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Body in Early Modern Literature

"The Fair Maid of the Exchange: Scrutinizing Disability in the Early Modern Literature Classroom"

"The Fair Maid of the Exchange: Scrutinizing Disability in the Early Modern Literature Classroom"

... the body, similar to what we understand as the fictions of race and gender” (77) takes on particular resonance in a play about a cripple whose very name suggests that the disabled body is firmly entrenched ...

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Of the Last Verses in the Book: Old Age, Caregiving, and Early Modern Literature

Of the Last Verses in the Book: Old Age, Caregiving, and Early Modern Literature

... The methodology of the fourth and fifth chapters changes by leaving aside the focus on reception history and returning to an early modern context. The final two chapters show how the older body ...

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The prolongation of life in early modern English literature and culture, with emphasis on Francis Bacon

The prolongation of life in early modern English literature and culture, with emphasis on Francis Bacon

... of early modern prolongevists, alchemists, devoted their efforts to learning the secrets of manufacturing the elixir vitae, but meanwhile they presumed why, if ever attained, the elixir would ...

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Intimate Exegesis: Reading and Feeling in Early Modern Devotional Literature

Intimate Exegesis: Reading and Feeling in Early Modern Devotional Literature

... Cvetkovich’s turn to the language of “cure,” “happiness,” “productivity,” and “movement” seems to be at least as much an index of the poverty of our vocabulary for surviving in bad feeling as it is the naïve optimism it ...

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Body and passions: materialism and the early modern state

Body and passions: materialism and the early modern state

... utopian literature on space travel on ...(How Modern Sci- ence and Technology Solves This Question),” may have been the fi rst exposition on space exploration in Russia open to the general ...both ...

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The Gaze to Heaven: On the Topopoetics of the Body-Soul Relationship in the Middle Ages and Early Modern Period

The Gaze to Heaven: On the Topopoetics of the Body-Soul Relationship in the Middle Ages and Early Modern Period

... and Early Modern Period to examine the connection between the body and soul as a hylomorphistic unit and so to define the epistemic validity and scope of the ...of body and soul was ...the ...

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The Rule of Women in Early Modern Europe

The Rule of Women in Early Modern Europe

... in Early Modern Europe is a collection of papers which originated in a 2005 conference at the University of ...of early modern history, gender and queenship studies by bringing ‘a ...

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Earls Colne's Early Modern Landscapes

Earls Colne's Early Modern Landscapes

... Colne’s early modern inhabitants interacted with the place where they lived, in terms of what they saw, what they heard, and how they made their marks on the landscape, not least in acts of graffiti within ...

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Bigamous marriage in early modern England

Bigamous marriage in early modern England

... Historians, with the notable exception of Lawrence Stone, have traditionally paid more attention to marriage-formation in early modern England than to its dissolution. We know that some unions ended in ...

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The origins of early modern experimental philosophy

The origins of early modern experimental philosophy

... A third point of discontinuity is that scholastic faculty psychology, which underpinned the distinction between speculative and practical knowledge and principles, drops out of the picture. Given that the ...

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Representing the body of law in early modern England

Representing the body of law in early modern England

... his body politic cannot be invalidated or frustrated by any disability in his natural ...the body natural of the king was subsumed by the body politic was rejected by a majority of the judges; ...

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Scrutinizing Surfaces in Early Modern Thought

Scrutinizing Surfaces in Early Modern Thought

... in early modern thought, but by no means did it monopolise the era’s ontologies or its ...trope. Early modernity was fascinated with the lie, its beauty and ...decades, early modern ...

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The Ambiguities of Early-Modern English Protestantism

The Ambiguities of Early-Modern English Protestantism

... Trevor-Roper, Catholics, anglicans and puritans: seventeenth century essays (London, 1987), p.. xiii.[r] ...

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Doctor Who and the early modern world

Doctor Who and the early modern world

... Early modern England, dated by historians as the period from c.1500 to 1700, permeates British television. The glittering and dramatic set pieces of Tudor, Elizabethan and Stuart history have long provided ...

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Medical care in early modern Venice

Medical care in early modern Venice

... The nature of distinctions between physicians and surgeons has been extensively debated. 38 In Venice, the limited specification of surgeons in the registers reflects how both physicians and surgeons were considered to ...

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Revenge and Reconciliation in Early Modern Italy

Revenge and Reconciliation in Early Modern Italy

... were responsible for much of the violence in the first place, notably the plague of banditry. Its power to suppress elite violence, in particular, was limited. In order to function effectively it required the ...

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The Sciences of Homosexuality in Early Modern Europe

The Sciences of Homosexuality in Early Modern Europe

... . Darrel Rutkin follows with a piece on the sixteenth-century astrologer Girolamo Cardano (also cited by Maxwell-Stuart), who achieved success with an early modern version of the celebrity horoscope. ...

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Researching memory in early modern studies

Researching memory in early modern studies

... opportunity to establish a kind of contact with the anterior and the authentic. The particular conjunction of emotional registers involved in these festivals points up how they depend for their success on mapping ...

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Pray in Early Modern English drama

Pray in Early Modern English drama

... With regard to the social status of the characters using the different forms of pray (the range of which was shown in Figure 2, Section 4), our data show no correlation between members of higher ranks using more complex ...

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To Early Modern Catholic Lay People

To Early Modern Catholic Lay People

... In this sense, all lay Christians, not just clergy members, have, by baptismal right, the authority to read and interpret Scripture. Finally, in Luther’s third wall, readers can be conv[r] ...

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