Reign of Henery VII is Regarded as Marking a New Approach in The History of England
by His very difficult indeed to fix a date or a period as a dividing line; between medieval and modern times.
We can justify this by quoting Trevelyan who points out, “It is indeed useless to look for any date or even for any period, when the Middle Age ‘ended’ in England All that one can say is that in the thirteenth century English thought and society were medieval and in the nineteenth century they were not yet even now we retain the medieval institutions of the monarchy, the peerage, the commons in parliament assembled, the English common law, the courts of justice, interpreting the rule of law, the hierarchy of the established church, the Parish system, the universities the public schools and grammar schools. And unless we become a totalitarian state and forget all our English
History, there will always be something medieval in our ways thinking, especially in our idea that people and corporations have rights and liberties which the state ought in some degree, to respect in spite of the legal omni competence of parliament. Conservation and liberation in the broadest sense are both medieval in origin and so are the trade unions.
The men who established our civic liberties in the seventeenth century, appealed to medieval precedents against the modernizing monarchy of the starts. Our pattern of history is indeed a tangled, web No single diagram will explain its infinite complications”.
However, there is no doubt that towards the end of the fifteenth century and at her outset of the sixteenth century a completely new era was a sharing in Europe and in England.
The new society that emerged or was emerging was different from the society existed before this revolution which bought into being the new society. That is why the period of Henery VII is said to be the dividing line between the medieval and modern times.
The reign of Henry VII separated his times from the middle Ages. That is why the date of Henry’s accession 1458 is taken as the date of the end of middle ages and the beginning of the modern times.
The differences between the modern society and the medieval society were specially marked in the following fields:
1. Political Differences,
2. Religious Differences,
3. Social Differences.
4. Intellectual Difference.
These four fields showed marked differences between the two societies stated above. The changes in this four fields separated the existing society from the modern society. We can study these changes in the following categories:
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