How the era label attached to a person shapes what readers expect them to have believed

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Why "Victorian" says more about a person's dates than about their beliefs When an era label is applied to a person mainly to sell a biography Can a person born after an era ended still be called a person of it Why era labels carry a value judgement that century labels avoid Era names that the people living under them would never have recognised Reading against the grain: finding the poor in documents written by their landlords Two countries using different era labels for exactly the same years Era labels are usually coined by the generation after the people they describe What makes an era label stick to a whole population rather than a single decade The problem with calling everyone in the pre-modern past a peasant