HELPING THE OTHERS REALIZE THE ADVANTAGES OF MEDIEVAL MUSIC

painted by Andrea del Castagno, c. 1421–57. Some present day historians have taken to splitting the medieval period in two: the dim ages right up until the tenth century, and the middle ages in the 11th century. This break up is ahistorical, ignoring how the term middle ages was initially conceived by people who minted it. Oddly, proponents from