Citation:
Sluhovsky, M. “Discernment of difference, the introspective subject, and the birth of modernity..” The Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies, no. 1 (2006): 169.
Abstract:
Scholars have always found it tough to define what constitutes early modernity due to lack of exacting terms of reference and the awareness of the role of point of view when attempting to characterize the Middle Ages and modernity. An attempt is made to suggest plausible reasons why the term 'early modernity' replaced the traditional terms 'Renaissance and Reformation' and to point out different temporal boundaries between early modernity and the Middle Ages in historiography over the last forty years.