I figured that here I would talk about dating conventions because I will eventually be posting about ancient and medieval battles as well.<\/p>\n
The question is A.D. & B.C. or C.E. & B.C.E.?<\/b><\/p>\n
The current convention says that C.E. & B.C.E standing for Common Era & Before Common Era are what we should use in modern scholarship.\u00a0 The reasoning is that A.D. & B.C. are religious in nature and therefore exclusionary terms.\u00a0 Sorry, I call bullshit on that.\u00a0 A.D. & B.C. may be religious terms, I don\u2019t dispute that, but they are also what people have been using for literally hundreds of years.\u00a0 Trying to change dating conventions because of some perceived inequality is just stupid.\u00a0<\/strong> That is all there is to it.\u00a0 A.D. stands for Anno Domini, Latin for Year of our Lord while B.C. is plain English for Before Christ.\u00a0 On this blog I will use the Gregorian calendar with B.C. & A.D. and I will not care if people choose to get offended about it.\u00a0 B.C. & A.D. have been used for a long time and I will continue to use that dating convention despite some politically correct people\u2019s feelings about it.<\/p>\n There has been some controversy over the use of the new dating conventions.\u00a0 See\u00a0http:\/\/www.suite101.com\/content\/year-designations-bc-ad-bce-ce-in-schools-a172084<\/a>\u00a0for one explanation of this silly debate; pay particular attention to the comment at the bottom.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I figured that here I would talk about dating conventions because I will eventually be posting about ancient and medieval battles as well. The question is A.D. & B.C. or C.E. & B.C.E.? The current convention says that C.E. &… Continue Reading →<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[35,36,1007,34,33],"class_list":["post-321","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-historiography","tag-dates","tag-dating","tag-historiography","tag-methodology","tag-scholarship"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.military-history.us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/321","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.military-history.us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.military-history.us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.military-history.us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.military-history.us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=321"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.military-history.us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/321\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6567,"href":"https:\/\/www.military-history.us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/321\/revisions\/6567"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.military-history.us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=321"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.military-history.us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=321"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.military-history.us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=321"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}