. "Whether one can precisely define a time window as 'High Middle Ages' or 'Early Middle Ages' the title evokes an image and expectations in the reader of certain sets of characteristics\u2014the essential essence of such labeling\u2014a communications tool from one mind to another.Nonetheless, periods have a generally accepted meaning within all disciplines even though a given community of scholarship applies different criteria to their meaning of the same general term used in other disciplines; consequently squabbles about exact date ranges are mostly shrugged aside as counter-productive \u2014 in large part this is an extension of the recognition that one region develops at a different pace and under different influences and so at a different rate. "@en .