20-01-2021, 08:50 PM
(This post was last modified: 20-01-2021, 08:52 PM by Mark Knowles.)
(20-01-2021, 06:39 PM)davidjackson wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.There's no real reason why you shouldn't include events that occurred at the end of the 14th century, which may well have been formative in the upbringing and formative student days of the scribes.
There is plenty of sense in what you say. However my only concern is that one can push back the date inexorably. The thing about history is of course that what happened before leads to what happened next. So the events of the 15th are inevitably dependent on the events of the 14th century which are inevitably dependent on the events of the 13th and ... dependent on the events when the first humans left Africa ......
This would lead us to consider the timeline from the Big Bang until 1438, but that is unmanageable I think.
One could argue that 1354 to 1438 would be a better range.
However I think despite its shortcomings the date range 1404 to 1438 seems the least arbitrary given that those are the dates given to us from the carbon dating with 95% confidence.