Talk:Middle Ages

The Five Pillars box in the Islam section goes way past the edge of the page. It's really annoying. Isis 22:32, 14 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Cleaned up the layout.-- Creol(talk) 17:15, 17 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Geographical scope

I noticed that this page rightly addresses the fact that the term "Middle Ages" is a eurocentric construction to refer to the timespan in Europe between the fall of rome and the european discovery of the new world. Therefore, with this knowledge in mind, I would like to ask if it would still be appropriate having sections mentioning the postclassical history of places outside Europe (Asia, Byzantium and the Arab world) in this article as its presence would contradict the article stating that the eurocentric term "Middle Ages" refers to only the history of Europe between 476-1492.

What I propose is that other separate articles/pages be made on the Postclassical histories of non-european entities. So for example, an article on "Post-Classical China" (maybe covering China from the collapse of the Han Empire in 220 to the collapse of the Mongol one in 1368) would cover approximately the same period, but not be in a page that specifically talks about the Eurocentric "Middle Ages" and having a different start and end date based on what was dates were important in Chinese history. — Preceding unsigned comment added by ZillennialMedievalist (talk • contribs) 19:20, 16 November 2020 (UTC)[reply]

@ZillennialMedievalist: That's a timely question. The field of medieval studies is developing the concept of the 'Global Middle Ages', with a network based at the University of Oxford and the concept is being included in university courses such as York's MA in Medieval Studies. This open access article in Past & Present looks interesting, and how it approaches the subject may be especially relevant here. The article's description of "post-colonialist anxieties about linking such an apparently Eurocentric term as ‘Middle Ages’ to anything called ‘global’" feels like it could reasonably apply to me, so I'll have to read the paper closely before commenting here further. Richard Nevell (talk) 18:04, 9 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]

@ZillennialMedievalist: Adding a new message as my first attempt to send a notification didn't work. Richard Nevell (talk) 18:05, 9 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]