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English Festal Psalms of the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries
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English literature on the Ottoman Turks in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries
In the late sixteenth and early seventeenth century a large and complex English literature on the Ottoman Turks developed, characterised by its diversity in form, content, opinion and context. This was a literature in the sense of a large body of texts sharing a topic, written in a similar time and …
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MATTER(S) OF IMMORTALITY: OIL PAINTINGS ON STONE AND METAL IN THE SIXTEENTH AND SEVENTEENTH CENTURIES
… the early modern period (fifteenth–eighteenth centuries) had settled on an interpretation of these artworks as artifacts of an elite taste that sought objects for inclusion in private collections of whatever was rare, curious, exquisite, or ingenious. In a cabinet of curiosities, naturalia …
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Istanbul viewed : the representation of the city in Ottoman maps of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries
… maps contained in Mecmu'-i Menazil (1537-8) and HiinernAme (1584) respectively mark the beginning and the accomplishment of the city's architectural elaboration. The other twenty maps, featuring in manuscript copies of Kitab-i Bahriye (1520s), roughly span the period between 1550 and 1700. …
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The Influence of the “Final Cause Doctrine” on Anatomists of the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries Concerning Selected Anatomical Structures of the Head and Neck.
… from Aristotle’s (384 B.C.-322 B.C.) “causes”, and modified by Claudius (Aelius) Galen (Galen of Pergamon) (129 A.D.- 216 A.D.) stated that for an anatomical part to exist it must have a cause. This final cause was not an endpoint but a purpose or goal, and that cause could be natural or divine. …
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Palestrina: His Time, His Life and His Music
To perform the music of Palestrina (and the music of other composers of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries) a conductor should understand the prevailing style of the music of Palestrina's time.
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Milton and Prose: The Art of Logic as a Rhetoric
… by a consideration of the rhetorical practices and theories of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, by examination of Milton's Art of Logic, and by examination of the rhetorical method in a selected prose work. | The rhetorical practices and theories of the sixteenth and seventeenth …
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A century of change on the Lindsey marshland : Marshchapel 1540-1640.
This is a study of how a marshland community on the north-east Lindsey coast interacted with external forces of change in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Marshchapel was chosen to be the particular focus of the study because of the wealth of available sources. The most remarkable of these …
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Mediating War in Early Modern German Prose
… before German authors were aware of its social and aesthetic implications. When early modern people discussed gunpowder warfare in texts of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries they were astonished by its ability to destroy people, places, and things, as well as an aesthetic of warfare upon …
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The Encyclopedic Collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Rudolfine Kunstkammer as Expressions of Power
In Western Europe during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, collections were created as repositories of art, technology, ethnographic curiosities and natural wonders. Collecting first became a widespread practice among Italian humanists of the late Renaissance who, influenced by the work of …
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Early Puritan Attitudes and Their Influence on Contemporary Literature, Especially the Drama
… not leave a mark of some kind on literature. The sixteenth and seventeenth centuries witnessed such a struggle; namely, that between the Renaissance humanistic spirit and the spirit of the reformation seen in its extreme manifestation in Puritanism. |Puritanism, though etymologically and, at …
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Las milicias en el Mediterráneo occidental. Valencia y Cerdeña en la época de los Austrias
… accepted that in the early decades of the sixteenth century the art and scale of war changed. The increase of the professional component in royal armies caused logistical and economic difficulties to solve by the royal administration. With a great empire to defend, the Hispanic Monarchy …
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Filid, Fairies and Faith: The Effects of Gaelic Culture, Religious Conflict and the Dynamics of Dual Confessionalisation on the Suppression of Witchcraft Accusations and Witch-Hunts in Early Modern Ireland, 1533 – 1670
… European Witch-Hunts reached their peak in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Betweeen 1590 and 1661, approximately 1500 women and men were accused of, and executed for, the crime of witchcraft in Scotland. England suffered the largest witch-hunt in its history during the Civil Wars of the …
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George Herbert's restlessness: Spiritual fulfillment or spiritual estrangement?
… literature of many prominent writers during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries including George Herbert, Christopher Marlowe, and John Milton. Herbert's perspective alone differs from the others; George Herbert's perspective is framed in "The Pulley." His view that restlessness is a divine …
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Noble virtues and rich chaines : patronage in the poetry of Amilia Lanyer
… as a protofeminist text, one that celebrates and defends female community. While such readings have illuminated Lanyer's radical claims of gender equality, these interpretations tend to idealize Lanyer's utopian community, thereby effacing the historical roots of its construction. This study …
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"Manuel Rodrigues Coelho's ""Flores De Musica"": Style and Performance Practice"
… in the history of Iberian keyboard music of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. As the first printed source of instrumental music in Portugal and one of the largest collections to be produced on the Iberian peninsula during the period, Flores de musica marks a turning point in musical style …
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Objects, emotions, and the household in Renaissance Prague, c.1570-1620
… have increasingly recognised that thinking and feeling are not abstract or immaterial processes, but take place through bodies, objects, and the physical environment. This thesis is a contribution to this literature. It examines emotions and the lifecycle in Renaissance Prague – a vibrant, …
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Novela histórico-posmoderna: Re-examinando el referente histórico – narrativo del Siglo de Oro en cuatro textos de Arturo Pérez-Reverte
… explores the relationships between reality and fiction on Arturo Pérez-Reverte's novels about Captain Alatriste. Four out of six novels about this character will be discussed and the analysis of this work will focus on how the author uses historical data and fiction not only to promote a new …
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The Cymbalum mundi of Bonaventure Des Periers and the Concept of Renaissance Unbelief, 1537–1937
… dialogues originally published in Paris in 1537, and rumoured for centuries afterward to contain a hidden denial of revealed religion. The thesis divided into six chapters. Chapter I contains an analysis of the book itself, in which it is shown that the Cymbalum mundi cannot seriously be …
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Technology in Society: The Pipe Organ in Early Modern England
… a curious phenomenon in early modern England: the silencing of pipe organs in cathedrals and parish churches across the land. During the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, this ecclesiastical instrument figuratively embodied and literally gave voice to the Roman Catholic Church. Because …
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