Must We Divide History Into Periods?Columbia University Press, 2015 M09 8 - 176 páginas We have long thought of the Renaissance as a luminous era that marked a decisive break with the past, but the idea of the Renaissance as a distinct period arose only during the nineteenth century. Though the view of the Middle Ages as a dark age of unreason has softened somewhat, we still locate the advent of modern rationality in the Italian thought and culture of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. |
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3 History Education Periodization | 21 |
4 Birth of the Renaissance | 31 |
5 The Renaissance Today | 45 |
6 The Middle Ages Become the Dark Ages | 59 |
7 A Long Middle Ages | 79 |
Periodization and Globalization | 113 |
Notes | 117 |
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