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Showing 1 to 20 of 55 for “"Seventeenth-century England"”.
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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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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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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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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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Privacy and print: Reading and writing in seventeenth century England
… political, and technological changes of seventeenth-century England, the printed book became the site for authors' and readers' negotiations between public and private life; the printing press simultaneously encouraged public revelation even as it created opportunities for solitary …
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The Familiar Other World: Family Worship In Late Seventeenth-Century England
… of God within families throughout the late seventeenth century. They argued for focused, rhythmic worship services for all household residents, morning and evening. This paper explores the way that this specific instance of family piety constituted a conservative movement among Protestants …
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Fantasy and music in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century England / Graham Strahle
Bibliography: leaves 560-582
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The early modern demographic dynamic : celibates and celibacy in seventeenth-century England
… the demographic context of Tudor and Stuart England. The most prominent feature of population change in the seventeenth century was the stagnation that occurred around 1650, following on as it did from a hundred years of almost uninterrupted national expansion. Though the significance of …
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'Cross-over' comedy in seventeenth-century England : from Michaelmas Term to The Roundheads
… Restoration and even into the early eighteenth century. Thomas Jordan‟s The Walks of Islington and Hogsdon, licensed for first performance in 1641, printed in 1657, re-performed in the years surrounding the Restoration, and subsequently re-printed in 1663, is shown to influence William …
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Aliens and atheists: The Plurality of Worlds and Natural Theology in Seventeenth-Century England.
The plurality of worlds has had a long history in England, which has not gone unnoticed by scholars. Historians have tended to view this English pluralist tradition as similar to those found on the continent, and in doing so have failed to fully understand the religious significance that the …
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Coffeehouse Sociability: Samuel Pepys and the Creation of Networks in Late Seventeenth Century England
… work is to address how coffeehouse culture in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century England facilitated the creation of networks. The emergence of the coffeehouse in London created a new social atmosphere for men to interact with one another. Unlike the taverns Englishmen frequented, coffeehouses …
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Balancing Blood, Balancing Books: Medicine, Commerce, and the Royal Court in Seventeenth-Century England
This dissertation argues that the Williams Harvey's novel conceptualization of the circulation developed from a set of concerns and sensitivities that Harvey shared with merchants and courtiers, and that it emerged at the courts of King James and King Charles, alongside a new conceptualizations of …
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The Rhetoric of Distance: Symbolic Capital and Women's Textual Practices in Seventeenth-Century England
… the account of women's literary production in seventeenth-century England. The story I tell details the complex intersections between class and gender discourse in England during the tumultuous years surrounding the Civil War. Much of the work done on women writers in England during the early …
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Gauging a State: Excise Taxation, Practical Mathematics, and Cask Measuring in Seventeenth Century England
… state’s financial development throughout the seventeenth century. By championing the ubiquity of wooden barrels, their examination within the context of England’s financial developments will provide remarkable insight into the connections underpinning the practical advancements that were made …
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Ailments of the Soul: Blood Transfusions and the Treatment of Melancholy in Seventeenth-Century England
… animal-to-human blood transfusions performed in seventeenth-century England focused on patients suffering from mental diseases such as melancholy. Many physicians diagnosed melancholy as a disease of the body, mind, and soul in which blood played a key role. Philosophy, religion, and folklore …
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