• Early modern Britain is the history of the island of Great Britain roughly corresponding to the 16th, 17th and 18th centuries. Major historical events...
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  • trials and witch related accusations were at a high during the early modern period in Britain, a time that spanned from the beginning of the 16th century...
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  • Early Modern English (sometimes abbreviated EModE or EMnE) or Early New English (ENE) is the stage of the English language from the beginning of the Tudor...
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  • The early modern period is a historical period that is part of the modern period based primarily on the history of Europe and the broader concept of modernity...
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  • In the early modern period, from about 1400 to 1775, about 100,000 people were prosecuted for witchcraft in Europe and British America. Between 40,000...
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    Church. The end date of the early modern period is variously associated with the Industrial Revolution, which began in Britain in about 1750, or the beginning...
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    Early modern warfare is the era of warfare following medieval warfare. It is associated with the start of the widespread use of gunpowder and the development...
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  • Early modern philosophy (also classical modern philosophy) The early modern era of philosophy was a progressive movement of Western thought, exploring...
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    returned. By 40,000 years ago they had become extinct and modern humans had reached Britain. But even their occupations were brief and intermittent due...
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    (2002). Helena of Britain in Medieval Legend. DS Brewer. pp. 52–63. ISBN 0-85991-625-1. Jenkins, Geraint H. (1987). The foundations of modern Wales : Wales...
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    The early modern history of the Old Swiss Confederacy (Eidgenossenschaft, also known as the "Swiss Republic" or Republica Helvetiorum) and its constituent...
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    of Roman rule in Britain was the transition from Roman Britain to post-Roman Britain. Roman rule ended in different parts of Britain at different times...
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    confirming Protestant dominance in Ireland. This is sometimes called the early modern period. The English Reformation, by which Henry VIII broke with Papal...
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  • The history of literature of the early modern period (16th, 17th and partly 18th century literature), or early modern literature, succeeds Medieval literature...
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    (411-1542) Early modern Britain Tudor period (1485–1603) Tudor conquest of Ireland English Renaissance Elizabethan era (1558–1603) First British Empire (1583–1783)...
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    dictionaries of women writers in English List of early-modern British women novelists List of early-modern British women poets List of female poets List of feminist...
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    of 18th-century British working-class writers List of biographical dictionaries of women writers in English List of early-modern British women novelists...
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    Cro-Magnons or European early modern humans (EEMH) were the first early modern humans (Homo sapiens) to settle in Europe, migrating from western Asia,...
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  • The name Britain originates from the Common Brittonic term *Pritanī and is one of the oldest known names for Great Britain, an island off the north-western...
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    further mention of Britain is made, which has led some, though not all, modern academics to suggest that the rescript does not apply to Britain, but to Bruttium...
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    List of early-modern women novelists (England, Wales, and Great Britain) List of early-modern women poets (England, Wales, and Great Britain) List of...
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    Anglo-Saxon England or Early Medieval England, existing from the 5th to the 11th centuries from soon after the end of Roman Britain until the Norman Conquest...
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  • Steven Gunn (historian) (category Use British English from October 2016)
    Oxford. He teaches and researches the history of late medieval and early modern Britain and Europe, and is the author of a number of academic texts. Gunn's...
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    Roman Britain was the territory that became the Roman province of Britannia after the Roman conquest of Britain, consisting of a large part of the island...
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    Scotland in the early modern period refers, for the purposes of this article, to Scotland between the death of James IV in 1513 and the end of the Jacobite...
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    The Kingdom of France in the early modern period, from the Renaissance (c. 1500–1550) to the Revolution (1789–1804), was a monarchy ruled by the House...
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    In early modern Scotland, in between the early 16th century and the mid-18th century, judicial proceedings concerned with the crimes of witchcraft (Scottish...
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    north-western coast of continental Europe, consisting of the islands of Great Britain, Ireland, the Isle of Man, the Inner and Outer Hebrides, the Northern Isles...
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    1820. Early modern Britain Georgian era Great Britain in the Seven Years' War History of the United Kingdom § 18th century Jacobitism List of British monarchs...
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