Noun
modern period (uncountable)
The period following postclassical history (in Europe known as the "Middle Ages"), spanning from about 1500 to the present.
Synonyms: modern times, modern era, modern age, modern history, modernity
Hyponyms: early modern period, late modern period
At the end of ancient civilization ontic anxiety is predominant, at the end of the Middle Ages moral anxiety, and at the end of the modern period spiritual anxiety. Paul Tillich
Art before the modern period is as much art as Neanderthal man is man'. It is for this reason that around the same time I replaced the term "work" for art proposition. Because a conceptual work of art in the traditional sense, is a contradiction in terms. Joseph Kosuth
Art before the modern period is as much art as Neanderthal man is man. Joseph Kosuth
The modern period adds social ethics to religions agenda, for we now realize that social structures are not like laws of nature. They are human creations, so we are responsible for them. Huston Smith
In actual history, events overlap; you cannot, except by a confessed fiction, state the point at which the event called the Middle Ages ends and the event called the Modern Period begins. R. G. Collingwood