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Review of "The Curious Eye: Optics and Imaginative Literature in Seventeenth-Century England" by Erin Webster

, 2021
Erin Webster. The Curious Eye: Optics and Imaginative Literature in Seventeenth-Century England. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2020. xii + 212 pp. + 9 figures. $ 85.00.
Reeves, Eileen
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Seventeenth-century theories of emotion and their contemporary relevance

European Journal of Analytic Philosophy, 2006
This paper takes a look at seventeenth-century theories of emotion, and their influence on contemporary philosophical and psychological approaches to the subject.
Gábor Boros
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De l'honorable ennemi au compagnon de fortune

Cahiers Balkaniques, 2008
The 150 years of the close cohabitation with the Ottoman Empire has certainly left numerous traces in the Hungarian culture. With regard to literature, the relative poorness of available documents does not allow us to even to venture in the road of the ...
Györgyi Mate
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Gambling with Women, Estates and Status in Long Eighteenth Century-Comedy

Etudes Epistémè, 2021
This article discusses gambling and inheritance as two types of property transfer presented on the long eighteenth-century stage and investigates the relationship each has with gender and social status. Comparing Aphra Behn’s The Lucky Chance (1685) with
Beth Cortese
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Islamisasi Makassar Abad 17; Kajian tentang HUbungan Umara dan Ulama Nusantara

Buletin Al-Turas, 2018
; Arrival event of three Moslem scholars from Malay Empire in early seventeenth century to Makassar can be attested how close relationship between among Moslem scholar and umara in the Indonesian Archipelago at the time. In the context of Islamization of
Mulyono Damopoli
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La Palatine, une spectatrice paradigmatique ? De l’intérêt du théâtre : usages, goûts, expérience

Etudes Epistémè, 2022
The “spectatorial motif” is a recurrent one in the voluminous correspondence of Elisabeth Charlotte von der Pfalz, Princess Palatine and Duchess of Orléans.
Sylvaine Guyot
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Replicating a seventeenth century sword

Acta Periodica Duellatorum, 2019
Making a good “copy” of an ancient weapon means to reach different targets, not only regarding the final product of the making process but also the process itself.
Giovanni Sartori
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Penning a Constitution: Creativity and Innovation in William Penn’s Draft Constitutions for Colonial Pennsylvania

XVII-XVIII
This article sets out to re-assess the importance and implications for seventeenth-century Transatlantic studies of William Penn’s nineteen manuscript draft constitutions (1681-82) for colonial Pennsylvania.
Anna Hellier-Lloyd
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Flower Style on Seventeenth Century Agra Buildings

Mütefekkir, 2017
India is a uniquely rich country thanks to its historical characteristics and complex mixture of different races, cultures and religions. The diversity of the religious groups has particularly affected the decorative arts, which have generated another ...
Ali Fuat BAYSAL
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Print Letters in Seventeenth-Century England: Politics, Religion, and News Culture. [PDF]

, 2018
In Print Letters in Seventeenth-Century England, Gary Schneider examines the intersection of epistolarity, ideology, propaganda, and news culture. The chronological focus is the 1640s and 1650s, which saw a rise in the numbers of printed letters and ...
Greenspan, Nicole
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