tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4943761936704519680.post8465477494203375433..comments2023-06-08T09:05:48.297-07:00Comments on Medieval History Club: Rethinking the Medieval in World HistoryMedieval History Clubhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05399023536739702888noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4943761936704519680.post-74748827185657509022010-11-09T09:40:05.296-08:002010-11-09T09:40:05.296-08:00@Anandi: I didn't know that you are a student ...@Anandi: I didn't know that you are a student of history too. :) Good to see you drop by. :)<br /><br />@anonymous: with due respect, 'bleh' is a very intellectual modern day word that has trickled into the modern dictionary with immense fervour. So you need not feel shy of coming out of your closet at all. This is a humble forum of convergence and divergence of ideas where your simple remarks too are graciously welcome. :) you can stop being anonymous from the next time you say bleh. i shall heartily bleh you back with equal fervour :)Olive Oylhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08495781868014303932noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4943761936704519680.post-8987651002663752102010-11-02T23:13:09.007-07:002010-11-02T23:13:09.007-07:00bleh. ._.bleh. ._.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4943761936704519680.post-28349557457610848712010-10-12T18:31:14.995-07:002010-10-12T18:31:14.995-07:00As a second year history student, I appreciate thi...As a second year history student, I appreciate this article wholeheartedly. But I'd like to add my two bits worth. <br />The notion of a bleak 'medieval' period in Europe didn't actually come into being in the 18th century. Humanists like Dante, Petrarch were quite vociferous in their condemnation of the 'medieval' past. Unlike sources that unwittingly become histories, figureheads of the Renaissance and Reformation were very conscious of the change that they were attempting to bring about and this necessitated a delineation of their present from the past. This pre-proposed idea was merely popularised by Burkhardt and others till recently. <br />The misrepresentations that mar the study of medieval India are not only limited to the mockery that an unsuitable periodisation bestowed by an alien population of academicians made of actual realities (or whatever we know of them). This same periodisation was not disputed by Indian historians, they adopted the same timeline and further propagated the image of a glorious, idyllic ancient, a wonky medieval and so on. <br />Periodisation is practice in history that has survived only by virtue of its convenience. Else, it's perhaps one of the damaging things that students and historian have to indulge in while studying history.Anandihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11079644804905234384noreply@blogger.com