The sixteenth and seventeenth centuries have traditionally been
regarded by historians as a period of intense and formative
historical change, so much so that they have often been described
as 'early modern' - an epoch separate from 'the medieval' and 'the
modern'. Paying particular attention to England, this book reflects
on the implications of this categorization for contemporary debates
about the nature of modernity and society.
The book traces the forgotten history of the phrase 'early
modern' to its coinage as a category of historical analysis by the
Victorians and considers when and why words like 'modern' and
'society' were first introduced into English in the sixteenth and
seventeenth centuries. In so doing it unpicks the connections
between linguistic and social change and how the consequences of
those processes still resonate today.
A major contribution to our understanding of European history
before 1700 and its resonance for social thought today, the book
will interest anybody concerned with the historical antecedents of
contemporary culture and the interconnections between the past and
the present.
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