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The wall paintings of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries at Stemnitsa in the Peloponnese, Greece [PDF]
Zograf, 2014 Five churches with mural paintings of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries have survived in Stemnitsa, a wealthy post-Byzantine town with a rich historical heritage in the central Peloponnese.
Proestaki Xanthi
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An Illustrated Seventeenth Century Ottoman Mecmua
Sanat Tarihi Yıllığı, 2021 This paper discusses a compilation organized and compiled by Ahmed bin Musa between 1640 and 1642, focusing on a painting of the conquest of Baghdad (1638).
Melis Taner
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Gender, Space, and Religious Privacy in Amsterdam
Tijdschrift voor Sociale en Economische Geschiedenis, 2021 Silva Perez and Kristensen examine the intersection of gender and religious traditions for the use of space for two distinct religious groups: the Amsterdam beguines, a Catholic community, and the Portuguese Nation, a Jewish community.
Natália Da Silva Perez +1 more
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Review of The Routledge Companion to Seventeenth Century Philosophy by Dan Kaufman (ed.)
Locke Studies, 2018 A review of Dan Kaufman's (ed.) recent book The Routledge Companion to Seventeenth Century Philosophy (London and New York: Routledge, 2018).
Nicholas Jolley
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In Situ, 2019 The question of vocabulary is an essential one in the study of beds during the early modern period. Because of its importance, the complexity of its composition and its generalisation throughout the country, it was a piece of furniture for which there ...
Nicolas Courtin
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Journal of Asian Architecture and Building Engineering, 2022 In machiya architecture, a mise is a room between the street front and house’s inner area for commercial use. Between the mise and street front, front fittings, such as shutters, sliding doors and lattice-work are fixed, and the eaves are extended to ...
Susumu Mizuta, Yusuke Kanemoto
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Tijdschrift voor Sociale en Economische Geschiedenis, 2022 Beer taxes were long a significant source of government revenue in northern Europe. In Holland the income from beer taxes went into long-term decline from 1650 onward. In England the take remained more stable.
Richard W. Unger
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Open Library of Humanities, 2020 This article argues that the trope of the young ward being threatened with enforced marriage by their guardian remained popular on the late seventeenth-century English stage, despite changes in the law of wardship which offered more protection to wards ...
Lotte Fikkers
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Hermaphrodites and the understanding of sexual difference in the early seventeenth century
Ágora, 2021 In this paper, I compare the ways in which three seventeenth-century physi-cians, Rodrigo de Castro, Caspar Bauhin and Jean Riolan, dealt in their works with the anatomical and social problems posed by the hermaphroditic body.
Palmira Fontes da Costa
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Progress in Earth and Planetary Science, 2022 Paleotsunami deposit investigations and numerical tsunami computations have been performed to elucidate the source and size of large tsunamis along the Kuril to Japan Trenches, particularly for unusual tsunamis that occurred in the seventeenth century ...
Kai Sato +4 more
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