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The Construction of a Bestseller: The Case of Thomas Nettleton's Some Thoughts Concerning Virtue and Happiness (1729)

Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies, EarlyView.
Abstract Scholars have tended to interpret Thomas Nettleton's bestselling Virtue and Happiness (1729) as an Epicurean work. In contrast, I argue that this book was constructed partly from extensive paraphrases of the writings of Locke, Shaftesbury, and Hutcheson.
Jacob Donald Chatterjee
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Love, Class‐Crossing Courtship, and the Reading of English Novels in Late Eighteenth‐Century Sweden

Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies, EarlyView.
Abstract This article examines how novel reading influenced the courtship practices of Pehr Stenberg, a peasant who became a clergyman. Stenberg wrote a detailed account of his life in which his courtships of high‐born women are described in detail. These courtships took place during a transformative time when the ideal that marriage should be based on
Ina Lindblom
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Visual Satire Under German Censorship: The Card Game Pharo in Johann Heinrich Ramberg's Illustrations and in Contemporary Descriptions

Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies, EarlyView.
Abstract This article examines image–text relations in German illustrations of gambling around 1800, specifically focusing on the card game Pharo and the artist Johann Heinrich Ramberg. It shows Ramberg's technique of reuse and variation as well as the degree of satire in the designs and their accompanying descriptive or fictional texts.
Waltraud Maierhofer
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О рукописи Милеску Спатару в собрании Национального Музея истории Молдовы (к 380-летию со дня рождения ученого) / About Milescu-Spătaru's manuscript from the collections of the National Museum of History of Moldova (to the 380th anniversary of the scholar)

Tyragetia, 2016
This paper presents to reader a description of the most important work of the second half of the 17th century, which holds a special place in Russian culture. The Russian translation of the «prophetic book» called Chrismologion, presented to Tsar Aleksey
Tatiana Isachenko
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Вивчення соціально-економічного розвитку Ковельського староства другої половини XVI – першої половини XVII ст. (Studying social and economic development Kovel region in the second half of the 16th – early 17th centuries) [PDF]

, 2016
У статті розглянуто стан вивчення соціально-економічного розвитку Ковельського староства в другій половині XVI – першій половині XVII ст. Проаналізовано дослідження М. Іванішева, М. Теодоровича, І. Бойка, З. Гульдона, П. Саса та ін.
Дубляниця, Т. (Dublianytsia T.)
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‘I, Me, Myself’: Selfhood and Melancholy in the Journals of Gertrude Savile (1697–1758)

Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies, EarlyView.
Abstract This article examines the journals of Gertrude Savile from 1727 in light of recent scholarship on early modern and eighteenth‐century melancholy. The concept had myriad associations with medicine, physiology, the imagination, and feeling, but questions remain about how melancholy during this period was considered by those outside the narrow ...
Daniel Beaumont
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Europe's contribution to the evaluation of the use of systemic antimicrobials in the treatment of periodontitis

Periodontology 2000, EarlyView., 2023
Abstract This narrative review celebrates Europe's contribution to the current knowledge on systemically administered antimicrobials in periodontal treatment. Periodontitis is the most frequent chronic noncommunicable human disease. It is caused by dysbiotic bacterial biofilms and is commonly treated with subgingival instrumentation.
David Herrera, Arie Jan van Winkelhoff, Paula Matesanz, Katalina Lauwens, Wim Teughels   +4 more
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THE VERBS IMATI (TO HAVE) AND BRATI (TO TAKE): DISTRIBUTION AND COMPETITION IN THE HISTORY OF RUSSIAN

Вестник Волгоградского государственного университета: Серия 2. Языкознание
The paper examines the semantic evolution of the verbs imati and brati in the 11th – 17th century Russian writing. The research is based on the data from Old and Middle Russian subcorpora of the Russian National Corpus.
Yana A. Penkova
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Happy in the service of the Company: the purchasing power of VOC salaries at the Cape in the 18th century [PDF]

This paper contributes to the debate on the level and trajectory of welfare at the Cape of Good Hope during the 18th century. Recent scholarship (for example, Allen 2005) has calculated and compared the levels and evolution of real wages in various ...
Sophia du Plessis, Stan du Plessis
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Andrea Palladio a palazzo Contarini degli Scrigni [PDF]

, 2014
Using unpublished documents, the author further elaborates the history of the Contarini degli Scrigni palaces in Venice. It is now possible to distinguish at least three different phases of construction: a late 15th century gothic palaces, a second ...
Rössler, Jan-Christoph
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