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Showing 1 to 14 of 14 for “"1690s"”.
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For the want of ‘scots projects’: Scottish Financial Innovation and the nature of the Financial Revolution, 1688-1727
… affairs is not, however, unjustified. The 1690s witnessed significant financial development here - the Bank of England, the establishing of a national debt, an emerging stock market, a failed national land bank, significant economic debate - in Scotland, however, financial development was …
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Charisma and controversy: Benjamin Keach (1640-1704) and the Baptist debate about congregational hymnody
… and a decade long polemic ensued in the 1690s.<br/>Chapter one traces the origins and practices of singing in early English baptistic congregations. The chapter explores the definitional change of the term “inspired songs” by submitting that it was Keach who first began to argue for the …
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The Evolution Of French Identity: A Study Of The Huguenots In Colonial South Carolina, 1680-1740
… Upon arriving in the colony in the 1680s and 1690s, the Huguenots' identity was based on several common factors: their French language, their Calvinist religion, and their French heritage. As the immigrant group began to build their new lives in Carolina, these identifying factors began to …
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The Poetics of Liminality and the Politics of English Literary Culture, 1635-1700
… in literature spanning the 1630s to the 1690s, this study sets forth a view of seventeenth-century literary culture--its productions, politics, and affects--more complex, more contradictory and indeterminate, than is usually allowed. Insisting on the uneven cultural topography of civil …
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Italian frescoes in German baroque palaces: visual culture and princely power in the Holy Roman Empire
Beginning in Central Europe in the 1690s and spreading to the German principalities of the Holy Roman Empire by 1700, large-scale Italian ceiling paintings soared in popularity as nobles of all ranks competed with one another to produce ever more lavish decorative schemes that expressed their claim …
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Rural society in Scotland from the Restoration to the Union: challenge and response in the Carse of Gowrie, circa 1660-1707
… the harvest failures and famine of the later 1690s. The social and economic effects of the display of their wealth and status by landowners in the modernising and beautifying of their residences together with their increasing demand for monetary income are explored.
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Politics and Hermeneutics in the Meditations of Anne, Lady Halkett, 1651-1699
… despite the actual policies of his reign. In the 1690s as much as in the 1650s, she persisted in considering the king’s restoration, both spiritual and political, as the only genuine solution to the problems of the period.
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Arbitration in English law and society before the Act of 1698
… political and commercial exigencies of the 1690s.
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Reconsidering early modern English spiritual autobiography. Quaker women's self-writings in 17th-century England
… textual genres and written between the 1650s and 1690s. Quaker women’s self-writings are compared to contemporary samples of Quaker men’s self-writings to assess the degree of difference between women’s and men’s stylistic choices. The analysis of the texts was conducted using a hybrid methodology …
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Cotton Mather's cosmology and the 1692 Salem witch trials
… present in New England during the early 1690s, and allows us to explore a single individual's intellectual and behavioral contribution to a series of events for which that individual, Cotton Mather, has traditionally been held responsible. Additionally, the focus on Cotton Mather and the …
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Shugborough Hall, the Ansons and the Eighteenth-Century British Empire
… of the National Trust. Originally built in the 1690s, the house and gardens were transformed during the 1740s, following Commodore George Anson’s famous ‘voyage round the world’ (1740-1744). Commodore Anson led a squadron of six ships into the southern Atlantic and Pacific Oceans, with …
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Subjecthood and Sovereignty among the ‘Real’ and ‘Imagined’ Pirates of a ‘Golden Age’, 1690–1705
… of Anglo-Mughal relations in India in the 1690s. Chapter II then explores the popular protest and public reaction to the news of piracy in Asia, outlining how local discord influenced subsequent political developments and offering evidence for the existence of proto-public spheres in Mughal …
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K'ung-tzu or Confucius? The Jesuit interpretation of Confucianism
… thinkers. The Rites issue broke out again in the 1690s largely through its involvement in essentially non-Chinese ecclesiastical arguments. The missions of the papal legates, de Toumon and Mezzabarba, and associated papal decrees against the Rites, undercut the Jesuit method by removing its social …
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K'ung-tzu or Confucius? The Jesuit interpretation of Confucianism
… thinkers. The Rites issue broke out again in the 1690s largely through its involvement in essentially non-Chinese ecclesiastical arguments. The missions of the papal legates, de Toumon and Mezzabarba, and associated papal decrees against the Rites, undercut the Jesuit method by removing its social …