![]() ![]() ![]() The possibility of a new era isn’t often considered in conservative historical research, but Peter Brown has come to the convincing conclusion that Late Antiquity-from about 200 to 800 ad-is sufficiently distinct from both the ancient and medieval worlds to warrant separate study as an essential (possibly crucial) era in the emergence of Western civilization. I agree with those who believe that Peter Robert Lamont Brown (1935), the most brilliant living historian, is the reason this division of eras has lost ground. Just forty years ago, there was no doubt about this division, but now, even today’s most outstanding historians cannot come to an agreement on when antiquity ended and the Middle Ages began. At one time, dividing the history of Western civilization into periods was simple: there was the ancient world and antiquity, followed by the Middle Ages and the Renaissance and so on, one after the other down the list. ![]()
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