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Nuevo mundo - Mundos Nuevos, 2020 The interests of Catholic Europe for seventeenth-century China are clearly established, especially through the role that Jesuits missionaries played in the production of knowledge on the Middle empire from their arrival at the end of the sixteenth ...
Antonella Romano
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Spaces of Privacy in Early Modern Dutch Egodocuments
Tijdschrift voor Sociale en Economische Geschiedenis, 2021 While the word 'privacy' itself only started to appear in the Dutch language in the newspapers of the nineteenth-century, Michaël Green argues that the idea underlying it was already developing in the early seventeenth century in Dutch contexts. In his
Michaël Green
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The origins of early modern experimental philosophy [PDF]
, 2012 This paper argues that early modern experimental philosophy emerged as the dominant member of a pair of methods in natural philosophy, the speculative versus the experimental, and that this pairing derives from an overarching distinction between ...
Anstey, Peter R., Vanzo, Alberto
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Global ConstitutionalismThis article investigates the role of the emotional experiences of time in the constitutional debates of the seventeenth and nineteenth centuries. It posits temporality as a shared, collective and emotional experience, rather than an external and natural
Luiza Tavares da Motta
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When and Where Does Colonial America End?
Panorama, 2021 Through reflections on artworks and makers from the eighteenth, nineteenth, and twentieth centuries, the authors assembled here demonstrate that in America—broadly defined—we are still living in a colonial moment.
Emily Casey
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, 1985 This essay attempts to gain insight into seventeenth-century conceptions of literary translation in the Low Countries by looking at one of its central figures, Joost van den Vondel.
Hermans, T
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Rex-Dollars in the Highlands and Islands of Scotland during the 17th century [PDF]
, 2016 The Scottish Gàidhealtachd (the Highlands and Islands/Gaelic speaking Highlands and Hebrides) is sometimes regarded as an area which had little trade or contact with the wider world in the seventeenth century.
MacCoinnich, Aonghas
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American ambivalence toward academic freedom [PDF]
, 2006 Why are U.S. academics, even after tenure and promotion, so timid in their exercise of academic freedom? Part of the problem is institutional – academics are subject to a long probationary period under tight collegial control – but part of the problem is
Fuller, Steve
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In_Bo, 2021 The Archivio Storico di San Barnaba in Milan holds a heterogeneous graphic collection, that dates from the second half of the sixteenth century (Cartella Grande I and II) and includes architectural drawings, sketches of liturgical machineries ...
Lorenzo Mascheretti
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Domesticating Descartes, Renovating Scholasticism: Johann Clauberg And The German Reception Of Cartesianism [PDF]
, 2020 This article studies the academic context in which Cartesianism was absorbed in Germany in the mid-seventeenth century. It focuses on the role of Johann Clauberg (1622-1665), first rector of the new University of Duisburg, in adjusting scholastic ...
Hamid, Nabeel
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