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For the anti-bathing fad, you'll want to look to the mid-late Renaissance (lemmy.world)
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[–] [email protected] 31 points 6 days ago (1 children)

'Medieval' to refer to societies outside of Europe remains a very contested usage.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Fair point, but that doesn't stop people using "bronze age" and others (often forgetting that the chacolithic is even a thing) within Europe and a bit beyond without acknowledging that the dates for that (and the "iron age" for that matter) can vary a great deal.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 6 days ago

"Bronze Age" and "Iron Age" are not regional in the same way that "Medieval" is. They can be used as global or developmental terms (ie 'The Bronze Age world', or 'A Bronze Age society'), but medieval, by contrast, refers to a specific period of time, and, by origin and usage, generally a specific region - Europe. It would be like complaining that Italy is never mentioned as being part of the Sengoku Jidai in the 15th and 16th centuries AD.