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Showing 1 to 20 of 586 for “"Seventeenth century."”.
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Comus and the seventeenth century masque.
… features and characteristics of the typical seventeenth-century masque are brought out. To write this brief history without recourse to the leading authorities on the masque would be not only futile but foolhardy. Soergel, Brotanek, Reyher, Evans, Welsford, and others have been consulted for …
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Embroidering Biblical Heroines in Seventeenth-Century England
English embroideries in the seventeenth century frequently depict biblical narratives that feature examples of proper female behavior. Produced by young girls and women, they were made to adorn the embroiderer’s home in the form of wall hangings, framed pictures, and trinket boxes. In this thesis, …
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Reframing crusading discourses in seventeenth-century English drama
… and despotic despite the existence of numerous seventeenth-century Anglo-Ottoman correspondence documents, in which Turks are often associated with wealth, military strength, and political efficiency. The stereotyped cultural Turk figure also affected the way dramatists portrayed Turks on stage. …
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Figures and movements in seventeenth century conspiracy plays
"This dissertation addresses the problem of the French aristocracy's definition of Self at a precarious moment in its history--a moment in which the aristocracy finds itself confronted with a rising absolutism ""from above"" while having to grapple with an epistemology in full transformation ""from …
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Fabricating radicalism : Ephraim Pagitt and seventeenth-century heresiology.
Many godly polemicists in seventeenth-century England 'fabricated' the religious radicalism which they claimed to describe. This means that many of the heresies in heresy-lists and related polemics (what I have called 'heresiology') were embellished and exaggerated through a variety of verbal and …
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The Venetian Connection in early seventeenth-century England
… the Papacy posed to temporal authority in early seventeenth-century England: first the Gunpowder Plot (1605), in which Catholics attempted to blow up the English Parliament, including the king, and then, shortly afterwards, the Venetian Interdict controversy (1606–7), a dispute over papal …
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Natural Philosophy and Theology in Seventeenth-Century England
… body) and theology (the study of the divine) in seventeenth-century England. Early modern disciplines had two essential functions. First, they set the rules and boundaries of argument – knowledge was therefore legitimised and made intelligible within disciplinary contexts. And second, disciplines …
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Plague, print and providence in early seventeenth century London.
… can be learned of religious attitudes in early seventeenth century London. Historians have come to characterise religion in England of this period as ‘post-Reformation’ rather than necessarily Protestant, although it remains a challenge to discover the beliefs of those who did not write for …
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Conceptions of milk (and 'milking') in seventeenth-century England
This thesis examines perceptions of milk in the seventeenth century in two unique ways. Firstly, it considers milk the substance from a posthumanist standpoint that studies the perceived links between both human and animal lactation. Secondly, it examines how 'milk' was conceived of as semen and …
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Sacrificial Acts: Martyrdom and Nationhood in Seventeenth-Century Drama
Sacrificial Acts: Martyrdom and Nationhood in Seventeenth-Century Drama posits that the importance of sixteenth-century martyrologies in defining England's national identity extends to the seventeenth century through popular representations of martyrdom on the page and stage. I argue that drama …
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Seventeenth-century musical fantasy : origins of freedom and irrationality
The essence of seventeenth-century musical fantasy lies in the contemporary notion of freedom. Contemporary fantasy genres and verbal descriptions of fantasy highlight freedom from given tonal, harmonic, and temporal frameworks. This freedom assumes the composer's ingenuity (freedom to command the …
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Property, Identity and Place in Seventeenth-Century New England
… settler-colonies in New England during the seventeenth century, focusing upon the relationship between ordinary people and their environment. This work initially examines the preexploration reports and the first few decades of settlement and how commodification and naming practices helped in …
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Conversation and Performance in Seventeenth-Century French Salon Culture
… focuses on social and artistic performance in seventeenth-century French salons, and the representation of this aristocratic culture through performance. It seeks to understand how polite amateurs regarded professional performers, and vice versa. I use the study of performance to reveal …
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Margaret Cavendish and Scientific Discourse in Seventeenth-Century England
<p>Although the natural philosophy of Margaret Cavendish is eclectic and uncustomary, it offers an important critique of contemporary scientific methods, especially mechanism and experimentalism. As presented in Observations upon Experimental Philosophy and Blazing World, Cavendish's natural …
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The Image of The 'Quijote' in The Seventeenth Century
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