Rethinking Period Boundaries

by Lucian George, Jade McGlynn, Jan A. Burek, Aaron Clift, Julia Secklehner, Aleksei Lokhmatov, Alessia Benedetti, Andrea Talabér, Ritchie Robertson

Periodization is an ever-present feature of the grammar of history-writing. As with all grammatical rules, the order it imposes can structure but also stifle historical interpretations. Though few…