Early Modern State
Body and passions: materialism and the early modern state
... the early 1930s, however, activists and enthusiasts disconnected reactive motion from interplanetary travel and connected it with more realistic goals that were part of the prevailing state culture of ...
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Petitions, Gravamina and the early modern state : local influence on central legislation in England and Germany (Hesse)
... The petitions of the 1640s allow an unprecedented insight into the ideological diversity of ‘public opinion’. Broadly-based evangelical calls for the abolition of bishops appeared alongside vociferous defences of the ...
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Standardizing the fiscal state: cabal tax farming as an Intermediate Institution in early modern England and France
... an early-modern state will depend on two fac- tors: the amount of lending required by the crown from it’s tax collectors (x) and how standardized are the country’s institutions ...
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Tagging the Bard:Evaluating the Accuracy of a Modern POS Tagger on Early Modern English Corpora
... VARD now has a much larger dictionary than that used for previous experiments. The decision was taken to increase the size of the dictionary (currently 26,071 entries) as, previously, many modern words were being ...
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Early Modern Guildhalls : Habitus in transition?
... These visual and structural changes require careful consideration. Rather than simply focussing attention on the tripartite arrangement, visual cues such as the coats of arms painted on the wainscot and furniture of the ...
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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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The Basic Situation of Modern Nation-State
... the modern world. Nationality is the structural demand of the modern world, and national identity is obvious and unavoidable in the construction of the modern community ...international state ...
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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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Widowhood in Medieval and Early Modern Europe
... The state of widowhood can be considered as one of personal loss, encompassing everything from the immediate psychological impact of the loss of a partner to the material deprivation of an income, a home, or of ...
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The human face of early modern England
... 1648), pp.102 and 103-4. In this period, as earlier, deafness and dumbness were perceived to be absolutely linked. René Descartes assumed this in Discourse on the Method when he wrote of ‘men born deaf and dumb’ who ...
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Researching memory in early modern studies
... to early modern identity underpins the emergence of the disorder of nostalgia, but it also registers the increasing tenuousness of that ...the early modern world, even if the vocabularies that ...
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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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Women and the Performance of Libel in Early Modern Devon
... in early-modern performed libel certainly was to be the target for accusations of moral transgression by men in order to maintain society’s norms and we should not overlook this as a key to understanding ...
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Protestant Evangelicals and Addiction in Early Modern English
... recently early modern addiction had received little ...a modern concept of addic- ...saw modern addiction emerging as a more gradual, long-term ...the early modern period is not ...
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The place of African slaves in early modern Spain
... the early decades of the seventeenth century, when the presence of African slaves from the Iberian Empire increased in their ...in early modern Spanish society are represented in visual and literary ...
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Brewing cultures in early modern towns : an introduction
... the early modern section of the Sonderforschungsbereich 537 at the Technische Universität Dresden, is now researching the provenance of artworks at the Staatliche Kunstsammlungen ...
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Archival transformations in Early Modern European history
... The early modern period, inclusively conceived, is often described as the age of print, but it was also the great time of archives, understood as both the physical repositories and organised offices ...
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Burial of the plague dead in early modern London
... the early weeks of the plague the parish paid for the burial of several individuals, including parish pensioners and children, but there is no reference to their buying a coffin for anyone between 26 July and 8 ...
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Representing the body of law in early modern England
... the State] should come the ‘tune’, or (more accurately) a sketch of a legal and political ...ideal State, of the relevance to the origins of law of the myth of Orpheus, and of Cicero’s insistence that “What ...
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British Interventions in Early Modern Ireland
... Education is another neglected subject which gets its due here. The study of education in Ireland in this period is nearly non-existent. One gets the sense that study of its Protestant/colonial iteration has suffered ...
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