Re: What this list is

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| Douglas Richardson wrote:
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| > Chris Dickinson wrote:

| > If you would be so kind, could you please post a definition of the
| > "Early Modern era" for the newsgroup. I suspect some posters are not
| > familiar with this term.
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| Broadly, 1450-1720. Some define the period as later than that.

When I was in graduate school, I had to take 'Early Modern' as my minor area of study, (the chief being Medieval), because I had taken too many Ancient History courses, as an undergrad., to leave enough to build a minor.
Early Modern dated from 1500 or 1600, (depending on when a particular scholar terminated the Renaissance, which was either part of the Middle Ages, or on its own), until, for convenience' sake, the French Revolution - which, for greater convenience' ske, we could then extend to 1800.
Of course, one could go further. The term. is rather arbitrary. Arguments could be made for years right up to the assassination of HRIH Archduke Fraz Ferdinand. 1900 for convenience' sake.
Ford

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