Rate of Change

[JoatSimeon at aol.com]

In a message dated 6/7/01 9:16:05 PM Mountain Daylight Time, edsel at glo.be
writes:

> E.g. during the Middle Ages society hardly changed over 100 or more years;
> in more recent times, however...

-- there's a genuine discontinuity over the past 500 years or so in Western
society, and historical change has accelerated greatly.  However, prior to
the Renaissance, this doesn't apply.