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Medieval or early modern : the value of a traditional historic division / edited by Ronald Hutton.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- History--Periodization.
- History.
- Historiography.
- Europe--History--Historiography.
- Europe.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (194 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Newcastle upon Tyne, England : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2015.
- Language Note:
- English
- 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 1980's. Both ter...
- Contents:
- CONTENTS; CHAPTER ONE; CHAPTER TWO; CHAPTER THREE; CHAPTER FOUR; CHAPTER FIVE; CHAPTER SIX; CHAPTER SEVEN; CHAPTER EIGHT; CHAPTER NINE; CHAPTER TEN; CHAPTER ELEVEN; CONTRIBUTORS
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed July 8, 2015).
- ISBN:
- 1-4438-7924-X
- OCLC:
- 913333454
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