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Early Modern French Literature

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 early modern period and “can be traced as far back as Aristophanes” ...some early modern commentators viewed as the progress of old ...in French in 1597, and translated into English ...

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Intimate Exegesis: Reading and Feeling in Early Modern Devotional Literature

Intimate Exegesis: Reading and Feeling in Early Modern Devotional Literature

... Mary-Catherine French, Kelly Rich, Jessica Hurley, Christine Woody, Laura Finch, Julius Fleming, Don James McLaughlin, Laura Soderberg, Thomas Dichter, Phil Maciak, Dave Alff, Angela Britto, Jazmín Delgado, Evelyn ...

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The Shock of the Ancient: Literature & History in Early Modern France

The Shock of the Ancient: Literature & History in Early Modern France

... As Norman says, ‘the Ancients construct an aesthetics that privileges the emotional impact of the work above its didactic message’ (p. 208). In other words: for all that Boileau and his followers could celebrate the ...

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Earls Colne's Early Modern Landscapes

Earls Colne's Early Modern Landscapes

... given French and Hoyle’s depiction of the Harlakendens as being zealous pursuers of rents who ‘did not have the means to buy up copyhold lands for themselves except in a very small way’, one wonders if the ...

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The origins of early modern experimental philosophy

The origins of early modern experimental philosophy

... A second, related discontinuity is that natural philosophy changed from being a speculative science to being either a speculative or an operative (i.e. experimental) science. To be sure, this transition occurred over a ...

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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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Travel and experience in early modern English literature

Travel and experience in early modern English literature

... I am fortunate to work with such supportive colleagues at UWE and would like to extend my thanks to those who shouldered extra responsibilities so that I could take time off from teaching to finish this project ...

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The Rule of Women in Early Modern Europe

The Rule of Women in Early Modern Europe

... The next paper discusses one of Isabel’s descendants, Isabel Clara Eugenia, daughter of Philip II of Spain and joint ruler of the Low Countries with her husband Albert in the early seventeenth century. The author, ...

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The Sciences of Homosexuality in Early Modern Europe

The Sciences of Homosexuality in Early Modern Europe

... the early modern sciences of homosexuality but issues a call to arms for cultural historians, arguing that by losing sight of the difference between the ‘sexual’ and the ‘erotic’, and by collapsing the ...

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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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Scrutinizing Surfaces in Early Modern Thought

Scrutinizing Surfaces in Early Modern Thought

... in Early Modern Thought Liz Oakley-Brown & Kevin Killeen [1] By examining the relationships between inanimate and animate matter in early-modern Europe, this special issue on Scrutinizing ...

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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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British Interventions in Early Modern Ireland

British Interventions in Early Modern Ireland

... Having commented briefly on the individual essays, it remains to ask what of the sum of the parts? This is a difficult question to answer in that these pieces came out of a conference and thus were not commissioned with ...

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"Home" : emigration, identity and modern Caribbean literature

"Home" : emigration, identity and modern Caribbean literature

... the early-to-mid-1950s and their ranks include ...The early- fifties arrivals are unique in the fact that they spoke, initially, as pioneering representatives of the residents of the West ...

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Early Modern Guildhalls : Habitus in transition?

Early Modern Guildhalls : Habitus in transition?

... However, some sections of York’s craft and mercantile communities profited most markedly from the upturn in the city’s economic fortunes in the 1560s and 1570s. This economic revival was partly the result of improvements ...

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EDUCATION AND THE EARLY MODERN ENGLISH SEPARATISTS

EDUCATION AND THE EARLY MODERN ENGLISH SEPARATISTS

... investigating in detail the evidence relating to the early modern English Separatists and their attitudes to education. Interest in, and.. It has sometimes erroneously b[r] ...

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Researching memory in early modern studies

Researching memory in early modern studies

... the early modern to describe the period between about 1500 and 1750 identifies it both as part of the longue durée of the modern, and as a period with distinctively pre-modern ...when ...

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Aspects of modern Scottish literature and ecological thought

Aspects of modern Scottish literature and ecological thought

... ploughing with horses or stooking by hand. By the turn of the twentieth century, out of a population of approximately 4.4 miUion, 'just under two hundred thousand people [were left] on the farms of Scotland'.® While ...

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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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