Reddit reviews Framing the Early Middle Ages: Europe and the Mediterranean, 400-800

I'm familiar with the book, it was recommended to me by a Medieval History lecturer when we were talking about the 6th and 7th centuries (hmm..!) but I didn't get around to reading it yet. But I just looked at the first pages on amazon and he mentions somewhere at the start (ctrl+f it to look it up at the look inside on amazon) that:

>The most copious of all early medieval chroniclers, Gregory, bishop of Tours (d. 594), who wrote a long history ...

That book basically puts an author who lived from 538-594 -well before the Franks Casket- as being early medieval. And I did notice, he did go into the fact that the common definition of medieval has its problems in the introduction but he, as most other scholars who have come to this conclusion, does actually seem to consider the 6th century to be medieval already, as per the example I provided.

In fact, that very same author wrote a book called Framing the Early Middle Ages: Europe and the Mediterranean, 400-800, which should by the title alone tell you enough about the author's view on this subject.

Honestly, I don't really feel like arguing this further because I've made my point and at this point it's just tiresome... And whatever your credentials are (and the fact that you thought the Eastern Roman Empire "ended" with the Arab invasions of the 7th/8th century casts some doubt on that claim that you specialized in the Sassanid empire tbh..), I can't verify them on the internet. I prefer to rely on academic sources here, and they seem to prove my point just fine. And of course, the periodization of anything is always something that can be debated, but especially for the purposes of an imageboard like this, it is really quite reasonable to use the classic periodization.