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Lord Chesterfield and Elizabeth du Bouchet: New Light on an Eighteenth‐Century Liaison

Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Volume 48, Issue 2, Page 105-118, June 2025.
Abstract Almost no trace has survived of the life of Elizabeth du Bouchet after she moved from The Hague to London and gave birth to Philip Stanhope, the illegitimate son of Philip Dormer Stanhope, the 4th Earl of Chesterfield, in 1732. Thirty‐three unpublished letters in the archive of the Chevening Estate, now at the Kent History and Library Centre ...
Richard Wendorf
wiley   +1 more source

Reading the Venetian Cadastral Record: An Evidence for the Environment, Population and Cultural Landscape of the 18th Century Dalmatia

, 2003
Borna Fuerst‐Bjeliš
openalex   +2 more sources

‘In the Manner of the Ancient Jewish Historians’: Parody and Satire, Panegyric and Censure in Eighteenth‐Century Mock Chronicles

Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies, EarlyView.
Abstract In mid‐eighteenth‐century Europe, anonymous authors produced parodic satires masquerading as earnest exemplars of the chronicle form. Couched in an antiquated, quasi‐biblical register, these mock chronicles drew flimsily fictional portraits of modern life.
Zachary Garber
wiley   +1 more source

Detection of a Tumor Suppressor Gene Variant Predisposing to Colorectal Cancer in an 18th Century Hungarian Mummy. [PDF]

PLoS One, 2016
Feldman M, Hershkovitz I, Sklan EH, Kahila Bar-Gal G, Pap I, Szikossy I, Rosin-Arbesfeld R.   +6 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Eleanor Coade and Horace Walpole's Gothic Gateway: A Study in Eighteenth‐Century Business Practice

Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Volume 48, Issue 2, Page 149-176, June 2025.
Abstract Artificial stone manufacturer Eleanor Coade (1733–1821) was the outstanding female entrepreneur of the eighteenth century, running her own successful business for some fifty years. Her name became a nationally recognized brand, and her firm's architectural and sculptural stoneware products are still ubiquitous.
Caroline Stanford
wiley   +1 more source

The Cause of Death of a Child in the 18th Century Solved by Bone Microbiome Typing Using Laser Microdissection and Next Generation Sequencing. [PDF]

Int J Mol Sci, 2017
D'Argenio V, Torino M, Precone V, Casaburi G, Esposito MV, Iaffaldano L, Malapelle U, Troncone G, Coto I, Cavalcanti P, De Rosa G, Salvatore F, Sacchetti L.   +12 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Molecular analysis of Mycobacterium tuberculosis DNA from a family of 18th century Hungarians

, 2003
Helen A. Fletcher
openalex   +1 more source

The Magistracy of Moses: The Old Testament in Local Government, 1689–1750

Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Volume 48, Issue 2, Page 199-215, June 2025.
Abstract This article explores the popularity of Moses as a model for government in the early eighteenth century. It examines references to Moses in sermons preached at civic or political events such as assizes, elections of mayors, and meetings of reform societies.
Daniel Rignall
wiley   +1 more source

Humanimals: A Socio‐Ecological Reading of the Marseille Plague of 1720

Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies, EarlyView.
Abstract The aim of this article is to return to a small number of historically significant first‐person testimonies of the Marseille epidemic of 1720 in order to analyse in detail their construction and depiction of human exceptionality as a form of life in a time of plague.
David McCallam
wiley   +1 more source

Images painted with such exalted skill as to ravish the senses ...’: pictures in the eyes of Christian Arab travellers of the 17th and 18th centuries

, 2003
Carsten Walbiner
openalex   +1 more source