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Showing 1 to 20 of 38 for “"early modern history"”.
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The Will to Play. Performance and Construction of Royal Masculinity in Early Modern History Plays
Die vorliegende Arbeit untersucht Männlichkeitskonzepte in der Frühen Neuzeit, wobei das Hauptaugenmerk auf die dramatische Konstruktion der Figur des Königs gerichtet wird. Anhand von zehn Historiendramen der 1590er wird zum einen die diskursive Komplexität königlicher Männlichkeit in der …
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Native Andeans in the frontier city: A new conquest history of urban Peru, 1535-1700
… empire, this dissertation offers a new conquest history of Peruvian urban centers. The goal of this project is twofold: to elucidate and evaluate the efficacy of spatial strategies and tools employed by the crown, royal administrators, and Church officials; and to highlight the profound roles …
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Making the Modern Slum: Housing, Mobility, and Poverty in Bombay and its Peripheries
… of markets in housing through the 19th and early 20th centuries in Bombay primarily, and Karachi and Aden secondarily. It is the first historical study of slums, or poor and stigmatized housing, in colonial Western India. It critically engages with the terms of global urban modernity and the …
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Elite Landscapes in Late Medieval and Early Modern East Anglia: Families, Residences and the Development of Exclusivity
… landscape during the fifteenth, sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries. The study takes an explicitly individualistic approach, considering the careers, allegiances, relationships and ambitions of the people who created and inhabited elite landscapes. By including historicised biographies …
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Petitioning Mothers in England and Wales, 1660-1720
… and in extremis situations that mothers of the early modern period faced, including soliciting poor relief, requesting school placements and employment, establishing maintenance for an illegitimate child and pleading for the release of an imprisoned child. Despite being a topic of interest to …
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War and Diplomacy in the Age of Louis XIV: A Historical Study and Annotated Bibliography Volume II
… annotated bibliography to appear regarding early modern history is Hugh Dunthorne and Hamish M. Scott, Early Modern European History c. 1492–1789 (London: Historical Association, 1983) which devotes less than six pages to international relations and warfare. John Roach's A Bibliography of …
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The experience of discipline in parish communities in Edinburgh, Scotland, 1638 - 1651
… member of society. This thesis is a bottom-up history of their attempts at religious revolution – it is about the impact of religious change on the everyday lives of Edinburgh’s inhabitants. It is a qualitative analysis, organised around a series of case studies of Edinburgh parishes that …
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Giovanni Botero and English Political Thought
… Italian author, Giovanni Botero (1544–1617) in early-seventeenth century England. It examines how Botero was translated for an English audience, and reconstructs the debates to which Botero was relevant and helped stimulate in late Elizabethan and Jacobean England. Part I examines the …
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King James' Daemonologie and Scottish Witchcraft Trials
… prosecuted, and executed in Scotland during the early modern period. It is an analytical look at how the intervention of King James during the North Berwick trials influenced the writing of <em>Daemonologie</em> and how <em>Daemonologie </em>set a framework for future witchcraft prosecutions.
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Locating an Ottoman Port-City in the Early Modern Mediterranean: Izmir 1580-1780
… historiography considers Izmir as a case of early modern “boom town.” Its transformation from a mere pier for the provisions of Istanbul into a bustling trans-regional port-city, so the standard narrative goes, was due to mercantilist penetration by English and Dutch chartered companies at a …
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Political thought and Protestant intellectual culture in the Scottish Revolution, 1637-1651
… ends. This challenges narratives in the history of political thought which contend that ‘secular’ political ideas emerged as the church became increasingly distanced from the state. Instead, concerns about the ceremonies and polity of the church drove the expression of ‘secular’ political …
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Perjury and Memory in the English Law Courts, 1660–1688
… there has been excellent work on perjury in early modern England, this work is limited for the later seventeenth century, and does not interrogate questions of memory. Memory is a fertile but underused lens through which to explore the concept of perjury because it formed the basis, in …
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Languages, Translation, and Encounters in the Seventeenth-Century North Atlantic World
Early modern migrations to the New World and transatlantic travel presented new challenges and opportunities for translingual practices. Spotlighting encounters between Indigenous people and settlers from England and France, my thesis investigates how languages functioned and were perceived in the …
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Vincenzo Tedeschi Paternò Castello (1786-1858). Un cieco nella Sicilia della prima metà del XIX secolo
Con il presente lavoro abbiamo cercato di ricostruire e contestualizzare, attraverso anche il reperimento di materiale archivistico e bibliografico inedito, la figura dell intellettuale siciliano non vedente Vincenzo Tedeschi Paternò Castello (1786-1858). La tesi è articolata in tre capitoli. Il …
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Georg Philipp Telemann and the Invention of 'the Polish Style': Musical Polishness in the Early Modern German Imagination
This dissertation explores the history and cultural significance of Polish-style music and dance across early modern German lands, focusing on the composer Georg Philipp Telemann (1681-1767), who was regarded by his contemporaries as a leading practitioner of ‘the Polish style’ of composition. …
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Metaphors for Listening in Johann Sebastian Bach's Germany
… that circulated in devotional writings of early modern Lutheran Germany to reconstruct and reimagine congregational listening experiences of a Bach cantata. I employ historical metaphor as a framework through which listeners felt music to work tangibly on and in their bodies during a …
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The Afterlives of the Dissolution of the Monasteries, 1536-c. 1700
… which have continued insidiously to shape its modern historiography. On the other, it examines the development of alternative traditions which challenged and interacted with this orthodoxy, highlighting the multivocal and polyvalent character of a memory culture that was dynamic rather than …
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Georg Joseph Kamel (1661-1706): A Jesuit Pharmacist at the Frontiers of Colonial Empires
… of medical and natural knowledge between the early modern Philippines and Europe. Sent as a missionary to the Spanish outpost in Manila, Kamel found himself engaged in encounters between European and local traditions, and in worldwide networks of knowledge exchange that spanned the Spanish, …
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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 Queen's and Embassy Chapels and the Boundaries of Tolerance in Early Stuart London, c. 1603-1643
… chapels. A central tension at the heart of early modern society was the imperative to uphold religious uniformity while living with confessional diversity after the Reformation. This was especially pronounced in cosmopolitan London where people of multiple faiths lived in close proximity. …
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