Meaning & use
Saeculum
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A long period of time, roughly the length of a human lifetime or an era, especially in historical and generational theory.
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Historians describe modern political cycles using the concept of a saeculum, roughly eighty to a hundred years.
The theory divides each saeculum into four recurring generational turnings.
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A Latin term, the root of "secular," revived in modern historiography, notably in Strauss and Howe's generational theory.
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