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Showing 1 to 20 of 29 for “"Early Modern Europe"”.
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The Signatures of Plants in Early Modern Europe, 1580-1720
… the ‘doctrine of signatures’, as a technique in early modern science and medicine. By signature, it refers to the sensory characteristics of plants that were taken as indicators of their medicinal properties, often in the form of visual resemblances between plants and human organs or disease …
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Peacemaking in early modern Europe: Cardinal Mazarin and the Congress of Westphalia, 1643-1648
… always been famous for two things: as the first modern multilateral peace conference, and for lasting more than five years. Most observers blame the failure to conclude a truce during the peace talks as the crucial reason for the length of the negotiations; statesmen on all sides, but especially …
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The Work of the Magi: Adoration Images and Visions of Globalization in Early Modern Europe
… dissertation investigates the extent to which early modern depictions of the three magi of the biblical Adoration story can be understood within a representational "economy," that is, an economy defined by ideas and ways of knowing that circulate through the visual innovations and re-imaginings …
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The reception of John Chrysostom and the study of ancient Christianity in early modern Europe, c.1440-1600
… reflect on the study of ancient Christianity in early modern Europe. After a short Introduction to Chrysostom’s reception in medieval Europe and existing historiography on early modern patristics, the first section of this study focusses on the reception of Chrysostom in the fifteenth century. …
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A Gobber Tooth, A Hairy Lip, A Squint Eye: Concepts of the Witch and the Body in Early Modern Europe
This thesis discusses early modern European perceptions of body and soul in association with the increasing stringency of civilized behaviour and state formation in an effort to provide motivation for the increased severity of the witch hunts of that time. Both secondary and primary sources have …
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The diffusion of public banking initiatives in Europe, 1500–1650
… of public banking in late-medieval and early modern Europe (1350–1650), with a focus on the sixteenth and early-seventeenth century. The adjective ‘human’ symbolizes a shift away from a canon composed solely of a selection of banks considered public de jure, despite the absence of a …
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The neo-Roman conception of freedom in developmentalism: A historical perspective
… studies of this paper, are reviewed. These are: Early Modern Europe, the American School, Meiji Japan and the Latin American School. While both the liberal tradition and capability approach focus on the individual as the primary unit of analysis, the neo-Roman conception views the freedom of the …
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France, Spain, and the Persecution of Protestant Heresy: A Study in Contrast
… This thesis addresses several fields, including Early Modern Europe, religious conflict, the Reformation, the Spanish Inquisition (Spain and New Spain), and legal/constitutional history (dealing with court jurisdiction).
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Women before the kirk : godly discipline in canongate, 1640-1650
… The records are particularly revealing of early modern gender history as they show how both men and women interacted with the local kirk, and reveal key social trends in the burgh, especially relating to sex and marriage. Illicit sex and its issue – adultery, fornication and illegitimacy – …
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Tracing the Finger of God: The Role of Wonders In Catholic Spirituality In Early America
… the founding of colonial Maryland and the early national United States. It argues that the traditional spirituality and theology that stressed God's activity in the natural world--most closely associated with late medieval and early modern Europe--persevered among Catholics in the New …
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Fashion Diplomacy at the Court of Henry VIII
… feature of court life in sixteenth-century Europe, its value to other areas of scholarly inquiry has often been overlooked. The ephemeral nature of medieval and early modern dress, and the moralised and gendered assessments of fashion in modern society created the perception that dress …
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Food and Religion in the English and Italian Reformations, c. 1560 - c. 1640
… relationship between food and religion in the European Reformations, through the comparative case studies of Protestant England and Catholic Italy, c. 1560 - c. 1640. It seeks to answer two broad interrelated questions: how did Protestants and Catholics understand food and eating in relation to …
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Face to Face: English Uses and Understanding of the Beard in Early Virginian Contacts
… human division underwent a drastic change due to European New World encounters. The shift from religious divisions to ones based on ethnicity and skin color gradually developed in early modern Europe. Hence, before natives became "red," and Europeans "white" a period existed where the differences …
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The burden and the beast: An oracle of apocalyptic reform in early sixteenth-century Salzburg
… of apocalyptic thinking in late-medieval and early-modern Europe. This study challenges the assumption that apocalypticism grew deepest on the margins of society among radical sectarians. Purstinger was a conservative theologian and a respected bishop, at home in the heart of the church yet …
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Georg Philipp Telemann and the Invention of 'the Polish Style': Musical Polishness in the Early Modern German Imagination
… of Polish-style music and dance across early modern German lands, focusing on the composer Georg Philipp Telemann (1681-1767), who was regarded by his contemporaries as a leading practitioner of ‘the Polish style’ of composition. Although references to ‘Polish’ music and dance are …
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Listening to Birth: Metallurgy, Maternity, and Vocality in the Reproduction of the Patriarchal State
… influence on the Ottomans and late medieval and early modern Europeans. I outline future work to investigate the exponential rise of entrepreneurial metallurgy in late medieval and early modern Europe, arguing that this metallurgical discourse provided symbolic re-enforcement for the …
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Providence and Alchemy: Paracelsus on How Knowledge Unfolded, Matter Developed, and Bodies Might Be Perfected.
… I revise our understanding of the ways in which early modern science, magic, and religion could sometimes develop - not as domains with clear boundaries in mutual interaction, but maybe as one tangled thing, viewed from three different angles. The dissertation is based on extensive close reading …
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Historical Scholarship, Politics, and Identity in Bohemia, c.1650-1690
… their places within the wider world of European scholarship and their choices to accept, adapt, or ignore various methodologies, I argue that they successfully created a reputation for scholarly probity and authority which gave political weight to their arguments about the history of the …
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Aspects of the Office of the Receiver of the Hospitaller Order of St. John
… to current social and economic thought in early modern Europe. This would have entailed a study of its own.
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A Cross-Cultural Transformation that Drew Boundaries: Matteo Ricci and His Mapmaking in Ming China
… production to understand how it reflected early modern Chinese-European exchanges. In addition to the 1602 map, I use Ricci's letters to construct a framework for his cartographic involvement. In his writings, Ricci revealed his rationale for mapmaking and explained his collection of …
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