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Abraham Ortelius: Map of Europe, 1595. 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.
The history of Europe is traditionally divided into four time periods: prehistoric Europe (prior to about 800 BC), classical antiquity (800 BC to AD 500), the Middle Ages (AD 500–1500), and the modern era (since AD 1500).
By the mid-1960s, critics like Susan Sontag and Ihab Hassan had begun to point out some of the characteristics, in Europe and in the United States, of what we now call postmodernism.
In many periodizations of human history, the late modern period followed the early modern period. It began around 1800 and, depending on the author, either ended with the beginning of contemporary history in 1945, or includes the contemporary history period to the present day.
Oct 8, 2014 · began to crumble in Western Europe in the 1980s, no such crumbling occurred in Eastern Europe. The incommensurability of her comparison (Eastern Europe was occupied by the Soviet Communists between 1944–89 and between 1939–41, that is, during the first two years of the Second World War—with momentous consequences) apparently did not cross
The End of Postmodernism: New Directions. Proceedings of the First Stuttgart Seminar in Cultural Studies 04.08–18.08.1991 . Stuttgart : M&P Verlag für Wissenschaft und Forschung. 81–100, 115–34.
The Cosmodern Turn. Postmodernism was the hottest item in literary studies—at least in the West, although. it also made a considerable stir in China, for instance—for approximately two de cades, roughly speaking from 1970 to 1990, but has been far less debated, as far as literature is concerned, since the end of the 1990s (D'haen, "(No ...
