Indeed I did mean Leopold von Ranke. This isn't the first time I've used Otto
for him. I wonder if I ever knew anyone named Otto Ranke?
In any case, I suppose your demarcation would apply chiefly to Europe? Not that
I object to a little eurocentrism, you understand, provided it's not too big.
:-)
Gordon [log in to unmask]
[log in to unmask] wrote:
> In a message dated 01/15/2000 2:47:23 PM Eastern Standard Time,
> [log in to unmask] writes:
>
> << I suggest that the popular suggestion, usually attributed to Otto Ranke,
> that
> we discover and describe what *really* happened, wie es eigentlich
> gewesen war, >>
>
> I hate to be pedantic, but I think you mean Leopold von Ranke.
>
> Anyway, as to the demarcation business:
> I've always thought "medieval" is misleading. The term has come to mean a
> certain popular and largely erroneous cultural condition. If I use it at all
> I see medieval as strictly a chronological adjective. I prefer, however,
> seeing the period between 350 and 1500 as Late Antiquity in the West (other
> places have different parameters). The hallmark for each transition would be
> the change in geo-political perspectives. The end of the 4th century saw the
> division of the Roman Empire into smaller units. And though they all
> remained nominally Roman these units functioned as independent and
> self-serving entities. On the other extreme, the late 15th century, Europe
> expanded into other "worlds" and began the slow process of integrating these
> worlds into a truly global world picture.
>
> mark
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