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The British journal for eighteenth-century studies.

, 1978
Supersedes: Newsletter / British Society for Eighteenth-Century ...
Voltaire Foundation., British Society for Eighteenth Century Studies.   +1 more
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An analysis of a broad selection of the poetry and philosophical prose of James Beattie within its eighteenth-century context. [PDF]

, 2006
This study explores the significance and relevant contexts of the collected poems of James Beattie, within a detailed study of his own prose works and wider eighteenth-century intellectual debates.
Sampson, Virginia Lynn
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Haymaking in the Eighteenth Century

Martor, 2016
Eighteenth-century historical records show that despite the large number of livestock in the Principalities, the reserves of hay prepared for their food in winter were minimal.
Ion Blăjan
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The individual’s triumph: the eighteenth-century consolidation of authorship and art historiography [PDF]

Journal of Art Historiography, 2017
The eighteenth-century consolidation of authorial identity – apparent in Salon livrets, art criticism, sales catalogs, inventories, the theoretical development of maniera, signing and hanging practices – was crucial to subsequent, nineteenth-century ...
David Pullins
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Divine Self‐Placement, Sacred Placemaking: The Virgin of El Rocío and Territorial Custodianship in Early Modern Spain

Journal of Religious History, EarlyView.
This essay argues that the Rocío hallazgo legend employs divine self‐placement to turn territorial uncertainty into sacred stewardship. The Virgin's miraculous refusal to move establishes the marshlands of Las Rocinas as a communal religious site, transforming a marginal and legally ambiguous area.
Adriano Duque
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English Society in the Eighteenth Century

Radical Teacher, 2019
By examining a very visible class hierarchy in the distant past, students come to a better understanding of the class system they are immersed in.
James Thompson
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Sri Lankan chronicles, Chinese pilgrims and the nineteenth‐century hierarchy of texts in the construction of early Buddhist geography*

Journal of Religious History, EarlyView.
This article examines how nineteenth‐century scholars reconstructed the geography of early Buddhism through a historically contingent hierarchy of texts that privileged Chinese monastic travelogues over Sri Lankan Buddhist chronicles. Focusing on the relationship between the Pāli vaṃsa literature—especially the Dīpavaṃsa and Mahāvaṃsa—and Chinese ...
Bhadrajee Hewage
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Production, Supply and Circulation of National Gold Coins in Brazil (1703-1807)

América Latina en la Historia Económica, 2017
In this paper, we assess the production, supply, and circulation of national gold coins in Brazil in the eighteenth century. New estimates have been provided of the volume of production of these gold coins at Mints of Rio de Janeiro, Bahia, and Minas ...
Fernando Cerqueira Lima, Rita Martins de Sousa   +1 more
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“Women of the Happy Life”: Prostitution, Public Morality, and Venereal Disease in US‐Occupied Nicaragua, 1912–33

Gender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT During the years of the US occupation (1912–33), Nicaragua's government legally regulated prostitution. Convinced of their objectives to protect society's moral and public health, politicians embarked on a long struggle to apprehend, quarantine, and segregate female prostitutes nationwide.
Eimeel Castillo
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Richardson's 'Sir Charles Grandison' and the symptoms of subjectivity

, 2010
Proceeding from the academic orthodoxy that the eighteenth-century novel is a key site of the creation of modern subjectivity, this essay examines the representations of authority, morality, and community in Richardson's Sir Charles Grandison in order to
Barr, Rebecca Anne
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