What is the main difference between the inscriptions of the ancient and medieval period?
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As adjectives the difference between ancient and medieval
is that ancient is having lasted from a remote period; having been of long duration; of great age; very old while medieval is of or relating to the middle ages, the period from about 500 to about 1500.
the common opinion is that the beginning of the middle ages and the and of antiquity is the “fall of Rome”. The “middle” of “middle ages” is because that period lies between Classical Antiquity and the Renaissance (lit.: “rebirth”, idiomatically: rebirth of civilization, order, and learning).
There are ongoing debates over exactly when Rome fell, as well as ongoing debates over exactly when the Renaissance started.
Generally speaking, people completely misunderstand the middle ages, and believe them to have been more barbaric and chaotic than they actually were. This is from propaganda published in the Renaissance/enlightenment era by people who wanted everyone to think of them as different from those who came before, even if that was not true to the same level. This largely muddies the waters. If the middle ages were more civilized and learned than we generally imagine that they were, was it really a separate period at all?
But wait, it gets even more confusing!
The Roman Empire, in the late end of its period, was very medieval in appearance and function. So, if we accept that there was a middle ages, then we have to say that it started sometime before Rome fell, which completely contradicts the general consensus.
When most people imagine the Roman Empire, they imagine what it looked like during a very narrow slice of its thousand-year duration. We are really imagining the Roman civilization from the reforms of Marius until the end of the Julio-Claudian dynasty of Emperors. That is approximately from 100 BC until 100 AD by the Christian calendar. Please note, that the Romans didn’t use the Christian calendar at this time. We are imposing our numbering for years onto a people who didn’t use that system.
Most people imagine what the soldiers of the Legions looked like, and imagine a few specific famous buildings, and that is the only image that we think of. That is why I point at Marius: he was a military reformer. It was he who established the Legions and their equipment as we popularly imagine them. Before Marius, the Legions were called by the same name, but looked very different. Most of the famous buildings that we imagine were built on orders of one or other of the Julio-Claudian Emperors. This gives us our time window of what is commonly imagined, but is only a tiny little slice of Roman history, or of the history of greater Antiquity.