It seems that no less a twit than an Oxford history don thinks that calling an era after the name of its rulers is twaddle - because they didn't do that in real time.
Tune in next time, when we whinge about the term The Dark Ages, because the ignoramii living in that period didn't call it that.
(Bonus time: what did the people born Before the Common Era call their years ... ?)
Holy smokes.
2 comments:
This topic has [rightly] caused lots of heat in the past few days! Incidentally, my blog is the name of your post, tudortutor.com =)
And I just bookmarked it! I've been collecting a lot of blogs lately, and of course being a histfic nerd I love that Welsh royalty who never knew they lived in the Tudor era (*gigglesnort*). I'll have to put you on my visiting rounds - so thank you for a new place to enjoy. And thank you for the comment!
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