Medieval or early modern : the value of a traditional historic division / edited by Ronald Hutton.

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Book
Language
English
Published/​Created
  • Newcastle upon Tyne, England : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2015.
  • ©2015
Description
1 online resource (194 p.)

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Hutton, Ronald [Browse]
Summary note
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...
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Description based upon print version of record.
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Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed July 8, 2015).
Language note
English
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
ISBN
1-4438-7924-X
OCLC
  • 913333454
  • 958291771
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