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Meanings of modern period in English

In European and Western history, the period that succeeded the Middle Ages (which ended approximately 1500 AD).

Usage of modern period in English
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The progress of Germany within the modern period has been very great.
A History of the Nations and Empires Involved and a Study of the...
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With the seventeenth century begins the modern period of general culture.
Handbook of Universal Literature, From the Best and Latest Autho...
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Since then the world never effectually reopened these questions until the modern period.
First and Last Things: A Confession of Faith and Rule of Life
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He belongs to what Dr. Arnold called the modern period of ancient history.
Cowper
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Once this had happened, the modern period of scepticism was well and truly launched.
A history of god: the 4000-year quest of judaism, christianity, ...
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JAPAN.-Theauthentic history of Japan belongs mainly in the modern period, since the tenth century A.D.
Outlines of Universal History, Designed as a Text-book and for P...
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The early modern period contains another notable example of a sudden and unaccountable decline in population.
Outspoken Essays
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In the early modern period, these crucial moments were often regarded as coming along every seven years.
The Guardian
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This theory accounts especially well for the otherwise puzzling rise in literacy during the early modern period.
The Rational Optimist
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But in Europe, during the early modern period, skin colour began to take on a very different meaning.
The Guardian
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Feminism is one of the great progressive social movements of the modern period begun by the French Revolution.
Free Women, Free Men: Sex, Gender, Feminism
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We have within the modern period very many examples which enable us to study the evolution of legendary miracles.
History of the Warfare of Science with Theology in Christendom
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Her research focuses on the writing of women in the Renaissance and early modern period, and especially on the… Audio
Radio NZ
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The reason is that, for this more modern period, no effective comparison has been made between observations and Hansen's tables.
The Reminiscences of an Astronomer
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Much of his research concerned the relationship of politics and religion from the early modern period to the late 20th century.
The Irish Times
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In the earlier part of the modern period, little of any kind was done in ethics by the great continental thinkers.
Moral Science; a Compendium of Ethics
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