Historians are kind of they want to see things in their own way,
歷史學家總是喜歡以自己的視角看東西
what's the period we live in now?
我們現在生活在什么時期
Technology?
科技時代嗎
In a more general sense?
再宏觀一點呢
I mean some people say well if you're speaking,
有些人會說,如果你在講文學的話
talking about literature post modern, modern's kind of word that we discuss a lot
那就是現代或后現代時期
In general sense, we're living in modern times
反正我們是生活在現代的
What's real old times? Ancient antiquity?
那什么是真正的古代,古跡嗎
What's the period between are the middle ages
古代和現代的中間就是中世紀嗎
but the way the historians viewed this was you know
但歷史學家們其實是這樣認為的
they're talking about modern times that started 1800 and forward
他們談論的是從1800年開始的現代時期
the times we live are modern and great things about antiquity
當下就是現代,有很多偉大古跡的就是古代
So what's this garbage in between?
那中間的玩意兒到底是什么
The Middle Ages
是中世紀
That's the kind of stuff in between
那就是中間的玩意兒
We're gonna end
關于時間區間定位就說到這里
We're gonna end
就說到這里
What's that signal in people's minds the end of the middle ages
在大部分人心中中世紀結束的標志是什么
The Renaissance
是文藝復興
And the Renaissance word means what comes from French right?
在法語里這個詞是什么意思
It means rebirth or what's a southern European manifestations
意味著重生,是歐洲南部的一個說法
So how many of you are Catholics here? so the rest of you are un-Catholics
你們這里有多少人是天主教徒,剩下的就是非天主教徒
So you're all victim of this next question
那么你們都是下一個問題的受害者
What happens in Northern Europe
那時候在歐洲北部發生了什么
which is a representation of the Renaissance?
什么是文藝復興的代表事件
At the same time?
那時還發生了什么
The Reformation?
改革嗎
Yeah the Reformation
是的,是改革
And Luther tact his Ninety-Five Theses on the Schlosskirche in Wittenburg in Wittenberg 1517
路德提出了,1517年的威登堡,路德將九十五條釘于教堂門上
And so kind of a convenient framework for the period we're talking about is 500 to 1500
所以中世紀的跨度可以說是公元500年到1500年
Calling that the Middle Ages
這就是被稱之為中世紀的時代