The discussion of AD and Common Era terminology treats dates as part of the culture that recorded them. For George's contemporaries, the Christian calendar belonged to their political and religious frame of reference rather than serving as a neutral label. This introduces a biography whose dates and offices do not always align cleanly. Medieval chronology can therefore be read as cultural evidence while still being tested against the sequence of recorded events.
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Dating George and reading medieval chronology cautiously
The disputed conventions and cultural assumptions behind medieval dates introduce the source problems surrounding George's life.