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  1. Share Cite. The baroque style, especially that of baroque art and architecture, was in many ways a response to the absolute monarchies of the early modern period. As these monarchs built up their ...

  2. Dec 6, 2023 · In the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries Europe adopted a developmental model of human history that imagined “civilization” as the desired end result of a progression from a primordial “state of nature” maturing through stages of “savagery” and “barbarism.”. Unsurprisingly, European definitions of “civilization” described ...

  3. Early modern Europe. Early modern Europe, also referred to as the post-medieval period, is the period of European history between the end of the Middle Ages and the beginning of the Industrial Revolution, roughly the mid 15th century to the late 18th century. Historians variously mark the beginning of the early modern period with the invention ...

  4. Snakes have small heads, but very large bodies, they can abstain from eating for 7 or 8 days, but they can swallow 3 or 4 frogs, one after the other. Snakes do not digest food all at once, but rather little by little. . . . If you worry and shake your snake, it will bring up digested and fresh food at the same time.

  5. It is an irony that the country that nurtured the philosophes was the least affected by the reforms they proposed, but it would have been a remarkable king who could have ruled with the courage and wisdom to enable his servants to overcome obstacles to government that were inherent in the system. History of Europe - Absolutism, Monarchies ...

  6. May 29, 2024 · Beginning with Castiglione's Book of the Courtier (1528), the most influential early modern account of the formation of elite identity, the argument traces a path across the ensuing century towards the images of courtiers and nobles by the most persuasive of European portrait painters, Van Dyck, especially those produced in London during the ...

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  8. Modernism is a philosophical movement that, along with cultural trends and changes, arose from enormous transformations in Western society during the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Among the factors that shaped modernism were the development of modern industrial societies and the rapid growth of cities, followed by the horror of World War I.