Modern Europe
The Rule of Women in Early Modern Europe
... Early Modern Europe is a collection of papers which originated in a 2005 conference at the University of ...early modern history, gender and queenship studies by bringing ‘a transnational and ...
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The Sciences of Homosexuality in Early Modern Europe
... and Modern Pederasty Investigated and Exemplify’d, the author recounts a chance meeting with a ‘too polish’d Pederast’ who, ‘attack’d upon the Head, that his Desire was unnatural, thus wrestled in Argument; ...
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Widowhood in Medieval and Early Modern Europe
... respectability and capacity to support themselves when seasonal work presented itself, should be seen partly in that context. On the other hand, both the image presented by widows in their written claims for relief and ...
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Managing the News in Early Modern Europe, 1550-1800
... Early modern Europe witnessed an eruption of news. In the sixteenth and seven- teenth centuries, the burgeoning business of print, the professionalization of postal net- works, confessional con fl ict, and ...
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Introduction : Art and Religious Reform in Early Modern Europe
... The religious turmoil of the sixteenth century constituted a turning point in the history of western Christian art. The iconoclasm precipitated by the Protestant Reformation was unprecedented in its scope: throughout ...
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Intelligence, reason of state and the art of governing risk and opportunity in early modern Europe
... knowledge required by raison d’Etat to be effective, it must be kept secret; ‘[a]t the time this was an explicit part of raison d’Etat called the arcana imperii, the secrets of power’ (Foucault, 2007, p. 275). In ...
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East & west : textiles and fashion in early modern Europe
... end of the seventeenth to the general repeal of bans in the third quarter of the eighteenth century, coincided with the geographic spread and technological improvement of calico printing in Europe. The only nation ...
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Opening the Book of Marwood: English Catholics and Their Bibles in Early Modern Europe
... these books is just as critical for understanding how they were appropriated as is the evidence of attempts to confiscate them. Each book is a material witness to the process of its own production and distribution. ...
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Memory before Modernity: Practices of Memory in Early Modern Europe
... radically modern, not only in the army he brought with him but in the administrative centralisation, planting schemes, utilitarianism, and protestant ascendancy that came in his ...
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"Her Book Not His": Women and Their Book Collections in Medieval And Early Modern Europe.
... This paper examines book ownership by women in the medieval and early modern periods in Europe. The primary aim of this paper is to synthesize the diverse and fragmentary scholarship on women book ...
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Religion and economy in pre-modern Europe : the medieval commercial revolution and the Jews
... Max Weber’s researches are responsible for this book. For anyone who followed them could not but ask himself whether all that Weber ascribes to Puritanism might not with equal justice be referred to Judaism, and probably ...
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Spanish Fashion at the Courts of Early Modern Europe
... early modern period, how these styles and their corresponding garments were experienced, manipulated, and refashioned, and the ways these fads circulated throughout ...
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Cities and the Making of Modern Europe, 1750–1914
... At times, this book does use its fact-driven account to disrupt some clichés upon which students regularly rely – for example, in describing the fractured, mobile and labile nature of the late 19th-century family (p. ...
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The cultural significance of interpersonal violence, with special reference to seventeenth century Worcestershire
... Riches, David, The Anthropology of Violence Oxford, 1986 Roper, Lyndal, Oedipus and the Devil: Witchcraft, Sexuality and Religion in Early Modern Europe London, 1994 Sabean, David, Power[r] ...
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... Early Modern Europe: New Approaches, Maturing Disciplines,” “The Spirit and the Flesh: The Implications of Religion for Early Modern Nature,” and “Nature and ...
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The Origins of Political Order: From Prehuman Times to the French Revolution
... and modern Europe), if the rule of law was also a case of parallel evolution (arising in three areas), and if accountability was a case of divergent evolution (arising only in Europe), the next ...
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Africa's growth prospects in a European mirror : a historical perspective
... on Europe reaching back to the medieval period, and noting a relationship between the quality of institutions and economic growth, this paper offers a reassessment of Africa’s growth ...pre-modern ...
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The new light of Europe : Giordano Bruno and the modern age
... oppositorum. 27 Moreover, myth and religion equally partook in the ill fate of the Aristotelian definition of the efficient cause and the eventual demise of the final cause. This is because these causes, astray from ...
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The Significance of Sea Monsters on Sixteenth Century Maps
... The popularity that sea monsters gained from their presence in books and maps marked the beginning of their end; the same scientific speculation that led to their inclusion in natural history also led to their eventual ...
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... extremely well versed in human anatomy having taken part in and even performed dissections of human bodies himself. His attention to detail is indeed remarkable and his craft, obsessive and meticulous. So why did he ...
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