Why believe that something like a megasaeculum exists when it can never be demonstrated due to small sample size?
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Water and wind power machinery pre-date the Late Medieval Saeculum as does crop rotation. The printing press was developed at that time.
But it goes deeper. You imply "ideology" vs "culture" as orthogonal, when the former is a subset of the later. Also ideology I believe is a recent development. I'm not sure it can be meaningfully applied to a period before the Enlightenment. It would be useful to define your terms and check your dating before you assert things happened at such and such a time when they did not.
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kinser Wrote:Did not the Late Medieval Saeculum (using S&H's terminology here) not bring on line major advances in production usually indicative of R/E turnings? Off the top of my head I can think of crop rotation, water and wind powered machinery and the printing press.
Water and wind power machinery pre-date the Late Medieval Saeculum as does crop rotation. The printing press was developed at that time.
kinser Wrote:During the Reformation there were two different clear ideas that came to the fore. Namely Protestantism v. Catholicism and Divine Right Vs Constitutional Monarchy.Again you have the dating wrong for constitution monarchy.
But it goes deeper. You imply "ideology" vs "culture" as orthogonal, when the former is a subset of the later. Also ideology I believe is a recent development. I'm not sure it can be meaningfully applied to a period before the Enlightenment. It would be useful to define your terms and check your dating before you assert things happened at such and such a time when they did not.