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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;+VGO.DVCKS, post: 5390941, member: 110504&quot;]Very eloquently put, [USER=110350]@DonnaML[/USER].&nbsp; To [USER=101855]@johnmilton[/USER]&#039;s point, history generally is woefully underserved in the American educational system, at all but graduate levels.&nbsp; &quot;Nuances&quot; (snort) like the early phases of the Modern era get thrown under the bus.</p><p>...This just occurred to me.&nbsp; Relative to 16th and 17th centurie coins, you could look at the persistence of motifs like (increasingly elaborate) heraldry and (largely ceremonial) armored portraits as <i>invoking</i> the medieval past, much as the medievals were keen to do with the Classical legacy.&nbsp; Since most of the issuers were monarchies, they had a vested political interest in doing so.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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