Re: The Future of Young Adult Fiction?

In article <ddfr-F55A9C.09150810042008@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
David Friedman <ddfr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
In article <1tmh63kpyftr0$.cmth92lvpawt.dlg@xxxxxxxxxx>,
"Brian M. Scott" <b.scott@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On Wed, 9 Apr 2008 14:23:23 +0100, Gerry Quinn
<gerryq@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in
<news:MPG.2266d3a8840f30ef9897e8@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> in
rec.arts.sf.composition:

[...]

Indeed, the problem you would have is that whereas the
Anglo-Saxon of the Middle Ages

'Middle Ages' covers a lot of ground, but I think that to
most people it tends to suggest the high Middle Ages, when
the language of England was Middle English, not Old English
(sometimes called Anglo-Saxon).

But in current usage, doesn't the abolition of the Dark Ages mean that
the Middle Ages stretch back to the migration period?

I don't use "Dark Ages" either. I use "Late Antiquity" till
somewhere in the sixth century, "Early Period" after that, and
start using "Middle Ages" somewhere after the Norman Conquest,
possibly beginning with the twelfth century renaissance.

Dorothy J. Heydt
Vallejo, California
djheydt@xxxxxxxxxxx
.

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