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Showing 1 to 20 of 49 for “"Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries"”.
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Unity in Diversity: The Scholarly Community of the Ḥaramayn in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries
… networks that existed in the Hijaz during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Furthermore, it illustrates how a diverse environment was permitted to develop and flourish, given the Hijaz’s nature as a melting pot of traditions; this broadened the space for tolerance and encouraged ʿulamāʾ …
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Seeds of exchange: collecting for Russia's apothecary and botanical gardens in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries
This dissertation follows the collection and cultivation of plants in the Russian Empire for medicinal and botanical purposes from the beginning of the seventeenth to the end of the eighteenth centuries. It focuses on the itineraries of collection and the spaces of cultivation established by …
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The differential calculus as the model of desire in French fiction of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries
… from his scientific treatises to his theological and philosophical speculations. These writings portray a subject contemplating a tragic vision and I extend this vision to the fiction treated in this study: Madame de Lafayette's La Princesse de Cleve, Crebillon's Les Egarements du coeur et de …
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Musical attitudes and activities of representative American statesmen
… study were to (1) present a survey of social and cultural backgrounds in the American colonies during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, the years of the nation's birth, and (2) investigate and document the attitudes toward music and the musical activities of such representative …
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Geometry of pre-revolutionary Virginia architecture
Virginia architecture of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries prior to the American Revolution has distinctive geometries which determine proportion. The square, root-two rectangle and equilateral triangle are the figures which establish most proportions. Plans and elevations underwent a …
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Papist Peers and Politics: the English Roman Catholic Nobility, 1688-1719
<p>Historians have traditionally viewed the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries as periods of decline for the European nobility and the English Roman Catholic community. Scholars over the last thirty-five years, however, have successfully called into question these long held assumptions by showing …
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Colonial Music, Confraternities, and Power in the Archdiocese of Lima
… intersections of colonial Spanish ecclesiastical and secular hegemonic orthodoxy, subaltern heterodoxy, the confraternity as an institutional nexus of these competing forces, and the musical expressions thereof in the Archdiocese of Lima, particularly during the seventeenth and eighteenth …
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Haberdashery for use in dress 1550-1800
This study investigates the supply, distribution and use of haberdashery wares in England in the late sixteenth, seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, with especial reference to the paired counties of Cumbria and Lancashire, Warwickshire and Leicestershire, Hampshire and West Sussex. A brief …
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The contribution of Scottish covenant thought to the discussions of the Westminster Assembly (1643-1648) and its continuing significance to the Marrow controversy (1717-1723)
This dissertation aims to examine the development and significance of covenant doctrine in the Scottish Church during the struggles of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. This development is examined in its political, historical, social, theological and ecclesiastical context. The idea of …
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Women, Nature and Labor on Long Island: A Gendered-Environmental Perspective to Colonial Encounters
… study explores the relationship between women and the environment in the context of the Indigenous people and English Puritans of Long Island, New York during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Utilizing a “gendered-environmental” perspective addresses a dimension missing from the …
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Metaphysics of Mania: Edgar Allan Poe's and Herman Melville's Rebranding of Madness during the American Asylum Movement
… has tended to be a mystery on both ontological and epistemological levels. From the perception of the madman as a crazed oracle in the sixteenth century to the perception of the madman as a criminal in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, the nineteenth-century madman was even more …
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Structure and technique of the variation genre in selected violin sonatas of Corelli, Locatelli and Tartini
… a variation’s theme is not typically long, and because it is repeated in different guises many times, it is most important for the composer to create as rich as possible a work by fully exploiting a passage’s potential for rhythmic and melodic variation, as well as the capabilities of the …
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The Shropshire wrought-iron industry c1600-1900: a study of technological change
… manufacture in Shropshire is studied over three centuries, encompassing changes in technology arising from the use of vegetable and subsequently mineral fuel. It describes the charcoal-using forges of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, discussing their rural locations on tributaries of the …
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"Common Plowmen's Children": The Frontiers of Ulster Catholicism, c.1680-c.1830
… that Ulster Catholic laity inhabited a social and cultural "frontier" through the early modern period. This mentality shaped how Ulster Catholics perceived and conceived their place and community in the rapidly changing religious, socio-economic and political situation in early modern Ulster …
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Slavery in Cape Town, 1806 to 1834
… of Afro-American society on the British mainland of North America, written in 1980, Ira Berlin charged slave historians with having ''produced an essentially static vision of Afro-American life. From Stanley Elkins' Sambo to John W.Blassingame's Nat-Sambo-Jack typology, scholars of all …
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How did Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart adjust his compositional technique when writing for a Mezzosoprano en travesti? A comparison between the roles of Cherubino and Sesto
… as male voices (tenor or baritone/bass). In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries prepubescent boys were often castrated in order to keep their voices within the treble range. Some of these boys were extremely musical and after many years of vigorous training, went on to become renowned …
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A New Place at the Table: Ancient Cadential Patterns for Modern Improvision and Aural Skills Training
… into institutional music education are many and varied, but lack of improvisatory skill remains an ongoing problem, especially in classical music instruction. Drawing on artisanal training, in which a corpus of memorized repertoire becomes a stylistic knowledge base, source of cognitive …
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Some of the conditions which tend toward dwarfism and stunted physical development
… to in the writings of Homer, Herodotus, Pliny and. Aristotle. The ancients, it would appear, had some knowledge of the existence of five different pigmy races in the old world, and it is interesting to note that their speculations as to the location of these tribes have been largely confirmed …
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