Begging your pardon, if I may interject, I think you're getting hung up on distinctions that are, admittedly, important in a historical sense, but which most people genuinely don't care about. For a lot of readers anything that they view as "old" is simply all lumped together under the blanket term "medieval." I've seen people call a story set in a clearly 19th-century Britain style setting "medieval." Is it ridiculous? Of course it is! And in that particular case very few other readers agreed with them. But most of the time most people will simply refer to a "generic fantasy setting" as medieval because that's a comfortable label for them. They have a mental image of what medieval means for them, and they simply don't care enough to evolve it beyond that.
Now yes, this is a post-renaissance setting. I can tell that, and I think many readers, if they're willing to take the time to actually consider it, will be able to recognize that was well. But a lot of people simply won't care enough to bother. It's "generic fantasy setting" to them, which means it's "medieval" so far as they're concerned. I don't think it's worth getting in a protracted discussion about, because you'll just get frustrated.
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