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Hutton, Ronald
2015, 2015-06-18eBook
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.
