> I am using 'Early Modern' after I. Wallerstein's "The Modern
World-System". For Europe in general, this sub-period begins > about AD
1460 and ends with the the beginning of the industrial age and Age of
Enlightenment (which brought about new > ideologies i.e liberalism).
For English towns, I would see the early modern period beginning with the
the dissolution of > the monasteries which freed local industry from
monastic monopolies and brought large rural estates into 'private' >
ownership (with subsequent changes to agriculture). The early modern would
end about AD 1690 (plus or minus 10 years ?) > with the beginnings of
serious industrialisation.
I believe this would cause more confusion, most people use the Tudor period
with its upheavals including the dissolution of the monasteries as the
boundary between the Medieval and Post Medieval periods.
The Modern period to me starts post Victorian (i.e. 20th century) with the
start of changes in society and other innovations e.g. internal combustion
which bring us closer to the country we live in today.
Martin Newman
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