I’m enjoying @CrusaderKings but as an early medieval historian I gotta object to the start of the early medieval period being in 900 lol.
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Even making a late antique argument, which still undermines the idea of “tribal” IMO, I really don’t think it can apply to Western Europe after 600, if we wanted to be super generous. I think the EM period could start much earlier though.
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But yeah no one thought of themselves as medieval, or ancient, or whatever. But they also didn’t think of themselves as “tribal”. The idea of kingship is rooted in the Iron Age, imo, in Ireland, so we shouldn’t be calling them Earls or Chiefs in the 9th c. They were kings.
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