was a period of immense cultural innovation.... [/I][/QUOTE]
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