Favourite Era in History

[Sir William]

Thought I'd get the ball rolling here in this shiny, new forum...

So, I want to know what your favourite era in histoy is. Or eras, because who can pick just one?

I've always been fascinated by the Tudors, right from Henry VII through to Elizabeth. The era that resulted in Shakespeare can't have been too dull, hey?

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[سهاد]

Well, my favorite era is the prophet Mohamed one
really I always hope that I live during his days
I think it was spiritual days full of bless

[Sir William]

One more to add: the Age of Enlightenment. That era makes me giddy and is probably the time period I'd be most comfortable in if I could go back in time. That is, once I get used to not taking showers.:biggrin1:

[Riddles & Rhymes]

My faverorite era in history... let me explain here... I do like the Age Of Enlightenment... however... i am drawn more toward... the Romanticism period myself :coffee1:



Romanticism is an artistic, literary, and intellectual movement that originated in 18th century Western Europe during the Industrial Revolution. It was partly a revolt against aristocratic, social, and political norms of the Enlightenment period and a reaction against the scientific rationalization of nature in art and literature. It stressed strong emotion as a source of aesthetic experience, placing new emphasis on such emotions as trepidation, horror, and the awe experienced in confronting the sublimity of untamed nature. It elevated folk art, nature and custom, as well as arguing for an epistemology based on nature, which included human activity conditioned by nature in the form of language, custom and usage. It was influenced by ideas of the Enlightenment and elevated medievalism and elements of art and narrative perceived to be from the medieval period. The name "romantic" itself comes from the term "romance" which is a prose or poetic heroic narrative originating in medieval literature and romantic literature.

The ideologies and events of the French Revolution and Industrial Revolution are thought to have influenced the movement. Romanticism elevated the achievements of what it perceived as misunderstood heroic individuals and artists that altered society. It also legitimized the individual imagination as a critical authority which permitted freedom from classical notions of form in art. There was a strong recourse to historical and natural inevitability in the representation of its ideas.



http://academic.brooklyn.cuny.edu/english/melani/cs6/rom.html
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[ثامر مهدي]

The Time when God thinking about creating idea. It is my favorite era.

:soso:

[Third Eye Blind]

I’m getting familiar with the late 19th and beginning of 20th century in literature which was led by the modernism literature which was spreading those days by the God father Ezra Pound, T. S. Eliot, Walter Benjamin, Jean Paul Sartre, James Joyce, Jorge Luis Borges, and my favorite writer Samuel Beckett.

In my opinion, this movement has suggested a risky-suicidal- relation with the city, and sat the cosmopolitan concept which defines our relation with the cities.