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	The Chronicle: 4/26/2002: It's the End of the Modern Age
		The Modern Age was, by and large, marked by an increase in the numbers of people; and by an increase in the production of goods and in their availability.
		The Modern Age was the age of the town.
		By the early 20th century -- even before the catastrophe of World War I -- what was oddly, and belatedly, called "modern art" meant a drastic and brutal departure from the traditions and the achievements of the Modern Age.
	chronicle.com /free/v48/i33/33b00701.htm (4387 words)

	GLOSSARY
		Modern colonialism began after the discovery of America and of the sea route to the Far East, when the new European states began to found colonies abroad.
		In medieval and early modern Europe, a guild normally comprised all the self‑employed members of an occupation in a town or district; the members drew up the statutes of the guild, elected its officers, and contributed to its treasury.
		Moor: In medieval and early modern Europe, an inhabitant of Muslim North Africa, and, by extension, the Arab and Arabicized conquerors and inhabitants of Spain.
	academic.brooklyn.cuny.edu /history/dfg/coregate/glossary.htm (11722 words)

	Erasmus Center for Early Modern Studies (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		The Erasmus Center for Early Modern Studies is a joint initiative by the Erasmus University Rotterdam (EUR) and Rotterdam City Library.
		The Erasmus Center for Early Modern Studies amasses in a Center of Excellence the expertise on the early modern era possessed by the Faculties of History and Arts, Law, Social Sciences, and Philosophy.
		By consolidating such scholarship, the Erasmus Center is boosting research on the early modern period conducted by leading international scholars at the EUR.
	www.fhk.eur.nl /onderzoek/ErasmusCenter/index.html (369 words)

	ScienceDaily: 15,000-year-old Early Modern Human Skeleton Has Oldest Recorded Case Of Impacted Wisdom Teeth
		For years this rare, early anatomically modern human skeleton was thought to be that of a girl because her wisdom teeth had not erupted, an event that typically occurs between 18 and 22 years of age.
		Impaction was unknown during the stone ages, scientists say, due to the coarse diet of the period.
		Modern technology has now reached a point where improved safety can only be achieved through a better understanding of human error mechanisms.
	www.sciencedaily.com /releases/2006/03/060308084710.htm (1965 words)

	Gender Egalitarianism In Early Modern Europe - History Forum
		But with that wide an angle of study -- Europe in the early modern centuries -- I imagine that you'd find the fortunes of women both rising and falling on the various scales of social, economic, and political life.
		The lives of the great majority of Early Modern Europeans were stuck in an immemorial rut of economic necessity and social rigidity.
		The Middle Ages were the high tide of the ethos of chivalry, which was certainly the low tide for the social ideal of woman's behavior.
	www.simaqianstudio.com /forum/index.php?showtopic=2487 (1201 words)

	Impact of The Little Ice Age: Europe - Skadi Forum (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Early rain gauges being used to record precipitation were sometimes exposed on roofs, which led to inaccurate readings due to splashing out and to loss of water via evaporation.
		Despite the fact that the pressure was a miniature Ice Age, people were not freezing to death, the technological invasions in building, insulating, heating, and clothing were advanced enough to keep the vast majority alive.
		In the time of mass societies, like early industrial age and time of later extreme social contraselection the same is true, Cromagnids further lose and the L-D lose their peak too.
	forum.skadi.net /showthread.php?t=44948 (8684 words)

	3. The Era of Nationalism and the Modern Age
		Though the word "Modern" is a colorless word (since all times are modern to their own people) we may none the less speak of these last five centuries as the Modern Age.
		They argued that since the first world war it had become evident that the era of migration, of opening up of new lands, that started in the early modern age with Columbus had come to a close.
		Intermediate between these views were the opinions of those who thought the depression was the delayed consequence of the world war, and those who regarded it as the collapse of "high capitalism".
	www.wallandbinkley.com /rcb/book/ch01s03.html (872 words)

	Early Modern Notes
		By including "anyone over the age of 16 who has not got what is called a level 2 qualification in literacy and numeracy - in rough terms, this means anyone without the equivalent of an A*-C at GCSE" (the exams taken at 16 in UK schools).
		One year, from £23,643 pa. This is to cover for the absence of two members of staff during the course of the year, and I know that one of them is the early modern cultural historian Stuart Clark (who will be at Princeton for the first semester).
		It is tenable at the Modern Records Centre, University of Warwick, Coventry, CV4 7AL, up to the value of £200 per annum, in order to support research in the MRC archive.
	earlymodernweb.blogspot.com (3639 words)

	REQUIEM - Papal and Cardinal Tombs of the Early Modern Age in Rome
		REQUIEM - Papal and Cardinal Tombs of the Early Modern Age in Rome
		Requiem is dedicated to the research of the Roman papal and cardinal tombs of the Early Modern Age between 1417 and 1799.
		The project is working also on a detailed alphabetical list of all the cardinals of the Early Modern Age, which retraces their careers as well as the family and clientele structures.
	www.hu-berlin.de /forschung/fdb/english/PJ/PJ7120.html (280 words)

	Puerto Rico at the Dawn of the Modern Age - (American Memory from the Library of Congress)
		Puerto Rico at the Dawn of the Modern Age
		Puerto Rico at the Dawn of the Modern Age: Nineteenth- and Early-Twentieth-Century Perspectives portrays the early history of the commonwealth of Puerto Rico through first-person accounts, political writings, and histories drawn from the Library of Congress's General Collections.
		Among the topics it highlights are the land and its resources, relations with Spain, the competition among political parties, reform efforts, and recollections by veterans of the Spanish-American War.
	memory.loc.gov /ammem/prhtml/prhome.html (164 words)

	Villagers in Early Modern Times
		A breakdown of the early modern village social order by social rank and status.
		Population increases in the late Tudor and early Stuart periods accentuated a trend towards economic and social polarisation felt throughout the midlands.
		But the occupations recorded between 1698-1707 provide a very clear and comprehensive picture of the social order at the end of the seventeenth century, although of course it tends to exclude groups on the fringes of society such as servants, apprentices, the aged, the unmarried, childless couples, recent immigrants from other parishes and nonconformists.
	www.applebymagna.org.uk /appleby_history/villagers_early_modern.htm (1671 words)

	Early Modern English Culture \| Green Musselman
		The topic for Spring 2004 is the early modern age (1485-1689), also known as the Tudor-Stuart period because of the monarchies that ruled England then.
		For early modern history, then, primary sources are texts produced by people living during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.
		Early in the semester, you will indicate to me the topic of your research paper and the question that you will seek to answer in your paper.
	www.southwestern.edu /~greenmue/emengsyll.html (6414 words)

	O. Bruton Smith 1927— - BITTEN BY RACING BUG AT AN EARLY AGE
		After seeing his first auto race at the age of six or seven, he was hooked on the sport and dreamed of the day when he could become a professional driver.
		In early spring 2004 the outlines of a possible out-of-court settlement in the suit against NASCAR for an additional cuprace at TMS had begun to emerge.
		Early in the 2000s the younger Smith had been promoted to the post of vice chairman and chief strategic officer at Sonic.
	www.referenceforbusiness.com /biography/S-Z/Smith-O-Bruton-1927.html (2153 words)

	Online Catalog
		History of the Early Modern Age (3) (W) The Early Modern period from the fifteenth-century European explorations to the French Revolution, within a global frame.
		Modern China (3) (Variable) Modern Chinese history from the earliest Western influence to the present time, including social, political, intellectual, and cultural developments.
		Modern Nationalism and Globalization (3) (Sp) Development of the modern nation-state and national identities within a global context and the impact of globalization in multiple historical periods.
	w2.byuh.edu /catalog/Course_Listings/History.php (878 words)

	Trajecta (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		In the past 25 years the religious history of the Early Modern Age has been the object of a great deal of interest in Belgium.
		As far as the sixteenth century was concerned, more attention was paid to the study of the Reformation than to that of the early Counter Reformation.
		Church history of the Early Modern Age is now mainly practised at the Catholic University of Leuven.
	www.kdc.kun.nl /trajecta/95-3-2.html (251 words)

	All age jobs \| Indeed.com
		AGE Mechanic (2006-2007) Job ID: TSC105125 AGE (Aircraft Ground Equipment) Mechanic 2006~2007 Raytheon...
		Work with Kids!School Age Child CareRed Rocks Community College's School Age Child Care Program is seeking several Group Leaders across Metro area.
		This full time position will be offered to a person with a minimum of 5 years exp. working with school age children...
	www.indeed.com /jobs?q=age&l=90001&from=rss (386 words)

	Early Modern English and the Scientific Revolution (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		To paraphrase Rabb, "The rise of Early Modern English and the rise of experimental science were the two most striking features of English intellectual life from the mid-XVIth to the mid-XVIIth century...'' Languages are historical entities that change over time.
		My interest is in the beginning of the Modern period, especially the Early Modern period, because it parallels the time frame of the Scientific Revolution, roughly 1500 to 1700.
		The creation of new words during the early modern period more than doubled the vocabulary of the language.[ Barber p.257] This is an extraordinary growth for any language at any time.
	www.lucasianchair.org /EME.html (4931 words)

	Best of History Web Sites: Early Modern Europe (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		They began with the premise that the texts of the period could not be taught successfully without a working knowledge of the religions beliefs and controversies of the period and an array of strategies for bringing that material to life in the classroom.
		The searchable site aims to provide a broad picture of the role of biblical interpretation in early modern Europe and shows how stories from the Bible were used by early scientists and Reformation leaders as a story of the growth and decline of knowledge.
		The University of Calgary's End of Europe's Middle Ages is designed to assist those students studying the Renaissance, Reformation and Early Modern studies who lack a background in medieval European history.
	www.besthistorysites.net /EarlyModernEurope.shtml#modern (7689 words)

	Internet Modern History Sourcebook: The Early Modern West
		Modern World - will all remain available indefinitely, and the URLs of individual files will not alter.
		An early antiwar tract, written during the second round of the English Civil War.
		A brief history of the early Quaker movement, in an epistle written in 1658 as an introduction to a book written by George Fox defending the Quaker faith.
	www.fordham.edu /halsall/mod/modsbook1.html (3979 words)

	Early Modern Spain: Food and culture
		Our work on Food and Culture in Early Modern Spain is led by R.T.C. Goodwin in collaboration with B.W. Ife.
		The book is part of a series about Spanish culture commissioned by the well-respected art historian and cultural commentator Francisco Calvo Seraller and is intended for a broad educated reading public in Spain, reflected in the low price, large initial print run, and plentiful colour illustrations.
		This thesis examines the representation of food in the work of four key artists and writers of early modern (Golden-Age) Spain: Diego Velázquez’s bodegones (genre paintings), Mateo Alemán’s Guzmán de Alfarache, Miguel de Cervantes’s Don Quixote, and the bodegones (still lifes) of Juan Sánchez Cotán.
	www.ems.kcl.ac.uk /content/proj/food/pro-food.html (606 words)

	Early Modern Resources » The printing press online
		An ‘enhanced’ version of an essay (and originally, presidential address) by Robert Darnton, the distinguished cultural historian of early modern France.
		The diverse output of early modern women printers; a good introduction followed by sections on educational books, religion and moral instruction, specialist printers (such as music), popular literature, and women involved in politically contentious printing and publishing (University of Illinois Library)
		The clandestine universe of the early eighteenth century
	www.earlymodernweb.org.uk /emr/index.php/the-printing-press-online (841 words)

	CAMENA - Latin Texts of Early Modern Europe
		They also develop and apply procedures for presenting and indexing early modern Latin texts (see Workshop).They are funded by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (German Research Foundation, Program Retrospective Digitisation of Library Materials).
		More recently this THESAURUS ERUDITIONIS has begun to develop into a universal handy collection of the sort available to most humanist scholars of the early modern age.
		This effort is to yield a synopsis of the keywords of early modern knowledge consisting of special word-lists as defined by ontological criteria.
	www.uni-mannheim.de /mateo/camenahtdocs/camena_e.html (1229 words)

	Amazon.com: The Cambridge History of Japan Volume 4 (Early Modern Japan) (The Cambridge History of Japan): Books: James ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		What surprised me from the beginning of the book was how much of Japan's early history has only been discovered in the last half of the 20th Century.
		Many of the subtle forms of governance that endured into modern times were entrenched at this time.
		It may be important to understand rice politics, but, for the average reader, the subject lacks the glitter of the Heian court and the conflicts that forged modern Japan.
	www.amazon.com /Cambridge-History-Japan-Early-Modern/dp/0521223555 (2124 words)

	Between the Living and the Dead: A Perspective on Witches and Seers in the Early Modern Age (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Between the Living and the Dead: A Perspective on Witches and Seers in the Early Modern Age
		In this book, she examines the relics of European shamanism in early modern sources, and the techniques and belief-systems of mediators found in the records of witchcraft trials from the sixteenth to the eighteenth century.
		The book explores the various communication systems known to early modern Hungarians, describes the role of these systems in everyday village life, and shows how they were connected to contemporary European systems, as well as new types of mediators and systems which function right up to the twentieth century.
	isbn.nu /963911619X (459 words)

	Central European University Press (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		History of Childhood in Hungary in the Early Modern Age
		Drawing on evidence from a wide collection of surviving family papers, Beloved Children is a valuable contribution to literature available concerning childhood history in pre-industrial Central Europe.
		With the aid of detailed case studies, the volume illustrates every aspect of Hungarian childhood in the early modern age from a variety of contrasting perspectives — birth, care, education, marriage, orphanhood and death.
	www.ceupress.com /books/html/BelovedChildren.html (371 words)

	Science Fiction The Early Modern Age
		Isaac Asimov divided the history of modern science fiction, i.e., works written after 1926, into four types of stories:
		The early modern era, roughly the period just before World War II, is dominated by stories in the fantasy mode of Edgar Rice Burroughs and stories influenced by Hugo Gernsback's focus on technology.
		In some respects Hugo Gernsback (1884-1967) can be called the Father of Science Fiction.
	www.nvcc.edu /home/ataormina/scifi/history/earlymodern.htm (383 words)

	Bibliography of Early Modern Iberia
		Elliott, J.H., "Self-perception and decline in early seventeenth-century Spain," Past and Present 74(1977): 41-61.
		Friedman, Ellen, Spanish Captives in North Africa in the Early Modern Age
		Meyerson, Mark, The Muslims of Valencia in the Age of Fernando and Isabel
	www.uca.edu /divisions/academic/history/emspbib.htm (723 words)

	Early Modern Whale
		My doctoral dissertation was about misogamistic sentiment in the literature of early modern England - all those versions of Beatrice and Benedick, expressing their morbid aversion from marriage.
		It either served to make this a piece of dead letter legislation as far as adultery was concerned, or witnesses the confidence of the legislators that third parties would be self-righteous enough to come forward with their sworn accusations.
		Shortly after the act passed into law, some interested party, remembering many a bawdy theatre scene, thought to express the likely reactions within the early modern sex industry.
	roy25booth.blogspot.com (3491 words)

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