Medieval or Early Modern

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Medieval or Early Modern is written by Ronald Hutton and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 144387924X (ISBN 10) and 9781443879248 (ISBN 13).

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 ...