Should you cut the story into pieces? Le Goff J.

The work of the outstanding French medievist Jacques Le Goff considers the problem of historical periodization, which has not only a formal, but also substantial value: the transition to a new stage of development is accompanied by a denial of the values ​​of the previous period. It is precisely such ideological fractures that Le Goff considers system -forming: they allow you to draw borders between eras such as antiquity, the Middle Ages, and a new time. Separately, the scientist considers the periods that in science is traditionally called “Middle Ages” and “revival”. The term "revival" arose in the works of scientists of the 19th century. It is quite difficult to determine the chronological framework of this period. Considering one after another the signs that distinguish the revival as an era from the previous time, Jacques Le Goff come to the conclusion that the revival as a separate historical period did not exist. During the so-called “long Middle Ages” there were many revival (that is, rise in any field of science or culture), but a fundamentally different historical era came only in the 17th century with the beginning of the industrial revolution. It was then that the “long Middle Ages” ended and the new time came.