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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;kevin McGonigal, post: 4439705, member: 72790&quot;]Of course the Britannica would think that. Had England been involved in that war they might have seen it differently. Seriously, there is an argument that the Middle Ages extended from Constantine for an early date to the end of the Thirty Years War. When I taught European History in school I told my students that giving a terminal date for the Middle Ages and the beginning of early modern European history is not fixed in stone and most text books pick things like the beginning of the Renaissance (which began over Europe anywhere from the 14th to the 16th Centuries as there is no one event from that period that marks its beginning), the discovery of the New World, the formation of the nation state and the collapse of feudalism (another moving target date) or the outbreak of the Reformation, which has the virtue of being commonly accepted as starting with Luther&#039;s Ninety-five Theses. In the area of Numismatics I don&#039;t know that there is a fixed date for collecting periods. If one considers collecting Byzantine coins, the Britannica&#039;s definition would put Justinian&#039;s coins in the Middle Ages but I know any number of collectors of ancient coins who consider his coinage as part of ancient coins. I have no problem with assigning Justinian to either a medieval or ancient designation nor a coin of 1616 to late medieval or early modern coinage. Of course if you were to base this definition on what each of those people of each of those periods would have said about their coinage, they all would have described their coinage as &quot;modern&quot; coinage.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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