The Middle Ages: A Broad Chronology

Many scholars recognize the existence of a transitional era known as ‘Late Antiquity’. This was a world either marked by continuities with the past or so different that it was a new world altogether: a medieval world. Somewhere within the chronological and geographical frontiers of Late Antiquity, we can begin to discern changes so marked, or consequential, that they call for a different label: the Early Middle Ages.

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The Middle Ages: A Broad Chronology

Historians have divided the Middle Ages into a number of shorter, and overlapping, eras. Why? What was the basis for this distinction?