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unusual facts about Early Modern period


Kurmark

In early modern times, Kurmark proper denoted the western part of the margraviate to the exclusion of later acquisitions.


Bergen op Zoom

During the early modern period, Bergen op Zoom was a very strong fortress and one of the main armories and arsenals of the United Provinces.

Calvörde Castle

In the Late Middle Ages and Early Modern Period it was frequently fought over due to its location between the territories of Brandenburg, Magdeburg and Brunswick.

Carter Bar

Carter Bar was the location of Truce days, that were held between the Lord Wardens of the Marches of both countries to dispense cross border justice in the Late Middle Ages and Early modern period.

Cratloe

As Cratloe was an important pass in both ancient times and more recent times, the area around the village is full of interesting sites from antiquity all the up until the Late Middle Ages.

European folklore

There is, of course, no single European culture, but nevertheless the common history of Christendom during the Middle Ages and the Early Modern period has resulted in a number of traditions that are shared in many ethnic or regional cultures of Europe.

Freedom of navigation

Up to the early modern age, international maritime law was governed by customs that were sometimes codified as for example in the 14th-century Catalan Consolat de Mar (Customs of the sea).

Paloma Fernández

Fernández Pérez has studied the influence of personal networks in European business in the transition from the early modern period to modern times, in diverse economic sectors (colonial trade, capital intensive industries), and regions (Andalusia, Catalonia).

Pinkasim

Pinkasim were books or journals which were used to coordinate and document organizations in Jewish towns and villages during the early modern period in Europe.

Roberto Sabatino Lopez

Other scholars had frequently compared unfavorably to those of the Renaissance and early modern period.

Stephen Snobelen

His current teaching and research interests are History of science (Early Modern and nineteenth century); Science and religion; Isaac Newton; The popularization of science; Radical theology in the Early Modern period; and Millenarianism.

Tharandt Forest

During the Early Modern Period the forest was a hunting ground for the territorial princes (Grillenburg Hunting Lodge) and was also a source of timber and charcoal for mining (charcoal burning) and the residence city of Dresden (timber rafting).


see also

Blair Worden

Blair Worden is a historian, among the leading authorities on the period of the English Civil War and on relations between literature and history more generally in the early modern period.

Emma Wilby

Wilby's first published academic text, Cunning Folk and Familiar Spirits: Shamanistic Visionary Traditions in Early Modern British Witchcraft and Magic (2005), was the first major examination of the role that familiar spirits played in Britain during the Early Modern period, and compared similarities between the recorded visions and encounters with such spirits, with shamanism in tribal societies.

Javan

The opinion that Javan is synonymous with Greek Ion and thus fathered the Ionians is common to numerous writers of the early modern period including Sir Walter Raleigh, Samuel Bochart, John Mill and Jonathan Edwards, and is still frequently encountered today.

Long Man of Wilmington

Recent archaeological work done by Professor Martin Bell of the University of Reading, in association with Aubrey Manning's Open University programme Landscape Mysteries, has strongly suggested that the figure dates from the Early Modern period – the 16th or 17th century AD.

Louise Labé

The sonnets, remarkable for their frank eroticism, have been her most famous works following the early modern period, and were translated into German by Rainer Maria Rilke and into Dutch by Pieter Cornelis Boutens.

Pensnett Chase

In the early modern period, the Dudley portion came to be known as Dudley Wood and the name was largely reserved for the portion in Kingswinford.

Seigneurial system

Manorialism - the socio-economic system of the Middle Ages and Early Modern period

Swinside

In the Early Modern period, local folklore about the stones held that they had once been used in the construction of a church, but that the Devil continually thwarted these plans, creating the stone circle in the process.

Terminology related to Germany

In the Late Medieval and Early Modern period, Germany and Germans were known as Almany and Almains in English, via Old French alemaigne, alemans derived from the name of the Alamanni and Alemannia.