It suggests that the conscious construction of the phrase ‘early modern’ by—as far as I can trace it back—William Johnson Cory in 1869 deliberately minimises the gendered, racial, and social class violence so essential to the period by considering it a necessary transitional phase towards an apparent ‘Golden Age.’

#Slavery #Colonialism #GenderHistory #WitchTrials #Capitalism #EarlyModernHistory #EarlyModernEurope

https://thisblogpostdiscusses.medium.com/some-ramblings-on-the-phrase-early-modern-and-on-the-politics-of-historiography-more-generally-5a61c89a2f43

It suggests that the conscious construction of the phrase ‘early modern’ by—as far as I can trace it back—William Johnson Cory in 1869 deliberately minimises the gendered, racial, and social class violence so essential to the period by considering it a necessary transitional phase towards an apparent ‘Golden Age.’

#Slavery #Colonialism #GenderHistory #WitchTrials #Capitalism #EarlyModernHistory #EarlyModernEurope

https://thisblogpostdiscusses.medium.com/some-ramblings-on-the-phrase-early-modern-and-on-the-politics-of-historiography-more-generally-5a61c89a2f43