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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;FitzNigel, post: 2237581, member: 74712&quot;]Sorry for the short response earlier - I had a short break in class.&nbsp; Historians (not necessarily numismatists) tend to split the Middle Ages up into three periods - Early (the so-called &#039;dark ages&#039;) from 500-1000, High Middle Ages 1000-1300, Later Middle Ages (sometimes lumped in with Renaissance) 1300-1500 (or 1600 if you include Renaissance).</p><p><br /></p><p>Ultimately, all of the periodization is pointless, as a previous poster stated, because people didn&#039;t wake up one day and say &quot;okay, time to be medieval!&quot;&nbsp; It&#039;s just a useful tool for us historians to break up chunks of time.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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