Rethinking Period Boundaries

Period boundaries provide essential order to the past. This order, however, can be a mixed blessing, opening our eyes to some changes and continuities, whilst inevitably blinding us to others. In this volume an international group of historians and literary scholars remedies some of these blind spots, challenging accepted European period markers and showing how the way we periodise affects not only research, but also the course of history itself.

Lucian George, Oxford University; Jade McGlynn, Oxford University.