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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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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I've noticed debates over periodisation combining and recombining in really weird ways lately in the popular realm. Almost like people have been picking up bits and pieces and assembling it into a Franken-timeline for the medieval period.
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