A-Z: General definitions
- Early Church
- Early Modern
- Early modern English
- Ears to hear
- Easter
- Easter Rising
- Easter Sunday
- Ecce Homo
- Ecclesiastical
- Echo
- Ecriture feminine
- Ecumenical
- Eden
- Eden (Garden of)
- Edgar Allan Poe
- Edmund Burke
- Edmund Spenser
- Edom
- Education Act of 1870
- Edward VII
- Edward VIII
- Edwardian
- Egypt
- Egyptian
- El Dorado
- El Greco
- Elder
- Elect
- Election
- Electra
- Elegiac
- Elegy
- Elevated lexis
- Elgin Marbles
- Eli
- Elide
- Eliezer and Rebecca
- Elihu
- Elijah
- Elisha
- Elizabeth
- Elizabeth Gaskell
- Elizabeth I
- Elizabethan
- Ellipsis
- Eloi, Eloi, Lama Sabachthani?
- Eloise and Abelard
- Eloquence
- Eloquent
- Elysian
A-Z: General definitions: Early Modern
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The period from the late Middle Ages until around 1800. It was an age of science, technology and globalisation, which included the colonising of America. Within this period was the Renaissance, Reformation, Scientific Revolution and the Age of Enlightenment.
The period of European history broadly between 1000AD-1500AD.
Renaissance is literally 're-birth'. The term describes the movement, especially in the 15th and 16th centuries originating from Italy, where new areas of art, poetry, scholarship and architecture emerged.
Term given to the movements of church reform which in the sixteenth century resulted in new Protestant churches being created as an alternative to the Roman Catholic Church.
A European intellectual movement of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, also known as the Age of Reason. It sought to promote knowledge and reform society by focussing on what could be understood through reason and logic.
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