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Concluding chapters: Introduction
(4,606 words)
1. OverviewThe following discussions conclude the
Encyclopedia of Early Modern History after 15 volumes of articles; in them, the editors summarize the results of the work in the individual subject areas. They represent an attempt to epitomize the lexically organized material of the 3,340 articles constituting the project (comprising 103 key articles, 817 thematic articles, 325 composite articles, and 2,095 individual articles) from general perspectives and to call attention to the context in which…
Date:
2023-11-14
Historicism
(5,455 words)
1. Definition and phenomenonHistoricism was one of the most important intellectual and cultural tendencies of the 19th century. As such, not only did it greatly influence the development of the humanities in this period (see 2, below); it also made a significant mark on the history of art and architecture in European societies (see 3, below). At the core of historicism was the conviction that history, or the actualization of historical tradition, was centrally significant for the cultural orientati…
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2019-10-14
Early modern period
(8,922 words)
1. Historical periodization and terminological history
1.1. Epochs in historical thoughtTerms of periodization are of great importance to processes of historical understanding, for they lend temporal order and structure to sequences of events and developments that in immediate experience lack definition. As methodical instruments of research, they provide historical processes with chronological and thematic contexts, and with these, cultural meaning (Epoch). As the example of “early modern period” illustr…
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2019-10-14
Culture
(10,205 words)
1. Terminological historySince its invention in Roman Antiquity, the term culture has referred to those elements of reality that do not exist in nature, but are brought about by mankind. The Latin verb
colere and its substantive forms (
cultus;
cultura) originally referred in the context of Roman agrarian society to the farming of the land (
agri cultura), the nurturing of the garden (
horti cultura), and the keeping of animals - all activities in which people make use of the natural world.At an early date, however, the frame of reference of the concept expanded to the intel…
Date:
2019-10-14
Late modern period
(4,556 words)
1. Modernity and the late modern periodThe transition from the early to the late modern period, in the sense defined in the introductory chapter to this encyclopedia, came as a result of the range of profound changes - political, economic, technological, social, and cultural - that took place in the first half of the 19th century, culminating in the “year of revolutions” of 1848/49. Those changes came to define “modernity” in a new sense that endures to this day. To claim validity as a term for an epo…
Date:
2019-10-14
Aviculture
(3,135 words)
1. Forms and motives In modern-period European societies, the keeping and breeding of birds served a variety of purposes: as poultry for slaughter with a high nutritional value, not only in rural society but to a limited extent also in towns (where there were constraints on account of urban sanitation), they belonged to the categories of livestock and small-animal husbandry. Chickens and doves, the latter being regarded as a delicacy, and as beneficial to the dietary system, served for me…
Date:
2019-10-14
