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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;+VGO.DVCKS, post: 8265701, member: 110504&quot;][USER=134416]@nerosmyfavorite68[/USER], here&#039;s another monkey wrench you can throw into the whole chronology thing.&nbsp; I&#039;ve gradually come around to seeing the 6th c. CE as much in terms of something you could call &#039;late antiquity&#039; as &#039;early medieval.&#039;&nbsp; The Sasanians and later Huns (Nezak frankly goes sailing over my head) are textbook examples.&nbsp; But if you wanted to, you could start with the German tribes who took over the western Roman Empire --and proceeded to eloquently demonstrate how deeply invested they were in what was left of the Roman cultural legacy, as they found it on the ground.&nbsp; </p><p>Another good example are the Aksumites /Axumites, who, very much like the Sasanians, both witnessed and outlasted the later phases of the western Roman polity.&nbsp; ...Bouncing off of that, you could date the dividing line between &#039;Roman&#039; and &#039;Byzantine&#039; not only to the obvious coinage reform of Anastasius I, but to the beginning of Greek legends replacing Latin ones, from, what, the 7th or 8th centuries.&nbsp; I really gravitate toward being very mindful of the inherent limitations of labels (and of language more broadly), where this sort of thing is concerned.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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