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things historians talk about when they have nothing better to do.
The phantom time hypothesis:
I laughed until I cried, and then I really cried when someone pointed out that eliminating 300 years of history makes me a medievalist. omgno.
This ... gives reason to assume that a phantom period of approximately 300 years has been inserted between 600 AD to 900 AD, either by accident, by misinterpretation of documents or by deliberate falsification. This period and all events that are supposed to have happened therein never existed.
-- Franz-Ulrich Niemitz, "Did the Early Middle Ages Really Exist?", 1.
I laughed until I cried, and then I really cried when someone pointed out that eliminating 300 years of history makes me a medievalist. omgno.
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otoh, JANE AUSTEN ZOMBIES.