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The Seventeenth Century

English Benedictine Nuns in Exile in the Seventeenth Century

English Benedictine Nuns in Exile in the Seventeenth Century

... When an English nun entered a convent in exile in the 17th century, she was expected to leave behind once and for all ‘the world, the flesh, the divill’. Until recently, that enclosure was one of the excuses for ...

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What was published in the seventeenth century Dutch Republic?

What was published in the seventeenth century Dutch Republic?

... The seventeenth-century Dutch Republic was a highly literate society. The Dutch pro- duced, and consumed, more printed items per head than any other people in Europe. Books were imported from all the major ...

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The English Landscapes in the Seventeenth Century

The English Landscapes in the Seventeenth Century

... the seventeenth century, however, his peasants are often more vigorous than those in prints by his contemporaries who continued to depict a "passive" labour force contrasted with an implied or ...

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Councils, counsel and the seventeenth century composite state

Councils, counsel and the seventeenth century composite state

... the seventeenth-century Atlantic archipelago was plagued by the problem of being a composite state is well ...eighteenth century ones, focused more on the type of union to be established than on ...

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The Age of Genius: The Seventeenth Century and the Birth of the Modern Mind

The Age of Genius: The Seventeenth Century and the Birth of the Modern Mind

... Following the introduction, which suggests that Grayling's argument hinges upon thinkers and ideas, it comes as a surprise to find that part two (by far the longest section of the book) turns to the Thirty Years War. The ...

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Works of economic interest in the seventeenth century Muslim world

Works of economic interest in the seventeenth century Muslim world

... the seventeenth century who wrote on causes of Ottoman decline and suggested steps for reform and restoration of the diminishing power and prestige of the ...

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The seventeenth century

The seventeenth century

... It was during the second half of the seventeenth century, however, that trade with the Americas became increasingly important, and it would further accelerate after 1707. The English Navigation Acts that ...

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Joseph Glanvill and the seventeenth century reaction against enthusiasm

Joseph Glanvill and the seventeenth century reaction against enthusiasm

... teenth Century# was due In p a rt to d is lik e o f the arro­ gance and Intolerance o f the ...f seventeenth century English thought# and O la n v lll is s ig n ific a n t in th&tt he# more ...

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The Seventeenth Century Brewhouse and Bakery at Ferryland, Newfoundland

The Seventeenth Century Brewhouse and Bakery at Ferryland, Newfoundland

... The Ferryland brewhouse offered a unique opportunity to study a structure that, while common in historical accounts, has proven difficult to study archaeologically (Allan 2006: 261). Brewhouses and bakehouses are men- ...

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Vendetta in the seventeenth-century Midi

Vendetta in the seventeenth-century Midi

... Et cependant ordonne son eslargissement et casse la sentence du sr cormières conseilher au senechaussée de rodes du…Et parceque dans le cour des procès le sieur de st pierre frere aud [r] ...

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Dom Jean Mabillon  A Prison Reformer of the Seventeenth Century

Dom Jean Mabillon A Prison Reformer of the Seventeenth Century

... From internal evidence, the letter quoted is probably the second written, nor was the correspondence very active until some years later when Brother Denis fell into evil ways and deserte[r] ...

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Secularizing tendencies in medieval Russian hagiography of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries

Secularizing tendencies in medieval Russian hagiography of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries

... continued to change in the second half of the seventeenth century. Naturally, the Schism brought violent spiritual and social upheaval, testing the strength, allegiance and[r] ...

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Plague, print and providence in early seventeenth century London.

Plague, print and providence in early seventeenth century London.

... early seventeenth century seeking to give explanation to the seeming inexplicable and meaning to the apparently meaningless devastation wrought by plague ...the seventeenth century, and indeed ...

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The rhetoric of celebration in seventeenth century Venetian funerary monuments

The rhetoric of celebration in seventeenth century Venetian funerary monuments

... the seventeenth-century Flemish ...in Seventeenth-Century Venetian Sculpture’, ...Court’s seventeenth-century Venetian naval funerary monuments’, Church Monuments 30 (2015, ...

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Religio Medici  Medicine and religion in seventeenth century England

Religio Medici Medicine and religion in seventeenth century England

... seventeenth century Godly families of the Henrys and Newcomes. Exploring the literary remains (diaries, sermons, commonplace books) of Henry Newcome and Philip Henry, both Presbyterian ministers, in the ...

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Wounds, Flesh, and Metaphor in Seventeenth Century England

Wounds, Flesh, and Metaphor in Seventeenth Century England

... Covington recognises the subtle transformation of literary modes as Lovelace converts his devotion for his lover into loyalty to the king, while Marvell’s pastoral poetry is disrupted by the intrusions of war. Although ...

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The transformation of Drumlanrig Castle at the end of seventeenth-century

The transformation of Drumlanrig Castle at the end of seventeenth-century

... The seventeenth-century iron yett behind the oak front door and the North ends of the corridors along the East and West ranges are some of the few indications of the castellated nature of the ...

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History as Rhetoric, Fable, and Literary Genre

History as Rhetoric, Fable, and Literary Genre

... to us, and that it is not being falsely transported from the present to the past. It is not a mere coincidence that A. Thierry opposes his historical method to the history of out-of-context dissertations. In his sixth ...

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Aspects of Muslim economic thinking in the eleventh century (AH)/seventeenth century (CE)

Aspects of Muslim economic thinking in the eleventh century (AH)/seventeenth century (CE)

... The seventeenth century great Muslim Empires, both Ottomans and Mughals faced the problem of the flight of the farmers from their fields leaving the land ...

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Bradford and Winthrop: Different Approaches to Colonial New England

Bradford and Winthrop: Different Approaches to Colonial New England

... Portuguese and Spanish merchants, as well as the Dutch in New York. 70 The prospect of financial gain eventually trumped early attempts to keep the community small and self- sufficient. The fact that large-scale commerce ...

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