Naomasa298

Oh relax, it was just a bit of fun.

But to answer the OP, I don't have a "least favourite" period of history. I mean, I don't know a lot about Renaissance Europe or the ancient world, but that's simply because I don't know enough about them. When something is brought to my attention in a time period, I usually find it interesting, certainly enough to do further reading on it.

Crystal Rainbow

This was a pretty dismal time for the Scots, the battle of Flodden in 1513.
You have also just look around England's Abbeys to see the scars of Henry VIII reign.
http://www.englandnortheast.co.uk/Flodden.html

Belisarius

Flodden occured as a result of a Scottish invasion of England, and the dissolution of the monasteries mainly affected England and Wales; Scotland wasn't involved. From 1550-1603 there was peace between the two kingdoms, so any it's a bit unfair to blame any "dismal time" for the Scots on the Tudors.

Barbarossa

I'll make a time period I dislike for each geographical zone:

Westen Europe - 1200-1500 CE (boring politics, boring wars - up until the renaissance and Italian wars).

Eastern Europe - 200-800 CE and again 1000-1400 CE (from the fall of the Scythians to the rise of Moscovy Rus and the Polish-Lithuanian Empire, with the exclusion of the rise of Poland and Hungary, Rurik and the Varangian establishments of Novgorod and Kiev).

Middle East - stopped being interesting after the crusades.

India - 500-1500 CE (from the Gupta empire until the Mughal empire).

China - 1400-1900 CE (Ming and Qing were quite boring, up until the modern era).

Japan - 300-600 CE and again 1600-1850 CE (from the Kufon period *gotta love those keyhole mausoleums* up until the Asuka period, and most of the Tokugawa isolation period).

America - 1900 CE-today (I'm sorry, but nothing really interesting happened in America in the last 100 years, except maybe the Mexican and Cuban revolutions)

monsieurdl

The Late Middle Ages in Western Europe. I am probably one of the few people who are not interested in it, because it so so dark and ugly.

Barbarossa

I don't think that the late Middle Ages were particulary dark and ugly. In fact, more people died in wars in the early modern era (1500-1800 CE) than all of the Medieval times combined (500-1500 CE).

The thing about the Late Middle Ages I find less interesting is the seemingly lack of centralised power and authority of the feudal system, and wars that seemed to be fought utterly for nothing.

Early Middle Ages were interesting mostly because of the lack of information we have about them, making them rather mysterious.

The Carolingian Renaissance was a particulary interesting time, in my opinion (Charlamagne, Barbarossa, Vikings, Crusades, to name a few).

Louise C

I don't think it was dark and ugly. Much beauty comes from the period, all the glorious cathedrals and churches for instance, and impressive castles. I was in Canterbury Cathedral on Friday, a fabulous place, quite breathtakingly beautiful.

Crystal Rainbow

It was not a nice place to be if you lived in Spain during the during the reign of terror in the hands of the Torquemada, the inquisitor. So many people were sent to the flames.

Crystal Rainbow

I would not to have been in England when Henry VII became King, There was a rather unfair tax system came in very many people had become very poor. Yep England did not fare well under rule of the Tudors.

jehosafats

I was never as interested in ancient history as I am the medieval world. All aspects of the Middle Ages interest me.