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Showing 1 to 20 of 103 for “"Early Modern Period"”.
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Negara dan Masjid: Mosque Architecture and Religious Change in Early Modern Period Java, Indonesia
… modeling and Social Network Analysis of 109 Early Modern mosques from West and Central Java, I examine how mosques, as one of the largest investments made for and by Muslim communities, record shifting religious and political economic arrangements. Results show that while Islamic ontologies …
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Bourgeois heroics: Commercial anxieties and the rise of the mercantile hero in the early modern period
Bourgeois Heroics analyzes the increasing influence of an emergent middle class upon literary production, demonstrating a growing cultural trend away from an heroism associated with moral fortitude and noble birth (embodied in contemporary notions of the "courtier") towards one characterized by …
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Virgins, Mystics, and Reformers: The Creation of Female Constructed Identites in the Medieval and Early Modern Period
During the medieval and early modern periods in England, women were not expected to enter into the realm of politics or to comment on religion, and yet many women did find ways of entering into discourse on these topics. For these women the creation of public identities that would protect them from …
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Contextualizing Anthony van Dyck's Iconography within the Emerging Traditions of Portraiture and Artists' Biography in the Early Modern Period
The Flemish painter Anthony Van Dyck extended his preoccupation with portraiture into the printed medium by designing a body of portrait prints, posthumously compiled into a book entitled, the Iconography. This suite of images, organized and designed by Van Dyck and printed by workshop assistants …
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Fiction and Science: A Plausible World in the Early Modern Period Through the Writings of Francis Godwin and Margaret Cavendish
<p>Exploring the use of fiction—and science fiction—as an opportunity for "Scientific Outsiders" to present their knowledge and questions about the natural world by analyzing the themes presented in Francis Godwin’s The Man in the Moone and Margaret Cavendish's The Blazing World.</p>
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An Archaeological Study of Mining in the Early Modern Period and an 18th Century Mining Community Within the Vicinity of the Cistercian Abbey of Strata Florida
… evidence that mining had taken place in the Early Modern Period, also much earlier than had previously been recorded. Surveys of the mines showed that some of them had been worked for hundreds of years, with the earliest archaeologically dated mine, Bronberllan Mine, working as far back as …
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AUTHORITATIVE LETTERS JEANNE DE CHANTAL AND FEMININE AUTHORITY IN THE EARLY MODERN CATHOLIC CHURCH
The early modern period of a time of religious renewal and upheaval that resulted in a wealth of new religious orders, particularly those for women. During this period of change, Catholic women responded to the threat of Protestantism by adapting the convent to their own needs. One of the most …
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Less than ideal? The intellectual history of male friendship and its articulation in early modern drama
… through its articulation in non-Shakespearean early modern drama; and considers how dramatic texts engage with the classical ideals of male friendship. Cicero’s \(De amicitia\) provided the theoretical model for perfect friendship for the early modern period; and this thesis argues for the …
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Haberdashery for use in dress 1550-1800
… haberdashery for dress into the context of the Early Modern period, and challenges widely held assumptions concerning the availability of wares through the country. The purpose of the argument is firstly to demonstrate that haberdashery, being both a necessity and a luxury, was an important, and …
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Early modern melancholia and present day depression : a comparative study of the female experience in dramatic and medical sources
This thesis examines the relationship between the early modern understanding of female melancholia and women’s depression today. Working with proto-medical treatises and Shakespearean drama from the early modern period (1580-1665), alongside contemporary diagnostic frameworks and psychosocial …
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King James' Daemonologie and Scottish Witchcraft Trials
… prosecuted, and executed in Scotland during the early modern period. It is an analytical look at how the intervention of King James during the North Berwick trials influenced the writing of <em>Daemonologie</em> and how <em>Daemonologie </em>set a framework for future witchcraft prosecutions.
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Royal Self-Fashioning: King James VI and his Demonology
… widely studied royal historical figures of the early modern period. This dissertation examines King James VI’s Daemonologie as it relates to the themes of masculinity and self-fashioning. By analysing James, through his demonological treatise, I illuminate James’s anxiety of the learned man and …
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Historia spintriae : the pleasures of collecting ancient erotica
… tastes of collectors over many centuries. In the early modern period erotic artifacts were both sought after and avoided because of their risque subject matter, but were still acknowledged as artifacts worthy of scholarly interest to the collector. Even today, comprehensive study of such objects …
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Curating the collector: exploring representations of early modern German women book collectors (1650-1780)
… of book collecting by German women in the early modern period in order to explore the role of gender in this activity. Portrayals of book collectors in the modern and early modern eras offer examples of how this identity is constructed, particularly in the underlying assumptions and …
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The Persistence of Vengeance from Early Modern England to Postmodern New York
… passing glance at the popular texts of any given period reveals, the subject of vengeance is nearly inescapable; on billboards, websites, and year end lists, revenge represents a curious constant even amid disparate media. This study explores the cultural commonalities that align revenge texts of …
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A Desire for Meaning: Ḳhān-i Ārzū's Philology and the Place of India in the Eighteenth-Century Persianate World
During the early-modern period, Persian was the language of the imperial court and a prestigious literary medium in South Asia. Not only did Persian connect the Subcontinent with intellectual and cultural trends across western and central Asia, but during the early-modern period, India--even …
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Female agency and the sacramental vision of early modern Catholicism
… the writing and concerns of English women in the early modern period, one specific group has been overlooked, English Catholic women who became religious sisters in convents on the Continent. These women produced writings detailing their lives, community, and sense of self which are bound up in …
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Roots of empire: State formation and the politics of timber access.
During the early modern period, Spain's empire extended into parts of five continents, separated by vast stretches of water. Spain depended on wooden ocean-going vessels to connect and defend its imperial holdings. Timber supplies, therefore, were essential to the continued functioning of one of …
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"Your Most Affectionate Good Sister": Rhetoric, Diplomacy and Self-Presentation in the Letters of Mary, Queen of Scots
… the new interest in the writing of women in the early modern period. On her letters she used appeals to kinship, emphasis on rank, calls to shared religion and expressions of emotion in order to support specific objectives for her letters. The flexibility and variety of the rhetoric contained …
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The secret nature of seeds: science & seed improvement c.1520-1700
… social and cultural meaning over time, place and periods in history. For the purposes of this research, a history of the seed is constructed in the early modern period in England, using as its narrative, the development of scientific knowledge. To understand how knowledge was accumulated and …
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