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1 From Renaissance
to Early Modern
ca. 1450 – ca. 1648
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he historical era from the middle of the fifteenth century to the
middle of the seventeenth century is the first half of what is often
Treferred to as the “early modern” period. That term was devel-
oped by historians seeking to refine an intellectual model first devised during
this very period, which saw European history as divided into three parts:
ancient (to the end of the Roman Empire in the West in the fifth century),
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