what is early modern? Flashcards
who wrote the book about what constitutes ‘early modern’?
Ronald Hutton
what are the historical periods of Egypt and china separated by?
royal dynasties
what did the greeks divide their historical periods into?
ages - e.g., golden, silver, bronze, and iron
what do religions separate their periods by?
their messiahs - eg, muslims and christians
why is the chopping-up of time being questioned more recently?
the emergence of multi-faith, multi-ethnic societies in western nations
what three stages did the renaissance separate history into?
ancient, middle, renaissance
what was the ‘middle’ associated with?
-‘backward’
-‘ignorant’
-‘obscurantist’
what are the counter offences to the 15th C. Italians claim the ‘middle’ was a time of?
-social harmony
-religious faith
-beautiful architecture
what does Ronald Hutton claim periodisation is?
he believes that periodisation is a natural phenomenon of mankind - it is not simply something historians do to make their lives easier
what does ‘early modern’ serve to represent?
the transition to what is recognised by historians as ‘truly modern’
what examples does Ronald Hutton give of important transitional changes that took place, during the ‘early modern’ period?
-Roman church was shattered into a complex go reformed christian denominations
-noble retainers were replaced by professional armies
-famine and plague were banished in this time also
what does Stephen Ellis believe?
the boundary between medieval and early modern are different in different in different geographical places
what does Evan Jones believe?
the eruption of europeans across Europe permanently changed history universally
what did David Abulafia believe - it connects on from Evan Jones?
believes that maritime discovery and the development of relationships overseas is a good temporal boundary between medieval and early modern (the early stages of globalisation)
what does Fernando Cervantes believe?
by investigating William Shakespeare and Miguel De Cervantes - both of which are commonly perceived to be writers of the new cultural age - Cervantes highlights the definitively medieval attitudes present in their writing - making their work a precursor of modern - BUT the trauma of change throughout the period may have intrinsically changed the perception of people and so the interpret their sentiments differently
what did Pamela King believe?
Pamela King Benchmarks the ‘Renaissance moment’ by where medieval theatrical aesthetic was replaced with a more sophisticated one - Hamlet replaced Herod
