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Showing 1 to 17 of 17 for “"early modern European"”.
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Hydraulic philosophy in early modern European cities
… philosophy—a proposed new name for the branch of early modern natural philosophy concerned with water. Both the production of hydraulic knowledge and its practical application happened in context; the thesis focuses on one of these contexts, early modern European cities. Three …
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The Concept of Equity in Early-Modern European Legal Scholarship
In modern scholarship, the concept of equity is often assimilated with that of Aristotelian epieikeia, a process which serves to correct rules when, though their wording undoubtedly applies to a case, yet the outcome would be unjust, or the legislator would have never wanted the rule to be applied …
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The development of British military professionalism through early-modern European warfare (c.1572-1637) viewed through soldiers' published literature
… thesis analyses the late sixteenth-century and early seventeenth-century literature of warfare through the printed works of English, Welsh and Scots soldiers. The introduction analyses the relationship between modern historiography and the early-modern published works. The first chapter through …
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A Gobber Tooth, A Hairy Lip, A Squint Eye: Concepts of the Witch and the Body in Early Modern Europe
This thesis discusses early modern European perceptions of body and soul in association with the increasing stringency of civilized behaviour and state formation in an effort to provide motivation for the increased severity of the witch hunts of that time. Both secondary and primary sources have …
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THE ROAD TO VIENNA: HABSBURG AND OTTOMAN STATECRAFT DURING THE TIME OF GRAND VIZIER KARA MUSTAFA PAŞA (1676-1683)
… to the religiously-oriented explanations of early modern Habsburg-Ottoman confrontations, I argue that the monumental encounter in 1683 was a product of the difference between the two states’ governmental priorities and administrative mindsets formed within peculiar geopolitical conditions. …
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Body marking within New France : a contemporary perspective
… dating from 1608-1763. The emphasis will be on early modern European writings, which have created the discourse that has been used to construct meanings for such body decorations. The approach comes from a contemporary perspective, giving contemporary interpretations of body markings within New …
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Watery bodies, natures mortes, lost backgrounds and decapitated heads: contemporary painting practice in the Anthropocene
… and the representation of nature to identify how early modern European painting has contributed to the concept and condition of the Anthropocene: its anthropocenics. The anthropocenics investigated are the human enticed into narcissism through still and reflective water; subjects and objects …
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The Church of San Giacomo degli Spagnoli and the Formation of Spanish Identity in Sixteenth Century Rome
… that foreigners played in the development of the Early Modern European city. In Rome foreign communities had a major part in shaping the urban landscape, more permanently with national churches, hospitals, chapels, neighborhoods, and temporarily through public processions and festivals. This …
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The Potosi-Cobija route: archaeology of colonial transportation in the south Central Andes
… of targets. This case is used to discuss the modern European imperial economic control of peripheral regions. In the case of the Spanish Empire, the characteristics of mercantilism and expectations about imperialism suggested a centralized control over the flow of silver to Spain, an important …
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Renegades, Slaves, and Pirates: the Representation of Mediterranean Corsair Wars and Barbary in early modern Western Literature and Culture
… were deeply involved in corso, its image in early modern European culture became almost exclusively associated with the Muslim World and the North African region – known at the time as “Barbary” – giving shape to one of the “Great Fears” of pre-modern Europe. However, besides the anxiety, …
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The political philosophy of Miki Kiyoshi: A close reading of the philosophical foundations of cooperative communitarianism
… contextually and philologically, in principle as early modern European political theory is read by intellectual historians, such as the representatives of Cambridge School history of political thought. The resulting reading builds critically on the Japanese scholarship and relates it to …
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Artisans, Vendors, and Practitioners from the Eastern Mediterranean in Early Modern Italy
… production, experimentation, and innovation in early modern Italy, from the mid-sixteenth to the later seventeenth centuries. In recent years, scholars have explored the significance of cross-Mediterranean diplomacy and trade in shaping early modern European culture and recovered the …
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Minding the Mundane: The Critique of Political Participation from Epicurus to Montaigne
… about politics both today and in the history of European political thought. I call this the mundane perspective and locate it particularly in Epicurus and his ancient followers, as well as (in modified form) in early modern European theorists influenced by Epicureanism. The mundane perspective is …
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War and Diplomacy in the Age of Louis XIV: A Historical Study and Annotated Bibliography Volume II
… have produced numerous books and articles on European diplomatic relations and military affairs during the era of Louis XIV. However, there exists no up-to-date annotated bibliography listing and describing these works or older, but valuable studies. The latest annotated bibliography to appear …
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Centrepieces: Compositions for the adornment of the European formal table in the long eighteenth century
… and, often, eager spectators. Nowadays, most early modern European decorative arts collections feature at least one artefact classified as a ‘centrepiece’, with many institutions safely keeping impressive examples in their holdings. This research addresses contemporary modes of display and the …
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On Beauty And Ethics In Shakespeare And His Contemporaries
<p>Early modern literature abounds in references to beauty. However, in the past few decades, discussions of beauty have been sidelined in part due to the influence of approaches such as cultural materialism and new historicism; as a result, beauty often gets viewed as some kind of ideological mist …
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Italian Renaissance Depictions of the Ottoman Sultan: Nuances in the Function of Early Modern Italian Portraiture
… range of portraiture within the context of early modern cross-cultural engagement between traditional foes. The dissertation casts a spotlight on the relationship between Italy and Ottoman Turkey, the most powerful and prominent of its contemporary Near Eastern counterparts. The first …