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<p>[QUOTE="ancient coin hunter, post: 6444188, member: 87200"]I was fortunate to have a number of eminent professors, from <a href="https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=WNU1kC4AAAAJ&hl=en" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=WNU1kC4AAAAJ&hl=en" rel="nofollow">Dr. Warren Treadgold</a>, who considered "Byzantine" to be anything after 284 and the rise of Diocletian, hence his book <i>Byzantium and Its Army, 284-1081</i> and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Brown_(historian)" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Brown_(historian)" rel="nofollow">Peter Brown</a>, who coined the term Late Antiquity. In Brown's view the demarcation into the Medieval period was the terminal point between the 7th and 8th centuries, one of the defining changes was the emergence of "the holy man" in Christianity, which we get with the Anchorites in Egypt starting as early as the 4th century. </p><p><br /></p><p>My own view is that the coming of Muhammad and Islam heralded a whole new age for the Near East, starting around 640 A.D. and after the culmination of the war between Byzantium and Sassanid Persia, which changed the geographical parameters, social parameters, and monetary parameters. Both empires were severely weakened and unable to stop the progression of Islam and the source of new energy emerging from Arabia. </p><p><br /></p><p>With regard to the Western Empire, it had been tottering since the reign of Honorius and under the control of advisors such as Stilicho and Ricimer for most of the fifth century. So when Rome "fell" it was to German chieftains who ruled nominally in the name of the Roman emperor of the East, hence I do not use the customary date of 476 and the deposition of Romulus Augustulus as the commencement of the Medieval period.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="ancient coin hunter, post: 6444188, member: 87200"]I was fortunate to have a number of eminent professors, from [URL='https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=WNU1kC4AAAAJ&hl=en']Dr. Warren Treadgold[/URL], who considered "Byzantine" to be anything after 284 and the rise of Diocletian, hence his book [I]Byzantium and Its Army, 284-1081[/I] and [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Brown_(historian)']Peter Brown[/URL], who coined the term Late Antiquity. In Brown's view the demarcation into the Medieval period was the terminal point between the 7th and 8th centuries, one of the defining changes was the emergence of "the holy man" in Christianity, which we get with the Anchorites in Egypt starting as early as the 4th century. My own view is that the coming of Muhammad and Islam heralded a whole new age for the Near East, starting around 640 A.D. and after the culmination of the war between Byzantium and Sassanid Persia, which changed the geographical parameters, social parameters, and monetary parameters. Both empires were severely weakened and unable to stop the progression of Islam and the source of new energy emerging from Arabia. With regard to the Western Empire, it had been tottering since the reign of Honorius and under the control of advisors such as Stilicho and Ricimer for most of the fifth century. So when Rome "fell" it was to German chieftains who ruled nominally in the name of the Roman emperor of the East, hence I do not use the customary date of 476 and the deposition of Romulus Augustulus as the commencement of the Medieval period.[/QUOTE]
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