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EARLY MODERN TIMES [5 records]

Record 1 2023-03-22

English

Subject field(s)
  • History (General)
DEF

The early modern times lasted from the end of the 15th century to the end of the 18th century.

CONT

In early modern times, people began to exploit the bogs.

OBS

In most of the sources consulted, this term was not capitalized.

OBS

Term always used in the plural.

Key term(s)
  • early modern history

French

Domaine(s)
  • Histoire (Généralités)
DEF

De la fin du Moyen Âge (traditionnellement fixée à 1453, chute de Constantinople [ou à 1492, découverte de l'Amérique]) à la Révolution française (1789), début de l'époque «contemporaine».

OBS

Selon certaines sources, l'histoire moderne peut aussi comprendre la période de temps entre la Révolution française de 1789 et aujourd'hui, période normalement appelée «époque contemporaine». On peut aussi parler d'«époque moderne avant la Révolution» et d'«époque moderne après la Révolution» pour les différencier.

OBS

La grande majorité des sources consultées écrivent ces termes en minuscules.

OBS

temps modernes : Terme toujours utilisé au pluriel.

Spanish

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Record 2 2023-03-22

English

Subject field(s)
  • History (General)
DEF

History from the end of the Middles Ages, or after the fall of the Western Roman Empire, to the present day.

OBS

The term "modern history" may also refer more specifically to the period from 1789 to the present day, therefore excluding the Middle Ages and the period from 1453(or 1492) to 1789, called the early modern times.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Histoire (Généralités)
DEF

Le Moyen Âge et l'époque contemporaine.

OBS

Ces termes peuvent aussi représenter plus spécifiquement la période entre 1453 ou 1492 (fin du Moyen Âge) et 1789 (début de l'époque contemporaine). On peut diviser l'histoire moderne en «époque moderne avant la Révolution» et «époque moderne après la Révolution». Dans cette fiche, toutefois, elle représente l'ensemble des périodes allant du Moyen Âge (inclusivement) à aujourd'hui.

OBS

temps modernes : Terme toujours utilisé au pluriel.

Spanish

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Record 3 2023-03-22

English

Subject field(s)
  • History (General)
DEF

The term "modern times" is recognized by historians as being the period of time immediately following what is somewhat confusingly known as the early modern times.... The actual modern times began at the end of the 18th century, going up to the present.

CONT

The exhibition’s stunning display of artifacts illustrates the development of wine glasses and accoutrements from the Middle Ages to modern times.

OBS

In most of the sources consulted, this term was not capitalized.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Histoire (Généralités)
DEF

Partie de l'histoire qui concerne l'époque qui a suivi [la Révolution de] 1789.

OBS

La grande majorité des sources consultées écrivent ces termes en minuscules.

Spanish

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Record 4 2015-03-24

English

Subject field(s)
  • Rules of Court
  • Law of Contracts (common law)
CONT

This category of mistake is derived from a small group of cases most of them of modern times, although the doctrine existed at least as early as 1584. The general rule is that a man is estopped by his deed, and although there is no such estoppel in the case of ordinary signed documents, a party of full age and understanding is normally bound by his signature to a document, whether he reads or understands it or not. If, however, a party has been misled into executing a deed or signing a document essentially different from that which he intended to execute or sign, he can plead non est factum in an action against him. The deed or writing is completely void in whosesoever hands it may come.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Règles de procédure
  • Droit des contrats (common law)
OBS

En common law, la personne qui ignorait le contenu ou la nature d'un écrit qu'on lui a fait signer peut, par la défense "non est factum", en faire prononcer la nullité quant à elle.

Spanish

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Record 5 1978-08-22

English

Subject field(s)
  • Paleontology
OBS

These primitive forms appear to have been ancestral to the squalodonts, which, first appearing in the late Oligocene, became the characteristic world-wide cetaceans of early Miocene times. Such forms as Squalodon and Prosqualodon probably resembled greatly the modern porpoises in habits and appearances.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Paléontologie
OBS

Mammifère cétacé fossile, dont les dents postérieures rappelaient celles des squales. (Les débris de ce genre sont assez fréquents dans le Miocène et le Pliocène de l'Europe et de l'Amérique du Nord. Type de la famille des squalodontidés).

Spanish

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