| Description |
1 online resource (194 pages) |
| Summary |
For half a millennium it has been customary for many historians to refer to the period between the fall of Rome and the end of the fifteenth century as 'medieval', a tradition which hardened into a professional orthodoxy during the nineteenth century. In the late twentieth century, it also seemed convenient to many to describe the first half of a steadily lengthening modern period as 'early modern', which also hardened into an orthodoxy among English-speakers, at least, by the 1980s. Both ter ... |
| Contents |
From Medieval to early modern : the British Isles in transition? / Steven G. Ellis -- The British Isles in transition : a view from the other side / Ronald Hutton -- 1492 revisited / Evan T. Jones -- Problems of periodization : the Mediterranean and other maritime spaces / David Abulafia -- Climate change, big data and the Medieval and early modern / Poul Holm -- In the beginning was migration : borders and transitions in late Medieval and early modern Europe / Martial Staub -- The Medieval modernity of Cervantes and Shakespeare / Fernando Cervantes -- "Medieval" and "Renaissance" : the problem of events, their records and their players / Pamela King -- Time and the image : art at an epochal threshold / Peter Dent -- "Renaissance" and "Reformation" elided : the deficiencies of "early modern" musicology / David Allinson. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
History -- Periodization -- Congresses.
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Historiography -- Congresses.
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Medieval history. |
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Early modern history: c 1450/1500 to c 1700. |
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HISTORY -- Europe -- Western. |
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Historiography |
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History -- Periodization |
| Genre/Form |
Conference papers and proceedings
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Hutton, Ronald. Medieval or Early Modern : The Value of a Traditional Historical Division. Newcastle upon Tyne : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, ©2015 9781443874519 |
| ISBN |
9781443879248 (electronic bk.) |
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144387924X (electronic bk.) |
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1443874515 |
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9781443874519 |
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