Rajarata University of Sri Lanka
Department of
Languages
Faculty of Social
Sciences and Humanities
Online Lectures
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Year and Semester
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Year-3 Semester-1
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Subject
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History of English
Language
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Subject Code
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ENGL 3112
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Course Unit
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Introduction to Early Modern English-1
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Date
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02.06.2020
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Time
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Theory (9.00 am-11.00
am) Practical (2.30 pm-4.30 pm)
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Lecturer
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D.N. Aloysius
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Theory Hours
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02
Total No of Hours: 16
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Practical Hours
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02 Total No of
Hours: 16
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Early Modern English
The early modern period is a time from 1500–1800. This time follows the middle ages.
In the history of Europe, the early modern period follows the medieval period. The early modern a period of modern
history follows the late middle ages of
the post-classical era. The Age of
Discovery (especially the voyages of Christopher Columbus beginning
in 1492, but also with Vasco da Gama's discovery of the sea route to India in
1498) and ending around the French
Revolution in 1789.
Historians in recent decades have argued that from a worldwide standpoint,
the most important feature of the early modern period was its globalizing character. New economies
and institutions emerged, becoming more sophisticated and globally articulated
over the course of the period. The early modern period also included the rise
of the dominance of the economic theory of mercantilism.
The European colonization of the Americas began
during the early modern period, as did the establishment of European trading
hubs in Asia and Africa, which contributed to the spread of Christianity around the
world. Notably, the Atlantic slave trade and the genocide of Native American people began
during this period. The early modern trends in various regions of the
world represented a shift away from medieval modes of organization, politically
and economically. Feudalism declined in Europe, and Christians and
Christendom saw the end of the Crusades and
of religious unity under the Roman Catholic Church. The old order was
destabilized by the Protestant Reformation. Along with
the European colonization of the Americas,
this period also contained the Commercial Revolution and the Golden Age of Piracy.
Other notable trends of the early modern period include the development
of experimental
science, increasingly rapid technological progress, secularized civic
politics, accelerated travel due to improvements in mapping and ship design,
and the emergence of nation states. Historians typically date the
end of the early modern period when the French Revolution of
the 1790s began the "late modern" period.
Early modern Europe is the period
of European history between the end of
the Middle Ages and
the beginning of the Industrial Revolution, roughly the late
15th century to the late 18th century. Historians variously mark the beginning
of the early modern period with the invention
of moveable type printing in the 1450s,
the Fall of Constantinople in 1453, the
end of the Wars of the Roses in 1487, the beginning
of the High Renaissance in Italy in the 1490s.
Practical: Write a brief introduction to the period of Early Modern
English.
References:
1.
An
Introduction to Early Modern English by Terttu Nevalainen
2.
Early
Modern English by Charles Laurence Barber
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