JPaul
I am afraid it was I.
Bad day at the office yesterday. I don't think I was at my most coherent.
I shall refrain from trendy comments like "period" in future. I thought I had put in the right place, but perhaps not.
Early modern period for we historians begins after the late medieval (which is around the end of the 15 century). By Shakespere we are well into early modern. Sorry for using in-house jargon. I should know better, it is a particularly mis-leading phrase and it is high time the discipline found something a little less opaque.
As for esoteric - I have, perhaps, watched too much Father Ted.
In short, I think my rather long winded and circuitous attempts were summed up in the last couple of sentences of my last post. Spong's argument's are more complex than the thread title suggests. I apologise for muddying the water rather than purifying it.
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