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17th Century Colonial Witchcraft: Before Salem
… religious contexts of witchcraft accusations in 17th Century colonies, particularly in New England. Additionally, I take as my case study an examination of the Elizabeth Garlick case in 1657. Elizabeth Garlick lived in the Long Island town of what is today East Hampton. However, from the town’s …
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The Imitative Organ Fantasia in The 17th Century
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Interaction, integration, and innovation at the 17th century feira of Dambarare, northern Zimbabwe
… River towards the end of the 16th and early 17th centuries. Those feiras south of the Zambezi were mercantile and domestic settlements built by the Mutapa state and the Portuguese, and acted as points of contact between foreign and local traders. Dambarare, one of the more important feiras of …
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The fellowship of St.Diogo : new Christian judaisers in Coimbra in the early 17th century
Dr Antonio Homem was a respected teacher in the University of Coimbra, a Canon in the Cathedral and an illustrious scholar. He was also the heir of a long Jewish family tradition. His great-great-grand father lived and died as a Jew. His great-grandfather, his grandmother and two of his uncles were …
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Reconsidering early modern English spiritual autobiography. Quaker women's self-writings in 17th-century England
… a distinctive literary space by the end of the 17th century. The sources informing this research are a set of Quaker self-writings by Quaker women, belonging to different textual genres and written between the 1650s and 1690s. Quaker women’s self-writings are compared to contemporary samples of …
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Maxims and Portraits in Balzac 'Comedie Humaine': His Debt to the 17th-Century Moralistes
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La monja azul : the political and cultural ramifications of a 17th-century mystical transatlantic journey
… Blue (La monja azul). The legend is derived from17th-century religious memoriales (accounts) that narrate the miraculous apparition of a living cloistered Spanish nun, Sor María de Agreda, to the Jumano tribe of western New Mexico between the years 1620-1630. However, the Lady in Blue's …
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A 17th century “real estate company“ : The 1649 officers and the Irish land settlements, 1641-1631.
This study is going to trace the fortune of one clearly identifiable group through that cauldron of Irish history known as the Cromwellian and Restoration land settlements. The group in question are the 1849 officers who, as will be seen in Chapters four and five, were especially pro ? settlement …
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From the Womb to the Word: Pregnancy and Pregnancy Metaphors in 16th and 17th Century English Literature
<p>This dissertation employs a feminist theoretical lens in exploring the gendered uses of pregnancy and pregnancy metaphors in the production and dissemination of literary works in early modern England. By also examining the history of the printing press and the role it played in gendered textual …
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Black Women’s Bodies as the Site of Malignity: Interrogating (Mis)representations of Black Women in 16th and 17th Century British Literature
… maligned African/black female figure in 16th and 17th Century literature. Drawing from historical contexts and feminist literary criticism, this thesis accentuates a culturally nuanced and intersectional feminist examination of specific texts from the period in question and the extent to which …
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The Development of a Violinistic Idiom in Early Violin Music: Violin Music and its Composers in the Early 17th Century in Italy
… violin music in Italy from the end of the 16th century to the mid-17th century. The aim of this study is to render a concise and integrated narrative of how the Italian violinist composers in early and middle 17th century created, developed, and used violinistic idioms within violin music. This …
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Catholic Hagiography of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania: Reception, Dissemination and Elements of the Saints’ Cult in the Late 14th - Early 17th Century /
… in the period from the late 14th to the early 17th century. This study is the first attempt at reconstructing the whole of the “imported” and local Catholic hagiography which circulated in the GDL in the late 14th-early 17th century, offering an analysis of its repertoire and trends as well as …
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Technical analysis and documentation of seventeenth-century works printed in Malta
… of all known Maltese-printed materials from the 17th century. Given that so little is known on the subject and the fact that these publications have never been approached from this perspective, it was felt to be an interesting and useful exercise. Beginning with clear documentation of all the …
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Tours Ms. 168: The Music of Guillaume Bouzignac
… Bouzignac, written in the first half of the 17th century, but rediscovered only in the present one, is unique for its time and place. Tours MS. 168 is one of the two surviving sources of that music.
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Recepción e influencia del Teatro de Plauto en la literatura española
… thesis analyses works written from the late 15th century, when the Plautinian comedies are rediscovered, until the 17th century in which Spanish theatre becomes a model. The dissertation is divided into four chapters. The first chapter examines the transmission and valuation of the comedies of …
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