Early Modern Europe

Early Modern Europe

Introduction

The term widely used by many historians to refer to the period in Europe's history, is Early Modern Europe, which marked the last part of Middle Ages and the start of the Industrial Revolution. In this perspective, the early modern period that would trump the values of modernity (the progress, the communication, and the right) compared to the previous period, the Middle Ages, that the subject identifies with Dark Ages or late parentheses, isolation and obscurity. The spirit of the modern look is in reference to the past, the Old Age which is identified as the classical period.

With the passage of time, Europe continued to advance and come out of the darkness which had plagued it for a very long period of time, on the back of scientific and technological advancements, so that usually this modern age, while not only withdrawn, but intensified at the tendency of modernization, it did so with significantly different characteristics mainly because it meant the moment of triumph and spectacular development of economic and social forces in the modern age were brewing slowly: the capitalism and the bourgeoisie, in addition to the development of political entities in parallel: the nation and the State. Conversely, the previous period, the Middle Ages, has long been considered a dark age, or as a dark interlude. The spirit of modern times sought to refer not to the Middle Ages, but at a more distant past, the ancient, seen as the classical period.

Discussion

Transition from medieval Europe to modern world

Based on the centralization of politics, expansion of the economy and secularization, Europe went through a period of transition from the medieval period to a period of modernity and technological advancement, as a result of which Europe came out of a dark and turbulent period, which had seen ...